Cleric: We believe you sold your soul.
Celestial warlock: Well, yes. To your god.
Cleric: That’s unethical! You should be ashamed of yourself!
Celestial warlock: So does that mean you worship someone inherently unethical or was he just unethical when he bought my soul?
Cleric: …
Celestial warlock: You’re just jealous because he doesn’t let you shoot energy beams at will, right?
Cleric: Damn straight I am!
tbh I don’t like the trope of “pact with a devil = you sold your soul”. At least in the first instance, even very desperate people are usually not desperate enough to literally sell their soul. Not in a world where you know that souls are very real and selling it has eternal consequences.
Most often, a pact entails something much less. A favour of some sort, either a specific negotiated deal, or a general agreement to do “something” in the future (think: the Minor and Major Boons from Vampire: The Masquerade). That goes whether we’re talking about a warlock pact or some other pact.
Broke: selling your soul for a 1d10 Cantrip
Woke: selling your soul so you can talk to your dog
for a 1d10 + cha cantrip that pushes enemies away, no save.
Sorry, can’t hear you over the sound of the goodest boi.
