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Novacat wrote:

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Dyoooooo eeeeeeee oOoOoOoOoOo!

A random picture really doesn't mean a thing to me...

I doubt I'll ever get to play her, but my favorite example of a warlock so far is a slim, serious, bookish woman named Verity. She's a stargazer and astrologer devoted to Ioun (human Starlock/Divine Oracle) and has made a study of fate and prophecy her field of expertise, so she's often surrounded with astrolabes and star charts. She's motivated to take up adventuring out of an urgent sense to avert the various futures she sees as threats to the wellbeing of the civilized races.

Verity invokes her Eldritch Blast with a tilt her head and a brief gesture, causing brilliant light to stream from the eyes, mouth and nose of her target as they are wracked by otherworldly energies.

She uses her Dire Radiance as a mystic ward by extending a hand tangled with rosary beads and dangling a complex astrological sign that begins to spin and glow with pale, searing radiance that brightens in intensity as enemies approach.

By reaching out and catching Strands of Fate in her delicate fingers, Verity tangles them in a sudden, wrenching yank that leaves her foes vulnerable and gasping for breath.

When invoking the Dread Star, Verity draws an eldritch sign in the air above the target, tying them to the terrestrial earth and laying their fate bare to those capable of reading it.

Fate and chance conspire to conceal her from her foes when Shadow Walking, and she can only be seen just out of the corner of their eyes, one step ahead at every turn.

Obviously powers like Dark One's Own Luck, Prophecy of Doom and Good Omens work wonderfully with the character concept.

Dragonklaw82 wrote:

I'm DM'ing a 4e campaign at the moment, and my girlfriend is really into her Tiefling Feylock. The most evocative imagery we've had so far is comparing Curse of the Dark Dream to the end of The Craft, where Fairuza Balk torments that chick with illusions of snakes and vermin crawling over every square inch of everything.

Why didn't I think of that? I'm going take take her cue and do what Robin Tunney made Balk hallucinate when she countered the illusion hex; her fingers turning into little snakes, snakes sprouting from her hair and bugs coming out of her ears, mouth, and nose.

Dusk is a tiefling feylock who had originally been a dusky red (his patron changed his name to Dusky, but he couldn't stand it, so he calls himself Dusk). His skin color changed when he had been in a bit of a funk while learning from his patron. She told him if he was going to act so blue he might as well look it, so he now has kind of a bluish gray skin. His stereotypically emo-ish tiefling attitude is no more, he actively works at being less cynical and displays a dry sense of humor. This was a change he forced on himself, because he didn't want her altering him any more. He is typically quiet and reserved; except when he has to either physically, verbally, or magically intervene when the oaf of a human fighter and the boor of a dwarven fighter start fighting with eachother.

Eldritch Blast: Dusk points at his target while his tail draws a pattern in the air behind the shoulder of the arm he is shooting it from. The blast emerges from his hand as a green and black arc of energy that connects him to his target momentarily.

Eyebite: Dusk points at the target, makes a gripping gesture, and pulls his fist back towards himself, ripping the sight of himself from his target's mind.

Dreadful Word: Dusk whispers a word that only the target can hear, communicating it directly into the target's mind.

Curse of the Dark Dream: Dusk stares deeply at the target, his hands and tail making dark misty sigils in the air. To the eyes of the target, the ground around it rumbles and collapses into darkness, leaving only a few safe places to left to stand. As the target moves around in combat, shafts of stone rise from the depths to act as platforms as some of the previously safe platforms of ground fall away.

Ethereal Stride: (as if he doesn't teleport enough already) Dusk steps in the direction he wishes to move, and disappears, reappearing at his target destination.

Otherworldly Stride: (yet another teleport power) Dusk runs forward to his target, leaps into the midst of his enemies, and a bright flash of white light explodes from his body as he disappears. He reappears next to a ranger almost 40 feet away; a ranger who is now aiming an arrow at one of the immobilized enemies.

Misty Step: see Ethereal Stride.

Shadow Walk: Mist and shadows seem to surround him as he darts from one place to another.

Delicious flavors, everyone. Some are spicy, sweet, even smoky. Keep 'em comin'.

How about the Warlock's Curse? Anyone have creative and kool descriptions for this staple ability?

I was thinking of using a rod implement (branding iron) to focus my Curse and metaphysically brand the rune or sigil upon the foreheads of my foes. And whenever any of my attacks hit the cursed foe, the brand flares and burns the soul. And when they die, the brand cools down to scarred flesh, smoke drifting from the eyes, nose and mouth. Waddaya think?