Warlock

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Overview & Creation

Level	Prof. Bonus	Features	Cantrips	Spells	Spell Slots	Spell Level	Invocations
1st	+2	Pact Magic, Otherworldly Patron	2	2	1	1st	—
2nd	+2	Eldritch Invocations	2	3	2	1st	2
3rd	+2	Pact Boon	2	4	2	2nd	2
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	3	5	2	2nd	2
5th	+3	—	3	6	2	3rd	3
6th	+3	Otherworldly Patron feature	3	7	2	3rd	3
7th	+3	—	3	8	2	4th	4
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement	3	9	2	4th	4
9th	+4	—	3	10	2	5th	5
10th	+4	Otherworldly Patron feature	4	10	2	5th	5
11th	+4	Mystic Arcanum (6th level)	4	11	3	5th	5
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	4	11	3	5th	6
13th	+5	Mystic Arcanum (7th level)	4	12	3	5th	6
14th	+5	Otherworldly Patron feature	4	12	3	5th	6
15th	+5	Mystic Arcanum (8th level)	4	13	3	5th	7
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	4	13	3	5th	7
17th	+6	Mystic Arcanum (9th level)	4	14	4	5th	7
18th	+6	—	4	14	4	5th	8
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	4	15	4	5th	8
20th	+6	Eldritch Master	4	15	4	5th	8

 

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Class Features

Otherworldly Patrons

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being chosen from the list of available patrons. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

• The Archfey
• The Archon (Homebrew)
• The Celestial
• The Elder Sphinx (Homebrew)
• The Fiend
• The Genie (UA)
• The Great Old One
• The Hexblade
• The Lurker in the Deep (UA)
• The Raven Queen (UA)
• The Seeker (UA)
• The Snake Empress (Homebrew)
• The Undying
• The Unending Darkness (Homebrew)
• Patron: Primus (Homebrew)

 

Pact Boon

At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service. You gain one of the following features of your choice.  

Pact of the Blade

You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it. You are proficient with it while you wield it. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.   Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.   You can transform one magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual while you hold the weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter. You can't affect an artifact or a sentient weapon in this way. The weapon ceases being your pact weapon if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks.  

Pact of the Chain

You learn the Find Familiar spell and can cast it as a ritual. The spell doesn't count against your number of spells known.   When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: imp, pseudodragon, quasit, or sprite.   Additionally, when you take the attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to use its reaction to make one attack of its own.  

Pact of the Tome

Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class's spell list. The cantrips do not need to be from the same spell list. While the book is on your person, you can cast those cantrips at will. They don't count against your number of cantrips known. Any cantrip you cast with this feature is considered a warlock cantrip for you. If you lose your Book of Shadows, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony to receive a replacement from your patron. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous book. The book turns to ash when you die.  

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.  

Mystic Arcanum

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.   At higher levels, you gain more warlock spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at 13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level. You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a long rest.  

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of mystical power while entreating your patron to regain expended spell slots. You can spend 1 minute entreating your patron for aid to regain all your expended spell slots from your Pact Magic feature. Once you regain spell slots with this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

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Starting Equipment

You may choose (a) or (b):

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a Scholar's pack or (b) a Dungeoneer's pack
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

  Alternatively, you can ignore the equipment from your class and background, and start with 4d4 x 10 gp.

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Spellcasting

Pact Magic

Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells.  

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn additional warlock cantrips of your choice at higher levels, learning a 3rd cantrip at 4th level and a 4th at 10th level.  

Spell Slots

The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your warlock spells of 1st through 5th level. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.  

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.   The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 6th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.   Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.  

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.   Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier   Spell Attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier  

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.  

Eldritch Invocations

In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability. At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice.   Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.   A level prerequisite in an invocation refers to warlock level, not character level.  

Eldritch Invocations List

If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class.  

Agonizing Blast

Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip   When you cast Eldritch Blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.  

Armor of Shadows

You can cast Mage Armor on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.  

Ascendant Step

Prerequisite: 9th Level You can cast Levitate on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.  

Aspect of the Moon

Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome   You no longer need to sleep and can't be forced to sleep by any means. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all 8 hours doing light activity, such as reading your Book of Shadows and keeping watch.  

Beast Speech

You can cast Speak With Animals at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Beguiling Influence

You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.  

Bewitching Whispers

Prerequisite: 7th level   You can cast Compulsion once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.  

Book of Ancient Secrets

Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome   You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list. The spells appear in the book and don't count against the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can't cast the spells except as rituals, unless you've learned them by some other means. You can also cast a warlock spell you know as a ritual if it has the ritual tag.   On your adventures, you can add other ritual spells to your Book of Shadows. When you find such a spell, you can add it to the book if the spell's level is equal to or less than half your warlock level (rounded up) and if you can spare the time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.  

Chains of Carceri

Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain   You can cast Hold Monster at will — targeting a celestial, fiend, or elemental — without expending a spell slot or material components. You must finish a long rest before you can use this invocation on the same creature again.  

Cloak of Flies

Prerequisite: 5th level   As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks like buzzing flies. The aura extends 5 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover. It lasts until you're incapacitated or you dismiss it as a bonus action.   The aura grants you advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks but disadvantage on all other Charisma checks. Any other creature that starts its turn in the aura takes poison damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).   Once you use this invocation, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Devil's Sight

  You can see normally in darkness, both magical and non-magical, to a distance of 120 feet.  

Dreadful Word

Prerequisite: 7th level   You can cast Confusion once using a warlock spell slot per long rest.  

Eldritch Sight

You can cast Detect Magic at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Eldritch Smite

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade   Once per turn when you hit a creature with your pact weapon, you can expend a warlock spell slot to deal an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, plus another 1d8 per level of the spell slot, and you can knock the target prone if it is Huge or smaller.  

Eldritch Spear

Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip   When you cast Eldritch Blast, its range is 300 feet.  

Eyes of the Rune Keeper

You can read all writing. You can comprehend any written word or symbol, should it hold any linguistic meaning.  

Fiendish Vigor

You can cast False Life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.  

Gaze of Two Minds

You can use your action to touch a willing humanoid and perceive through its senses until the end of your next turn. As long as the creature is on the same plane of existence as you, you can use your action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn. While perceiving through the other creature's senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings.  

Ghostly Gaze

Prerequisite: 7th level   As an action, you gain the ability to see through solid objects to a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you have darkvision if you don't already have it. This special sight lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). During that time, you perceive objects as ghostly, transparent images.   Once you use this invocation, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Gift of the Depths

Prerequisite: 5th level   You can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.   You can also cast Water Breathing once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.  

Gift of the Ever-Living Ones

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain   Whenever you regain hit points while your familiar is within 100 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you.  

Grasp of Hadar

Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip   Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Eldritch Blast, you can move that creature in a straight line 10 feet closer to you.  

Improved Pact Weapon

Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade   You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.   In addition, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is a magic weapon that already has a bonus to those rolls.   Finally, the weapon you conjure can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.  

Lance of Lethargy

Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip   Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Eldritch Blast, you can reduce that creature's speed by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.  

Lifedrinker

Prerequisite: 12th level, Pact of the Blade   When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).  

Maddening Hex

Prerequisite: 5th level, Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses   As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex spell or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade's Curse or Sign of Ill Omen. When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the cursed target and each creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of it. The psychic damage equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 damage). To use this invocation, you must be able to see the cursed target, and it must be within 30 feet of you.  

Mask of Many Faces

You can cast Disguise Self at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Master of Myriad Forms

Prerequisite: 15th level   You can cast Alter Self at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Minions of Chaos

Prerequisite: 9th level   You can cast Conjure Elemental once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.  

Mire the Mind

Prerequisite: 5th level   You can cast Slow once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.  

Misty Visions

You can cast Silent Image at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.  

One With Shadows

Prerequisite: 5th level   When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to become invisible until you move or take an action or a reaction.  

Otherworldly Leap

Prerequisite: 9th level   You can cast Jump on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.  

Relentless Hex

Prerequisite: 7th level, Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses   As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of the target cursed by your hex spell or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade's Curse or Sign of Ill Omen. To teleport in this way, you must be able to see the cursed target.  

Repelling Blast

Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip   When you hit a creature with Eldritch Blast, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.  

Sculptor of Flesh

Prerequisite: 7th level   You can cast Polymorph once using a warlock spell slot per long rest.  

Shroud of Shadow

Prerequisite: 15th level   You can cast Invisibility at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Sign of Ill Omen

Prerequisite: 5th level   You can cast Bestow Curse once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.  

Thief of Five Fates

You can cast Bane once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.  

Thirsting Blade

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade   You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.  

Tomb of Levistus

Prerequisite: 5th level   As a reaction when you take damage, you can entomb yourself in ice, which melts away at the end of your next turn. You gain 10 temporary hit points per warlock level, which take as much of the triggering damage as possible. Immediately after you take the damage, you gain vulnerability to fire damage, your speed is reduced to 0, and you are incapacitated. These effects, including any remaining temporary hit points, all end when the ice melts.   Once you use this invocation, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Trickster's Escape

Prerequisite: 7th level   You can cast Freedom of Movement once on yourself without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.  

Visions of Distant Realms

Prerequisite: 15th level   You can cast Arcane Eye at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Voice of the Chain Master

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain   You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and perceive through your familiar's senses as long as you are on the same plane of existence. Additionally, while perceiving through your familiar's senses, you can also speak through your familiar in your own voice, even if your familiar is normally incapable of speech.  

Whispers of the Grave

Prerequisite: 9th level   You can cast Speak With Dead at will, without expending a spell slot.  

Witch Sight

Prerequisite: 15th level   You can see the true form of any shapechanger or creature concealed by illusion or transmutation magic while the creature is within 30 feet of you and within line of sight.