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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9316417" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>I haven't read the rest of the thread yet, but I wanted to go ahead and tackle these two questions.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So, there is an element I think you are missing to the question here. Sure, it is possible for the warlock to plan their approach to gaining their pact like someone planning for a career in medicine, but most warlocks I would say don't sell their souls for ONLY power. There is an element of desperation to them that makes them make sense. Sure, you could study for a few years, maybe figure out bardic magic slowly and safely... but your child is dying NOW, they don't have time for you to take the slow and steady route. </p><p></p><p>I think many warlocks fall into two camps. "I need power NOW to solve my problem" or "I don't believe I can or cannot achieve the same results on my own". I see the same thing with clerics. Why study magic if you can just worship a god and get magic? Because the gods don't always give you what you need. Why worship a god when you can just study magic then and reliably get what you need? Because sometimes you need it NOW not after a decade of study.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, but there is a snag here. I've got a bit of a talent for writing and I'm pretty good at math, but many times when I was acting as a tutor or as a teacher... I couldn't explain what I was doing to other people. Think of sorcerers like people with Synesthesia, a sorcerer might be an excellent chef with a great plating aesthetic, but even if they study they can't really explain to people why the blue plate sings a C sharp and that means it pairs really well with the steak that smells like the number 54392. Those things don't make sense to other people. So even when sorcerers do study magic, their experience of magic is so vastly different from what a Wizard experiences, that it doesn't translate. A Wizard will never understand that you have to make the magic angry and shift it to the shade of goldenrod to make it work, they don't interact with magic in that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9316417, member: 6801228"] I haven't read the rest of the thread yet, but I wanted to go ahead and tackle these two questions. So, there is an element I think you are missing to the question here. Sure, it is possible for the warlock to plan their approach to gaining their pact like someone planning for a career in medicine, but most warlocks I would say don't sell their souls for ONLY power. There is an element of desperation to them that makes them make sense. Sure, you could study for a few years, maybe figure out bardic magic slowly and safely... but your child is dying NOW, they don't have time for you to take the slow and steady route. I think many warlocks fall into two camps. "I need power NOW to solve my problem" or "I don't believe I can or cannot achieve the same results on my own". I see the same thing with clerics. Why study magic if you can just worship a god and get magic? Because the gods don't always give you what you need. Why worship a god when you can just study magic then and reliably get what you need? Because sometimes you need it NOW not after a decade of study. Yes, but there is a snag here. I've got a bit of a talent for writing and I'm pretty good at math, but many times when I was acting as a tutor or as a teacher... I couldn't explain what I was doing to other people. Think of sorcerers like people with Synesthesia, a sorcerer might be an excellent chef with a great plating aesthetic, but even if they study they can't really explain to people why the blue plate sings a C sharp and that means it pairs really well with the steak that smells like the number 54392. Those things don't make sense to other people. So even when sorcerers do study magic, their experience of magic is so vastly different from what a Wizard experiences, that it doesn't translate. A Wizard will never understand that you have to make the magic angry and shift it to the shade of goldenrod to make it work, they don't interact with magic in that way. [/QUOTE]
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