Warlock/Cleric Multiclass Relationship

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Warlock Cleric Multiclass Relationship
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[@charlesxaqairy709]

This is how I justified my Clockwork Soul Order Domain. She's a porcelain doll (warforged) that was given the spark of life. She interprets the patterns in nature and mortals, drawing inspiration from them and controlling the battlefield. Her friend is a Seer (Stars Druid, Div Wizard, and 2 Cleric) that draws prophecies and oracles from the stars (and Sehanine Moonbow) to "control fate" to a small degree.

[@Steve-of3er]

This is such a beautiful idea! It's so refreshing and a very flavorful combination

[@the_cult_of_bo]

Hi

[@mad0813]

"Beaten and ragged the cleric watched we his friends fall one by one. With one last prayer he called upon his God and spoke. " Let's make a deal." While the dust settles and the barbarian falls his voice rings out. "Eldritch Blast." a green bolt of energy blasts through the giants chest"

[@breadedeggs]

"If I only could, make a deal with God..."

[@paulsander5579]

​​@@breadedeggs "2 Avocados for 10 bucks"

[@ghackotpony]

This multiclass could also represent your characters call to action and set up a fun arc. Say you're an elven cleric of Hanali the goddess of love and beauty but then when your lover is murdered by the drow you make a pact with Shevarash the demigod of vengeance for the power to hunt down your foes. It creates a compelling duality without the black and white good God vs. evil god kind of thing.

[@angelagranger760]

Or something like you're a cleric of a sun deity, your warlock patron is one of the celestial beings who serves the same deity by acting the patron for some of his clerics' warlock powers. Or maybe you're a cleric of the Raven Queen, she gifts you with a sentient weapon that acts as your hexblade patron. A warlock's archfey patron tasks a player with infiltrating the church of another deity. In order to do so, said character has to become a cleric of that deity. A high ranking devil patron decides pursuing divinity is a more lucrative path to power than climbing devil hierarchy. He decides to start a church by naming some of his warlock clients as his high priests and grants cleric spells or warlock spells and invocations and tasks them with recruiting worshippers

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

How about a Teifling Sorcerer Warlock where you're born with magic power thank's to your relative patron, so basically your patron is spoiling you with more magic thanks to your charisma

[@Captaincory1]

I think we'd need a fiendish sorcerer subclass for that to work with Tieflings but that does fit for Aasimar with Divine Soul sorcerer and Celestial warlock

[@petermaximoff4598]

​@@Captaincory1 you could just have the Fiend pact? Sorcerer subclass as whatever

[@Captaincory1]

@@petermaximoff4598 you could argue for Asmodeus as an ancestor for Divine Soul since he is technically a God but I don't think he'd fit the subclass abilities otherwise I feel like Shadow Magic would probably be the best option for a Devilish lineage otherwise you could flavor a Draconic Bloodline as coming from a devil the other sorcerer subclasses just don't have enough of a fiendish feel to their features. Though another one that I thought of would be Air Genasi Storm Sorcerer/Genie Warlock with a Djinn patron

[@petermaximoff4598]

@@Captaincory1 well I mean it's unlikely you'll ever have two subclasses of two separate classes match up 1 to 1 anyhow, regardless a Tiefling sorc fiend warlock is pretty easy

[@Captaincory1]

@@petermaximoff4598 so far there are 3 Draconic and psionic subclasses for different classes, 4 psionics if you count Great Old One, 3 subclasses that can connect to the elemental plane of air including Tempest cleric with the options I said for an Air Genasi to fit this idea and there is soon to be 3 Giant related subclasses including Rune Knight with the Path of Giants Barbarian and the Rune Carver wizard in UA, though you can technically count the Primeval Druid with those since dinosaurs roamed when Giants ruled in many D&D settings

[@jasonfisk6553]

We had a player in our party that did the warlock/cleric. His story was his deity and patron were treating him like a only child in a divorce. His patron would give him powerful weapons and items and his deity would give him unique spells and Devine armor. Both using him to spread their influence and try to get at each other

[@JainZar1]

Hell, a Warlock/Cleric can just be any basic cultleader. Has a Contract with an Eldritch god: Check. Is actively praying to that god and receiving spells: Check.

[@josephschubert6561]

I like how you mentioned referring to your character as something else in-game. Both a shadow monk and an assassin rogue might refer to themselves as a ninja, assassin, a stealth operative. Both a ranger and a barbarian might say they are outlanders. Your character might still think of themselves as whatever they did in their background, a sailor, a soldier, a diplomat, a chef. Most of the human population would be unfamiliar with magic (think about how much you know about helicopters) and a sorcerer might be considered cursed or blessed by the gods, and the child would grow up never hearing the term. Meanwhile, elves are inherently magical, and might have multiple names for a wizard based on their school or skill level.

[@TheZombunnehLives]

The stats for that would be rough. Keeping a high charisma and a high Wisdom would involve multiple dump stats

[@questingmoo]

Could always just rule the warlock as wisdom based. I know warlock is a class people like to use a non-RAW main stat for sometimes (and it makes sense to me, personally)

[@blazingangel623]

A half-elf can point buy a 10/14/10/10/16/16 at level one. With stats like that we’re not even talking a character that’s ‘sickly’ or ‘frail’ just one who decided to develop the talents of their mind over their physical. Could even swap the 14 dex for 14 int to really roleplay it. The amount of utility and ranged ability afforded by the right subclass picks (or hell, go hexblade for melee effectiveness) probably creates a pretty sick Gish

[@OgieSifter]

Man this reminds me how I used to use classes to flavor a character concept, I remember my Fishman cleric, who was just a fish dad with a mace and magic baby egg that blasted folks

[@timothymaddux9018]

Flavor is free. You can roleplay as a bard, but mechanically be a ranger. You do you (in fact, there's a way to have high charisma that way)

[@chandyboi7374]

I do like the idea of having a literal angel and devil on your shoulders that can also impact decisions and explain having both class abilities and feats

[@klony1280]

That's actually a good hot take. If I have an intelligence of 8, my intelligence related rolls are equivalent with a dumb creature. That doesn't mean I'm dumb. It just means I have trouble with those specific tasks... I could say smart things, then roll and fail. For example because I am unlucky, or don't understand the base rules of the universe correctly (alien/dimensional traveller)

[@chakatfirepaw]

Something to remember about an intelligence of 8: About a quarter of the population has an 8 _or less_ in any given attribute. 8 isn't "you are absolute garbage in this area," it's "you're enough below average for it to be noticeable." 8 is only seen as "seriously bad" because the more recent fear of ever giving a player more than a minimal penalty at something gets combined with older stories about characters who had things like an Int of 4.

[@klony1280]

@@chakatfirepaw isn't 6 the threshhold for talking in 5.0? I remember curses that make you less intelligent from "This is how my campaign died" kind of stories.

[@chakatfirepaw]

@@klony1280 You may be thinking of the spell Find Steed, which grants a minimum of Int 6 and understanding one language to the summoned steed. In fact, the SRD does include multiple creatures with

[@klony1280]

@@chakatfirepaw Gotcha! That just lends more credence to the idea that many tables are playing Int wrong!

[@user-fd5nz5lo7m]

Day 106: asking what is Cthulu`s deal in DnD sourcebooks? P.S. Also you can definitely be connected to two different beings to reflect a multiclass as well. Fjord from Critical Role is the obvious example. One of my players also has a druid/warlock multiclass, and it is really fun to play around thematically as both her patrons hate each other.

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

I know you'd rather an answer from Sam but I'm gonna give it a try. Based on everything I know ol squid God doesn't have a solid Canon presence in game, most if not all of the "great old ones" referenced in game are actually sentient stars like Hadar. That doesn't mean you can't take liberties here and there and use the Cthulu mythos in place of hungry stars even if you just change the existing deities names

[@user-fd5nz5lo7m]

@@jedediahcoulbourne1791 That`s pretty cool take on that. Personaly I think Cthulu should always stay connected to the Rlyegh. Any DM can just place it in their ocean. But, yeah, I`m not stopping until SteelySam-pai notices me.

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

@@user-fd5nz5lo7m finge4s crossed engagement with your comment will get him to see you

[@robertporter6683]

He was in the original Deities & Demigods book but they had to reprint it without that pantheon. So, thanks to legal reasons, he doesn't exist in D&D. But, everyone who wants to use him just home brews him in anyway.

[@PirvateerKurei]

I think a 20 intellectual wizard is just a wizard who is very good at thinking rationally situations/circumstances. But could just as easily forget where they left their keys and have to walk through exactly everything they did from when they last left them

[@Maninawig]

Here's another fun concept for an Undying Warlock/Death Domain Cleric: Though sickly, your devotion to being a religious scholar has not gone unnoticed by Hades, who offers you a second chance to put your intentions into action as his emissary. You accept, but not before Persephone offers you her own assurance of a long life, in exchange for periodic favors.

[@agooseiswatchingyou5677]

Yo the first thing that comes to mind with that last bit, about a god that gives their cleric side jobs, is something like a god of thieves that behaves like a mob boss

[@mythshaper5053]

Doing this with my phantom rogue. She isn't an assassin that can see dead people. She is a skilled dualist that gains knowledge and vaguely defined powers from her sorcerer ancestors.

[@SkamosTheDruid]

The DM's guide lists Asmodeus and Tiamat as gods so you could also use one of those.

[@J_o_B_is_back]

So effectively how my Drow Rogue/Fighter/Warlock ended up being. He became more and more devout to Eilistraee after a Near death experience gave him a vision of her and Lolth fighting over his soul. He began taking quests from the clerics of Eilistraee and trained to be a fighter so he was more effective in the service to his goddess, and more recently took up the Celestial Warlock as he was needing more effectiveness in his quests for her more powerful followers.

[@shinyuxie8412]

I did one where I was a fallen aasamar of a trickery domain god that I tried to trick into passing godship to me, when they realized I was tricking them they were impressed so as punishment I was sent to the mortal realm to cause trickery and spread the word. In the campaign we ended up getting into the fey wild and eventually met an archfey(may see where this is going). I tried to get her to try and loop me into a contract I could’ve never fulfilled and with a bit of luck and good dice rolls I slight of worded my way into a very beneficial pact where I got the most out of it and she was dumbfounded hence me becoming a archfey pact warlock. And it being used to better my ability to spread trickery and chaos for my god they were ok with the pact.

[@MoT_Compliance_Officer]

Ooo, character idea. Warforged Mannequin that used to be a normal Mannequin that was in a boutique wondow display that was then given life by a mischevious wizard. The Mannequin then eventually got fed up with being used as a display item and became an adventurer

[@Cosmic_K13]

I love the idea of a cleric warlock of the same patron. You're a contract worker that also accepts commissions. Like a cop that's also a gang enforcer.

[@malkymoonchild]

Once played a Gestalt Warlock/Cleric. He was a Drow so covered his entire body cloth and bandages and wore Gnomish Goggles to protect his eyes from the light. He had a name but everyone just called him Warick.

[@cashcash8365]

What stops someone from drawing power from 2 different dieties? This could branch into many different and interesting stories. Maybe the dieties are actually just having fun with you as their pawn, maybe it's some sort of diety twins who are either similar and/or opposite with how your power is granted to you or in their personalities (or both). Lots of ways this could be played out.

[@jozan1313]

This makes me feel old, 3.5 had this concept, there was a prestigue class called 'eldritch disciple', a hybrid warlock/cleric. It kind of saw them as an outcast among peers, someone with secrets that people of their own order would worry about but could used for tasks regular clergy might be against or unsuited for. It had a lot of flavor about them and how to functioned, both on paper and in universe

[@crislouise2509]

I honestly didn't think I'd get a answer let alone from you yourself. Thank you for answering my question. It's actually something I want to try since I thought it'd be fun but wasn't sure how it'd work.

[@faselfasel2864]

Another option would be that you pray to a god on the one hand, but have a specific contract with one of his (very powerful) exarchs. The patron is then like middle management and the god is the CEO xD

[@lordwybie5464]

Your cleric deity becomes infected with a parasite that becomes your warlock patron

[@crimsonpirate9]

Reminds me of a cleric I had who called himself a friar. His main profession was being a midwife but he also was a monster hunter focusing on creatures of the night like undead and lycans

[@LadyKaira]

Cleric/Warlock teifling. Actually playing that right now in a home game. She’s a cleric properly but the warlock magic comes from her devil mom. Basically plays like divine custody battling

[@joelhaggis5054]

I dunno, I think being basically divine special forces sounds pretty cool.

[@MrSlosh]

Clerical extra credit is my new favorite idea.

[@jamestreppa7833]

I always consider multi classing as 1 class. For example, I played a Soul knife Rogue and an Echo knight Fighter in a Dragon Heist game. I didn't think of it as 2 classes. Just that my progression gave me different abilities as a Psionic imbued person.

[@wesleybradshaw2609]

"Ares! Destroy my Enemies and my life is yours!"

[@cameronharper439]

I made a worlock that acts like a bard. I even go so far as to make sure the spells I know are what bards can know, and his main cantrip is magic stone, but he chisels the stone into guitar picks.

[@vinigmoura]

I made such multiclass once, the idea was that I, as warlock, served an entity that was like a representative of the godess an then I started to work with such entity but now promoted as a cleric.

[@cannonfire0187]

One of my players had a character who was a warlock cleric. The warlock patron was a dragon turtle who served the god the character was a cleric of.

[@lordmars2387]

He's right your character sheet is for mechanics your imagination is for character. In my own characters an 8 int could be a professor of bardic studies with a narrow range of knowledge (barbarian). Or an 8 int down to earth ranger who knows everything he needs to survive in the wild and cares for little else. Neither was stupid just not good outside their fields. This goes hand in hand with "flavor is free." Consider a clockwork soul could be a luck bender. Barbarian rage could be a combat dance that requires one to enter the flow or a bestial transformation. Treat your elf as an alien, a rogue with the heart of a greedy dragon, a far traveler is literally an isekai protagonist, and of course dwarves as the truest beardiest men and women who are always willing to stand with their friends against the whole world.

[@tundralwhisper7345]

When you said the word "Thaumaturge", I suddenly gained an idea for an evolving feat, or maybe even a wizard / artificer subclass for someone more creative to make? Thaumaturge You can utilize paper suited for noting down spells in a spellbook and your deep knowledge and experience in engineering the elements of magic, as an alchemist does for their ingredients. This enables you to research further, more advanced elements by combining already existing elements, as well as enabling you to engineer your own spells and minor magical trinkets. (Basically just the Minecraft Thaumaturgy Mod but brought into DnD. If you know, you know.)

[@PringleTheGoldie]

I have a druid/warlock whose archfey patron isn't well versed in magic. So, when they made the deal, it gave him Druidic magic and trapped his Archfey patron as his familiar from the Pact of the Chain. Just a humble farm boy and his Pixie barbarian Archfey princess.

[@ComradeRosetti]

"Priestly Pimp" he got them side gods Just in it for the divine smite Ain't loyal to no contract

[@t3hd0n]

I love playing the "stupid everyman" like jack Carter from eureka with a low int/avg wis and just make smart remarks that sound dumb

[@James-ep2bx]

Another option is a patron who's allied with/serves your deity

[@kingmasterlord]

your genie patron also gives you healing spells, your normally peaceful deity needs a wartime champion, you could role play as a caster paladin. Temple Mage. Hierophant.

[@davidmartin5483]

Making the DM (yes the actual DM) your patreon call it a God of the Whims

[@CSPaffy]

'The things that are on your charicter sheet don't have to be justified in game...' Burn the heretic

[@samdearing970]

I actually have a warlock/cleric npc in a campaign I’m running, as he is unknowingly in a contract with something that is essentially a false god. Fun times! :)

[@sondrex76]

One of my players is a cleric, however, on his character sheet, he is a bard using intelligence as his modifier. Because that made sense for how his god is empowering him.

[@TheProteanGeek]

I like this view a lot. To me the classes and subclasses aren't set in stone thematically. Some lend themselves to certain areas and ideas but they are malleable. I have a gem Dragonborn Sorcadin. He's a Psionic Sorcerer/Vengeance Paladin. For me his psionic powers don't come from an Old one or something like that. They are a heightened version of the species latent abilities.

[@0rangeSpaceMonkey]

I'm going tonl try to make this combo as a Cleric who pledges himself to a diety in order to sacrifice himself to save his village. Give cool RP possibilities and can help you have some creative options for abilities.

[@TheAusar]

Great take, you do not need abysmal stats to roleplay a flawed character.

[@mis.astrid2635]

I could see a cleric warlock being a major champion of their god. Mayhaps they are so devouted their god that they where offered a more intimate relation where you become their eyes / ears on the mortal plane through a contract.

[@alexanderharvey6407]

Had a thought spurred by that deific contracts idea. Maybe you're a Cleric of a particular major deity and receive "bonus" powers from your relationship with one of their sub-deities. For example, in an old 3.0 game I had played a Cleric of Nergal who at the time in the book we had was practically the secretary of death. In this situation you could be a Cleric of Kelemvor, who was the god of death and battle I think, but have a special connection with Nergal as well.

[@jcm3949]

They had this for 3.5 called eldritch disciple, your character became unaging by the end of the class

[@sangheilijedi]

Shalmeno my fave character I've ever had has at times been known as a bard, a wizard, or a sorcerer to different parties, in truth he's a cleric of tymora

[@angrystickfig]

Yes! Thank you! That's how I run my Cleric/Druid/Monk: in-world he's *just* a cleric of a nature/death/agriculture deity. His abilities are solely due to his relationship with his god (like, his wild shapes are the animals he's helped cross over and his monk weapons are agricultural tools)

[@yamato9753]

I love the "Pantheon" explaination. Basically having a contract with a minor god of a Pantheon while having to worship their leader. Like having a contract with some dwarfen god at the "cost" of worshipping moradin.

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

It doesn't need to make perfect sense as long as you can make it a good story.

[@brandoncarlson2862]

My old barbarian character wasn’t a moron, if you explained something to him he’d generally get it. He just wasn’t able to get there on his own.

[@Soren_Raekken]

My character is kinda a mercenary in that sense. His backstory is he used to be the youngest son of a middle class merchant family. Used to dream of being free but family would always make fun him for it. Eventually ran away and almost died from a wolf attack. A his warlock patron gave him a choice. Do his contacts for the rest of his life or have no life. After doing a bunch of contracts he joined the current party. Kinda has a rivalry with the cleric similar to that of brother and sister. Through her he met a celestial goddess who offers him contracts in exchange for magic items and powers. Kinda fun to play actually

[@NicoBlack69]

I saw Warlock/Cleric and immediately thought of White Ranger Tommy.

[@henryneletios6532]

My mind went to krunk like both on his solder just trying to sway his side shit is real when both fully agree

[@theyampergod1247]

One of my players called themselves a clerock and that there patron made it to where they took the life force of others and use that to heal others

[@dragonsaint9446]

You could also be a cleric of a god who stuck up a close friendship with a servitor of your own god or an allied god, this getting clerical powers from your deity and warlock powers from the Celestial.

[@bottasheimfe5750]

Yeah in my Pathfinder game, I play an Armiger who has an INT score of 8 but I don't roleplay him as an idiot, just less tactical. as an example, we were trying to storm this ruined fort on an island with only a rope bridge to get across, and some enemies were fighting us to keep us out, well my character charged their frontline warrior on that rope bridge and fought him and killed him, but before he died, he cut the rope on the bridge, making my character fall into the water... in full plate. luckily my friends were able to get me out before I drowned.

[@kenyonelliott2628]

I Made a Paladin of the Raven Queen and took levels of Warlock because he had to face wizards and needed an arcane understanding to take down her enemies

[@cainfree6800]

so rolling a cleric that branches into warlock can be fun and discovered at endgame only

[@OliveTheWitch]

I have a spulknife rogue who worships Ilmater (he manifests his weapons as made of golden light) and he'd probably refer to himself as a cleric, acolyte or maybe even paladin

[@DesertGothi]

I think "Saint" would be a good name for that dual-class

[@khartog01]

I love Eldritch abomination that is also a star, combine that with worship of the Sun god. Wait, that's a good idea, I'm going to use that.

[@Dova-Kai]

We have one of these in our party. Started as a warlock but is now building churches and spreading the faith of his patron.

[@metageek7878]

I did a divine Sorcerer, celestial warlock and tiefling as a kitsune shrine maiden. Flavor is free.

[@dereklangfield7387]

A cool idea for a clerlock is you have a curse from a patron or somthing similar that grants magic so you became a worshipper of a God or deity who promises to try and help to control your curse or if you wish remove it alltogether.

[@tairrendaly5855]

There's aperently also such a thing called a "divine warlock," which is exactly like a warlock, only all the "negative energy" spells and cantrips get turned into Holy.

[@akrumvatum1627]

Cleric/Warlock feels like Oracle from Pathfinder

[@JeniferTheRock]

My cleric is following a goddess of love, that got taken over from an eldritch monster. So unknown to my cleric she made a deal with with a patron thinking it was her goddess. Slowly being corrupted while opening the door for this multiclass

[@Emerald_Bandit]

So the my DM I played with wrote it out as that the deity I served as a warlock, servered a higher deity who I worshipped and served as a cleric. Both were lawful good and neither 'contract' contradicted each other as by serving one I was already serving the other. (Edited for grammar)

[@13thGeek]

Or on the flip side a warlock that has a level of devotion on par with actual priests and clerics. Now give your Cleric healing spells some descriptive flavor like “The wounds full with a thick (any color) ichor that adopts the skin pigment of the healthy flesh surrounding as it congeals before becoming indistinguishable.” Or “As you summon your weapon the space around it tears like cheap fabric as a bizarre silhouette of ‘unlight’ emerges in the shape of a (your choice). The silhouette is one of stars, distant galaxies, and ……. sickly slitted eyes. ” (Spiritual Weapon)

[@knightx605]

So my party Cleric that I DM for was looking at potential to multiclass into an Undead Warlock, but there are very little "Undead beings" in my world or Necromancer like beings that were close enough to give those powers. So what I offered was that they had three beings that were possible for them to make this kind of deal with possibly. 2 of which were antagonists, One big/ major one and one that was not really evil, but the party is possibly against. The last one is a being inside their scythe Artifact they had gotten recently and they currently do not like eachother. If they make a deal with eachother, then she can give the cleric powers into warlock.

[@BW022]

There is also an easy way to resolve any roleplaying aspects. Your warlock patron is a powerful servant or follower associated withyour god. For example, say you are a nature cleric of Ehlonna (GH). She has a planetar (Novalee) who serves her. Shaundakul (FR) could easily has an elder air elemental lord serving him. Likewise many gods may have angels, devils, powerful out planar creatures, beasts, elementals, etc. as servants or worshippers.

[@thelion2751]

In this case you can call him a blessed you have a relationship with godlike being and this is helping you, a blessed

[@pflume1]

You could be like Constantine and make a deal with multiple deities and patrons.

[@merpins]

True, I'm currently playing a homebrew class called Sage, which is an INT based full caster, but I'm playing it as a gish. The character has max int, but isn't very bright. The way I justify it is she is very good at learning and retaining new information, but that doesn't mean that she's well learned.

[@kilo3989]

So I have a Trickery Cleric who's getting a level of Sorcerer shoved into him to help him muddle his way through some save-the-world plot... we haven't gotten the full details yet. His god used fate and circumstance to get him onto a long-abandoned island, where a dormant demigoddess had woken up and sought to send him on a quest, infusing him with additional magical properties in the process. Chuck "Two-Gods" Tyndale, everyone. 😂

[@riqo4877]

GOD DAMN THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME.

[@Zanuth-001]

Celestial pact warlock/cleric is a dude who works for their God but also takes jobs from their middle management

[@deoxyplasmic]

"Things that are on your character sheet don't need to be justified in game." This is all I needed to hear. I'm exaggerating, but it's a good reminder that I don't have to go up to every character and say, "Hi! I'm [name], and I'm a bard." My character might not exactly call or even consider themselves the class (or whatever) I wrote down on my character sheet. They can be more dynamic and nuanced than a naming system that helps define their mechanics in a game.

[@thundertwonk1090]

A warlock that thinks he's a cleric because his deity is a trickster deity and wanted some fun he's never tried before

[@benjaminjones2231]

Thank you for saying that out loud.

[@thestranger954]

When they die their 401k kicks in and they get extra heaven.

[@Daeugleth]

The idea I’m running with, and I can’t take credit, is my ClerLock is the son of a Warlock and Cleric/Paladin, and the Deity and Patron are fighting over who gets the soul/body. All credit for this idea is Tom Fawkes.

[@randomscottishchick9132]

Cleric and Warlock Cleric God be something good Warlock Patron be something evil (Make sure the 2 hate one another) Have your character be a changeling with split personality and flip a coin every long rest to see which you are that day and have them either despise the other personality or have no idea they exist Have fun with this idea, tweak as needed

[@zaneriva5903]

God I hope that Thaumaturge is a reference to the 3.5 Summoner class. Tried running it once, God this is why I play pure druids haha

[@THEREALDJDUBTONE]

Im playing a hexblade warlock rn with my patron being an amulet i got from the church of Correlon in the phandelver campaign but im going to multiclass into war domain Cleric since thats one of correlons domains saying that he finally accepted him as one of his followers

[@jacobweatherford4696]

This also kinda works for warlock/paladins aswell because you could be a warlock have sworn a oath infront of your patron.

[@Bear-bx7yo]

I go even further than this. My players were very confused when they found out my clerics were mostly just regular priests and only specific people can perform miracles. And no one refers to them in game as their classes

[@flipflopthe3rd518]

This is how I would justify warlock/cleric build. You are thr middle man/women between 2 powerful deities, the 2 deities at 1 point loved each other but are now in a very hot divorce and your job is to basically be the lawyer (finding dirt on both sides, trying to find a middle ground, etc) of these 2 deities and in return you get there powers.

[@ZackofSpades]

The cleric and the warlock gods/patrons are your celestial parents going through a cosmic divorce and while they still love you, and it's not your fault, they just can't live on the same plane anymore. Their hope is that you'll have a favorite by the time you're famous.

[@SamWeaving]

I'm playing an "artificer" atm that I'm just flavouring as a doctor, despite having an 18 in intelligence he also suffers with paranoia and memory loss due to his age

[@demogorghon]

Yea... now tell that to my DM who said I can't be a celestial warlock of a god because that would mean I'm a cleric.

[@joshuabevins8244]

Cleric is the marriage. Warlock is the side piece