Fiend Patron: Pact of the Tome

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Overview & Creation

You have made a pact with a fiend from the lower planes of existence, a being whose aims are evil, even if you strive against those aims. Such beings desire the corruption or destruction of all things, ultimately including you. Fiends powerful enough to forge a pact include demon lords such as Demogorgon, Orcus, Fraz’Urb-luu, and Baphomet; archdevils such as Asmodeus, Dispater, Mephistopheles, and Belial; pit fiends and balors that are especially mighty; and ultroloths and other lords of the yugoloths.

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Class Features

Expanded Spell List

Spell Level
1	Burning Hands	Searing Smite
2	Scorching Ray	See Invisibility
3	Fireball	Stinking Cloud
4	Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum	Wall of Fire
5	Flame Strike	Hallow
7	Fire Storm

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That Which Ignites Your Passion

Starting at first level, you get Fire Bolt added to your warlock spells list. This does not count against your cantrips known and it acts like a warlock spell for you. You can earn bonuses to your firebolt cantrip if you both reach the bonus’s level in warlock AND you do not have the eldritch blast cantrip in your cantrips known list. These bonuses are added on top of the natural increase in damage dice. At level 5, you can add your charisma modifier to your damage roll with the spell. At level 11, the range of Fire Bolt increases to 150 ft. At level 17, you can target 2 enemies with Fire Bolt. Enemies that are set on fire are can be pushed or pulled 5 ft.  

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Dark One’s Blessing

        Starting at 1st level, when you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Prof mid + Charisma modifier + your warlock level (minimum of 1).

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Eldritch Invications

  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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.
      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.
      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.

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Pact of the Tome

  Level 3   Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose 1 Cantrip, 1 first level spell, and 1 first level spell that has the ritual tag (the three needn’t be from the same list). While the book is on your person, they don’t count against your number of cantrips or spells known. If they don’t appear on the warlock spell list, they are nonetheless warlock spells for you. The spell may only be cast as a ritual spell unless you get another way of casting the spell.
    Additionally, you can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. 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 to your proficiency modifier 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.
    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.

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ASI or Feat

  Levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19 You may Choose to put 2 plus 1's each into 2 abilitiy scores, Put both plus 1's in 1 ability score, or Take a feat from the feats list.

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The Gift I Give To You

    At level 5, you may regen 1 spell slot with a call to your patron. You channel for 1 minute dropping any spells you are concentrating on. You may still cast spells, but concentration will not hold. Attacks will not stop your channel, but dropping to 0 hit points will stop the channel and you miss out on it. You may do this once per long rest. You may only channel to regenerate a used spell slot. You may not channel to get more spell slots than warlock has at that level.

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Dark One’s Own Luck

      Starting at 6th level, you can call on your patron to alter fate in your favor. When you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use this feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll’s effects occur. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

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Fiendish Resilience

    Starting at 10th level, you can choose one damage type when you finish a short or long rest. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature. Damage from magical weapons or silver weapons ignores this resistance.

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Mystic Arcanum (6th)

  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.

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Mystic Arcanum (7th)

    At 13th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 7th-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 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.

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Hurl Through Hell

    Starting at 14th level, when you hit a creature with an attack, you can use this feature to instantly transport the target through the lower planes. The creature disappears and hurtles through a nightmare landscape. At the end of your next turn, the target returns to the space it previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied space. If the target is not a fiend, it takes 10d10 psychic damage as it reels from its horrific experience. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

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No Refunds on Gifts

    At level 14, you get the ability to channel it to regenerate 2 spells. You may also channel to get your 6th level Arcanum slot back. This is a separate channel. Both instances can be used once per long rest. Again, you may only use this to regenerate the spell slots.

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Mystic Arcanum (8th)

    At 15th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 8th-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 17th level, you gain a 9th-level warlock spell of your choice that can be cast in this way. You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a long rest.

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Mystic Arcanum (9th)

  At 17th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 9th-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.
      You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a long rest.

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Can't Turn Back Now

  At level 20 you may channel to regen all 4 spell slots back. You can do this once per long rest. After this, you may still channel to get regen 2 spell slots back. This may happen once per Long rest. You may also regenerate your 6th and 7th arcanum slots. Those are individual channels and come back on a long rest. These all may only be used to regenerate your spell slots and not to add spell slots

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (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

 

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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. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the warlock spell list.
      Cantrips You know two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn additional warlock cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Warlock table.
        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. For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell witch bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell.
      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, so 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 (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

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