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In the parlance you cited's the Blade Pact Warlock is a skirmisher, and a skirmisher is not a front line warrior. I get (and like) the hex blade concept. I played both Eldritch Strike Warlocks and Hexblades in 4e, but this ain't that any more than the 5e Fighter is some kind of a great defender...

The Eldritch Knight(EK) and and Blade Pact Warlock are opposite ends of the gish scale. The EK can fight in melee from jump, but can't cast spells until 3rd level and for the rest of their career, they are nothing special as spell casters. The Blade Pact Warlock is a spell caster with a side of...

I can't speak for others' experiences, but that perception wasn't a problem for me. I've never felt that the Warlock was anything but essentially an arcane rogue. Unlike, say, the monk, I never felt is was sold otherwise in the text. I think the optimized builds maxing the melee damage may have...

I think you are exactly wrong. The Blade Pact adds some versatility to basic Warlock class, just as the other two pacts do. It's different in that it is combat versatility rather than the increased out of combat versatility given by the other two pacts. The issues raised in this thread are...

Just my opinion based on playing Dex based blade warlocks. Overall it seems that you've really focused your suggestions around the idea of helping the Strength based blade warlock concept. (1-3, 6) all benefit Strength based blade warlocks much more than Dex based blade warlocks. 1) This is...

You have a main and off hand which you can designate right or left however you like. The off-hand attack gets no bonus. You could choose to attack first with either the main hand or the off hand. Normally, people just lead with the main hand, but there are situations where you might want to use...

Similar to Klaus, I think a simple house rule that you can spend your Channel Divinity to cast Mage Armor is sufficient. Also, IIRC, there's no stacking rules in 5e except for with respect to multiple applications of the same effect from the same source and the rules for temporary hit points...

I've always the thought the Great Old One Pact of the Blade Warlock was a natural for a Jedi like character. The powers from a great (uncaring) source, cool weapon only the Jedi knows how to use, ability to fight well without armor, blow people around and mess with their minds. Some of the...

I really like this subclass Artificer, but my view is more shaped by the fiction than it's previous class incarnations in 3e and 4e. A class that makes magic items and can 'magic up' items on the fly. The dissonance is that this Artificer 'can' cast spells, but you can also choose to always dump...

You should offer some details about your warlock so that people could ha e some idea of what you are working with.

I don't think the rules rule out the possibility of a weapon being both ranged and melee, but they do say that none of the weapons actually listed in this book have both those properties (via the table). If this list does not indicate that weapons not listed as ranged are in fact not ranged...

On what on authority do you claim the table is an illustration? The table is the only thing that actually categorizes weapons into ranged or melee. In any case: 1) I don't care about whether or not your interpretation breaks the game, only whether or not it is correct. 2) My example did not...

Your interpretation is incorrect. The only definition of ranged and melee weapons is the table. In this case you assume that ""A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you" is equivalent to saying " A weapon used to attack a target within 5 feet of you is a melee weapon". That...

I've found that concentration doesn't really impact Paladin's nearly as much as other casters. Divine Smite uses some of your spell slots. All of the smite spells, which are concentration, should generally be cast as a bonus action at the beginning of the round so that most times, the spell has...

What part of 5e is that? The quick build section in the Fighter class description opens by saying that one should make either Strength or Dexterity your highest stat (5e PHB, p. 71). Moreover the opening section of section of the Fighter class description opens by emphasizing the ability of the...

Then we only disagree semantically because saying there are no roles in 5e is not trivially equal to saying that 5e classes do not serve a particular role. Only a game like checkers where all pieces are the same can be said to have no roles.

I think it's more a question of design intent. If, as in 4e, your goal is for each class to default to one particular combat role, then, of course, you will have a set of classes which can be easily classified by its default role. In 5e the design intent for classes is not based on having each...

Part of it that these Role definitions evolved with the edition itself. The Striker role is a good example. In PHB1 we get the (paraphrasing) 'lots of damage to single target' and 'sneaky, mobile,ways of getting out of trouble' definition. All of the PHBX Strikers do have lower survivability and...

My experience is from playing Bard, but I think the issue is similar. In practice, I found that the support guy really just needs Healing Word, to keep people up in combat and then when possible either the Healer or Inspiring leader feat. The vast majority of healing my Bard did via Healer, and...

IIRC, the magic items in the playtest Keep on the Borderlands were unchanged from the original, so I wouldn't use that as an example of typical magic item availability.