doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Yeah honestly the scaling by warlock level might not even really be necessary anyway, and your wording might be a lot cleaner than mine, mechanically.I definitely think this is the biggest problem with the pact of the blade. While I think your fix is better because it ties EB scaling to Warlock level (curtailing the 1-3 level warlock dip), a simple hack for those who want to keep their homebrew footprint to a minimum would be to add to the blade pact “If you know the Eldritch Blast cantrip, you can channel the beam of force through your pact weapon when you cast it. If you do, make a melee spell attack against a creature within the reach of your pact weapon instead of a ranged spell attack. If the spell would create more than one beam, you can make up to one melee spell attack for each beam. You must be holding your pact weapon to use this feature.”
Or something along those lines.
Id like for a fully invested BladeLock with several invocations geared toward gishing to be able to basically treat their melee attacks as both a melee weapon attack and a use of Eldritch Blast, both gaining the benefit of those invocations, and being able to take weapon oriented feats and benefit from them.
I don’t know if there is a balanced way to do that. Maybe some part of that has to live in Hexblade?
Hell yeah, let’s talk about that in the alternate esoteric classes thread? I think there is something there, even if it overlaps with both Binder and Archer.This really makes me want to write up a Stephen King style Gunslinger using Warlock template. Not useful for the convo at hand, but that's where I'm at.