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Mystara Warlocks?

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#1
blu_skreem
Jul 05, 2008 0:12:57 I'm running a 4th ed Mystara game, and to my surprise the largest problem I am having is getting pl;ayers to accept Warlocks in the setting. Although Fey, and Demons are present in Mystara, some in my group feel the difference between their PoL equivalents is to great to justify Pacts. Do you have any suggestions to reflavor the Warlock to a more Mystara feel?
#2
johnbiles
Jul 05, 2008 12:21:03
I'm running a 4th ed Mystara game, and to my surprise the largest problem I am having is getting pl;ayers to accept Warlocks in the setting. Although Fey, and Demons are present in Mystara, some in my group feel the difference between their PoL equivalents is to great to justify Pacts. Do you have any suggestions to reflavor the Warlock to a more Mystara feel?

I frankly don't see why you couldn't make pacts with Mystaran Fey or Demons.

That being said, I would suggest turning the paths into Glantrian Secret Schools of Magic, perhaps. A first level Warlock is someone who has learned to steal the power of what he is pacted to for his own benefit.
#3
stanles
Jul 10, 2008 19:47:00
I'm running a 4th ed Mystara game, and to my surprise the largest problem I am having is getting pl;ayers to accept Warlocks in the setting. Although Fey, and Demons are present in Mystara, some in my group feel the difference between their PoL equivalents is to great to justify Pacts. Do you have any suggestions to reflavor the Warlock to a more Mystara feel?

Although there are many people here who can help with how to fit things into Mystara, at least speaking for myself, could you go over what the flavour of Warlock's is.

cheers
#4
siroh
Jul 11, 2008 23:30:00 The Warlock's concept (in background) is that he is someone who made a bargain for arcane power. Instead of studying to learn his craft like a wizard, he did just enough studying to get something hideously powerful on the phone and made an exchange of sorts for it. The reasons for why something that powerful might have made the bargain are many.

The oldest idea is they sold their soul for power. There is of course the idea that whatever being the warlock contacted is too weak to benefit from clerics, but wants representatives in the world doing it's work, and building belief for an eventual comeback. There is also the idea that a being doesn't empower the warlock, but just opened the floodgates for him to "get it", so you have someone who's a bit unhinged but has mystic power because of it. The last one is the being tutored the character, but instead of relying on a spellbook, he relies on more innate sorts of power.

I just sort of slotted them in as written because I'm working on Mystara as envisioned as a 4e campaign setting, not Xth edition merely played with 4E rules.

I'm also looking at a class with the same role and powers, but a different background, and that is invokers instead of warlocks. Invokers do study magic like wizards, but they focus on hurting specific targets instead of utility or group combat.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 blu_skreem Jul 05, 2008 0:12:57	I'm running a 4th ed Mystara game, and to my surprise the largest problem I am having is getting pl;ayers to accept Warlocks in the setting. Although Fey, and Demons are present in Mystara, some in my group feel the difference between their PoL equivalents is to great to justify Pacts. Do you have any suggestions to reflavor the Warlock to a more Mystara feel?
#2 johnbiles Jul 05, 2008 12:21:03	I'm running a 4th ed Mystara game, and to my surprise the largest problem I am having is getting pl;ayers to accept Warlocks in the setting. Although Fey, and Demons are present in Mystara, some in my group feel the difference between their PoL equivalents is to great to justify Pacts. Do you have any suggestions to reflavor the Warlock to a more Mystara feel? I frankly don't see why you couldn't make pacts with Mystaran Fey or Demons. That being said, I would suggest turning the paths into Glantrian Secret Schools of Magic, perhaps. A first level Warlock is someone who has learned to steal the power of what he is pacted to for his own benefit.
#3 stanles Jul 10, 2008 19:47:00	I'm running a 4th ed Mystara game, and to my surprise the largest problem I am having is getting pl;ayers to accept Warlocks in the setting. Although Fey, and Demons are present in Mystara, some in my group feel the difference between their PoL equivalents is to great to justify Pacts. Do you have any suggestions to reflavor the Warlock to a more Mystara feel? Although there are many people here who can help with how to fit things into Mystara, at least speaking for myself, could you go over what the flavour of Warlock's is. cheers
#4 siroh Jul 11, 2008 23:30:00	The Warlock's concept (in background) is that he is someone who made a bargain for arcane power. Instead of studying to learn his craft like a wizard, he did just enough studying to get something hideously powerful on the phone and made an exchange of sorts for it. The reasons for why something that powerful might have made the bargain are many. The oldest idea is they sold their soul for power. There is of course the idea that whatever being the warlock contacted is too weak to benefit from clerics, but wants representatives in the world doing it's work, and building belief for an eventual comeback. There is also the idea that a being doesn't empower the warlock, but just opened the floodgates for him to "get it", so you have someone who's a bit unhinged but has mystic power because of it. The last one is the being tutored the character, but instead of relying on a spellbook, he relies on more innate sorts of power. I just sort of slotted them in as written because I'm working on Mystara as envisioned as a 4e campaign setting, not Xth edition merely played with 4E rules. I'm also looking at a class with the same role and powers, but a different background, and that is invokers instead of warlocks. Invokers do study magic like wizards, but they focus on hurting specific targets instead of utility or group combat.