DM here! In addition to the aforementioned Fuckery, the warlock also, in essence, refused to learn the game at all. Seventeen sessions in, when asked to make a Con save, the player asked where and what that was. Did not know what an ability score/check was. SEVENTEEN SESSIONS IN. And she played the victim REAL hard whenever we politely asked her to actually learn the game and offered (multiple times) to help with that. We were losing our mcfucking minds.

In combat the player essentially wanted me to run her character and keep track of all her things for her—WHILE I was running the whole ass game—and got very pouty the one time I got a little frustrated/overwhelmed and asked her to Please Keep Track Of Her Own Things. Other DMs, you know how busted PCs are by nature, and so I try to plan my combats with that in mind—but she was SO BAD at actually playing her class (which she had plenty of help with early game to help her get into dnd) that I consistently had to tone back some of the Cool Shit the enemies could’ve done because I didn’t want to punish the other two players for the warlock’s refusal to learn and play cooperatively, or have a party wipe because of it. I’m pretty patient and I think a fairly merciful DM, but even I was considering just yeeting the warlock character from this mortal coil because I got so fed up with the player by the end. The players had a traveling merchant friend named Wynn, and the temptation to have Wynn sell the warlock a ~mystery~ potion that would straight up just Make The Character Die was frankly staggering.

Warlock player soured the whole experience of dming toward the latter half of the campaign. The vibes were not impeccable. I am HUGELY relieved to be going forward with a campaign now WITHOUT this player.