Welcome back to the dungeon master's block, the place where we focus on the dungeon master,

the most important person in the game, the only person capable of playing God,

killing characters, and lowering the ego of all of the people at the table.

I'm one of your host, D.M. Neal, aka Jop Moniac.

And I'm D.M. Mitch.

And today we are going to be talking all about the warlock.

And I don't know that we could get a better expert on the subject if we try.

I don't think we could.

Rich Baker coming back on the forefather, if you will, of the warlock.

And being one of the people there at its true infancy in the third edition when it was being formed.

And I say it in the episode and I want to say it now.

The first 10 to 15 minutes of him talking is like an absolute masterclass in the top end of what game design looks like.

So if for nothing else, definitely listen to the episode for that.

I mean, you can get inspiration as NPC, or you have a player who is playing a warlock.

Once again, we say it in the episode, but I think the warlock really gives the DM a great way to be involved with a player who's chosen to play this class.

And the biggest element of that to me is the patron that the Warlock makes a pack with.

And speaking of patrons, for our gold dragon and higher tiers on our Patreon,

this week we have three Homebrew Patrons that I've created for you as DMs to pair with some

of your players that want to play Warlock characters.

We'll talk more on that, but before we do, we have some five-star reviews that we want

to give shout-outs for.

And the first one comes from Tamari Kat and is entitled, Thank You for the

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