• massive_bereavement@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    My warlock: "I made a wish upon a star.

    … And that dark, dark star answered in a long forgotten, forbidden tongue, and a pact was made."

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          i have a character i dreamed up (along with a lot of people i’m sure) but have not found the right group to play with. they’re a warlock who is basically indiana jones and that idol they grab in scene 1 act 1 movie 1? whoopsie poopsie should not have touched that. and their patron wants to put all the idols to other patrons IN A MUSEUM! THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM! idk i haven’t gotten that far.

      • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        D&D 5e (a kind of Pen and paper RPG) has a magic class that the source of their power is basically an I-O-U (I owe you) with a powerful entity, usually their patron.

        It is not straight away clear what their patron wants, but it tends to be ominous, they might receive a “gift” now and then, or they may even be punished.

        In any case, I find it funny that all the other classes put the work to learn magic, while warlocks just went to ask the worst guy in the neighborhood.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Sorcerer: Oh this? ::manipulating unimaginable energies with casual grace::

          IDK, my blood just does that. I think I got it from my dad.

  • zikzak025@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wizards are the only ones who actually had to work for their magical abilities. Everyone else just inherited it or were gifted it by a higher power. Wizards are otherwise normal people who realized that they can figure it out on their own. And yet they’re somehow always considered the haughty, elitist ones.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      I would argue that a bard has to work at it since they had to take the years to learn a musical instrument and then put it to use as an adventuring tool.

    • Derpykat5@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s probably because whenever spellcasters are being compared, a Wizard comes in and says something like “we’re the only ones who had to work for our magic”, as if finding a powerful entity and convincing it to make a not horribly skewed bargain, learning to commune with the land itself, or following the orders given by a deity isn’t “work”.

      And don’t Bards also have to study their magic?