Homebrew Warlock subclass: "does not have the necessary class features with the correct required levels".

Nice catch!  Seems like you guys may be onto something.  Now let's just hope it gets resolved.

Also though...  Maybe Wizards needs to do more testing prior to releases of first- and third-party content if it's going to potentially mess up parts of their other products.

Or just allow us to publish homebrew with any level feature gains. It's homebrew, let the community decide if it's good or not.

Thanks to Unceli for finding a workaround for now. Giving placeholder features at 5, 11, and 17 made it work.

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Or just allow us to publish homebrew with any level feature gains. It's homebrew, let the community decide if it's good or not.

Thanks to Unceli for finding a workaround for now. Giving placeholder features at 5, 11, and 17 made it work.

I kind of agree for some people making their homebrew could have anything of any level. It's.. nuts this has to be  the workaround until it gets adjusted or probably not at all. It might be a future Shepard Druid situation..

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I kind of agree for some people making their homebrew could have anything of any level. It's.. nuts this has to be  the workaround until it gets adjusted or probably not at all. It might be a future Shepard Druid situation..

 
I do disagree with this though.  We do have full capability to make homebrew subclasses at any level, but I do think that to be able to publish it for public use, it should follow the standard feature levels for either the 2014 or 2024 rules (depending on which class version you're building it for).  That said, obviously it benefits no one if following the rules correctly prevents us from being able to publish them at all, so yeah, I'd rather they just make it open for whatever feature levels we want to use than not have it work at all.

Just checked, the issue is fixed now (at least for Warlocks right now, the issue will probably come up again in the future on something new)

I wanted to report that I am having this same issue at this point in time. I guess it got broken again at some point.

Edit: The 5e warlock, specifically.