Dandu
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I'm so sick of people bringing the Warlock into my games. It's too much anime inspired munchkinry for my taste and detracts from my Dungeons and Dragons experience.
The first ability a Warlock gets is his Eldritch Blast, which can be spammed ALL DAY LONG as a RANGED TOUCH ATTACK for 1d6 per TWO LEVELS! As if that wasn't bad enough, he can make attacks out to 250 feet with one blast shape invocation. Since Warlock abilities are inherited, that means the Warlock can be a little girl flying about in the air and blasting people. It's like watching Sailor Moon in action, it really is. I can almost hear a Warlock saying "In the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" every time an Eldritch Blast is used.
And that's not all; their class abilities come straight out of anime as well.
Warlocks get Damage Reduction, Energy Resistance and a limited Fast Healing ability. Wow, the ability to ignore damage taken and heal from injuries quickly? It comes up so often in anime that I bleach my brain at the thought.
UMD related skills, the ability to craft items as if they were real magic users? I guess that makes the Warlock into some sort of Dark Magician Girl.
Prestige Classes? There's a prestige class for warlocks, alright. It's called Hellfire Warlock and its primary benifit is to be able to Kamehameha things to death.
Invocations? Let's see what those give you.
Fell Flight lets you fly all day long. Gee, I wonder where I've seen characters flying all day long before? Maybe it was the same anime that had people who could use Flee the Scene at will, the power that lets you teleport away and leave a major image of yourself behind to distract opponents. These abilities are so totally ripped off of Dragonball Z that it's not even funny.
Goku vs Vegeta
Spiderwalk lets you run up walls and do the kind of acrobatic you only see in wuxia inspired stuff like Ranma and the Matrix. (Seriously, who else moves on walls like a spider, man?)
Crawling Eye, for instance, detatches your eyeball and lets it go around spying for you, which is exactly what Naruto's Gaara of the Sand does in the written Chunin Exam. Come on, this one's so blatantly anime that I can't believe no one else has picked up on it yet. (1:16)
Finally, they get the invocation Chilling Tentacles, and we all know what inspired those.
I don't have time to go through the others in a systematic fashion, but my first impressions were that they were too anime and I'm sure everything else is as well because that is a reasonable generalization, like how most wizard spells are blasting spells.
In short, I hate warlocks because their flavor and power level does not fit in with my medieval European inspired fantasy world with kung-fu monks.
The first ability a Warlock gets is his Eldritch Blast, which can be spammed ALL DAY LONG as a RANGED TOUCH ATTACK for 1d6 per TWO LEVELS! As if that wasn't bad enough, he can make attacks out to 250 feet with one blast shape invocation. Since Warlock abilities are inherited, that means the Warlock can be a little girl flying about in the air and blasting people. It's like watching Sailor Moon in action, it really is. I can almost hear a Warlock saying "In the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" every time an Eldritch Blast is used.
And that's not all; their class abilities come straight out of anime as well.
Warlocks get Damage Reduction, Energy Resistance and a limited Fast Healing ability. Wow, the ability to ignore damage taken and heal from injuries quickly? It comes up so often in anime that I bleach my brain at the thought.
UMD related skills, the ability to craft items as if they were real magic users? I guess that makes the Warlock into some sort of Dark Magician Girl.
Prestige Classes? There's a prestige class for warlocks, alright. It's called Hellfire Warlock and its primary benifit is to be able to Kamehameha things to death.
Invocations? Let's see what those give you.
Fell Flight lets you fly all day long. Gee, I wonder where I've seen characters flying all day long before? Maybe it was the same anime that had people who could use Flee the Scene at will, the power that lets you teleport away and leave a major image of yourself behind to distract opponents. These abilities are so totally ripped off of Dragonball Z that it's not even funny.
Goku vs Vegeta
Spiderwalk lets you run up walls and do the kind of acrobatic you only see in wuxia inspired stuff like Ranma and the Matrix. (Seriously, who else moves on walls like a spider, man?)
Crawling Eye, for instance, detatches your eyeball and lets it go around spying for you, which is exactly what Naruto's Gaara of the Sand does in the written Chunin Exam. Come on, this one's so blatantly anime that I can't believe no one else has picked up on it yet. (1:16)
Finally, they get the invocation Chilling Tentacles, and we all know what inspired those.
I don't have time to go through the others in a systematic fashion, but my first impressions were that they were too anime and I'm sure everything else is as well because that is a reasonable generalization, like how most wizard spells are blasting spells.
In short, I hate warlocks because their flavor and power level does not fit in with my medieval European inspired fantasy world with kung-fu monks.
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