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Sometimes these "official" rulings make no sense to me at all.

Stop encouraging him. I wanna get back to arguing about Blade Pact Warlocks sometime this year.

You should never confuse half-baked game mechanics with an actual moral sense. The D&D alignment system is for amusement only.

5E already has one.

Some questions provide their own answers. Can a patron teach a warlock something the patron doesn't know to begin with? In a word, NO. It's a logical impossibility. Where does this leave us? If your warlock just learned X, Y, and Z, but Orcus (or whoever) doesn't know X, Y, or Z... then...

Because "magic" that's why. Your warlock has a mystical connection to his or her pact blade, which he does NOT have with any other weapon, even if it looks identical.

My Master Villain? The Infamous Gnomish Assassin, Silent G! He'd explain the joke, but then he'd have to kill you. Silently.

Aside from spells, are there any materials (that could be built into the walls) which block teleportation?

Regardless of "build" I think the Foresight spell does it for me. My Warlock is going straight to 17th level without getting sidetracked by multi-classing; after that we'll see.

Yeah, sometimes it's tough to make the call between "okay what character class do I really want to play" vs. "the nature of this game makes certain things (like friendly fire) inevitable." You don't have to plan on slinging spells at your allies - it's gonna happen eventually. Haha.

Yeah we might be talking about different editions; the 3.5E version of the spell was just plain broken: A 20' radius area filled with tentacles, immune to all damage, with a Grapple Bonus of (Caster Level +8), automatic grapple check on anyone who entered, doing 1d6+4 damage to anyone grappled...

The Fifth Edition Evoker's Sculpt Spell class feature is perfect for this sort of thing.

EBT was pretty much always a game-changing spell since its first appearance, so I'm not sure who considers it "surprising" any more, let alone underrated. I think at this point everyone knows how good it is, and unlike some other spells, it didn't get an unexpected power-up when converted to 5E.

The 5E version of the Faerie Fire spell surprised me, and I actually overlooked it for quite a while because it didn't impress me at all in previous editions. In 5E, however, it's improved to the point of being a game-changing spell.

Exactly this. The Warlock plays well as an arcane specialist. They have a lot of specialties to choose from, but once they've made that choice it's hard to change; they're not as flexible as the wizard. Or even the sorcerer.

Just because you once had a terrible GM doesn't mean there's no place for social/RP skills in D&D. Not everyone shares your play style, let alone his.

I guess I'm no one then. :p For characters/campaigns where the emphasis is on RP, it's a viable choice. But a Warlock who's seriously interested in being a "face" character (not unusual due to their Charisma) would probably rather have proficiency in those skills. If not from the Invocation...

I have *never* seen a Summoning spell that didn't allow the caster to choose what kind of creature he summoned. No idea what's going on with that.

Cleric/Ranger is the obvious choice - mainly because it would work. I never go with the obvious choice (I'm crazy like that) so I'll suggest something different on general principles: Vengeance Paladin/Favored Soul (Life, Light, or War domain). I'd have a blast playing that.

DON'T D**K AROUND WITH IT!