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Tasha's includes a Pact of the Talisman which is superficially similar to this.

I like it. It need not have perfect overlap with the Warlock's selection, either, the way ranger and paladin only get a subset of fighting styles. In particular, Pact of the Chain sounds redundant with the class's other abilities. So you might go with Pact of the Blade and Pact of the Tome and...

In line with what @DemoMonkey and @cbwjm are saying, I'm sure I've seen an "Otherworldly Patron: The Archmage" floating around the internet somewhere. It seems like that would work nicely.

Warforged Bard called Soundwave. He has a special ability to cast enlarge/reduce (reduce only; self only) and appear indistinguishable from a gramophone.

Srsly, as a rule of thumb: Creatures are about as dense as water. Wood is about 1/2 as dense as water. (Also works for leather, fabric, rope, and other "dry" organic matter.) Stone is about 3x as dense as water. (A PC who gets petrified should have their weight roughly tripled.) Metal is about...

A ton of ghosts is about 40,000 cubic feet of ghosts because ectoplasm has extremely low density.

I once was a PC in a group of 7 wild magic sorcerers. This campaign had some of the most entertaining combats I've ever participated in.

In practice, it's an evil humanoid press-ganged into a servant. The group in my current campaign has "earned" the services of a goblin named Bootlicker who the other goblins all hated and agreed to give him to the party. In the previous campaign, they captured a pair of pirates named Ginger and...

The entire armor list is pretty stupid, if you ask me. (Which the OP kinda did.)

I did a bunch of math and thinking one time and determined that a spell-points warlock should get roughly 2 spell points per level. Comparing this to your spell point totals divided by 3 to see how they differ: Level SP = 2 * level SP = Sum of spell slot costs Difference 1 2 2 0 2 4 4 0...

Warlock has more RP potential built into the class -- but is also more restrictive. You have cool customization with Invocations, Pacts, and Patrons, but you don't get many spells, so you wind up relying on the same tricks repeatedly. Sorcerer has a much broader selection of spells, and you can...

I DM'd for a Kensei monk (sea elf) up to level 8 or 9 or so. It was fine. They do a bit more damage than a regular monk (which is good, since monk's damage is lackluster to begin with). This PC picked a whip and a longbow as weapons, which was a neat combo, and used the +1d4 ranged damage often...

Another way to balance Con would be to replace death saves with Con ability checks. So sure, you can dump Con and it doesn't matter much, until suddenly it does.

I totally allow these kind of shenanigans IF the caster can pass a DC 10 Int check. On a failure, there's some sort of consequence commensurate with the benefit sought on success. In this case, having rocks fall on the party (8d6 for a 5th-level spell; Dex save half) seems both fair and...

Have you looked at the Lingering Injuries optional rules in the DMG (p. 272)? I'm not saying you should use them, just that you may want to look at them. I actually like your rules quite a lot; the part where you roll again but it's a d4 is particularly clever. I agree with other posters that...

I did this one time. Results are here: Psychic Class

I've only run it once, but I had a really good time with Hengistbury from The Holdenshire Chronicles. Link: Hengistbury

Randomness almost always favors monsters. Monsters aren't expected to live through the encounter; the best way for them to win is to just hope to get lucky, and more randomness makes that more likely. PCs, on the other hand, are hoping to live to see 20th level, so they'd rather all the math be...

Auras... especially if they trigger on the PC's turns, it's too easy for me to forget about them. Immunities... for some reason, I remember Resistances really well, but not Immunities. Maybe it's because with Resistances there's something for me to do, but with Immunities all I do is say...