D&D General Frustating Misunderstandings About Warlocks

[Not a Decepticon]

Dead is the best condition. The party has to get the opponents there in the first place and preventing healing helps with that.

So is doing more damage

 

[Zardnaar]

So is doing more damage

Preventing healing fairly niche. More damage is always good. In terms of combat

 

[Warpiglet-7]

At your table. It's an extremely reasonable take to believe it's either a god or someone sitting at the right hand of a god, like a saint, which makes the difference between a celestial warlock and the divinely powered classes mostly a matter of different mechanics.

Despite the screaming of warlock players on ENWorld, who either have been or are anticipating being traumatized by an aggressive DM, this is an extremely common take by anyone who hasn't yet had a warlock fan screaming into their face about the issue.

Warlocks are still in their 1E paladin era, where arguing about the class' flavor and who has a say over it are very much still open questions. It's definitely a class one should discuss with their DM before play, to make sure everyone's on the same page.

I want to do a little essay on this topic at least as it applies to 5e 2014.

There is so much contradictory or supplementary guidance that you could have anything from a patron who does not know to one censoring your thoughts and you would all be correct no matter your take.

This is 100% a table issue. Even for controlling or demanding patrons, I have had some DMs all but ignore that and treated me as another adventurer who sometimes creeps people out by talking to the void.

GOO and fey are clearly and explicitly y hands off at times. Same for the fathomless. A lot of selective reading going on…

It’s dm and campaign dependent.