I'm the DM for this game, and I've never played a warlock. Looking for guidance from warlock aficionados!
(The rest of this post is cross-posted from the DMs Only forum.)
First of all, our game mostly follow the rules, but our house rule is that interesting narrative overrides RAW.
I've got a player playing a new, level 1 character. It's an 11 year old human who is super poor and has made a pact with a devil - he must seek wealth and power in exchange for certain powers (warlock, pact of the chain). He doesn't know she's a devil - he calls her his fairy godmother. She's been recruiting street kids.
His fairy godmother gave him a talking crow as a pet... albeit a bit of a weird pet given it's abilities. It appears as a crow, but is actually an imp and will reveal itself to be an imp at level 3 (his familiar).
From now to level 3, we've decided that I'm going to play the imp as an NPC.
We've decided that the imp is supposed to report on his progress to the devil he made a pact with, and occasionally act as a conduit for the devil to communicate with the boy.
The boy isn't inherently evil. The imp (being lawful evil) is bound by its devilish superior to serve the boy no matter how he acts. So I'm trying to come up with some interesting ideas on how to play the imp.
Well, as the crow form for levels 1 to 3, I would suggest it acts like an abnormally intelligent crow that helps the boy out however it can, perhaps have the imp change forms every now and then into its rat and spider form, but still be helpful, perhaps making the boy think that the "vermin" of the world seem to enjoy helping out a street rat like him. /at level 3, have it reveal itself, and, as it is a devil that can and will easily lie; say that it is a fairy that has been cursed to have a horrid appearance but has been sent by his "Fairy Godmother" to watch over him constantly whenever she is unable to. After this, it should tempt the boy every now and then to perform evil and/or cruel acts in order to get him to be more and more willing to eventually give his soul over the devil he unknowingly made a deal with. That Imp wants a promotion after all.
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I'm the DM for this game, and I've never played a warlock. Looking for guidance from warlock aficionados!
(The rest of this post is cross-posted from the DMs Only forum.)
First of all, our game mostly follow the rules, but our house rule is that interesting narrative overrides RAW.
I've got a player playing a new, level 1 character. It's an 11 year old human who is super poor and has made a pact with a devil - he must seek wealth and power in exchange for certain powers (warlock, pact of the chain). He doesn't know she's a devil - he calls her his fairy godmother. She's been recruiting street kids.
His fairy godmother gave him a talking crow as a pet... albeit a bit of a weird pet given it's abilities. It appears as a crow, but is actually an imp and will reveal itself to be an imp at level 3 (his familiar).
From now to level 3, we've decided that I'm going to play the imp as an NPC.
We've decided that the imp is supposed to report on his progress to the devil he made a pact with, and occasionally act as a conduit for the devil to communicate with the boy.
The boy isn't inherently evil. The imp (being lawful evil) is bound by its devilish superior to serve the boy no matter how he acts. So I'm trying to come up with some interesting ideas on how to play the imp.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Well, as the crow form for levels 1 to 3, I would suggest it acts like an abnormally intelligent crow that helps the boy out however it can, perhaps have the imp change forms every now and then into its rat and spider form, but still be helpful, perhaps making the boy think that the "vermin" of the world seem to enjoy helping out a street rat like him. /at level 3, have it reveal itself, and, as it is a devil that can and will easily lie; say that it is a fairy that has been cursed to have a horrid appearance but has been sent by his "Fairy Godmother" to watch over him constantly whenever she is unable to. After this, it should tempt the boy every now and then to perform evil and/or cruel acts in order to get him to be more and more willing to eventually give his soul over the devil he unknowingly made a deal with. That Imp wants a promotion after all.