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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmnqwk" data-source="post: 6791230" data-attributes="member: 6804204">You brought this on yourself, unfortunately.As a DM it's up to you how powerful you wish players to be. Allowing the multiclass isn't causing such inflated numbers, it's the letting them roll for stats on top of giving such an insanely powerful item (which would've been okay in previous editions more than it is in 5th).If you took away the bow AND had used point buy, then a Fighter 5 Rogue 2 Warlock 1 could only have a DEX 18 with Sharpshooter, meaning you'd be down to +4 to hit/1d8+15+2d6 (hex and sneak), which is only 26.5 damage a shot. The low +4 to hit would mean the PC was unlikely to try and sharpshooter every round, so more likely 16.5 a shot with a +9 to hit.While you did indeed follow "the letter of the law" since a 1st level character can find a Flame Tongue, it's the kind of problems DMs run into all the time in 5th edition, since magical items are so terribly done in 5th edition that a trained chimp could've done a better job on it. Imagine a 1st level Fighter with and without a Flame Tongue. Instead of doing 1d8+5 (Str 16 and Fighting Style 1h weapon) she would be doing 1d8+5+2d6 fire, going from 9.5 per swing up to 16.5, or gaining over 70% damage from a single item. Insanity!i would recommend you find a way to pare back the weapon, either having it become inert and forcing a long quest to reignite it's power (something unachievable until level 11) or accept your fate and find ways to make the monster's tougher to hit/more durable to cope with the unbalanced item.</blockquote>

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