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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Composer99" data-source="post: 8316946" data-attributes="member: 7030042">I don't think the warlock - like the sorcerer - is particularly simple. Not at the same scale as, say, a step or two above champion fighter. Even as early as 3rd level, options and complexity start scaling up (and up).If you want a dead-simple caster, I think it'd be better to have a class with, say, two combat and two utility cantrips (that the class chooses for you), three "spell-adjacent" abilities that you pay a resource for that refreshes on a long rest (such as healing, buffing, and radiant damage for, say, a simple cleric) - again, that the class chooses for you - and then, over a 20-level path, a handful of actual spells that you get to cast at will (or almost at will) - again, with the options chosen for you. This would be a dead simple caster class, even so, the class would still be more variegated than most baseline 5e martials.[HR][/HR]On topic, I think having the baseline martials, a full-on manouevre/exploit system (accessible via subclasses and maybe one specialised class), and Steampunkette's proposed adjustment:would go a long way to making the things work for any kind of player who wants to play non-magical characters to their desired level of mechanical complexity.</blockquote>