Hey guys, how's it going? This is my first post on these forums, kinda exciting. Anyway!
I just started playing a Celestial Warlock, my first venture into the wonderous world of warlocks, and I've been kind of playing with different ways of narrating spells. I've played wizards, sorcerers, and clerics, all of which have unique ways of casting spells. But I seem to be having trouble finding a style that I feel fits my warlock. I was just wondering, how do my fellow casters narrate their spells? For a caster that gets its arcane powers from otherworldly sources, do you still lean heavily on physical components for your spells? Do you prefer an arcane focus? (My CelestLock is something out of gothic Victorian London - ala Bloodborne - so he uses a crystal fashioned into a pocket watch.)
In the end, narrating our spells is something that is our own fun little creative contribution to this collaborative storytelling experiment we gladly partake in! How do you like to do it? :)
Well, for a Warlock you could try emphasising the way that this power is coming not just from some other entity, but from something infinitely more powerful than yourself. Think about images of possession; eyes rolled back in their sockets, body rigid or shaking uncontrollably, pure and violent celestial power issues from your screaming mouth or rips from your chest then focuses through the crystal into the desired effect. A wizard is a scientist, a sorcerer wields their own essence, but you are just the barely willing vessel for this awesome and dangerous power, and maybe you can then role play complete exhaustion after too much channeling of this raw otherworldly force.
Narrating my spellcasting is one of the things I do to make my characters feel truly mine. When I made my bard I decided on how his Verbal and Somatic spell components would manifest. I picked Latin words (using Google translate) as his Verbal components and decided that his Somatic components would look like conducting music. When I multiclassed to Warlock I picked Gaelic for those spells.
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
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Hey guys, how's it going? This is my first post on these forums, kinda exciting. Anyway!
I just started playing a Celestial Warlock, my first venture into the wonderous world of warlocks, and I've been kind of playing with different ways of narrating spells. I've played wizards, sorcerers, and clerics, all of which have unique ways of casting spells. But I seem to be having trouble finding a style that I feel fits my warlock. I was just wondering, how do my fellow casters narrate their spells? For a caster that gets its arcane powers from otherworldly sources, do you still lean heavily on physical components for your spells? Do you prefer an arcane focus? (My CelestLock is something out of gothic Victorian London - ala Bloodborne - so he uses a crystal fashioned into a pocket watch.)
In the end, narrating our spells is something that is our own fun little creative contribution to this collaborative storytelling experiment we gladly partake in! How do you like to do it? :)
Well, for a Warlock you could try emphasising the way that this power is coming not just from some other entity, but from something infinitely more powerful than yourself. Think about images of possession; eyes rolled back in their sockets, body rigid or shaking uncontrollably, pure and violent celestial power issues from your screaming mouth or rips from your chest then focuses through the crystal into the desired effect. A wizard is a scientist, a sorcerer wields their own essence, but you are just the barely willing vessel for this awesome and dangerous power, and maybe you can then role play complete exhaustion after too much channeling of this raw otherworldly force.
Narrating my spellcasting is one of the things I do to make my characters feel truly mine. When I made my bard I decided on how his Verbal and Somatic spell components would manifest. I picked Latin words (using Google translate) as his Verbal components and decided that his Somatic components would look like conducting music. When I multiclassed to Warlock I picked Gaelic for those spells.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!