Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs
Wizards are the only ones who actually had to work for their magical abilities. Everyone else just inherited it or were gifted it by a higher power. Wizards are otherwise normal people who realized that they can figure it out on their own. And yet they're somehow always considered the haughty, elitist ones.
It's probably because whenever spellcasters are being compared, a Wizard comes in and says something like "we're the only ones who had to work for our magic", as if finding a powerful entity and convincing it to make a not horribly skewed bargain, learning to commune with the land itself, or following the orders given by a deity isn't "work".
And don't Bards also have to study their magic?
Bards are just Wizards with arts degrees
I hate how much sense this makes.
Yeah druids, wizards, and bards are all "learned" spellcasters.
I would argue that a bard has to work at it since they had to take the years to learn a musical instrument and then put it to use as an adventuring tool.
Silly bards. Barbarians can easily use instruments as adventuring "tools".
Wooing and banging everything that moves is hard work
I make absolutely sure to talk shit at wizards every time I play a sorcerer. It's the way.
My warlock: "I made a wish upon a star.
... And that dark, dark star answered in a long forgotten, forbidden tongue, and a pact was made."
Yeah, we had a warlock meet his patron. It was not a good time.
I'm confused
D&D 5e (a kind of Pen and paper RPG) has a magic class that the source of their power is basically an I-O-U (I owe you) with a powerful entity, usually their patron.
It is not straight away clear what their patron wants, but it tends to be ominous, they might receive a "gift" now and then, or they may even be punished.
In any case, I find it funny that all the other classes put the work to learn magic, while warlocks just went to ask the worst guy in the neighborhood.
Sorcerer: Oh this? ::manipulating unimaginable energies with casual grace::
IDK, my blood just does that. I think I got it from my dad.
Warlocks get their magic from powerful entities that they enter into a contract with. This pact may not be fully known to the warlock.
Typically, warlocks serve dark masters and will have a mission or goal. If they don’t serve the entity well, they will be punished or in extreme cases killed. Serve well, and you will likely get gifts.
Warlocks tend to have limited magical abilities compare to other magic users, but their abilities “hit harder” as warlock spell splots are limited to the current warlock level.
Other magic users get level 1 spell slots, then level 2, etc.
Warlocks get all level 1s, then all level 2s, etc
Warlocks get their power from making a pact with a powerful being.
i have a character i dreamed up (along with a lot of people i'm sure) but have not found the right group to play with. they're a warlock who is basically indiana jones and that idol they grab in scene 1 act 1 movie 1? whoopsie poopsie should not have touched that. and their patron wants to put all the idols to other patrons IN A MUSEUM! THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM! idk i haven't gotten that far.
Same as Cleric, really. Just different kind of powerful being.
My vengeance Paladin: spite and malice
Read Magic is fun-da-mental!
oh yeah