Hollywood is a team player and would definitely prepare mostly healing & control spells for use when not in beast form. I felt he needed the ASI, but I did contemplate taking a couple levels in wizard. His Con is OK, but War Caster would be next on the list of needs.
My only real caveat with Phantom Rogue is that the 9th level feature is really cool and should have been the 3rd level feature, IMO. But I have that issue with several Rogue subclasses, they don't get the real fun stuff until way too late in level progression.
This thread has turned into evidence for why I keep a tight rein on what I allow in my games, because I have no friggin' idea what most of you are talking about and don't have much enthusiasm about doing the reading I'd need to do to get it.
I wonder if this is in part because because I only started with 5E in very late 2019 - and thus the core rules still provide enough new stuff for me. I literally read the rogue class for the first time last week (no one in my groups have played one) and I have no idea how warlock powers work (I banned them for now from my current games because I did not want to deal with a third way of dealing with spells and am playing with mostly newbies who look to me to explain stuff).
Eldritch Blast, while mechanically solid, plays no part in why I love the Warlock class so much.
