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But the player knowing the process when the PC has no reason to can decrease setting logic.

Whether the PC cares or not, I still believe the answers to those questions should matter in the campaign if the player chooses to play a character who gets their power from someone else.

Funny how all those options mean the patron isn't important in actual play at the table and functionally mean they have no effect on the PC other than being the vague source of their super powers. No thanks, personally.

And if you want your patron to be Hastur the Unspeakable, I'd be fine with that. But most other patrons have an identifiable will and motivation.

Why did the PC enter the pact? And why did the patron? Do either of those questions matter in the campaign? Any warlock in a game I run is going to be affected by the answers.

A lot of people seem to like the Warlock class mechanics a heck of a lot more than the class fantasy of actually playing a Warlock 🙁.

It shows that WotC feels making a book that helps new GMs is more important than making a book experienced GMs might want to give them money for. Buy the TotV and/or A5e DMGs, and skip 5.5.

Anybody can be killed with a single gunshot.

Is there a link to Laserllama's work in general? I really need to look into it.

Can the wizard have a good charisma and proficiency in social skills, or is that too much bleed over?

My previous comment addresses both those concerns to my satisfaction, but again to each their own. I guess I understand now but still disagree.

Intentionality in RPG design is always a good thing IMO, even if I don't personally care for the results.

I expect there will be stuff to steal for my voracious houserule doc in any event.

Nice! Worth a look. Mearls just posted an article on Substack in support of simulation in RPGs, just he's on my happy list at the moment.

Spears (and staffs to a smaller degree) rock in my compilation/homebrew equipment doc for A5e. Lots of cool tricks and respectable numbers.

What's Odyssey?

What does your explanation in the second paragraph have to do with your claim about balance in the first? What kind of balance do you mean?

No, and honestly I would like to see the fighter as literally better at fighting too. But no game compatible with modern D&D will ever do that. This is why I also play and love the OSR.

"Personally I've never felt voting was all that important to the process." "No kidding, Ford." -Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, Futurama.

...and nothing can stop him.