u/Wildelz

Hi fellow DMs,

I have a player who wants to play a Hexblade Warlock. I'm a bit lost there, and so I have a few questions about this, answers to any of them will be very appreciated!

1. Isn't a warlock really OP ? Between the EB cantrip, the Pact, the eldritch invocations (he can have detect magic permanently on ?), the spells (back with short rests), the pact boon ?

Subquestion 1a. Should the pact be detailed (like we actually write a contract or something or is that juste for Fiends ?) ?

Subquestion 1b. Should the pact include drawbacks to balance if it's indeed OP ?

2. The Hexblade patron : is it a magical sentient weapon or its maker ? The PHB/Xanathar makes me think it's the weapon but.. how ? And online I see stuff about Dread domain monarchs/Shadowfell lords who could fit the Hexblade ? And the Raven Queen ..?

2a. Even more so with the Pact of the Blade, should he wield (or aim to wield?) the aforementioned magical sentient blade ?

2b. We're going in Prismeer and running Witchlight, could I >!make the Patron the blade wielded by Isolde in the Shadowfell Carnival, Nepenthe ? Then the sword (or its maker if that's the answer to 2.) might want the sword freed from his dread domain/Carnival or something? And that'd be the warlock's goal in the campaign, revealed to him whenever ?!<

Any help appreciated, thank you very much !

Hi dear WBTW community and fellow DMs !

I'm running this campaign for 3 groups and the first one is getting to Bavlorna's lair. I've now been wondering for a while - and not finding it here in any post - do you all permit and give enough clues (so x3) to your players for them to possibly go back to the Carnival or Material Plane during the campaign? I was also wondering this due to the mushrooms circle later on. The characters have some backstory that they might want to resolve at some point in the Material Plane but this would make the campaign longer.

Now, for example, they found Witchlight Diana's legs and her horse's head in the taxidermy workshop. One group may want to give them back to her, and so use the mirror in Bav's bathroom. Should I make the mirror's password readily available ? I understand that in the book, only two lornlings upstairs seem to be able to kinda give the password to that mirror, which is a very very light clue if we consider the rule of the 3 clues. Also, we're not playing in English so idk what's the password for you guys, but in our language I don't think it makes any kind of sense for them to guess at it.

Any advice or opinions or feedback on all of this ? Thank you !

Tldr; do you permit/help your players to go back and forth to the Material plane from Prismeer ? Should I make more clues available for them to do so through Bav's mirror ?