The disquieting presence of the Warlock as he invoked inscrutable power from his patron. The Redoubtable Warlock Gethryr the Red had queer powers over the souls of others. The Prodigious Personia, Thaumaturge of Ryll entered the room and glanced around with her baleful stare. Her ominous powers bewitched and bewildered all.
If your players can't visualise Warlock Magic and it's appearance and effects by now, I don't think more adjectives are going to help!
Most of the adjectives above are so non-specific, they actually do the opposite of what an adjective is designed for. Plucking words from a list or thesaurus is insulting to your audience. If an NPC is describing the magic, then the adjective should tell us more about the NPC than the magic. Do they view it as Blasphemous or Wondrous, scary or comforting? Now the adjective has power. Now it conveys information. Yes, I switched from Capitals to lower case.
In a party of 4-6 characters, the way they perceive the magic will vary - the correct adjective will therefore also vary.
I can't believe nobody suggested "Nebulous." ;)
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I'm running out of words to describe warlock magic. Running a GOOlock, I've been running a loop of the following, but I don't want to get stale.
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- Sinister
- Ghostly
- Archaic
- Forbidding
- Menacing
- Threatening
- Wicked
- Baleful
Fel
Folorn
Ominous
Disquieting
Disturbing
Sinistrous
Minatory
Minacious
Portentous
Arcane
Occult/ Occulted
Clandestine
Cryptic
Inscrutable
Esoteric
Opaque
Obscure
Preternatural / Supernatural
Prodigious
Lurid
Macabre
Surreal
Fateful
Peculiar
Odd
Queer
Outlandish
Redoubtable
The disquieting presence of the Warlock as he invoked inscrutable power from his patron. The Redoubtable Warlock Gethryr the Red had queer powers over the souls of others. The Prodigious Personia, Thaumaturge of Ryll entered the room and glanced around with her baleful stare. Her ominous powers bewitched and bewildered all.
Unnerving
Freaky/Freakish
Monstrous
Mind-bending/breaking
Bewitching (if you want it to look good)
Insane
Horrible (and all of its synonyms)
Bark side up, bark side down, it really, truly does not matter.
Transcendental
blasphemous
profane
indelicate
unorthodox
ludicrous
outlandish
eccentric
If your players can't visualise Warlock Magic and it's appearance and effects by now, I don't think more adjectives are going to help!
Most of the adjectives above are so non-specific, they actually do the opposite of what an adjective is designed for. Plucking words from a list or thesaurus is insulting to your audience.
If an NPC is describing the magic, then the adjective should tell us more about the NPC than the magic. Do they view it as Blasphemous or Wondrous, scary or comforting? Now the adjective has power. Now it conveys information. Yes, I switched from Capitals to lower case.
In a party of 4-6 characters, the way they perceive the magic will vary - the correct adjective will therefore also vary.
I can't believe nobody suggested "Nebulous." ;)
Roleplaying since Runequest.