Are Hexblades sentient?

Hexblades are warlocks which make pacts with sentient magic weapons, imbued with magic by a god or other powerful entity.
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What sentient weapons did the Raven Queen have?

She was said to have forged the first weapons infused with shadow magic. These sentient blades, such as the Blackrazor, were found in many locations throughout the multiverse and were capable of binding with their wielders. For that reason, the Raven Queen was a popular hexblade patron among warlocks.
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Can your Hexblade be your pact weapon?

Your Hexblade Patron weapon is not your pact weapon. One of the examples they give for a patron is blackrazor, and that is certainly not the weapon in the hands of a level 1 hexblade warlock. I am a sentient weapon, not your plaything, foolish mortal!
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What do Hexblades want?

They may even crave power through blood. If a more tempered approach is wanted, a pact could be formed through the Hexblade Patron seeking redemption for their actions in life, binding themselves to a weapon to live vicariously through a warlock performing courageous deeds.
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Can a Hexblade summon a weapon?

There is an Improved Pact Weapon eldritch invocation for Hexblade warlocks that (among other benefits) extends this to: Finally, the weapon you conjure can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.
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Can a Hexblade be a greatsword?

The answer is yes, you can turn a two-handed weapon (both melee and ranged) into your pact weapon with the Pact of the Blade feature, thus qualifying them for your Hex Warrior feature as well as your Great Weapon Master feat.
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Can Hexblade have 2 pact weapons?

A Warlock with Pact of the Blade can have one Pact Weapon active at a time.
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Can Hexblade heal?

Well, technically the Hexblade can heal themself once per short rest when dropping their cursed target to 0 HP. Apart from that, Warlock's usual way of beefing up is through temporary HP, like through Armor of Agathys.
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Do Hexblades use Eldritch Blast?

You can sling Eldritch Blasts as much as any other Warlock even when you go Hexblade. It's not like the subclass forces you to go Pact of the Blade or be in melee.
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What is the best race for a Hexblade?

Half-elves are another option for the best Hexblade build. Not only do half-elves have +2 CHA like tieflings, they also get +1 to two additional attributes, so they can bulk up their CON and DEX. They also have darkvision, which is always useful.
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Can a Hexblade use a whip?

The other thing you get from Hexblade is martial weapons which in terms of weapons that matter is whip, scimitar and heavy crossbow and if you want to use one of these you can do it with improved pact weapon anyway.
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Can a Hexblade use a shield?

As others have pointed out the Hexblade gains proficiency in martial weapons, medium armor and shields. So, take the Hexblade as your patron and you're golden.
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Is a Hexblade magical?

As GcL notes, the Hex Warrior feature does not cause a weapon's damage to count as magical. That is caused by the Pact of the Blade feature, which can only conjure a melee weapon or a magic weapon that you have transformed into your pact weapon via a special ritual, as described in the feature description.
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Is the Raven Queen a god?

The Raven Queen, Matron of Death, also commonly known as the Matron of Ravens and the Duskmaven, is the goddess of death, fate, and winter; she is also considered the goddess of twilight, inevitability and the passage of time, presiding over the transition between life and death.
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What god did the Raven Queen replace?

Trivia. In the Dawn War pantheon of the Nentir Vale setting, which the Critical Role pantheon is based on, the god of death that the Raven Queen replaced was Nerull.
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What did the Raven Queen do to Vex?

Vax'ildan offered his life in service to The Raven Queen to save his sister, and after his own death, was brought back to life by her to defeat Vecna. He then abandoned his mortal form to become the Champion of Ravens.
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What is level 11 in Hexblade Warlock?

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an Arcanum. Choose one 6th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this Arcanum. You can cast your Arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.
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Can Hexblades use spears?

Polearm MasterPHB: Hexblades can make effective use of polearms. I would probably stick to a quarterstaff or spear (spear was added in errata in 2018) so that you can use a shield to compensate for the Warlock's relatively poor AC and low hitpoints, but maybe you're braver than I am.
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Is Hexblade a subclass?

Hexblade is a subclass option for your warlock. From Xanathar's Guide to Everything (Wizards of the Coast): You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell—a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow.
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Is Hexblade a good subclass?

A Hexblade is the easiest, but not necessarily best, subclass for a martial based warlock. That's because you only really have to be concerned with increasing charisma, not dex (beyond a starting 14) or con (also important for hit points and concentration saves. And of course, getting medium armor/shield proficiency.
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Who is the Hexblade patron?

From what I have gathered from the subclass, the Hexblade Patron is typically a powerful entity connected to the Shadowfell, an entity who can manifest their shadowy powers into weapons and gift their pact holders with the ability to cast shadowy hexes that leave targets vulnerable to their attacks.
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Is melee Hexblade good?

At least as far as Hexblade is concerned, they are fine for a melee character. You don't hit quite as hard or as often compared to Fighter / Barbarian / Paladin but you make up for it with a bigger bag of tricks in your spell selections and invocations, which gives you better non-combat options.
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Can Hexblade use a staff?

If you are a Pact of the Blade warlock (with the Hexblade patron that seems an obvious choice) and you take the Improved Pact Weapon eldritch invocation, you could turn a staff into your pact weapon and then use it as a spellcasting focus via the eldritch invocation, which lets you get the staff's benefit on most ...
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Can a gun be a pact weapon?

You can transform one firearm into another pact gun by performing a special ritual while you hold the weapon. If it wasn't already, the weapon is now magical and it retains all of its regular properties and keywords.
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Can Hexblade curse and Hex stack?

The Hex is applied once to each attack roll, so yes, when you have multiple Eldritch blast beams you apply the Hex to every single one that hits. You also add your Hexblade's Curse damage to each beam that hits too.
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