Warlock

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Overview & Creation

PHB, Pgs. 106-111
Pact of the Deck Original Credit: Saequis
Voice of a Thousand Credit: Reworked from The Revenant Soul by PizzaMelody

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Class Features

Otherworldly Patron

  At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice: The Fiend.
Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

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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, 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 these spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st through 5th level, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended Pact Magic 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, 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.

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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. 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.

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Pact Boon

At your 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 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 make one attack of its own with its reaction.

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 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 three needn't be from the same 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. If they don't appear on the warlock spell list, they are nonetheless warlock spells 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.

Pact of the Deck (Advanced Players)

You use a deck of cards as your spellcasting focus. This is your pact deck, through which you channel your spells. The deck can be used in place of material components for spells if there is no cost and the materials are not consumed. You apply an additional +5 to all ability checks relating to card games.

Every time you cast a warlock spell of 1st level or higher, including those attained through invocations, draw and discard a number of cards from your pact deck equal to the spell level. If at least two of the cards are aces, you cast the spell without expending a spell slot. If at least one of the cards is a joker, you cast the spell and roll for an effect on the Wild Magic Surge table. Instead of regaining sorcery points on a roll of 99-00, you regain an expended spell slot. Shuffle the discard pile back into the remaining deck after each long rest - this is the only time the two piles are brought together. If you run out of cards, your spellcasting reverts to its original format, and you experience none of the effects granted by your pact deck features that require you to discard cards.

You are proficient with using throwing cards from your pact deck as weapons, separate from your spells. They are one-handed, thrown finesse weapons with a range of 30/60 feet. As a bonus action, you can draw and discard a card from your deck, and make a ranged attack against a target. Its suit and face value determine its effect. You are able to do this a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and regain expended uses after a long rest. You do not need to recover the cards after a battle, they simply get transferred to your discard pile.

The face value of the cards 2-10 represent the damage the card deals on a successful hit. The damage type depends on its suit. The ace and the face cards have their own unique effects instead of inflicting damage. On a critical hit, draw and discard two cards, and throw both.

Suit	Damage Type
Spades	Slashing
Hearts	Fire
Clubs	Force
Diamonds	Cold

Value	Effect
Ace	The target is vulnerable to a damage type of your choice until the end of your next turn
2-10	Damage
Jack	The target’s movement is halved until the end of its next turn as small spikes appear at its feet
Queen	Draw and throw another card, choosing any damage type for the attack
King	The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone
Joker	Roll for an effect on the Wild Magic Surge table

You are able to dismiss your pact deck to an extradimensional space, and summon it to your hand at any time. If the deck is destroyed, you can meditate over a traditional deck of cards over a short rest, and roll 1d20. On a roll of 10 or higher, the deck is transformed into your new spell deck. On a roll of 1, the deck is destroyed.

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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.

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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.

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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

• A light Crossbow and 20 Bolts or any simple weapon
• A component pouch or an arcane focus
• A Scholar's pack or a Dungeoneer's pack
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

 

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Spellcasting

Choose two cantrips: Chill Touch, Mage Hand, Minor Illusion, Prestidigitation, True Strike

Select two 1st level spells: Charm Person, Comprehend Languages, Expeditious Retreat, Illusory Script, Protection from Evil and Good, Unseen Servant
You possess one use per Short or Long Rest.

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Subclass Options

Otherworldly Patron's

 

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The Fiend

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.

Expanded Spell List

The Fiend lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you:

Spell Level	Spells
1st	burning hands, command
2nd	blindness/deafness, scorching ray
3rd	fireball, stinking cloud
4th	fire shield, wall of fire
5th	flame strike, hallow

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 Charisma modifier + your warlock level (minimum of 1).

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.

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.

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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The Voice of A Thousand

The soul is timeless and eternal. Many believe there is a place souls reside outside of the mortal world, but sometimes, there are strong forces that pull them back or keep them here. By some means, you have found yourself bound to these souls and carry blessings and curses from them being with you.

Expanded Spell List

The Voice of a Thousand lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you:

Spell Level	Spells
1st	Command, Shield of Faith
2nd	Blindness/Deafness, Spiritual Weapon
3rd	Bestow Curse, Speak with Dead
4th	Death Ward, Locate Creature
5th	Geas, Raise Dead

Past Life

As you spend more and more time with the Voices you find that you can filter through them and hear individuals. At 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, and 16th level you gain a greater ability to filter voices at will, increasing your skills based on who you focus on. Until you gain the skills to filter voices effectively (7th Level), spells cast are rolled at a disadvantage from the distraction of The Voices:

Level	# Of voices
1st	1
4th	2
7th	3
10th	4
13th	5
16th	6

 

Unyielding Soul

Possessing a connection to the souls of others allows you to be possessed and compelled to live after death. Starting at 6th level you now add your charisma modifier (minimum of 1) to your death-saving throws, and critical hits received while unconscious become normal hits. If you die you may come back to life at the expense of -1 to a base stat of your choice. You then return to life after 1d12 days.

Multi-Layered Soul

You've gained the ability to "wear" souls like armor through mental training. At 10th level you become immune to poison condition and are resistant to poison damage. Additionally, your unarmored defense is 5+your Charisma and Constitution modifiers. 

Eldritch Invocations

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.
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.
Blinds Up Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Deck As an action and using your concentration for up to 1 minute, you can send cards from your pact deck to spin around the head of a creature within 60 feet, like a zoetrope. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, they do not notice the movement of any creature they can see, instead perceiving it as the creature moving on the spot. A creature reveals its new position if it attacks the target. The target cannot make an opportunity attack against a creature that moves out of its melee range while the effect is active. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. You regain the use of this feature after a short rest.	Bluff Prerequisites: Pact of the Deck You can attempt to conceal your spellcasting by performing card flourishes. Make a Charisma (Performance) check to disguise any verbal or somatic components as you cast the spell, against the Passive Perception of each of those who you are attempting to deceive. On a success they are unaware that you have cast a spell. The +5 bonus to card-related checks does not apply to this feature.	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 two needn't be from the same 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.
Card Sharp Prerequisites: 12th level, Pact of the Deck You can arrange your pact deck into a fan of keen-edged cards. As an action, draw five cards from your pact deck and choose a target within 5 feet. The target must make a Charisma saving throw. It takes magical slashing damage equal to the total of the face values (1-13) on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. If at least two aces are drawn, you can use this feature again before a long rest. If at least one joker is drawn, roll for an effect on the Wild Magic Surge table and total the remaining card values to determine damage. Discard the cards once the attack has been made. You regain the use of this feature after a long rest.	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.	Damage Dealer Prerequisites: 7th level, Pact of the Deck When you draw a throwing card of face value three or lower, you may draw another and throw the new card instead. Discard both cards.
Devils Sight You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.	Diviner Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Deck You are able to read your pact deck to predict the actions of your opponents. On your turn in combat, you can slow your movement to 0 feet to take a reading. Draw five cards, and return them in any order to the top of your deck. All opponents have disadvantage on their attacks against you until your next turn. You regain the use of this feature after a long rest.	Dreadful Word Prerequisite: 7th level You can cast confusion once using a warlock spell slot.You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Sight You can cast detect magic at will, without expending a spell slot.	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.
Fiendish Vigor You can cast false life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.	Fresh Hand Prerequisites: 7th level, Pact of the Deck As a bonus action, draw a card from your pact deck. Regain a spell slot by discarding every card of this suit left in your deck. If you draw a joker, you do not regain a spell slot, and must shuffle any discarded jokers back into your deck. You regain the use of this feature after a short rest.	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.
House of Cards Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Deck As an action and using your concentration up to 1 minute, you can create a 15-foot cube of cards centred on a creature of size large or smaller, within a range of 60 feet. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be trapped until the effect ends. The trapped target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. The cards are impenetrable from both the inside and the outside. You regain the use of this feature after a long rest.	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).	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 the 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.
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. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.	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.
Suit of Armor Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Deck As a bonus action, you are able to surround yourself with a protective layer of cards. Draw and discard a card from your pact deck. For one hour, you gain temporary hit points equal to the face value of the card (1-13) and resistance to the damage type represented by its suit. If you draw a joker, discard it and draw another card - the effect targets the nearest creature to you. You regain the use of this feature after a short rest.	Swindle Prerequisites: Pact of the Deck You can attempt to sneak a card from your discard pile back into your pact deck. As a bonus action, make a Sleight of Hand check against DC 10. Every time you attempt this, the DC increases by 5, and resets to 10 after a long rest. On a success, your patron doesn’t notice your con, and you can move a card of your choice from the discard pile to anywhere in your pact deck. On a failure, you are caught, stunned until the end of your next turn, and your patron compels you to shuffle any jokers in your discard pile back into your pact deck.	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.	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.
Warped Limits Prerequisites: 9th level, Pact of the Deck Your spells with a base range of ‘Touch’ can be cast with a range of 60 feet.	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.

 

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