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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9067760" data-attributes="member: 7635">The issue is half of those choices aren't really choices since they are exclusive to their two spell slots. The only thing you can reliably do is sneak, move light objects, talk to animals and shoot beams. (I'm discounting DS here because it's passive and in many situations equal to darkvision). The rest of your abilities share a very limited pool of uses. If you go into a dungeon, use a hypnotic pattern on a group of goblin guards (an effective way to end the fight) in room one and then charm a goblin to interrogate him, congrats, you're out of spells one room into the dungeon and it's time to short rest. Or you can continue with your two cantrips and three invocations, effectively a weaker rogue with a heavy crossbow. meanwhile, any other caster would still have the majority of their abilities available and can move on to room 2 without resting. That's the issue with pacing; for the warlock to do anything cooler than be an arcane trickster who talks to dogs, you need to rest early and often. Every room or two of the dungeon if you can. If you don't get a rest, you are vastly underperforming. If you get more than two rests, you are doing more magic than any other caster. So the warlock will always demand rests, even if it clashes with the DMs narrative and has little or no use for the other PCs. The ideal solution is to make warlock magic function equivalent to what they should be; half-casters. Barring actually making them half-casters, the ideal solution is to divorce their recharge from short rests and limit them to two per day. I would also be in favor of upping the number of spell slots and limiting recharge to 1/day.</blockquote>

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