Warlocks: Who is your Patron, and what makes them unique?
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- I've been listening to the latest Dragoncast podcast and the Lore You Should Know segment discussed unique warlock patrons. It got me thinking about patrons and their machinations that a warlock at my table, who hasn't really defined his patron yet, might have mad a pact with. What pacts have you, or one of your PCs made?
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This was a homebrewed Patron, called The Symbiont.
My character had a man made bio engineered worm parasite as a patron named ASP (which stands for "Armed Spellcaster Parasite"). My character was the only one among many experiments that successfully bonded with an ASP, but afterwards, he transformed and went on a rampage, destroying the lab before he was warped to a prison made of gold (a story for another time).
For what the ASP granted, think of Venom. My character could transform as a bonus action, he loses the ability to use spells in this form but he can use claws as attacks, having bonus equal to my charisma modifier. His AC also raises equal to my charisma modifier (he already had decent AC, and my charisma modifier was +5 so whenever he was in this form he was very hard to hit).
Two abilities I remember on the top of my head is a rending attack that acts as a third attack, and if it hits, whoever is hit has disadvantage on attack rolls for their next turn.
And I don't exactly remember the condition for this one, but it was either if they simply land a hit or they reduce a target's hp to 0, they regen 1d4 hp per hit landed.
If you all want specific details or more, I'll happily try to find the book I got the Patron from!
I've got two for you:
The first is Baldrick Bluefield, an heir to a barony who ran away from an arranged marriage for feelings of inadequacy, thinking he wasn't worthy of inheriting the barony until he becomes a great warrior. He's a lanky, foppish, and squeamish, but has a genuine heart of gold and very savvy in all things social.
His patron is a crystal ball that promised it could make him a great warrior, but he would have to serve it as a clerk afterwards, the exact deal being "I'll be your sword if you'll be my pen." After accepting, the crystal ball transforms into a magical glaive, making him a Hexblade Warlock. What he doesn't realize is that the glaive is actually an Unseelie fairy who wants to entrap humans - but she's really bad at making deals, which is why she got turned into a glaive and trapped. Her aim is to permanently turn Baldrick into a literal pen when she's free, but she doesn't realize she already messed up the deal by turning into a glaive instead of a sword.
The second is a chain-smoking thief named Virgil Lockwood. He tried to steal a magic censer for reselling and technically got away, but not before taking a fatal crossbow bolt through the lung. As it turns out, the censer wasn't magic at all, but contained the embers of a Phoenix who was cursed to not reincarnate when her final ember dies. She offers to keep him alive by keeping his lung wound shut, as well as give him warlock powers, if he's willing to keep her flame alive. He agrees, and now he's a jaded celestial pact warlock who's never not smoking, with a Phoenix with the attitude of a paladin living in the bud of his cigarette and constantly nagging him to do the right thing.
I was the dm of a campaign, and the bard of the party wanted to start multiclassing into warlock. So next session he gets a flyer that basically reads "looking for power quick? tired of being a scared cat? Want some good old fashion revenge? Find me at the crossroads near the swamp outside town and you'll get all you desire and more". So late at night the bard goes out and finds the crossroads, only to find a table set up lavishly with all sorts of delicious foods and a man wearing the typical devil looking dark suit and a cain and speaking with a Cajun accent. He made a deal for power, all he had to do was give him his fear willingly and give whatever he kills to him. Upon signing the deal, turns out he wasn't a devil but a demon catfish in disguise, a demon of gluttony and desire which wanted access to his untapped potential, literally ate his fear and gave the character to fear effects, but without fear, what stopping you from becoming more and more corrupted by the demon?
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*in an Austrian accent* "Who is your patron, and what does he do?"
So I play a noble damphire lizard folk named Beds-many-wenches hes undead warlock who's father is his patron... and he's most definitely a virgin fyi... his father who the party has dubbed daddy wnches is basically a mix of Dio from Jo-jo's bazaar adventures, Dracula from castlevania and Alucard from Helsing (so like sleeps around and sees everyone as trash, but has a soft spot for his family, hands out a ton of gadgets to the party but won't lift a finger to help them in an actual fight... but with a stat block that could 1 tap tiamat, and is the party's sugar daddy) I did up his stats and handed him off to the dm (who is a player in the games I tun) we are currently in curse of strad cause daddy wenches was a drinking buddy and wants us to either get his friend to stop simping and act like a proper king or kill him for being a disgrace to vampires
My first Warlock's patron (Fiend Subclass) was actually a fallen goddess, tricked and corrupted by fiends and cast out into darkness. Even her true name was lost to the ages.
My character wanted magical power enough to get out of his own bad situation and pledged a pact to anyone who would listen, and she suddenly found herself with her first true 'worshipper' in eons. She cattily toys with him and pokes his temper for her own amusement. But she secretly does value and care him, as he's her only means of retaining her former status again, as well as the only person they like talking to.
Here's a dark entity unique to my homebrew campaign.
Meet Edgwei, a long forgotten deity that still holds from the few followers he has. After performing an act that brings him back, during the long rest after, he offers the character power equal to theirs (Changing all their levels to Warlock)
Instead of Eldritch Blast, they get Eldritch Hand, a cantrip that allows you to target a humanoid creature after making a small chant, dealing 1d12 per 100 lbs (rounded up) of the target, but only works on targets with undergarments. At higher levels, you can target larger creatures where it can even be used against giants.
However the price to keep the power is to use it at least once a day, regardless of who it's used on.
I played a tiefling fiend warlock whose patron was one of her ancestors. The patron recognized their blood in my girl and rewarded her with power. Every time my warlock received a new pact feature or spell from a level up, my warlock would wake up to discover "Nana" had left a plate of snickerdoodles for myself and the party to enjoy along with a positive affirmation note explaining that Nana had given me a new power to help me have fun with my friends. The cookies were treated as rations and maintained their cinnamon flavor even while traveling in the Nine Hells where food was supposed to taste like ash.
A hundred years prior ot the campaign, a Leviathan had crossed a portal from the Plane of Water and was set to destroy a kingdom. It was destroyed, but a small fragment of the elder elemental's power was floating thriugh the water before washing up on a deserted island and getting absorbed into a coconut tree.
A hundred years later, my character, a dragonborn sailor named Mirmulnir, had gotten knocked off his ship and washed up ashore. He would see himself deep in the ocean, face to face with a shapeless being staring at him, only to wake up when a coconut knocked his head. He looked to the coconut, and he heard a voice in his head.
Tldr, the elder leviathan was residing in a coconut, and my warlock was Tom Hanks in Castaway
" All hail The wave mother!! " Umberlee was my first deity since we had a sea based campaign that required us to traverse by ship. Yet... we still fought a kraken because faith role was nat 1 😢
A woman named Kellan Justidia failed to be permitted the title of Cleric. Try as she might, she didn't have the aptitude to master the many holy spells and crafts to become a legitimate healer. But she kept trying anyway until the holy order banished her, citing that it was, "A waste of their time to train a known failure." Dejected and with her life's purpose denied, she took up the adventure to become a healer on her own but she was no better on her own, despite her efforts.
Her sorrow and frustration caught the gaze of an avatar, the Celestial, who offered her what she desired if she entered a pact with them. The Celestial saw what the priests could not, that she had within her darkness that would take time and effort to balance out. At first, Kellan refused, stubbornly insisting that she could succeed on her personal merits and abilities. But the Celestial never left her and bore witness to further failure after failure, never once correcting but silently judging nonetheless.
Kellan eventually gave up and entered a pact, the Celestial granting what she desired so long as she served their will. That was how Kellan Justidia became the Dark Saint, forced to walk the line between saint and sinner who served a greater will.
I'm planning to have a Hag that has not been fully turned yet, and died during an attack on her coven, as a patron.
It's a Hexblade pact, with her Heart Stone being used to create a shield (that was actually supposed to serve as a way to have her revered as a martyred saint, since her death was a major part of a slave revolution).
So, now my Warlock has an angry teenager stuck in their head, who demands vengeance on people that remind her of the Hags, or her parents who sold her to them... and to immediately pet that cute cat over there.
Also, try on that dress, I've always wanted to try wearing one, I don't care that you're a hulking male Orc and it doesn't remotely fit your size.
A bunch of the Hexblade abilities would be reflavored to insted be the patron finally accepting their hag-like appearence enough to manifest as a specter and be seen by others.
My character is a train conductor, and his patron is a steam locomotive that's possessed by an exiled machine-spirit from Mechanus.
The locomotive wants revenge against the guy who created it, and because it can't necessarily do much (it's a train) it sends its conductor out to solve the problem.
His name is Mr. Bibbles.
He is a eldritch Chinchilla Warlock, who is his own patron.
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Alomar, a topaz dragonborn from a game set in Wildemount (that sadly never got off the ground) was going to be primarily a wizard, but I started him off with a level of celestial warlock to tie in with his backstory.
Originally born in Whitestone, Alomar was inspired by the Grey Hunt to be a protector, but in his attempt to join them he found he had little talent for being in the thick of battle; unwilling to give up on protecting folks, he compromised with himself by swearing to one day study defensive magics in the Cobalt Reserve in Westruun.
His dedication to this purpose and to the motive behind it attracted the attention of Galdric, who offered Alomar the means to protect himself on the road in exchange for bringing back what he'd learn and trying again to join the Hunt.
I once made a fiend warlock who was married to his patron. The contract was their marriage license. His husband granted him an allowance of magic that increased as he leveled up, as a sort of prenuptial type agreement. Once he proved his fidelity, he'd gain access to greater magic. He also had an imp familiar butler who served him, and he summoned various fiends to perform any tasks he didn't feel like doing. His husband also granted him a sum of money to set himself up in luxury as pose as a noble. He would always tell anyone who asked that he married into money, but that his husband was always away on business and had sent the warlock to run the house while he was away. I played him like a vapid gold digging socialite who called his husband over any minor inconvenience, but he was also sassy, sarcastic, and fun loving.
I got a few. One’s a Hexblade patron, but the twist is that he was an elven blacksmith who got his soul bound to his magnum opus sword, with the objective for his contractor being to restore said sword to its former glory (the blade itself was basically a moonblade with max number of runes, but each rune was scratched up), and the only way to do that was to level up/feed it magic items/kill shit with it. The second is an Archfiend that doesn’t care about corrupting people or stealing souls, he just wants good stories and will either actively help or hinder his contractors in their endeavors in order to, in his mind, “make the story better”. He’ll actively cheer his contractors on regardless of how positive or negative his relationship with them is. Another is a Positive Plane creature that basically just wants her contractors to help others.
Not watched the video yet, but a game started with some of my family and our friends. My brother's patron is a fae lord who is not allowed back into the wilds until he makes a best seller book.
The problem: he is a bad writer, but hopefully my brother will be the protagonist of the story to give him the inspiration he needs.
The way my brother described us meets him and his patron... we find this guy being followed by a fae lord riding on a floating disk and hammering away on a typewriter.
I once played a celestial warlock who had an...interesting background.
When he was young, his mother fell terribly sick and was dying. So my character went into the forest to find herbs when he stumbled upon a fairy.
He told her of his problem and she agreed to heal his mother in exchange for his first born child.
My character agreed and his mother was heald. He then saved up his money and bought a ring and proposed to the fairy.
Turns out, my character refused to loose his virginity until he was married and he didn't want to give up his child to anyone. So he figured that if he marred the fairy, all would be perfect.
Now he gose on adventures to help pay for his family of 6 kids and a beautiful and extremely loving fairy wife who grants him powers to help him with his "job"
One of my players has a Great Stoned One patron. He gets the abilities of a normal goolock but like the patron is just high as shit the entire time
My warlock actually has two patrons. First is an archfey, queen of the Seelie court. She helped any mortal who got lost in her territory until she went missing. While I was trying to find her, an eldritch god of space time approached me and offered to help in exchange for his influence spread through the feywild. I'm essentially both an Archfey and Great Old One warlock. It’s pretty cool!
My favorite is a Hexblade patron that is a shadow spirit that is keeping my character alive. It isn’t malicious, and is more like a symbiotic entity. They both grow in power at the same time, learning what they can do.
It might be a shadowspawn (in one game) or a shadow demon (in another), but overall it serves as the character’s best friend… though it does eat people.
Patron of stories, in short this patron doesn’t want souls, death or anything like that. What they want is knowledge, stories and tales to hoard and understand. When the patron gives their powers to a warlock, they create a contract where the warlock must go out and expirence everything and anything to create a great story. When they inevitably die, the patron will copy down their life and put it in massive library.
I have a player with a Fathomless patron that is a pseudo-god dragon from the depths of the ocean. The backstory is that the Warlock was raised in a Kraken cult, and when their time came to perform the ritual of becoming the Kraken's newest Warlock, the dragon interrupted it, badly wounded the Kraken, and harnessed the power of the ritual, and bound the pact to herself.
The dragon is actually significantly more benevolent than the Kraken, and has secretly aligned herself with Deep Sashelas, the Chaotic Good Elvish sea god. She's watchful, but distant to her somewhat destructive Warlock.
I also have an NPC Warlock who runs a potion shop in a large chain. Her patron is the owner of the potion chain; a powerful Dusk Hag with a dozen Warlocks, each running their own locations.
The Hag is happy to give discounts on potions for the purpose of securing customers and running rivals out of business. However, if you try to strike a deal with her for anything other than a potion or a pact, you'll find yourself in crippling monetary debt.
She is a Hag, after all, and nothing pleases her more than emptying some desperate soul's wallet or running a competitor out of business.
My air genasi hexblade warlock Tempest was a caravan guard heading to the city when they were attacked by bandits and all killed. Tempest was the last to fall. As he fell unconscious he saw a beautiful maiden holding his hand and telling him it would be alright. He eventually woke up, found he was the only survivor, except for a tiny blue fairy he found in a box in one of the carts. Mechanically he is a hexblade but bound to the fairy instead of a weapon. He has no idea who his patron is (left to the DM). Though I think it is probably a hag as there is a coven that deals with the heavy hitters in this realm. The fairy that I call Wiki I found in the homebrew section of DND Beyond as annoying fairy. It knows a lot of random trivia, which it will spout out at the most inopportune times. But that could help this party as our highest int score is 12.
I have a concept for a plasmoid who has the Demon Lord of Slimes as their patron
My warlock characters patron is actually the ghost of his previous pirate crew. During the time of them dying they just so happened to steal something called the orb of souls. This orb absorbed their souls and trap it within it. My character hadn’t made a full contract with them till about 4th level, (I had took one level in rouge because he’s a pirate showing he wasn’t always a warlock) his contract is basically what his job / rules of the ship were but cranked up to 11. Such as he can’t show mercy to someone in a fight that’s threatening the party or himself. He has to steal a certain amount of items / money each month. He can’t die like a coward he has to go down fighting. This has cause quite of bit of instability in this character as these crew members are basically his family. He currently working on ways of bringing them back. He’s a fathomless warlock that a lot of the spells are reflavored as things he can do with guns or just innate ability to control or summon the sea.
While not really a full warlock, I took a dip into warlock for Genie’s Vessel, my character is just a particularly charismatic Chronourgy Wizard, so I flavored it as her Future Self giving her gifts to see their goals through.
Played online. I took a Corpse Candle as a patron. Not sure if it's 5e, but I did find lore on it from 5e sources. It's basically a Revenant with fire powers, exept it has no physical form. It will stay in it's own corpses eye until someone gazes at it, then transfers into their eye. Then it will do everything in it's power to get you to seek retribution for their death in it's place. It often appears in your eye as a flame, but doesn't really harm you, it also can only hop bodies once.
It's memorable because it lead me to stumbling into the Sorlock and got immediayely accused in the group chat of trying to break the game and got banned from that group. Luckily finding a new one was easy enough and now I have soo much more. I now also have a great leniant and supporting DM.
the warlock in our group had a great old one patron who was basically the "lord of impossible geomatry" (like Relativity from MC Etcher but turned up to 11 to the point things would fold in on themselves while also not.. that kind of stuff). my bloodhunter took the profain soul subclass (which lets you take a warlock patron) and i picked the same patron. at lvl 4 i became a warlock of the patron. i dont know too much about it cuz it was the other player's creation but just having shifting geomatry mixed into the spell casting sounded awesome (like, i imagined eldritch blast would bend and warp in odd angles before striking instead of being a straight beam.. like darkseid's omega beams from DC comics but more warped).
now, if i were to create a patron i'd want to make a homebrew subclass for it.. call it the "hive mind". it'd be a group of psionic demi-gods whos minds became one and ascended to full divinity. the warlocks who are bound to this entity are slowly joined into the hive mind and pulled into divinity to allow the hive to grow in power and influance. i'd have some interactions for high level player characters to try and resist this though im not sure how to make that work just yet
I'm currently playing a Celestial Warlock in a homebrew campaign. This world is facing a demon invasion and the Feywild has already been almost completely destroyed. Unbeknownest to my character, she is the last fairy to come to life in the feywild, before it lost it's energy. Her patron is a fairy goddess named Belle, Fairy of Good Deeds, and had been secretly watching over my character, until she really needed some divine help to save a comrade. My fairy didn't think twice to form a talisman pact, as she always wants to help others (Though doesn't always think of the consequences). As fairys can come to live from almost any natural phenomenon (a beam of moonlight hitting a kingfishers feathers in her case), she also doesn't understand the concept of "family", even though she lived among an Eladrin-tribe for a while. So when Belle said she had been watching over her, she immediately decided that meant the goddess was her mother and started calling her "Mommy". Belle just went along with it, even when she continued guiding the young one from the celestial realms. So any time they interact, it's a sweet and wholesome mother-daughter moment.
Long ago, I wanted to play a pact of the Fiend warlock who basically was apart of a underground cult where all of the members were essentially dominated/mind controlled into LOVING the demon (think something Akin to Miquella from eldenring (sorry for the eldenring spoiler if you didn't know) but looking like Baphomet), the mind control was mainly carried out via the artifacts the 'god' would gift, Masks of Nightsight, Bands of Evasion and other Homebrew artifacts will be provided to "its faithful" who sacrifice actual artifacts and items unto it.
My character would have been a young devotee to this 'god', she left the rest of the cult with several artifacts to go on a quest, for which she would believe her god is protecting her and watching over her, as she is on a quest given to her by the deity in vivid visions when she sleped. I would ultimately leave the demons end goal for her up to the dm, but several ideas permeate my mind; Concepts like it wanting to contort her body into a forsaken womb of some kind for a anti-christ like figure, or breaking the laws that bind the hells away from the mortal world, allowing demons to flood the surface, or simply bringing her down to the hells, to be a soul coin, or a loyal knight for the demon for the rest of eternity, either way, it would have taken a lot to shake her faith, and if her 'god' really felt that she was threatened... the copious amount of magic artifacts that it would be providing unto her would also allow true mind domination if push came to shove.
had two warlocks at once in a party. yuan-ti pureblood praying to a "winged snake" (archfey pact) and a dragonborn performing hunting tasks for a "horned hell dragon" (fiend pact). they were played by actual sisters at the table, so we went and made their patrons related.
so these two tyrannical siblings forced every whim they had on their characters/contracted servant and made them do their bidding. later in the campaign the players characters were gaslighted into a ritual that included "sacrificing" the respectively other warlock to their patron. what the two sisters created instead was the literal fusion of a new champion, a double-headed multi-armed naga warlock with occasionally burning featherwings that was controlled by both players at the same time, which ended up in all sorts of shenanigans when the two heads had different opinions and plans for the situations at hand.
the rest of the party and the dm all stated at some point that it felt the same as when we still had two warlocks instead of one, mainly because both sisters were very competitive about the decision-making of our journey.
the party got heraldry in shape of the "twin serpent dragon" which was kind of a cool setup, to be honest.
yeah, we basically started a cult and a religion of sister gods inspired by the ork gods gork and mork.
our trademark was the usage of high inflammable poison by all members of the group, on arrows as well as blades. the alchemist artificer was sort of a pyromaniac, as well as our double-headed sibling cultleaders.
A legacy admission to the Evocation department of a well-established college of magic, you were studying for midterms when you received a Sending from your grandfather, a proudly ethnic orc and powerful Evoker who had got you the legacy admission to his alma mater, saying that for no reason were you to return to your village deep in the swamp for midterm break. Sensing instantly that something was amiss, you and a small group of concerned friends - a TA, a maintenance worker, and a fellow student - crossed the straits from the islands which composed the respective campuses of the different departments of the college of magic, and discovered to your horror that the mainland had been overrun by undead since you had gone away to college. Cutting your way through the mindless hordes, you finally made it back to your home village, where you saw your grandfather, on his knees and surrounded by undead centaurs, expending the last of his mana to obliterate a few of the abominations. The old orc turned his head to make eye contact and said "no" shortly before he was cut to hamburger by the undead. Losing control of your emotions, you broke cover to attack the undying menaces, followed by your companions. Grievously wounded, the last of your party to fall, your mouth cut, you crawled into an abandoned blacksmith shop, and clutched the nearest weapon at hand, swore that you would do anything to get back at those who had done this to you, to your family, to your people. And then a voice answered back.
My current patron is actually part of my wild magic. Current dnd character has a sword that kinda shouldn't exist, and it all started when he became a wild magic sorcerer.
As the first comment, i will do a Fabula Ultima twist on the topic. Arcanists are most-likely the closest thing we get to Warlocks w/ relations to Patrons in 5e D&D. Arcanists get their powers from Arcanum, who give them bonuses while merged and have a "Super" when dismissed if you want the Super to proc off. For my campaign world. There are cults surrounding these Arcanum. Essentially the leaders of the cults act like Warlocks, and the underlings get minor boons from the Warlock.
Here's an idea: a (possibly Celestial) Patron based off Gabby from the Angel Hare analog horror series.
She's genuinely sweet and kind, and VERY protective of her Warlock.
Her true form is that of an Old Testament-style angel, but she prefers taking on the form of a winged rabbit.
I have an elemental hombrew one told from psychotic ramplings and rationizations
"The battlefield is riddled with dead warriors, soldiers, and some cultists. For every axe or sword on the ground, there lay a knife or two for each. Looking over the slaughter of blood and ash a shriek can be heard. Hahaha... FOR. THE. KNIIIIVVEESS!!!"
Warlocks of this pact follow the ramplings of a sentient tri-pair of flaming knives. Those following this elemental infernal god are usually insanity personified. It's apparent goal is the whole takeover of the lower planes as it's own crusade. The material plane seems to be a proving grounds for those wanting to prove themselves to sacrifice as much as they can. Circumstances vary as to what's needed or who's a target.
The patron I created is an Archfey known as The Flayed One. She is vulpine in appearance and wasn’t always an Archfey, but rose to power on her own accord. Achieving Archfey status, however, caused upset in the fey wilds. She was captured by the other Archfey and as punishment was flayed alive. To add insult to injury she was made to wear her own skin as a dress as a cruel reminder.
As an Archfey, she embodies the nature of ambition and conniving fueled by revenge. Something she fully embraces if left unchecked, but could be tempered with mercy, or even compassion, under the right conditions.
Personality wise, The Flayed One is outwardly compassionate, and even motherly to a select few. However, she be as equally cruel and acts as a trickster when making pacts.
She has two notabale warlock in her pact. The first is a human woman that got lost as child and ended up in her court and was adopted by The Flayed One. The second is a human man who was a grifter and unknowingly pulled a con on The Flayed One in disguise and was coerced into making the pact by force. Both warlocks are bound to the same pact. The difference is that the woman sees the pact as one to confirm a familial bond to her patron, whereas the man sees the pact as a curse tying his fate to The Flayed One’s fate, as in if she dies, he dies too.
I had a reborn Arracorkra Fathomless warlock, pact of the chain, named Sapphire. Sapphire dien’t recall making her pact. She didn’t recall much of anything, save her first name, after people found her after she was spat out by the sea, after a very nasty storm - probably a cyclone (for you Americans, hurricane) on Isla De Premo. Sapphire was very naive… innocent in a lot of ways. But that doesn't mean she wasn't willing to kill others to protect the people she cared about. However, given one of the memories she regained was how she died - being crushed by a launched cannonball in what was probably her room on another ship - perhaps her innocence was a way of coping? Sapph believed her patron was her “creator”, and thus was extremely loyal to them.
What is this patron, you ask:
Her patron was the Pale Dreadnought: a sunken ghost pirate ship., that rests at the bottom of the sea. Once it was crewed by some of the most infamous pirates in the world. It is their spirits who brought the ship to life once it sank. Their goals are unknown. The vessel claimed to have “created” Sapphire, going has far as to graft a peg leg made of their own “flesh” to keep her reanimated. It constantly dripped seawater and was made of rotting, barnacle-covered wood, and old rusted metal. The peg leg really looked like it couldn’t carry Sapph’s weight, yet it did all the same.
Unfortunately, for reasons I’d rather not get into, but I will say that she did not die, I can’t play my seabird in her “home” campaign anymore. It sucks, but I'm learning to live with it. Maybe i’ll being her back in another world one day?
I've had in mind a warlock that has a devil patron that runs a multi level marketing scheme. You'd have to make regular deposits of gold each month to keep your power, and if you are able to sign people up under you, you get more power and gold (from them). The penalty for not paying the full amount by the end of the month is weakened powers and abilities. After too many months of missed payments, your soul is forfeit.
One of my old characters from my time before being the forever dm's name was eddie, he was a dark elf rogue warlock ranger multi class, his patron was himself from the future and his powers were that of the null, so that was always fun
I once played a minotaur whose mind was awakened by a Great Old One. I worked with my DM to come up with a crazy patron. He presented me with, Mr. Coyote God of All Coyotes. A patron to scavengers and the hungry, Mr. Coyote God of All Coyotes gains energy from food eaten by followers of Mr. Coyote God of All Coyotes. You cannot speak or even think of Mr. Coyote God of All Coyotes using words like he, him, you, or any other designation. Trying to do so results in psychic damage, while trying to always refer or speak to Mr. Coyote God of All Coyotes, as Mr. Coyote God of All Coyotes results in the table breaking down in a maddening laughter.
First ever DnD character for me is a Great Old One Warlock that I flavoured a bit since I'm a fan of mindfuck stands from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure such as Heaven's Door. Gonna eventually take Pact of the Tome and have it so that it manifests as the character's soul is a sentient pile of books and tome.
I took skills like Dissonant Whispers and somehow somewhere down the progression of my sessions "mindfuck" became "relentless cyberbullying of every enemy I come across" because I misunderstood the spell description to mean "invading the enemy mind with intrusive thoughts". And I've also flavoured the vocal component of Hex to be in joke jinxes in my friend group. So now I've killed like 3 enemies flat out with dissonant whispers and I am currently melting Drows because of a lethal Hex and Agonizing Blast combo.
…I have a Roguelock character whose Patron is a Unicorn whose life he saved. As for what makes her unique, well… She’s a Unicorn who is a Patron to a Tiefling Warlock. She might also get the power she power she lends to Nobody from more-powerful Celestial beings, who lend power to her in exchange for favors… Would make an interesting adventure hook, “My Patron says we’ve gotta go do this thing, guys…”
…He’s a Roguelock by necessity, a dip into Arcane Trickster… But all he ever really wanted was magic, and now that he’s got his Patron, he’s never going back to the streets! -Scavenging for berries in the forest is more fun than swiping a loaf of bread from a street merchant in his eyes, anyway. Tastes better, too.-
My player is playing a warlock to a will o the whips in a lantern who’s an aspect of the patron he’s serving
Built a tiefling warlock whom decide to investigate her lineage only to find that her great grand mother was a succubus that had married/blood pact with her great grand father......when she tried to get more information on her mother a grater deamon arrived to dispose of her only to find out hey it's her uncle......she made a pact with him to get more information in exchange for doing some 'minor' chores for him in the mortal plane. She hope to prove herself worthy enough that her uncle will one day introduce her to her long lost grandma.
In my homebrew campaign, I actually had my players meet the Paladin's eventual patron early on while travelling on the road and sharing a campsite with him. He was an old man that was straight up Uncle Iroh from ATLA, right down to busting out kung fu moves when the camp was attacked by giant wasps. The party and the old man travelled until the old man was reunited with his own High-Level adventuring party before they parted ways. Later on, the Party needed to get across an ocean an managed to hitch a ride from some Privateers who specialized in "re-retrieving lost property" in exchange for doing work on the ship. They ended up realizing that said property were slaves that were being smuggled before the privateers attack the ship and took the slaves. The Party tried to resist but eventually got knocked out and captured. However, the party would eventually be rescued by said High-Level Adventuring party and found that among them was a Celestial Dragon based on East Asian mythology which later revealed itself to be the old man. The old man/Celestial Dragon, seeing promise in the Paladin, offered to be his patron and the Paladin accepted and that's how he became a Hexblade Warlock with a cool, katana sword.
I have a celestial warlock I've played a few times. There are edgy aspects to the character, however, notably, none of them have anything to do with his patron. His patron is purely a positive influence on him and his mental health, which I thought was a neat little subversion of the traditional warlock dynamic.
My Patron gaslighted everyone into thinking they are a god.
Hopefully,it turns out better for him than it did for Voldemort.
were I playing a warlock, I´d make my patron... me.
a warlock with DID who can only turn to their powerful wizard person in very calm or unique times and places.
no direct contact, only only notebooks and similar objects.
every single person in the warlock´s mind (or in a way each of the warlocks) has their own stats, unique preferences and different spell flavoring.
I started playing D&D shortly after a rough breakup. I went with the fiend patron warlock and modeled my parron devil after my ex girlfriend.
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So, new editor?
Said it before and I'll say it again Steven He's Dad