Talk:Heretical Healing (3.5e Invocation)

Ratings

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	I like this a lot. Gives a warlock some healing capability. Like I said in the comment, it should be (Un) Holy Healing, and should not have an alignment restriction on the healing.

Naming Conventions

Should be (Un) Holy Healing. The good guys do the healing thing as well. RedRabbit (talk) 15:47, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Warlocks by and large have the naming convention of "Darkbad the Fellwytch" which comes from them getting their powers by making pacts with dudes bad enough to REDACTED. (I made a joke here, but it was accidentally way more political than something I want in a talk page on the Wiki. Fluffwise, it's demons and devils and such.) --Undead_Knave (talk) 00:29, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

We've been playing warlocks since they came out, and I think the closest anyone in our extended group has ever played to an 'Evil' character was a Chaotic Neutral descendant of Loki (many times removed), and he wasn't evil, he was trickster and chaos incarnate. We've never had anyone play an evil one. We always looked at the first two lines of the warlock's description as the key ones:

"Born of a supernatural bloodline, a warlock seeks to master the perilous magic that suffuses his soul. Unlike sorcerers or wizards, who approach arcane magic through the medium of spells, a warlock invokes powerful magic through nothing more than an effort of will."

So we've always used that, and said they are a bloodline caster, just like the sorcerer. I know the rest of the description talks about 'most' or 'many' warlocks being of evil origin, but the description does talk about other origins as well.They mention wild and fey explicitly, and really, any supernatural entity that finds humans attractive can be an origin. One of our warlocks was the great-grandson of a planetar, and was the twin brother of the party paladin. Brimstone Blast became Holy Fire, Baleful Utterance became Holy Utterance, etc.RedRabbit (talk) 03:09, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Just a quick Update. I am in a game currently with a player playing a Pyromaniac. The GM allowed this as "Flames of Life". It works quite well for us, especially as the party lacks a cleric. RedRabbit (talk) 20:56, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm really glad it working out! If there's any issues, you can let me know and I'll be on it. --Leziad (talk) 21:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)