One of my favorite concepts for a warlock was a librarian who received an anonymous donation. It was a leather bound journal containing the notes and experiences of an arch mage who died 20 years ago. The idea here is the arch mage in an experiment gone wrong became a powerful ghost entity tied to the journal. They now have this power that they don’t understand what they’re doing with an equally clueless warlock companion, and as a result, the undying patron is heavily invested in the going-ons of the life of their warlock.
2 yrs down the line but i had a similar idea but its a dad that lost his family due to a village raid, the daughter becomes a patron to the father, from there i could make different stories, maybe the daughter was forcefully turned into a devil by a cult who raided the village or the girl is a ghost the father makes a pact with since losing her is too much for him to bear, maybe the daughter is possibly not what she seems like and she's a evil being in disguise tricking the father, he would also talk to her but nobody else sees her so the party thinks he's crazy, maybe he joined the party after the raid and he was found by the party and they take him to simply not leave him there cuz the country is at war, and he ends up staying with them to bring her back or if he doesn't consider her dead, he would quote "i want to show my little girl the beauty of the world, I'll tag along you lot" so i like to imagine the party sees the guy talk to nothing like a child and buying dresses and toys he packs around but they feel too uncomfortable to confront him and when they see proof something IS there are suspicious its an evil entity, so many ideas ive had over the years
Nice video! Lock are my favorite class in 5e, exactly because of the patron, it gives so much narrative agency to the player "playing ball" with the DM. p.s. The Seelie Court, or Summer Court is the royal court of """good""" faerie. Think Unicorns, Dryads, the like. Opposed to the Unseelie Court, or Winter Court. (A wonderful depictions of those can be found in Dresden Files books, highly recommended)
I have an idea about a warlock that I'm not quite sure yet how to shape entirely. The character would be living in a grove with druids as a child. The grove is slowly dying to some nefarious force or another, so people don't make much time to watch a child, being too busy seeking a cure for the grove in which the population is dwindling. Because of that, the kid just loiters, enjoying imaginary battles, made-up receptions in his royal court... and along comes an Archfey, seemingly just another made up character from his flights of fancy. As he entertains that "imaginary" friend, giving them insight in the joys of childhood and other mortal experiences, something they themselves had forgotten all about, they grant him powers, but more importantly, company and a figure to look up to. As years go by, those games become more manipulative. Their relation, co-dependant. And when he reached his late-teens, people started looking to him as another part of the community, expecting him to do his part in saving the grove. After a while, the knowledge granted by the Archfey allowed the now man to find a cure for the grove. But the population is still near extinct, the once buzzing community now a shadow of it's former self. Days go by without much flavour, and as his new experiences get rarer, so does the presence of the Archfey, most likely having taken fancy to another interest, not even bothering to retract the powers they gave. Feeling the loneliness, the ennui, he in turn leaves the grove, seeking new experiences he isn't prepared for, knowing little to nothing of the outside world. There is a slight hope he might reunite with his long lost "friend", recapture their favour. I'm thinking this could fit a hag. The character could be convinced to "fall" because of his longing for connection with that patron. But would a hag play such a long con game? I could see a nasty hag manipulate a child into a pact without the kid knowing it's a pact.
An idea I've got for a Fiendish patron warlock. So, the warlock signs the pact with a devil of some kind (in my brain it's a pit fiend, but that really seems like just a placeholder at times). The devil is looking at their new warlock and is thinking foot soldier, but then gets called away on some super important matter that needs to be dealt with immediately. When the devil returns ready to give their warlock some marching orders, they find the warlock accomplished something extraordinary while they were away (I'm imagining the incident being discovering and destroying a cult dedicated to a demon lord). Suddenly, the devil is looking at the warlock with fresh eyes. This is no foot soldier they've got, this is an officer, and every officer need's a team to work with. So the devil then takes an active role in constructing the adventuring party, thinking about what kind of roles each party member could fill both on and off the battlefield, as well as how the party works together as a whole. And when the party is built, the devil promptly chucks them in the direction of some demonic threat they've noticed, maybe a cult is in the process of summoning the demon lord they serve, a shadow demon had basically possessed a noble, or a hole leading to an Abyssal layer has manifested in the countryside.
My favorite fiend warlock backstory was "PC is watching his home be raided, he starts begging all higher powers and eventually falls to his knees in complete despair. In this moment a devil seizes the opportunity to give him the power to protect his home in return for his help hunting the devil's enemies or contract breakers"
I am going to be starting my first campaign in August once it's ready and I want to play a fiend warlock so this was very helpful as I had no idea what to start with! Thank you!
I'm watching this from my TV, while following along on my phone, on the website that brought me to this channel in the first place. 😁 I'm doing some planning, so this is helping me tremendously.
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I love playing Warlocks. I've played an anxious Treeman (DM's homebrew race) warlock with an Archfey patron who I entered a contract with out of desperation in exchange to save my homewood from fire. It was later implied that the fire may have been started by the machinations of that same Archfey. Good stuff. I've also played a Triton warlock of the Great Old One named Tentacles (pronounced to rhyme with Heracles). Combining the superiority complex of the Tritons with the cloud cuckoo-lander madness of a GOO warlock was very fun. He had no idea why everyone wasn't praising his heroics. I am currently playing a neutral evil Tiefling warlock with a Fiend patron, really leaning hard into the tropes that are commonly defied by player characters. What kind of warlocks have the rest of y'all played?
Those concepts rock! I especially appreciate the pronunciation of Tentacles, very clever. I once played a Warlock who was a Kobold who had struggled in childhood with his health. He was going to perish due to illness, but his caretakers begged the gods to spare him. He was given a fragment of a Solar's power, making him a Warlock with a Pact of the Celestial. He would usually act very tired and sleepy, but he'd occasionally wake up with vigor and light in his eyes as he spoke with a deep otherworldly voice and declared that evil must be cleansed.
Nice one! Really nice to read the article/watch the video! I think you two will do quite well on youtube as you add something special; in your case you guys are a nice duet and have the article/video combo!
This was very helpful because I was thinking of making a kobold warlock who out of pure desperation made a deal with the fiend to get away from being locked up and tortured. And I was thinking of doing this thing where every so often during a long rest I have to roll a 1d20. 9 and below I have to talk to my patron, 11 and higher I’m perfectly fine and if it’s a 10 all I here are some whispers from my patron. Also my warlock is very shy and kinda skittish.
One of my favorite concepts for a warlock was a librarian who received an anonymous donation. It was a leather bound journal containing the notes and experiences of an arch mage who died 20 years ago.
The idea here is the arch mage in an experiment gone wrong became a powerful ghost entity tied to the journal. They now have this power that they don’t understand what they’re doing with an equally clueless warlock companion, and as a result, the undying patron is heavily invested in the going-ons of the life of their warlock.
That's a fantastic concept! I love the creativity and how the patron isn't some unknowable being that never can be seen or understood.
2 yrs down the line but i had a similar idea but its a dad that lost his family due to a village raid, the daughter becomes a patron to the father, from there i could make different stories, maybe the daughter was forcefully turned into a devil by a cult who raided the village or the girl is a ghost the father makes a pact with since losing her is too much for him to bear, maybe the daughter is possibly not what she seems like and she's a evil being in disguise tricking the father, he would also talk to her but nobody else sees her so the party thinks he's crazy, maybe he joined the party after the raid and he was found by the party and they take him to simply not leave him there cuz the country is at war, and he ends up staying with them to bring her back or if he doesn't consider her dead, he would quote "i want to show my little girl the beauty of the world, I'll tag along you lot" so i like to imagine the party sees the guy talk to nothing like a child and buying dresses and toys he packs around but they feel too uncomfortable to confront him and when they see proof something IS there are suspicious its an evil entity, so many ideas ive had over the years
Nice video! Lock are my favorite class in 5e, exactly because of the patron, it gives so much narrative agency to the player "playing ball" with the DM. p.s. The Seelie Court, or Summer Court is the royal court of """good""" faerie. Think Unicorns, Dryads, the like. Opposed to the Unseelie Court, or Winter Court. (A wonderful depictions of those can be found in Dresden Files books, highly recommended)
I just realized something, why is there no pact of the giant.
WotC sure likes giants in recent years. I wouldn't be surprised if they create a giant patron in the coming years.
I have an idea about a warlock that I'm not quite sure yet how to shape entirely. The character would be living in a grove with druids as a child. The grove is slowly dying to some nefarious force or another, so people don't make much time to watch a child, being too busy seeking a cure for the grove in which the population is dwindling. Because of that, the kid just loiters, enjoying imaginary battles, made-up receptions in his royal court... and along comes an Archfey, seemingly just another made up character from his flights of fancy. As he entertains that "imaginary" friend, giving them insight in the joys of childhood and other mortal experiences, something they themselves had forgotten all about, they grant him powers, but more importantly, company and a figure to look up to. As years go by, those games become more manipulative. Their relation, co-dependant. And when he reached his late-teens, people started looking to him as another part of the community, expecting him to do his part in saving the grove. After a while, the knowledge granted by the Archfey allowed the now man to find a cure for the grove. But the population is still near extinct, the once buzzing community now a shadow of it's former self. Days go by without much flavour, and as his new experiences get rarer, so does the presence of the Archfey, most likely having taken fancy to another interest, not even bothering to retract the powers they gave. Feeling the loneliness, the ennui, he in turn leaves the grove, seeking new experiences he isn't prepared for, knowing little to nothing of the outside world. There is a slight hope he might reunite with his long lost "friend", recapture their favour.
I'm thinking this could fit a hag. The character could be convinced to "fall" because of his longing for connection with that patron. But would a hag play such a long con game? I could see a nasty hag manipulate a child into a pact without the kid knowing it's a pact.
That's a magnificent idea! Hags can play the long game because they want to corrupt pure souls. I say run with it!
An idea I've got for a Fiendish patron warlock.
So, the warlock signs the pact with a devil of some kind (in my brain it's a pit fiend, but that really seems like just a placeholder at times). The devil is looking at their new warlock and is thinking foot soldier, but then gets called away on some super important matter that needs to be dealt with immediately. When the devil returns ready to give their warlock some marching orders, they find the warlock accomplished something extraordinary while they were away (I'm imagining the incident being discovering and destroying a cult dedicated to a demon lord).
Suddenly, the devil is looking at the warlock with fresh eyes. This is no foot soldier they've got, this is an officer, and every officer need's a team to work with. So the devil then takes an active role in constructing the adventuring party, thinking about what kind of roles each party member could fill both on and off the battlefield, as well as how the party works together as a whole.
And when the party is built, the devil promptly chucks them in the direction of some demonic threat they've noticed, maybe a cult is in the process of summoning the demon lord they serve, a shadow demon had basically possessed a noble, or a hole leading to an Abyssal layer has manifested in the countryside.
That's a fantastic utilization of a patron!
My favorite fiend warlock backstory was "PC is watching his home be raided, he starts begging all higher powers and eventually falls to his knees in complete despair. In this moment a devil seizes the opportunity to give him the power to protect his home in return for his help hunting the devil's enemies or contract breakers"
Simple and effective!
I am going to be starting my first campaign in August once it's ready and I want to play a fiend warlock so this was very helpful as I had no idea what to start with! Thank you!
We love hearing that our content is helpful! We'll keep striving for usefulness. And good luck to you with your Warlock. :)
I'm watching this from my TV, while following along on my phone, on the website that brought me to this channel in the first place. 😁 I'm doing some planning, so this is helping me tremendously.
That's so cool! That's how we imagine our resources could be used, but this is the first time we've received feedback from someone using them that way. Thanks for commenting, and good luck with your plans!
Great Video!!! Definitely adding one of these themes to my future warlock character. Thank you! Please produce more like this :)
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I love playing Warlocks. I've played an anxious Treeman (DM's homebrew race) warlock with an Archfey patron who I entered a contract with out of desperation in exchange to save my homewood from fire. It was later implied that the fire may have been started by the machinations of that same Archfey. Good stuff.
I've also played a Triton warlock of the Great Old One named Tentacles (pronounced to rhyme with Heracles). Combining the superiority complex of the Tritons with the cloud cuckoo-lander madness of a GOO warlock was very fun. He had no idea why everyone wasn't praising his heroics.
I am currently playing a neutral evil Tiefling warlock with a Fiend patron, really leaning hard into the tropes that are commonly defied by player characters.
What kind of warlocks have the rest of y'all played?
Those concepts rock! I especially appreciate the pronunciation of Tentacles, very clever.
I once played a Warlock who was a Kobold who had struggled in childhood with his health. He was going to perish due to illness, but his caretakers begged the gods to spare him. He was given a fragment of a Solar's power, making him a Warlock with a Pact of the Celestial. He would usually act very tired and sleepy, but he'd occasionally wake up with vigor and light in his eyes as he spoke with a deep otherworldly voice and declared that evil must be cleansed.
one my ideas for warlock is when you reach to end of the pact your transform to a denizen of your patrons realm. i see lot of ideas with this
I've seen similar concepts and I think it's really fun to explore the corruption process and its eventuality!
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This helped my beginner self! Thank you.
You're welcome! :D
Nice one! Really nice to read the article/watch the video! I think you two will do quite well on youtube as you add something special; in your case you guys are a nice duet and have the article/video combo!
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Great video! Loving it! 🖤
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This was very helpful because I was thinking of making a kobold warlock who out of pure desperation made a deal with the fiend to get away from being locked up and tortured. And I was thinking of doing this thing where every so often during a long rest I have to roll a 1d20. 9 and below I have to talk to my patron, 11 and higher I’m perfectly fine and if it’s a 10 all I here are some whispers from my patron. Also my warlock is very shy and kinda skittish.
I'm glad I could help! Good luck with your Kobold! :)
Thx btw I kinda changed it to the genie but I might make another warlock character who made a deal with the fiend
@@Zarim_Cha0s Genie Warlock is super fun. I look forward to playing it someday.