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In character creation for Warlocks, we get three choices as whom our otherworldly patron is from the rather broad category of a Fiend, an Archfey or a Great Old One. What I would like to know is do we get to narrow our choices down to a specific type or even a named being, because a Warlock in service to a Devil is radically different to a Warlock in service to a Demon, to say nothing of the Daemons or Yuggaloths. Archfey warlocks in service of the Queen of Air and Darkness and Titania will undoubtedly echo their rivalry from the Feywild. Who knows what the Great Old Ones think. So will we be able to specify our choice of patrons later, or will we be stuck with the ambiguous patron or get to choose from specific named Fiends. Clerics and other divine spellcasters have more Gods at their choice than they know what to do with. I hope Warlocks will get a fair share as well.


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Originally Posted by TheAscendent
because a Warlock in service to a Devil is radically different to a Warlock in service to a Demon

Are they?

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The nature of your patron, in a roleplay sense, such as at a game table, has a massive impact on what sort of a warlock you are. The goals and drives of your patron are a broad-as-can-be spectrum of possibilities, based no what sort of patron they are.

Even at the level of just the fiend pact; a devil patron is likely to have complex, over-arching plans with many intricate aspects to them; they'll generally want warlocks who can work within that, but exactly what sort of plans they have, and how far-reaching they are, will vary as well. Devil pact patrons are the kind that might surreptitiously cultivate an on-going bloodline of their warlocks for inscrutable ends. They're more likely to play politics with mortals and manipulate existing structures. On the flip side, demon pact patrons tend generally to be more straight forward and blunter in their drives. They trend towards chaos and causing as much of it as they can, and in many cases, once they drive their warlock to their own destruction they'll just find another one. Even these are just broad generalities.

Unfortunately, If what we've seen so far is anything to go by, I would not hold your breath for any depth of attention on this score. Expect, at best, to have the fiend pact painted in one specific way universally, with no further player input, the old one another, and any other pacts they manage to give us doing the same.

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Demon Pacts; also known as Scheherazade Pacts


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Originally Posted by TheAscendent
because a Warlock in service to a Devil is radically different to a Warlock in service to a Demon

Are they?

The simplified version is, Warlocks in service to a Devil will more than likely be Lawful Evil where a Warlock in service to a Demon will more than likely be Chaotic Evil

So a Fiend Warlock isn't likely to side with the Goblins. They are too chaotic, it's evil just to be evil, but the Goblins aren't likely to progress any plan in motion by a Devil. But a demon, most definitely. Just for the havoc they'll reek

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It's all just RP stuff though. The difference between which version of Fiend, is not a mechanical one.


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