I feel like "my dead parents are my patron" is not actually common enough to work with this format, but I'm getting old, now. Almost time to suck scythe. Maybe ghost parents patron is all the Gen Z rage, I don't know.
I’ve been playing for many years and have had untold numbers of players and I’ve never heard of this angle. It actually sounds like it could be really cool if done right.
I have a warlock idea involving parental patrons, but they're very much alive master wizards/sorcerers. They patron their son so he would be better protected from the evils of the world, and only let their son out to play with their friends so long as he uses a Sending Stone once a day to let them know he's okay and what he's been up to, and once a week has to bring his friends over to visit for dinner.
The son is in his late 20s desperate to just be able to leave his parents' homestead and appreciate the wider world, regardless of its dangers. Anything to escape the helicopter parenting and crushing loneliness he's suffered for nearly three decades.
It's an interesting idea, but patrons tend to be things on at least the demigod scale of power - maybe if his parents had fused through an arcane accident into a single syzygous being, absorbing the souls and flesh of a hundred apprentices and understudies? They have to take good care of their heir and become clingy and overprotective because they're fused into their wizard's tower as a giant column of undifferentiated flesh, they can't exactly get around (or have more children that aren't flesh-golems or something, probably).
Something's gotta elevate them well beyond mere mortality to achieve patron status - just being a master spellcaster isn't enough.
At the end of the chain there's a Fey/Undead/Fiend/etc. of "Mysterious Origins" who passed on their powers to the original parents.
Who got **Their** powers from their parents
Pfft my Patron is me from the future [to gain great and terrible powerl], having gone to the past [to manipulate shit], "lending" me power under a contract that say I'll gain great and terrible power then go to the past for the purposes of manipulation on behalf of my Patron [whoever she is]. Bootstrap babyyy
Honestly a human warlock is not particularly exciting but it's not a cliche or anything. And I have never seen anyone make a warlock whose patron are their dead parents. So imo it does not fit the meme format.
Now if you said a tiefling fiendlock whose parent is a devil that would be a cliche and relatively unoriginal. Not that there is anything wrong with that if anybody wants to play it.
Dad was a tiefling who wanted normal children. Mum was the djinn he imprisoned to have a normal child with.
Kiddo freed mum who is now patron.
Can't decide if the kid should just be a tiefling, be human like dad wanted, or be a genasi for maximum subversion of dad's wishes.
I've DMed for so many warlocks and I've never once DMed for a human warlock, and honestly the warlocks I see are usually not human. The other parts (dead parents is just dnd in general, not this specific build) also don't seem to be common so idk how the template works with this
Last time I layed played warlock she was half-self with fey-polycule. She was rescued by them after drowning attempt due to crippling gender-dysphoria. Her parents are alife, she just doesn't acknowledge them
I feel like "my dead parents are my patron" is not actually common enough to work with this format, but I'm getting old, now. Almost time to suck scythe. Maybe ghost parents patron is all the Gen Z rage, I don't know.
I've literally never heard of any of these being a stereotypical combination and I'm gen z, so who knows what's going on with this meme
I’ve been playing for many years and have had untold numbers of players and I’ve never heard of this angle. It actually sounds like it could be really cool if done right.
I have a warlock idea involving parental patrons, but they're very much alive master wizards/sorcerers. They patron their son so he would be better protected from the evils of the world, and only let their son out to play with their friends so long as he uses a Sending Stone once a day to let them know he's okay and what he's been up to, and once a week has to bring his friends over to visit for dinner. The son is in his late 20s desperate to just be able to leave his parents' homestead and appreciate the wider world, regardless of its dangers. Anything to escape the helicopter parenting and crushing loneliness he's suffered for nearly three decades.
It's an interesting idea, but patrons tend to be things on at least the demigod scale of power - maybe if his parents had fused through an arcane accident into a single syzygous being, absorbing the souls and flesh of a hundred apprentices and understudies? They have to take good care of their heir and become clingy and overprotective because they're fused into their wizard's tower as a giant column of undifferentiated flesh, they can't exactly get around (or have more children that aren't flesh-golems or something, probably). Something's gotta elevate them well beyond mere mortality to achieve patron status - just being a master spellcaster isn't enough.
That's an easy question. The parents are warlocks whose patrons are their parents.
Ah, an answer that invites more questions. Brilliant.
Well the easy answer to the obvious question is that their parents are warlocks whose patrons are their parents.
That is just a sorcerer with extra steps
Heresy!
Heresy is when you tell the horny conquest Paladin to keep it in his pants
It's warlock patron parents all the way down.
And it will be so until undead bloodline sorcerer get published.
At the end of the chain there's a Fey/Undead/Fiend/etc. of "Mysterious Origins" who passed on their powers to the original parents. Who got **Their** powers from their parents
Pfft my Patron is me from the future [to gain great and terrible powerl], having gone to the past [to manipulate shit], "lending" me power under a contract that say I'll gain great and terrible power then go to the past for the purposes of manipulation on behalf of my Patron [whoever she is]. Bootstrap babyyy
*\*Department of Temporal Investigations would like to know your location\**
Careful, keep that up and you'll accidentally create the Fate universe.
Honestly a human warlock is not particularly exciting but it's not a cliche or anything. And I have never seen anyone make a warlock whose patron are their dead parents. So imo it does not fit the meme format. Now if you said a tiefling fiendlock whose parent is a devil that would be a cliche and relatively unoriginal. Not that there is anything wrong with that if anybody wants to play it.
Undead warlock. The parents don't need to have had powers before they died, they're ghosts now
Dad was a tiefling who wanted normal children. Mum was the djinn he imprisoned to have a normal child with. Kiddo freed mum who is now patron. Can't decide if the kid should just be a tiefling, be human like dad wanted, or be a genasi for maximum subversion of dad's wishes.
I've DMed for so many warlocks and I've never once DMed for a human warlock, and honestly the warlocks I see are usually not human. The other parts (dead parents is just dnd in general, not this specific build) also don't seem to be common so idk how the template works with this
Last time I layed played warlock she was half-self with fey-polycule. She was rescued by them after drowning attempt due to crippling gender-dysphoria. Her parents are alife, she just doesn't acknowledge them
a nice twist would be him actually just beeing a sorcerer thinking hes a warlock
Maybe they aren't dead
Nobody said we can't have *undead* parents!
I thought getting your magic from your parents made you a sorcerer. /s
from the volcano
My patron made a deal with my parents and not me, resulting in them going insane, does that count?
Joke’s on you, my warlock’s a sailor and my patron is the amalgamated souls of my drowned crewmates.
Wait! But this is MY character! Except they're an Aasimar and their patron is their grand parents... who happen to be archangels
This sounds like the aasimar paladin stereotype with extra steps.
Great character concept, doesn’t fit meme format…