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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 6480696" data-attributes="member: 17607">I don't really see the warlock as being a 'newbie' class, but rather having a specific design sensibility -- what if you had a magic-using class with very low or no restrictions on how frequently it could use its abilities? How powerful could those abilities be and still be balanced against the other classes?As for the guy who seems to think that you can make a hand crossbow into a pact weapon, review the text: "You can choose the form that *this melee weapon* takes each time you create it...You can transform one magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual...it appears whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter."The ability doesn't say you can choose a melee weapon form; it says that the pact weapon is a melee weapon and you can choose its form. This doesn't mean you can bond a ranged weapon as a pact weapon, because the pact weapon is a melee weapon, and the comment on binding a magic weapon doesn't change that. Note, though, that you can bond (or create) a melee weapon with the Thrown quality and use that as a ranged weapon, as long as you are willing to spend your action every other round to get the pact weapon back after you throw it.</blockquote>