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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7870142" data-attributes="member: 93670">You are still couching your argument in "if you follow the SA"...  The fact that you are referencing a 5+ year old tweet from crawford that has not at any point made it into an errata only adds weight to the playwright/director/producer/owner/manager/DM's Significant other mocking of WotC's choice to not correct their mistakes when it comes to warlock.  If you need to include those words it's a tacit admission that the ability as written is messed up.Without adding a feat, the effective non-disadvantaged range of most spells & ranged weapons is in the 30-60' range give or take  bit with some outliers like martial longbow & xbow or eldritch spear invocation agonizing repelling eldritch blast.* Melee is obviously short range.  A drow or deep(?) gnome with superior darkvision could see in the darkness 120' off too, but they would have trouble doing the same on a flat desert plain during the day & any kind of bright flash from a spell like daylight at night would cause them trouble.  Meanwhile a changeling, kalashtar, warforge, human, dragonborn, etc would be blind in the dark.  A warlock of any of those darkblind races meanwhile has both benefits but neither drawback & further extends the "anything you can do I can do better" finger in the eye cross table dynamic between warlocks & other classes.  In short, it breaks a big chunk of the GM's ability to add suspense/tension of the unknown and does it without drawback...  That's impo imagine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)" target="_blank">Alien</a>, Doom, Quake, or Deadspace brightly lit at all times & the story falls apart*Before you ask "why is this relevant?"  Because it continues to show the pattern of warlock needing to be able to do everything including use any weapon or armor using charisma now.</blockquote>

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