Your patron demands as payment you become the patron of three other people, your patron runs a pyramid scheme

@c.jhamblin5759

4 жыл бұрын

Unleash your INNER GODESS. Own your own celestial realm and become a #bosshun.

@marlinazul7786

4 жыл бұрын

Mammon: now this looks like a job for me

@abrawolf

3 жыл бұрын

Omg, when your patron is Karen

@jacobtierney4419

3 жыл бұрын

Its a pyramid scheme and at the top? An ancient mummy lord.

@DaltCity

Жыл бұрын

That’s Top G(od) thinking.

Just had an idea: Multiclass Bard and Warlock Backstory goes that you got your powers after a fiend challenged you to a musical duel for your soul. You won and demanded power instead of a golden fiddle.

@TheBluriteMVP

5 жыл бұрын

So you play Jack Black?

@dr.spycrab4089

5 жыл бұрын

Shaubeny I was originally thinking Charlie Daniels, but that works too

@Nyrufa

5 жыл бұрын

Shut up, I thought of that months ago! Except my idea was them taking the *Pact of the Chain* and having their familiar write their music for them, which the Bard then proceeds to play on stage. :) As for their patron, I thought either an Archfey, or a Fiend seemed appropriate.

@enderfire1st_404

5 жыл бұрын

Nyrufa And as your playing said song an imp is behind stage thinking, “Of course the singer gets all the praise, while the one who pour his sweat and tears into this piece! Not like some imp deserves praise for their masterpiece!” And then promptly crying like a bitch.

@DTux5249

5 жыл бұрын

That's great XD Imma try that though

Idea. A hex blade patron that is an enchanted butter knife made by the gods as a joke. You go from a waiter to a powerful warlock.

@jold3174

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that sounds like so much fun

@TheTrueLeafless

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe my warlock can join...he has a hex spork

@LarsaXL

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting concept.

@LupineShadowOmega

4 жыл бұрын

Only if it tips into the territory of your patron wanting you to destroy it at the end of the campaign. It's had enough of this world and its stupid gods...

@blshouse

4 жыл бұрын

When your Hexblade Patron is Murlynd's Spoon...

My warlock has a pact with a demonic looking great sword. But it only reveals this appearance to it patron. Otherwise, everyone else (outside of detect magic, drunk people, and children using their imaginations) only see a large broom stick with glitter and tassels attached to it. People think my warlock is crazy and enemies do not focus on me at first thinking I am not a melee threat. Oh, and through this pact illusion curse... my leather armor looks like pieces of parchment tied together with wool string with crazy runes drawn on it with crayon or chalk.

@j.blackburn3515

5 жыл бұрын

Amazing idea.

1:00 "... to filing their taxes..." And thus, besides the massive role-playing potential inherent in the class, Warlocks automatically have an excuse when their player is unavailable.

@ScamDocMaindel

5 жыл бұрын

“Hey, where is Gordan?” “He said something about how his master would take his powers away if he doesn’t clear things up with the IRS”

@LupineShadowOmega

4 жыл бұрын

Gordan: "Sir, please. Just file the damn form. You owe the IRS 750 human souls, there is no way you can get out of this and no they will not just take Jeremy because he sucks." .... ..... ..... Gordan: "No. They won't take an I.O.U. Do you understand these people at all? They just made The Queen of Endless Blood and The Harbinger of Shadows file for bankruptcy. Is that really what you want?"

When it comes to the Lovecraftian Great Old Ones, they fall into two camps with regard to granting powers. Most of them, like Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth and Hastur, don't really care about you. Heck, they don't even think in the same way you do. They don't so much grant power as let you mooch off their powers -- a process which, naturally enough, gets easier the closer the Great Old One is to our reality, resulting in a drive to explore sanity-destroying concepts and attempt to draw the patron closer to your own plane of existence. Which could end the world, of course, but once you lose enough of your mind, you really don't care about that anymore. Then there's Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep is the messenger boy of the Great Old Ones, carrying out their vaguely-defined desires throughout the universe, since he is capable of interacting with our universe directly and they are not. The Great Old Ones don't do much normally, though, so Nyarlathotep tends to be rather bored. And giving a human power and watching what happens is better than any soap opera you can name. In a way, Nyarlathotep resembles the Infernal patron: He _knows_ you'll crash and burn. He's _counting_ on it. He just wants to see how far you can get before it happens and just how bright and destructive a fireball you make on impact. Because of this, he really doesn't set high standards for his patronage. Imagine him as the sort of person who'd hand a loaded gun to a toddler and you're about right.

@stevdawizard392

5 жыл бұрын

Wanderer Werewolf then there's Azathot the Grandfather who's to blind to care but to smart not to wonder, "what if I just"

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@stevdawizard392 and too sleepy to not create a dream universe that can host sentient organic life and lesser gods...

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

Also if anyone were to stop a warlock of an elder god from ripping holes in reality itself, Nyarlathotep will probably send all of his own warlocks after them because they either put an end to his fun, or they stopped his boss(es) from waking up and giving him some actual work, like collecting a few hundred humans to nom on...

@wandererwerewolf477

5 жыл бұрын

Ah. but Nyarlathotep _likes_ having free time. He's one of the few high-powered beings with a mind, and he finds humans entertaining -- he doesn't _want_ the world to end. He'd lose all of his toys...

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@wandererwerewolf477 yeah, but he also has to at least try to do his job as the heart, soul, and messenger of the outer gods or his dad Azathoth might get mad (well angry, he's already pretty mad), and angry people tend not to sleep too well if you catch my drift... Better to let someone rip up this reality and change the channel than to shut off the TV, ya know?

in an unearthed arcana for modern magic settings, the Warlock gets the option to have their Patron be an emergent AI. and that's just neat.

@Konpekikaminari

6 жыл бұрын

the ghost in the machine I don't really like the abilities, but damn I love the concept

@wonderiferoustea

5 жыл бұрын

Until that A.I. turns out to be SHODAN. Oops.

@zecat3727

5 жыл бұрын

It's from Japaaaaaaaaaan!

@nicholaswhaling7233

5 жыл бұрын

When I hear AI patron, I immediately think of the show "Person of Interest".

@arandomzoomer4837

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I’ve wanted to play that.

"You know what is a good deal? The Celestial!" My warlock that I'm playing right now is a Celestial Warlock/Life Cleric, and it's so fun to think up arguments between her Cleric Deity and her Warlock Celestial. I love it.

@JackdawLT

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds fun! Now if you added Divine Soul sorcerer ...you might go mad XD

@kainhighwind2

6 жыл бұрын

I believe this qualifies your character to be holier than thou to the rest of the party.

@thehomeofsexual6902

6 жыл бұрын

My warlock to Mephistopheles believes his deal with the devil is essentially the same as our cleric’s relationship with Moradin (I play chaotic neutral)

@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362

5 жыл бұрын

I once had a Celestial warlock Aasimar whos patron relationship was more that of a Master-Student. Set up for some pretty fun conversations considering the aasimar was a bit dickish

@onewhosaysgoose4831

5 жыл бұрын

You aren't truly a celestial warlock until you hear an angel whispering "Deus Vult" in your dreams every night.

As a DM, I find warlocks super fun. I'm the kind of DM that roleplays NPC dialog and this class provides a lot of material to play with. For my last campaign the player and I pretty much homebrewed a patron for him (pact of the Great Old One). His PC's a mortal servant to a minor eldritch god of knowledge and mischief, and we have fun with it. If his patron wants to imbue people with more knowledge, he just grabs a book that holds the knowledge and smacks them with it. "There you go- have fun you nerd!" He was super fun to roleplay because the running joke was that he means well but doesn't understand how mortals work. He plays a more active role in his followers lives, but more or less because he's the Eldritch equivalent of a bored teenager getting WAY too invested in their hobbies. And his hobby happens to be giving mortals powers and seeing what they do with it.

@TimelordTemp

5 жыл бұрын

This kind of reminds me of the way one of my DMs ran Loki. I was playing as Loki's only existing Aasimar (because in irl history no one worshiped him, outside of cults that were only theorized to exist). Most of the time. Loki had no clue what to do with this servant, so he just sort of came up with pranks as this Aasimar traveled around the countryside. He'd stop somewhere and then Loki wiould be like "Okay, I'm going to give you a horn. You will then use this to turn the entire town into chickens. Then the chickens into humans"

@ari_dexel4288

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimelordTemp Yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss

@SirBladewind

4 жыл бұрын

If you like that stuff I'd highly advise you look up the Shining Dodecahedron or Nyrathotep. I DMed a game where we threw in the Shining Dodecahedron as a dungeon loot that a necromancer was holding.(a magical device which allows connection to the old ones directly, usually it's Nyrathotep the Crawling Chaos that's on the line though) I hadn't really planned out as to why, but it turned out said necromancer was too afraid to ever use it. Cue the Cleric thinking it was some cursed object that he could uncurse and, one will save fail later, he becomes the new herald of the great old ones. I treated it as a character death and the guy who played the character made a new guy. But it gets worse. The Cleric, now herald ended up becoming more and more prominent in the story. The heroes kept missing chances to kill him and so he grew more and more powerful. At the end the big bad and the party had to actually team up to close a portal and kill the herald before he could summon a horde of lesser Eldritch abominations to destroy the world. I didn't have papers on the creatures so I had to cheese it. Needless to say it was a hard fight and the wizard in the party had to sacrifice himself to close the portal. Only the Shining Dodecahedron remained on our side of the portal. So the big bad and the remaining party (a sorcerer, druid, ranger, and two fighters one of which was played by the old clerics player) worked together to build a massive dungeon filled with monsters of every variety and permanent doors to planes inside where elementals can wander in and colonize, with the Shining Dodecahedron at the center so that no one will ever find it again. I use a future version of said dungeon as a starting point for future campaigns where the people have forgotten why it was built. Everybody playing that week and I made a pact that anyone new who joins us won't know what lies in the center of the dungeon until it's too late. Overall, tossing in some of the Cthulu mythos into D&D usually just gets some darkly exciting results. I'd recommend it.

Archfey - They want something weird, fey, and probably along the lines of bottled emotions, the tear of a virgin, unique memories, or revenge for a minor slight someone's great-great-great-great-grand-uncle dealt them Arch Fiend - They want power, they want their will done in the mortal realm, even better, they want to turn you evil Great Old One - They ... maybe don't even care. If they want anything, it makes no sense, like the third highest branch broken off of every 100th tree you see Undying - They want power, magical power, and probably don't care at all what happens to you, though if you prove useful, they may actually make you a serious undead minion (i.e. an elder vampire serving an elder vampire lord) Celestial - All depends on the celestial, they're not all good and they're DEFINITELY not all lawful Hex blade - Technically, these were made by the Raven Queen, so... death. Especially death of those who's time it is to die, and *especially* especially anyone trying to AVOID that time to die. A good patron, though, needs a good DM. DMs there is SOOOOO much life a warlock patron can breathe into both the character and the story, in SOOOOO many ways. Work with it, weave it into your story, and do everything you can do catch your player off guard, appropriately, so only screwing him over if it's appropriate.

@exomancer3632

5 жыл бұрын

The third highest branch thing is great, though I'd also put that under the contract of the Archfey. Fae laws are incomprehensible, and as their warlock they may expect you to some weird things for seemingly no reason. What the Archfey want is also heavily dependent on whether they're Seelie, Unseelie, or hags. Unseelie are my favorite; they can give mandates such as the following: "Paint a picture of every mountain you see. In blood."

@cobaltCarnivore

5 жыл бұрын

Exomancer your blood. In painstaking detail.

@peterwhite6415

5 жыл бұрын

I want to add to that lsit the 2 UA patrons: Seeker - a being that wants knowledge (can be anything, from a elder thing, some plane creature or fucking vecna whos bored) that gives msotly abilitys and invocatiosn taht involve escaping bounds, travelling, and afew other things Raven Queen - the most restrictive in my opinion since ya have to hunt down undead things and problaby kill that one necromancer in your party at some point in time... also stupi powerful aslong you never have you raven leave your shoulder (wich btw, the raven doesnt count as a familiar ... wich means you can have a 2nd Raven from Find Familiar and make a wannabe Odin!)

@AZDfox

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterwhite6415 actually, the Raven Queen only has a problem with SENTIENT undead.

@Blackestrose

4 жыл бұрын

feylock here, my patron wants me to hurt every frog i see and prefers i humiliate or scare my enemies instead of killing them . so yes, wierd i agree

i hadnt considered the whole... sharing your body with the undying thing. i could do a LOT with that! so thank you.

@DavvyChappy

6 жыл бұрын

chaosxenkon Aaaaayyyyy, glad I could help

@Ithyck

6 жыл бұрын

Old school White Wolf (world of darkness line) Wraith: the Oblivion game had "Shadows" each player had one, that little voice inside your head. A second character sheet dedicated solely to your NPC alter ego, with its own powers and abilities that it could "lend" to you, for a price. The trick... each player plays as the other players shadow, not you. ask your DM (or you if a DM) to look into this, may be adapted for the undead skin riding patrons " presence" hope this helps!

@brucemaximus3797

6 жыл бұрын

Or, with a few feature adjustments and spell alterations, Sin Eaters from Geist.

@chaosxenkon

6 жыл бұрын

I.... that.... HOW HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THIS BEFORE? granted as a DM i would need to have a few more players (currently with a group of 4) and i would need to be able to trust them with more responsibility. but that is an extreemly interesting idea.

@a3van609

5 жыл бұрын

Like Talion and Celebrimbor?

Get this: Dwarf Hexblade. The pact weapon is the smithing hammer of a legendary giant swordsmith who forged many blades of great renown and power. The caveat to all this? None of those swords were given, they were all taken, and that giant's dying wish was to take them all back.

My favorite character had an Old One pact, but I told the DM not to tell me who it was. Instead, the drunker my character became, the more he could hear of his Patron. The reason was that the Patron believed that the drunk version of my character was the only one with a Pact, and didn't care to provide instruction to someone it regarded as a completely different person.

@rene280195

4 жыл бұрын

Jejejejejeje what a akward christmas office party

If your character is a noble then your patron can just be your dad

@strixx_-4483

4 жыл бұрын

Ara Era Tiefling Pact of Fiend Noble

@samguy7209

4 жыл бұрын

Or Joe Mama

@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988

4 жыл бұрын

@@samguy7209 Hey Peter

@Zarsla

3 жыл бұрын

@@strixx_-4483 Or Aasimar & Celestial Warlock, or Genasi & Genie Warlock.

@loganjblack

3 жыл бұрын

Sugar daddy

"no need to ask stupid things, like questions" This line broke me

AH! BRILLIANT. MY UNDING WARLOCK MINION #1 WILL ALSO DO TAXES FOR HIS ARCHLICH MASTER

@JackdawLT

6 жыл бұрын

so the undying patron escaped death, but can't escape taxes?

@DanateDMC

6 жыл бұрын

There is no force stronger than tax collectors. This should be another Warlock Patron.

@javierpatag3609

6 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure there are Warlock adventurers out there more willing to go on a quest in the Abyss than do someone's taxes.

@DanateDMC

6 жыл бұрын

Javier Patag I mean, if your character is minion of a powerful archlich you kinda have to do taxes for him

@javierpatag3609

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm not saying your Patron- Undying or any other- can't tell you to do their taxes. I'm just saying there are people who would rather go through the worst planes in D&D than have to do that. :-)

If you take a look at Hexblades, some of them truly are sentient. The most famous, Blackrazor, has a sinister intelligence that tries to drive you to murder constantly. Most Hexblades are described as serving the Raven Queen. So in our games with my Hexblade lock, most of my orders come from the Shadowfell.

@Mugthraka

6 жыл бұрын

And thats the problem i have has the Patron of the Hexblade has it is described. its either something from the Shadowland or the raven queen behind it. What if you don't want to be related to the raven queen or the Shadow land in anyway? People spit and rant about 4th Ed, but at least 4th Ed Hexblades Pacts, wasn't has cut & dry, you had the Pact of the Fiend, or the Infernal, or the Archfey, the Old Ones etc for the Hexblade. It would, depending on the Patron, give you a different Pact Weapon( Archfey, was a rapier made of moonlight, Infernal was a Heavy blade made out of Darkness and Fire, Old ones was a flail iirc etc) and different flavor of Hexblade's( an infernal or archfey hexblade din't play the same way has an Old One or an Abysal one) in their class features and powers. While 5th Ed Hexblade is okey, they really did cut a lot of material. Now personally and i see other people do it(Travis Willingham character in the 2nd Crit Role campaign namely), My Pact Weapon was given to me by my Patron, and my Patron gives his power to me through it, simple. Of course not to say that the "Sentient weapon" route also doesn't work, you can see it has lets say Excalibur or any mythologic weapon that would choose its wielder, but what i dopn't like is that it is the only route they give you RAW from the book, and thats what people finds weird

@theblazingcrusader6322

5 жыл бұрын

My Hexblade warlock was multi classing a barbarian (Long story short our parties fighters were doing more dps than my barbarian so I though I mix things up a bit) The Dm say my patron was my spirit animal. The result of this unique multi class was a magic great axe and a barbarian who could use eldritch bast. I have alot of fun with it.

@a3van609

5 жыл бұрын

I think as long as your patron is a shadow being, you can be a Hexblade Warlock. Shadow demon, Boneclaw, Shadow Mastiff, Nightwalker, Nightmare, Shadow Dragon, etc may all fall in the category, if the DM is willing.

@satansenpai383

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mugthraka Also, the Raven Queen is already a patron. It's an Unearthed Arcana patron, and actually really fun to play with.

@GrassPokeKing

3 жыл бұрын

Zen-RPG My Warlock Patron is now _Soul Edge_

you put an image of azathoth for yog-sothoth and i will never let you live that down

I have this idea for a hexblade Lock I really want to try out where the weapon itself is the character and does most of the talking (including no small amount of evil villain monolguing and how as soon as he finds an enemy stronger than his current wielder he'll attach himself to that guy in a heartbeat.) The actual meister is just kind of an idiot who came across a magic sword which promised him to show him cool places to go spelunking.

@emanuelcamuglia5984

6 жыл бұрын

search for elric of melnibone. aspire to be as badass as him and not to be screwed as hard as he was

5:24 That’s it. I’m making a warlock that made a pact with a boomerang. You can’t stop me.

@ProgramViBee

4 жыл бұрын

The boomerang better have attachment issues

@me-42by42

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nqqLpNGDo8TNhMo.html

@thepip3599

4 жыл бұрын

@@ProgramViBee Oh my gosh, you made the idea way better. The warlock keeps trying to get rid of it, but it _keeps coming back._

Ill take the cheek-rubbed book of Cthulhu secrets please.

@mihaiioc.3809

4 жыл бұрын

"3 tikets to book, please"

Asmodeus would probably be the best option for a pact of the fiend warlock. You would have one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse as your boss and if you play your cards right you could become his right hand man. The lord of the nine hells managed to trick the gods in dnd and no one has ever outsmarted him.

I like the idea of an accidental Warlock, where the Patrons power tainted/blessed/gifted a new born or soon to be born baby, or even someone who wasn't involved in summoning the Patron but was at the right place and time to get hit and absorb some energy by accident with their power. There is no contract, just a link between a mortal and the Patron.

2:25 Wait...Hold on a second...That's a Terraria fanart of the Lunatic Cultist boss.

@jamesgaming7198

6 жыл бұрын

I mean, they *are* trying to summon the *Moon Lord,* basically a Lovecraftian horror.

@gamingtime9716

6 жыл бұрын

But I'd put the moonlord under Lovecraftian Horror, as it resembles many depictions of Cthulhu.

@quintmarcelis2691

6 жыл бұрын

I think it's Cthulu's brother or something similar

@matrixraptor8737

5 жыл бұрын

@@gamingtime9716 Not to mention the eye and brain of Cthulhu being bosses as well.

@xavis7617

3 жыл бұрын

I hoped I wasn't the only one who caught that.

Someone: runs dragonheist. There player: my patron is xanathar

okay, I don't even care that it was cheesy. The patreon joke made me laugh.

When starting a campain, my player who chose a warlock. He told me that he didnt care about his patron and that i can choose it and i can right up the contract too. He will revret that

@giorgiomauceri410

4 жыл бұрын

Did he regret that?

@LePoetKing

4 жыл бұрын

@@giorgiomauceri410 probably

@lordshennington2756

3 жыл бұрын

So basically YOU'RE the patron lol

**Davvy insults Fey again** Airy: How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, *YOUNG MAN!?!?*

A summary of most of the Patrons: They will screw you over just for the memes. the rest of the Patrons: Eh just exist.

>Be me. >Hexblade Warlock. >Be cursed with a strange variation of lycanthropy, and I must eat constantly to prevent transformation. >Hexblade is an axe, that demands that in addition to doing whatever the heck I want, I must use it to chop forest deleting amounts of wood everyday. >Party starts referring to me as "Woody" due to my forest obliterating habits. >SNEK_IN_BOOT.gif >One day, I run out of stuff to eat, the forest is now a desolate plains. >My axe is panickingly suggesting that I eat to stave off my impending morph. >OUT_OF_TIME.png >Transform into beaver. >MFW.

@HyperChara

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like Don't Starve

@koalabro6118

4 жыл бұрын

I definitely did "not" make Woody into a D&D character.

that was surprisingly helpful. Thank you for the video, since trying to google the lore behind each 'pact path' seems to be shrouded in more mystery then Lovecraft's mind was.

...I run anything from the Cthulhu mythos or similar to things out of the Cthulhu mythos as mostly just “meh... do whatever, I don’t care for insignificant creatures.” But they prefer sacrifices, the only one who actually pays attention to his subjects is nyarlathotep, and he wants to screw you over or mess with your mind as much as he can but sometimes he’s to busy messing with other people to pay attention. Also you chose a picture of the lunatic cultist from terraria when you started talking about demons.

Would Santa Claus be a Fey?

@sorufa888

5 жыл бұрын

Fey/celestial

@FourElemental

5 жыл бұрын

Well maybe the nicest kindest Fey ever

@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362

5 жыл бұрын

Gnome with santa patron

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

Just remember: He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake! You'd better not pout. You'd better not cry. You'd better not shout. I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is a Lawful Good Celestial/Fey that has detect good and evil as a passive ability and a Candy cane +3 and an army elvish clerics of the forge, and he hates evil PCs....

@fancyb.p.6122

5 жыл бұрын

Santa aka Saint Nicholas is a saint.

Omg! just realised I can role play pit. Aasimar + Warlock + Celestial Patron + Pact of the Blade = Pit and Palutena. and you can even go beyond what pit does lol.

I came up with a character who’s a nine year old warlock of the hex blade. Her patron in an ancient wizard’s staff that gained sentence the older it got. When she finally found it abandoned in some ruins it decided that she was too helpless and curious to leave alone, so it grants her magical powers as long as she takes it wherever she travels.

I have to say, I really appreciate putting more of a focus on role-playing and class roles in your videos, rather than throwing out a bunch of terms and stats that might scare away newer players. Not only that, but your humor and editing are absolutely on point. This is my new go-to channel for helping new players choose a class to try out!

“Lovecraftian horrors” you mean eldritch gods like eldritch blast

A heavily scarred, Dead eyed, 45 year-old Half-orc wearing a Worn Leather trench coat and, covered in hand axes and javelins Slowly Trudges through a Archfeys hall "Master, I finally got the Book you wanted." "Mhmm? what book?" "This one!" thrusts forward a manga "The one from the alternate universe! The one You said would give You ultimate Power over the Feywild!" "oooh THAT one, I sold the rest of the collection ages ago, or was it 5 minutes ago? bah, no matter, I'll take it anyway..." "Do I get any Reward?" "oh yeah that, Uuuuh lets see here, AHA here have these Legendary weapons from my armory!" "Its a hammer and sickle." "Yes, oh you arent from that Dimension are you, oh well its fine Ill explain it, These weapons have the magic ability to inspire People around You!" "Like how bards do it?" "Oh no no no, it Inspires them to take up the Cause of Communism!" "What in the actual Fuck is Communism!?" "Its a system where EVERYONE is exactly equal! Amazing right?" "Then what happens?" "they immediately take up arms and attempt to kill the Bourgeoisie scum!" "so they attack the guards?" "Yes Its Oh so fun to watch them Get Murdered Brutally while Screaming praise to someone theyv Never even Heard of before, Feeling the Confusion in there Mind as they hear what there saying is just DELICIOUS!" "You know what? fine these might come in handy one day, Whats my next mission, Oh HuMbLe OvErLoRd" "Lets just look at the to do list here... Yes there we are, I want you to go to Mount Celestia and gather a Cup of Goodness." "EXCUSE ME." "I said g-" "I fucking heard what you said Why dont You just get up and do it yourself!" "eww that place messes with my Chaotic Neutral Essence Man." "Fucking hell how am I even supposed to get there." "Not my Problem." Several months later. "YOU DARE STEAL THE ESSENCE OF MOUNT CELESTIA DIE" "N-" The Half-orcs weapons Shatter Spontaneously, the Stone of the Mountain Surges up and incases his lower half, and Hundreds of Lightning Bolts Pour from the sky, Killing the half-orc near instantly "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That one never gets old" the Archfey laughs, Looking through a Scrying orb.

@nicholaswhaling7233

5 жыл бұрын

I have this idea of basing a fey patron on a character by the name of Yukari Yakumo. If you don't know what she's like, look up TV Tropes PCB characters or the Touhou wiki for some info. I seriously think she would fit quite nicely.

Man your videos are so well made when I first watched your videos I thought you had over 100,000 subs

This is the fifth Davvy vid I’ve watched. I’m pretty hooked ☺️♥️♥️

This has caused me to be inspired to update my warlock character. With the backstory I gave him, it made better sense to have him be backed by a celestial. Although I add some flavor by making the celestial be a fallen angel.

I'm about to join a campaign as a warlock with a hexblade pact, so thank you for more information that can help me with the roll playing aspect!

Character story idea: A pact of the fiend Warlock multi-class with a pact of the celestial Warlock and these two entities representing heaven and hell are literally fighting over your soul

Idea: undying warlock with pact of the blade (Or whatever it was where you can summon weapons) Patron is a ghost that has linked itself to your body and can transform into weapons to protect you (Indirect Hexblade?) or some armor. Bonus points: have another player be the ghost and only be able to speak in your ear to tell you what to say or just fucking take control of you for a while (Venom, basically)

You know Davvy, all these videos are great for someone such as I who are a total neewbie to the D&D clusterfuck of rules and stuff. Keep doing it.

I needed this video! I'm currently making a warlock and wanted them to be themed around voodoo. Pretty sure now that I'll go for a Vestige patron, maybe have a Lich that speaks on behalf of the patron like Papa Legba does for the Loa

I loved that bit about "This is a great Old One what are this Questions and clear answers you are talking about"

My first ever character I played was a Tiefling warlock of the Old One. Lots of fun to spam eldritch blast and hex.

Probably my favourite class, purely due to the sheer amount of customization that you can have. Coincidentally that's also why Simic Hybrids are my favourite race.

My party accidentally got a celestial sugar daddy, he's pretty good (and no one was a warlock)

In a homebrew campaign of mine, one of my warlocks chose a patron. That patron is a god of chaos. Basically, the character has complete freedom, except for *one* clause. "No matter what, you must pursue chaos and change" Basically, his patron *demands* that the player try his damnedest to derail the story, causing about as much chaos and uncertainty as a False Hydra, since that is quite literally the one demand the patron has: I give you power, now use that power to make shit hit the fan.

@hombrewed6714

4 жыл бұрын

Oh God yes, I need to make a homebrew subclass for this. Thank you for inspiration.

So, for D&D I've been creating my own campaign world, inspired by Forgotten Realms and I've been having too much fun coming up with badguys. For instance, one villain I made inspired by this video was Wulfharth, a Barbarian/Warlock from the southern lands of Bar'shovia(which are a place I made up, basically a real Conan the Barbarian sort of place, all desert and wasteland with even a bit of vegetation being valuable). He has pledged his soul to the Elder Evil, Atropus. So, Wulfharth can raise hordes of powerful undead while he himself is a force to be reckoned with, following "the Bar'shovian way", which is basically a barbarian's version of chivalry but replace honer with glory and replace most stuff with battle.

My Archfey warlock was just a normal dog until it found Titania who decided to take the dog in and then she accidentally turned the previously normal dog into... *awakened dog* so now she's like shit and tells her loyal dog to go do stuff for her. My Fiend warlock was part of a cult following Azuriel of the Flowing Flame and then she's chosen to be his warlock, she makes the deal, falls in love, and murders the rest of the cult *because Azuriel is hers and hers alone*

Awesome video. Great Old Ones don't have to be from the Cthulhu Mythos as they can be any creature that rivals the gods in power, like dawn titans or platinum dragons or whatnot. I also tend to think of Hex Blades as serving the spirit of the Shadowfell itself, whatever motivations that has. Maybe just to spread pain?

Hexblade weapon concept (which I'm sure many have already come up with): A spoon that when you land a crit allows you to scoop out the eye (one sight organ per crit) of the creature you're attacking. Doing so imposes disadvantage on the creature for attack rolls (because limited sight) and Constitution saves (because immense pain or at least "Owie wowie my eyeball"), until the creature rolls well enough to overcome the fact that they're without an eye or leave it up to the DM. Critting again means another eye lost, so you can just impose lasting blindness on your enemies. Neat!

My group is going through the tyranny of dragons campaign. I decided to play a tiefling warlock and kind of based the character off of Lucifer from the TV show (person that wants to do good to spite his father but has a tough time understanding the concept). He was originally pact of the fiend(Eltab) but early in the campaign I really wasn't having fun with him and it felt like I was trying to mold him into a character that gameplay wise just wasn't working. I wanted to do pure mind manipulation magic. Well the other players were having issues with their characters and Xanathar's guide came out right around this time. So the DM allowed us to do a "shenron wish". Basically pull a retcon. Monk and cleric changed subclasses and one player made a whole new character to join at this point in the story. My warlock though was a bit in a tough bind due to backstory and how pacts work. Well the DM and I discussed and came up with a in universe explanation. Something took control of my pact and severed ties with the old one. My character unknowingly became a servant to another force beyond his understanding. So I swapped to great old one (Dendar) and it's been a blast ever since. And I even had a side story of my character trying to find out who his new master was. Definitely an unexpected turn in the adventure.

Some art pieces are so nice

I feel the warlock is the most interesting class simply for the ustomisability aof both patreon and player Expecially the relationship (only exeption is old one in my eyes at least)

This is great stuff!

Not saying you could multiclass celestial/hexblade, but you could be a pact of the blade Celestial warlock (or a pact of the chain Hexblade) and use a Greatsword or Longsword imbued with the soul of an archangel trapped in the mortal plane.

What do you think of my character idea? First of all, a disclaimer, I will quickly sum the character up here and if you feel interested you can read the long text below which is basically the first meeting of my character and his patron but it might be a bit dull or boring as I'm not really experienced in theses kinds of things. So here's the short version. My character is an aasimar who has decided that he didn't want to fight in the war anymore and instead travel the world and find a point in life. That's when he meets what can be best described as the "Grim Reaper" who explains to him what "true neutrality" means which the aasimar seems to really like so he decides to work with the "Grim Reaper" who sends him on an adventuring tour with a bit of warlock-power. And, here goes the long version: An aasimar, that has been part of the constant war between celestials and fiends for quite some time and actually has enough of it. He doesn't see how either side could actually justify what they're doing so he decides to leave his home, which was Mount Celestia itself, and travel around the material plane looking for something more logical, an answer to why he thinks this way and what he could do instead. When one day he witnessed a fight of some aasimar and demons in a village he travelled through. The village was destroyed and most of it's inhabitants were killed in the crossfire. That's when the aasimar realized what he really had a problem with. These pointless deaths, people died and probably didn't even know about the greater war they didn't take part in at all. So as he stands there in the burning ruins of the village he cries out to anyone who would have the power over death and ask them how they could let something like this happen. Suddenly, the aasimar sees only darkness around him and it is as if he was falling but at the same time he doesn't feel any wind and he doesn't feel himself moving either. After a short time a hooded figure appears out of the darkness. The figure wears a long mantle with an enormous hood which completely hides their face. With a deep voice the figure asks: "You wanted to talk to me?" The aasimar is completely shocked and doesn't find the ability to answer immediately, so after a short pause the figure makes a waving gesture with their hand and says "C'mon, I DO have better things to do, so if you want to say something, say it. You're lucky I even decided to answer your call. I probably would've ignored you if you weren't an aasimar." While the figure says that the aasimar gets a glance of the figures hand and begins to sweat as he sees something, that is not a normal creatures hand, but a pale white skeleton hand. The aasimar stares at the figure in fear and surprise as he finally manages to speak again: "You- You're the Grim Reaper!" "Ah, so they do still tell people about me up in Mt. Celestia. I thought they would just try to forget me considering, well, they hate me and all." "I didn't learn about you through other aasimars, I... kind of stumbled over this book in the forbidden section of the biggest archive in Mt. Celestia. The book was called "True Neutrality" and I was immediately interested." "Oh, really? How so?" "Well, I thought it was actual neutrality, like, a sort of place or condition between the extremes of celestial and fiend for example, but when I read a few pages I realized it was just about some very old being that somehow holds the power of death for all planes so I put it back and didn't think much about it anymore. I thought it was just an old fairy tale." "Ah, and old fairy tale, of course. Well, I can assure you that everything you read is possibly true. I DO hold the power over death for every creature on all planes of existence. Whenever any creature on any plane dies, its soul is collected by one of my many helpers and students. They bring it to me and I decide what to do with the soul. It's a hard job, especially when you have been doing it since the beginning of time, but someone has to do it. Otherwise the souls of the dead would fly through the planes and cause chaos and panic and I don't even want to get started on what would happen if a soul tried to touch another living creature." "So, you're a god?" "Kind of, I'm not essentially a god in the point of "Oh, hey I want to make great things on the different planes and do stuff". I have my responsibility to maintain order and chaos." "Order AND chaos? They both contradict each other, don't they?" "Well, you tell me. What would you consider "death" to be. Order or chaos?" "Um, I don't know, chaos maybe?" "Wrong... and right. It's both." "How can it be both?!" "You see, death is chaotic because it can come any day and in any shape or form and you can't see it coming. The inhabitants of that village surely didn't expect to die in the crossfire of a fight between aasimars and demons today, don't you think." "Probably not, but how does it represent order then? If it comes so unexpectedly, there is no actual law for death, is there?" "Oh there is. Because no matter how unexpectedly your death might come, no matter how chaotic and bizarre the circumstances are, one thing is always certain. You WILL die. That is the one rule "death" follows and it is the strongest rule of them all." "I... I think I understand..." "And so it essentially is with everything because in the end, death is always there, it's basically the essential part of our world." "So... do you represent "true neutrality" as it is written in that book? Do you not differentiate from good and evil and don't care for any of the extreme sides of a conflict?" "Well, that's one part of my duty, of course. The one thing you have to see is that there is more than just the black and white parts of the world." The aasimar falls down onto his knees, suddenly realizing that he isn't floating anymore but is actually standing on a grey stone ground. He bows down as deep as he can and pleads: "Please, Grim Reaper, take me as a student of yours. I have been travelling so long to find an answer to my questions and I believe you are the answer and it is destiny for me to follow and serve you." "Oh please, those acts aren't necessary, seriously, I do what has to be done and I don't want anyone worshipping me." "You don't? But what about your helpers and students you mentioned?" "Ah, those aren't followers, they work with me. They believe in the concept of true neutrality and help me take care of the souls of the dead. They willingly offered their service with the intent of doing something useful that would fulfill them." "Can I also become part of your group?" "Of course, if you're willing to help. I'll be glad to welcome you to the troupe. However, you can't immediately start flying to the different planes and collecting souls, there are different kinds of work for everyone here. You begin with adventuring through the material plane, thinking about all of this and sort of coming up with your own interpretation of what "true neutrality" really is as everyone has a different view on it. It definitely is something that is in the middle of all extremes and tries to balance each side of a conflict, however that does not mean that you always have to be the exact middle of everything. As death itself, "true neutrality" can take parts of the various extremes and represent them in small amounts as long as it's still balanced somehow. On your journey you will also hear from me from time to time and your adventure might include some tasks that prepare you for your work as a "Grim Reaper"." "I thought you're the "Grim Reaper"?" "Oh, no that's more of a title I give everyone that works with me. It used to be only me so people stopped referring to me by my name and a few thousand years later they stopped referring to me completely, but anyway that doesnt matter." "What is your real name then?" "....... Mors.... my name is Mors." "Alright, I will be glad to join your troupe. So you said I should go adventuring? I'm sure that's going to be fine, and what are my tasks you were talking about?" "I will come back to you once you have become a bit stronger. Then I will give you your tasks. For now, I will gift you power which you can use for whatever purpose you want. I will send you back to the material plane now. I wish you the best of luck, my new friend." "Thanks, I will see you, I guess." As the aasimar waves at Mors the surrounding begins to become lighter and lighter until the aasimar isn't able to see anything anymore. Suddenly, he finds himself standing in the ruins of the village he travelled through again, however some time seems to have passed. When the aasimar was warped out of the material plane and met Mors it was the middle of the night. Now it is bright day and the fires of the fight have burned down to embers. The Aasimar takes a breath and then begins to go westward to the nearest town that would have an opportunity to become and adventurer. If you've actually read to this point, thank you very much, I really appreciate you taking your time. If you have any thoughts or improvements on this, feel free to comment.

@Zarsla

3 жыл бұрын

I mean sure. Mechanical: GOO or Undying or Celestial, all sound fun.

@gazelle_diamond9768

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zarsla Well, this certainly is interesting to be reminded of. Anyway, as you can probably guess I did change the concept a bit within the last months. I chose the Undead patron from UA, because that seemed like the most fitting, and changed it a bit so it's actually balanced. A few changes to the story so it fits the campaign setting, etc. But still thanks for reading through all of that. I honestly didn't expect anyone to take their time for this, let alone give me positive feedback.

Awesome video!

if you want to know where the hexblade theme came from look up Elric of Melnibone. the name comes with a lot of psychodelic rock from the 70's attached to it

Honestly though, my paladin’s backstory is closer to a warlock especially because her god likes talking to her.

@dragonmaster613

3 жыл бұрын

Multiclass is your friend.

my character is just a girl who happened to find a book and that gave her, her powers...?

@rene280195

4 жыл бұрын

Is You Sakura Cars Captor?

4:35 You expected a normal patron, but it was ME, Dio!

@mihaiioc.3809

4 жыл бұрын

"my patron is inhabiting my body, but can exist outside of it at a distance of 10 meters looking like a grey buff dude with yellow heavy armour and has maxed damage, constitution and dexterity but lacks all the other stats while in this form, has flury of blows as an action and can stop time for one round while i can move, our turns happen at the same time but have spearate actions, he's also invisible to non casters and likes to yell "useless" whenever he punches (wich happens more often than i, a caster, would imagine)"

I've always really liked the idea of playing a celestial warlock whose patron is a fragment of Jazirian , a dead God from 2e who created the Couatls, with the ultimate goal of successfully resurrecting them.

for you warlocks out there who are not afraid of dipping their feat into unofficial grounds I'd recommend the compendium of forgotten secrets pretty good stuff

2:33 that pic was of the Terraria "Lunatic Cultist" but I guess it's fitting

My headcanon is that a hexblade can have their weapon given to them ala the lady of the lake. So you can have a patron as well as a magical weapon but the weapon might also just be a communication item with said patron.

My Hexblade is a Drow, who found the Crescent Blade of Eilistreae after it was made powerless prior to the Second Sundering, he found it and upon Eilistreae’s return forged a pact as a Hexblade. Kinda taking a que from Travis Willinghams warlock, I like to take the Hexblade and bind the pact to weapons of particular deities, entities or fiends that once owned or made the weapons not necessarily the weapon themselves. As cool as a pact with weapons like Khaz’idea or Charon’s Claw would be I don’t see how they can’t eventually provide the kind of power that warlocks eventually get at high levels.

My Patron is pretty much a mercury entity (as a Hexblade), that pretty much had only 2 demands: Multiclass into Horizon Walker & Slay Aberrations if you find them and in exchange he designed my skills and spells to look like fluid silver...AND IT WAS WORTH IT!

@debreczeniarpad9956

5 жыл бұрын

Coooool

@debreczeniarpad9956

5 жыл бұрын

Coooooool

A couple of ideas for Hexblades: 1. At a certain point obtain the Blackrazor or whatever soul-hungry anime weapon, and have it be a sort of Eddie Brock/Venom type of relationship where you have a hard time controlling it and convincing it that they should only consume the souls of bad people. Which is a bit nebulous because it comes down the perspective of either the wielder or weapon and what the consensus ends up being at any given time. 2. You're a half-elf of illegitimate origin, maybe the result of an affair by a corrupt noble, and your Hexblade Patron is the Moonblade of your bloodline that you are the rightful heir to, unbeknowst to the parent that dumped you, and your goal is to publicly claim it and it becomes your one true Pact weapon. The blade refuses to bond with anyone else and sends you clues as to its whereabouts, as well as the abilities of a Hexblade as a sort of test to see what you'd do with that kind of power.

So you're telling me that I can play Rex/Pyra in D&D? If not in smash, I shall bring them to another game.

Came here after Warframe's latest quest revealed Tenno are effectivly Warlocks that pacted with something from between spaces who's given them oceans of swirling cosmic madness and chaos.... but hasn't really been forthcoming on what /IT/ gets out of the deal. And so I'm wanting to get ideas on how to run a tabletop campaign to explore the tenno side of the tenno/warframe dynamic.

As a player and DM warlocks are my favorite class to mess with especially fiends and celestials in one of my campaigns there was an all out for between fiend warlocks due to one side being well the demon half from the abyss, and the devil half being from when Hell sort of anyway it was great

The class description for hexblades describes your patron as being from the shadowfell, actually.

1:21 *STANDOH POWAH!*

My patron is my old character... who turned into a vampiric lich through a long tedious ritual.

I’m not sure if you know this, Davvy, but Jeremy Crawford said that the hex blade patron is actually not a weapon but more like shadowfell Hephaestus.

my warlock’s patron is going to be my great-grandfather. “you want powers, kiddo? take em!”

I had a cool idea of a chaotic evil (no surprise there) warlock who has a unique relationship to her fiend patron. Her father made a pact with the same fiend in return for his firstborn's soul once they reached maturity. Being the reckless power hungry man he was, he fathers her without realising it, and after her mother finds out about the deal (shortly after her birth) she abandons her. Growing up as an orphan she ends up with a really twisted mind and a few years after being taken by the fiend she ends up as his wife. As the fiend wishes for his lover to share his power, he returns her to the normal plane and gives her some of his power so she can develop her own power. I plan on going Pact of The Chain and having an imp as her best friend, who was unwilling to leave her side when she left. It's not the strongest in combat, but I like the utility/rp aspect a lot more.

Iv'e decided, my next character will be a kind of derpy kenku warlock with a pact with a great old one

I wasn't a huge fan of your other videos, I think it is more of the style and how you explained classes and races...that is just MY opinion though. This was different. I honestly I really like this one and how you explained the patrons. I am adding this to my list of videos for my players to watch.

Could you do a guide for the Firbulgs? I am playing one in a new campaign im in and it would be nice to have some extra insight about them.

Nice subtext. Oh, oobiedoo, eldritch blast at you-oo-oo~

Ha! Jokes on you! Kingdom Hearts was always overly complicated!

@RikkuTakanashi

4 жыл бұрын

But in a good way. I think people expect it to be super complex at this point and a really simple dumbed down version would probably bore people.

there's too much dota2 in all your videos. I approve.

Huh, I designed a hexblade warlock that pretty much had the blood moon version of the holy moonlight sword, I liked him for I designed the weapon to gain unique abilities as he leveled up and the dm approved, I even showed him the level list of the weapons abilities

I did make an interesting character. Out of a hexblade... I made a character that was controlled by two players... One was me the Sword ( an shadowfell minor demon, that it's soul was used too make and sword) and a friend of mine that played an lunoth ( basically a fey moth girl) Whit the time and sharing minds both personalities mixed and mashed , kinda like gollum but not evil.. For say so ... More like and duo dinnamic, .... One protecting the other, I got to say it it's one of my favorite player characters

@a3van609

5 жыл бұрын

Never One, without the Other (LoL Kindred)

A might effort. I am now bing watching.

I like the warlock its like both homebrew and usual game.

2:23 Literally a picture of the Cultists in Terraria lol Edit: you can even see the Blizzard Staff

So does this imply that the 5E Warlock guide is next? Not trying to be pushy, just asking.

The Hexblade pact. Probably the overall safest since more than likely the demon sword just wants to kill shit, and keeping you alive and swinging it is probably the best way to do that. Not to mention, you're never REALLY disarmed.

Nobody appreciates a good demon

I've made 2 Warlocks: both originally Gnoll Fighters (mother and son even) that made deals to augment their abilities to help the party. The son made a deal with an Arch-Devil and, after dying, is currently a $5 bill in some devil's pocket. His mother, on the other hand, made a pact with an Archangel and the poor guy has to sit on her shoulder constantly, trying to convince this ruthless and violent warband leader to ease up on the death-dealing every now and again.

I've got a bit of an idea. It's a bit homebrew but for me, it works well in terms of lore and story. A warlock that had a weapon (whatever weapon) that they trained with, had a connection with whatever. Then they decided to challenge a field (or whatever) to a duel for your soul. You defeated the fiend and demanded for his power, the fiend, holding their promise but still wanting to dick you over, gave the power to your blade instead. This can also be a dance with the Raven Queen where the sword seeks blood and gains strength because of it.

I made a pact of the archfey worlock and their patron is thier adoptive mother. A very feared and respected archfey and is on the same level of the seelie and unseelie queens. I made up a whole court for them. The land of Misfits and Travelers, a land for everyone who isn't accepted by society. I took inspo for Ginny Di's archfey patron, the lady of the soil. I made her the lady of decay.

I think a massive, super old collective of Cranium Rats would make for an awesome GOO patron. Especially if you homebrew a Ratfolk race to play