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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5404421" data-attributes="member: 8158">Let's start with the part where I think you're wrong: don't try to enforce party diversity. Encourage? Yes. Enforce? No. The fact that there's already a rogue in the party shouldn't mean that other players are forbidden to play a rogue while the existing one draws breath. And this guy wasn't even making a rogue, but a rogue/assassin hybrid, so they wouldn't play identically. It's not as if the warlock brought anything to the table that a party really needs that they couldn't get from a rogue. Warlocks have a lot of problems that keep them from being satisfying to those who, without resorting to pejoratives, are mindful of their character's effectiveness relative to the rest of the party. The fluff is delicious, the mechanics are poor. I started play 4e with a warlock and jumped to sorcerer a year later as soon as the PHB2 came out. WotC's general neglect of the class and the recent advent of hexblades leads me to beliee that they are hoping the 1.0 version is quiety shuffled off to the attic by virtue of player abandonment. That's what I have to say about the basic premise of the character swap. Now, the player himself throwing tantrums and whatnot is a separate issue. Find a way to take him aside. First, let him vent his complaints and see if actually hearing him out settles him down. If that doesn't do the trick, simply tell him he needs to chill out or stop showing up. Make it his choice.</blockquote>

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