Warlock

Your patron is a phoenix which has survived thousands of years of pursuit. This being has settled on the elemental plane of fire, and is so suffused with magical energy that its powerful magic can be siphoned through rituals, even on the innermost planes.

Would-be Warlocks who make contact with an ancient phoenix are accidentally exposed to the raw life energy infused into a phoenix's essence. This change to the composition of your soul causes minor incompatibilities with its vessel. You may roll or choose from the following quirks to add manifestations of this change to your character.

The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Starting when you choose this patron at 1st level, you can unleash the phoenix fire that blazes within you.

As an action, you wreathe yourself in swirling flame and your eyes glow like hot coals. You gain the benefits below until you use your bonus action to end the effect or you are incapacitated:

Starting at 6th level, you can invoke a protective, fiery gale around yourself. When you are attacked or you must make a saving throw against an effect that only deals damage, you can use your reaction to move 5 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. If your new location is outside of the range or reach of the attack or effect, the attack roll has disadvantage, or you have advantage on your save.

Starting at 10th level, in the face of defeat, your flame knits your wounds and surges outward in a fiery roar.

If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can draw upon the phoenix's spark. You are instead restored to half of your maximum hit points, and creatures within 10 feet of you take fire damage equal to your warlock level + your spellcasting ability modifier.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, you can manifest one of your patron's feathers to sear your foes, heal your allies, and even restore life.

As an action, you conjure a phoenix pinion in a free hand. This pinion can be used once before crumbling to ashes, and you can use it in one of the following ways:

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest. If you have a pinion at that time, it disintegrates.

Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey, a creature of legend who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races were born. This being's motivations are often inscrutable, and sometimes whimsical, and might involve a striving for greater magical power or the settling of age-old grudges. Beings of this sort include the Prince of Frost; the Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the Gloaming Court; Titania of the Summer Court; her consort Oberon, the Green Lord; Hyrsam, the Prince of Fools; and ancient hags.

Starting at 6th level, you can vanish in a puff of mist in response to harm. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible and teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You remain invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Beginning at 10th level, your patron teaches you how to turn the mind-affecting magic of your enemies against them. You are immune to being charmed, and when another creature attempts to charm you, you can use your reaction to attempt to turn the charm back on that creature. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be charmed by you for 1 minute or until the creature takes any damage.

Starting at 14th level, you can plunge a creature into an illusory realm. As an action, choose a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. It must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute or until your concentration is broken (as if you are concentrating on a spell). This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage.

Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a misty realm, the appearance of which you choose. The creature can see and hear only itself, you, and the illusion.

You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.

Your patron is a powerful being of the Upper Planes. You have bound yourself to an ancient empyrean, solar, ki-rin, unicorn, or other entity that resides in the planes of everlasting bliss. Your pact with that being allows you to experience the barest touch of the holy light that illuminates the multiverse.

Being connected to such power can cause changes in your behavior and beliefs. You might find yourself driven to annihilate the undead, to defeat fiends, and to protect the innocent. At times, your heart might also be filled with a longing for the celestial realm of your patron, and a desire to wander that paradise for the rest of your days. But you know that your mission is among mortals for now, and that your pact binds you to bring light to the dark places of the world.

Starting at 6th level, your link to the Celestial allows you to serve as a conduit for radiant energy. You have resistance to radiant damage, and when you cast a spell that deals radiant or fire damage, you can add your Charisma modifier to one radiant or fire damage roll of that spell against one of its targets.

Starting at 10th level, you gain temporary hit points whenever you finish a short or long rest. These temporary hit points equal your warlock level + your Charisma modifier. Additionally, choose up to five creatures you can see at the end of the rest. Those creatures each gain temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level + your Charisma modifier.

Starting at 14th level, the radiant energy you channel allows you to resist death. When you have to make a death saving throw at the start of your turn, you can instead spring back to your feet with a burst of radiant energy. You regain hit points equal to half your hit point maximum, and then you stand up if you so choose. Each creature of your choice that is within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage equal to 2d8 + your Charisma modifier, and it is blinded until the end of the current turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Your patron is a powerful being of the Upper Planes. You have bound yourself to an ancient empyrean, solar, ki-rin, unicorn, or other entity that resides in the planes of everlasting bliss. Your pact with that being allows you to experience the barest touch of the holy light that illuminates the multiverse.

Being connected to such power can cause changes in your behavior and beliefs. You might find yourself driven to annihilate the undead, to defeat fiends, and to protect the innocent. At times, your heart might also be filled with a longing for the celestial realm of your patron, and a desire to wander that paradise for the rest of your days. But you know that your mission is among mortals for now, and that your pact binds you to bring light to the dark places of the world.

The Celestial 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.

When you choose this patron at 1st level, you learn the light and sacred flame cantrips. They count as warlock cantrips for you, but they don't count against your number of cantrips known.

At lst level, you gain the ability to channel celestial energy to heal wounds. You have a pool of d8s that you spend to fuel this healing. The number of dice in the pool equals 1 + half of your warlock level, rounded down (minimum of 0). Your pool regains all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

As a bonus action, you can spend dice from the pool to heal one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The maximum number of dice you can spend at once equals your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of one die). Roll the dice you spend, add them together,and restore a number of hit points equal to the total.

Starting at 6th level, your link to the Celestial emblazons your soul with radiant energy, protecting you. You have resistance to radiant damage, and you are immune to poison and disease.

Starting at 10th level, the Celestial magic you wield circulates through you, reinforcing your healing abilities.

When the result of a Healing Light die you roll is below your proficiency bonus, you can replace the result with your proficiency bonus. Also, you and up to 5 creatures of your choice that can see you gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level + your spellcasting ability modifier whenever you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level,the radiant energy you channel exudes from your body, healing your allies and burning your foes.

At the start of each of your turns, you can roll a die from your pool of Healing light. Each creature of your choice within a 30-foot radius of you regains hit points equal to the amount rolled + half of your warlock level, and each other creature within the area must make a Constitution saving throw, taking radiant damage equal to the amount rolled + half your warlock level on a failed saving throw, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Your patron is one of the Chosen of Mystra: mortals of great power who serve Mystra, the mother of all magic. These mortals have been granted a portion of Mystra's divine essence - called spellfire - which they use to guard the Weave from disruption, preserving the status quo of magic among the realms. These chosen mortals, while extremely powerful, are not infallible themselves; they sometimes contract Warlocks to assist with their goals, granting them a small part of their silver flame in exchange.

Occasionally, warlocks of a Chosen of Mystra will receive missives from their patron, ordering them to investigate an event that might cause damage to the Weave. Such events might range from a ritual all the way to an act of the divine. Often, these events will be orchestrated purposely by an evil entity; however, it is still somewhat likely that a Wizard haphazardly creates a broken summoning circle. Work with your DM to determine such scenarios and explore them with your party.

The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

When you choose this patron at 1st level, you possess a fragment of Mystra's spellfire, a flame that protects you from compulsory effects.

At the start of each of your turns, or as an action, you can end one effect for yourself that is causing you to be charmed or frightened.

You can use this feature twice, and expended uses are replenished when you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 6th level, you can foil spells directed at you and steal the excess magical power shed by foiled spells for yourself.

When a spell targets only you, you can cast counterspell without expending a spell slot. You can add half your warlock level to the ability check you make for counterspell when you cast it in this way.

Also, when a spell fails within 60 feet of you, you can take a bonus action during your next turn to steal the spell for yourself. The spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots. You can cast the spell once as a warlock spell,using a warlock spell slot.

Once you use this bonus action, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again. A stolen spell is lost when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can project your vision and sense arcane energy.

You can cast clairvoyance without expending a spell slot. When cast via this feature, the spell's casting time is 1 action, and your vision through the sensor gains the effects of the detect magic spell.

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to project your spellfire outward, blasting your enemies.

As an action, you can create a line of silver arcane energy that resembles a spout of fire. Creatures in a line 90 feet long and 5 feet wide originating from you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your warlock spell save DC, taking 8d8 force damage on a failure, or half as much damage on a success. This damage bypasses resistance and immunity.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

You have plunged into a pact with the deeps. An entity of the ocean, the Elemental Plane of Water, or another otherworldly sea now allows you to draw on its thalassic power. Is it merely using you to learn about terrestrial realms, or does it want you to open cosmic floodgates and drown the world?

Perhaps you were born into a generational cult that venerates the Fathomless and its spawn. Or you might have been shipwrecked and on the brink of drowning when your patron's grasp offered you a chance at life. Whatever the reason for your pact, the sea and its unknown depths call to you.

Entities of the deep that might empower a warlock include krakens, ancient water elementals, godlike hallucinations dreamed into being by kuo-toa, merfolk demigods, and sea hag covens.

6th-level Fathomless feature

You are now even more at home in the depths. You gain resistance to cold damage. In addition, when you are fully submerged, any creature that is also fully submerged can understand your speech, and you can understand theirs.

6th-level Fathomless feature

Your Tentacle of the Deeps can defend you and others, interposing itself between them and harm. When you or a creature you can see takes damage while within 10 feet of the tentacle, you can use your reaction to choose one of those creatures and reduce the damage to that creature by 1d8. When you reach 10th level in this class, the damage reduced by the tentacle increases to 2d8.

10th-level Fathomless feature

You learn the spell Evard's black tentacles. It counts as a warlock spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of spells you know. You can also cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Whenever you cast this spell, your patron's magic bolsters you, granting you a number of temporary hit points equal to your warlock level. Moreover, damage can't break your concentration on this spell.

14th-level Fathomless feature

You can magically open temporary conduits to watery destinations. As an action, you can teleport yourself and up to five other willing creatures that you can see within 30 feet of you. Amid a whirl of tentacles, you all vanish and then reappear up to 1 mile away in a body of water you've seen (pond size or larger) or within 30 feet of it, each of you appearing in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the others.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You have made a pact with one of the rarest kinds of genie, a noble genie. Such entities rule vast fiefs on the Elemental Planes and have great influence over lesser genies and elemental creatures. Noble genies are varied in their motivations, but most are arrogant and wield power that rivals that of lesser deities. They delight in turning the table on mortals, who often bind genies into servitude, and readily enter into pacts that expand their reach.

You choose your patron's kind or determine it randomly, using the Genie Kind table.

6th-level Genie feature

You begin to take on characteristics of your patron's kind. You now have resistance to a damage type determined by your patron's kind: bludgeoning (dao), thunder (djinni), fire (efreeti), or cold (marid).

In addition, as a bonus action, you can give yourself a flying speed of 30 feet that lasts for 10 minutes, during which you can hover. You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

10th-level Genie feature

When you enter your Genie's Vessel via the Bottled Respite feature, you can now choose up to five willing creatures that you can see within 30 feet of you, and the chosen creatures are drawn into the vessel with you.

As a bonus action, you can eject any number of creatures from the vessel, and everyone is ejected if you leave or die or if the vessel is destroyed.

In addition, anyone (including you) who remains within the vessel for at least 10 minutes gains the benefit of finishing a short rest, and anyone can add your proficiency bonus to the number of hit points they regain if they spend any Hit Dice as part of a short rest there.

14th-level Genie feature

You entreat your patron to grant you a small wish. As an action, you can speak your desire to your Genie's Vessel, requesting the effect of one spell that is 6th level or lower and has a casting time of 1 action. The spell can be from any class's spell list, and you don't need to meet the requirements in that spell, including costly components; the spell simply takes effect as part of this action.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish 1d4 long rests.

Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known only in legends. Its motives are incomprehensible to mortals, and its knowledge so immense and ancient that even the greatest libraries pale in comparison to the vast secrets it holds. The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it. Entities of this type include Ghaunadar, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

At 6th level, you learn to magically ward yourself against attack and to turn an enemy's failed strike into good luck for yourself. When a creature makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on that roll. If the attack misses you, your next attack roll against the creature has advantage if you make it before the end of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it. You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of damage that you do.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to infect a humanoid's mind with the alien magic of your patron. You can use your action to touch an incapacitated humanoid. That creature is then charmed by you until a remove curse spell is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed from it, or you use this feature again.

You can communicate telepathically with the charmed creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence.

You have made your pact with a mysterious entity — a force manifested in sentient magic weapons carved from shadowstuff. The force behind these weapons can offer power to warlocks who form pacts with it. These warlocks - sometimes called hexblades - can weave this powerful dark magic into the world.

The Shadowforce 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.

Also at 1st level, you can imbue your weapons with a curse that seals victims' abilities.

While you wield a weapon or arcane focus, you can emblazon it with intricate runes that form a wicked, sealing curse - the Hexblade's Curse. While you wield this emblazoned item, you can force a creature you hit with a weapon or spell attack to succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be cursed with the Hexblade's Curse for 1 minute. A creature can only be forced to make this saving throw once per turn.

As powerful hexes hamper its abilities, the creature cursed by your Hexblade's Curse must roll a d4 and subtract it from any ability checks,attack rolls,or saving throws it makes.

Once you've cursed a creature with this feature, you can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 6th level, you weave shadowy magic around your body, protecting you from attacks.

When you are hit with an attack, you can use your reaction to activate your protective shroud, which lasts until the start of your next turn. If you do, roll a d6 whenever an attack hits you, including during the triggering attack; on a 4 or higher, the attack instead misses you.

Once you have used this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can bind the souls of the slain to your service, weaving them into a shadowy form.

When you slay a creature, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter, the statistics for which are in the Monster Manual. When the specter appears, it takes the form of a shadowy, panther-like creature, and it gains temporary hit points equal to twice your warlock level plus your spellcasting ability modifier. Roll initiative for the specter, which has its own turns. The specter remains in your service until the end of your next long rest, at which point it vanishes to the afterlife.

It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you), and it gains a special bonus to its AC and saving throws, as well as to its attack and damage rolls. This bonus is equal to your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of +0).

Once you bind a specter with this feature, you can't use the feature again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, your curse becomes more persistent and grants you further benefits.

You can now curse other creatures with your Hexblade's Curse while the curse is in effect. If you do, the curse ends on the previous creature,and the curse's remaining duration carries over.

Additionally, you gain the following benefits against creatures afflicted by your Hexblade's Curse:

You've made a pact with a deathless being, a creature that defies the cycle and life and death, forsaking its mortal shell so it might eternally pursue its unfathomable ambitions. For such beings, time and morality are fleeting things, the concerns of those for whom grains of sand still rush through life's hourglass. Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient undead know firsthand the paths of ambition and the routes past the doors of death. They eagerly share this profane knowledge, along with other secrets, with those who work their will among the living.

Beings of this type include the demilich Acererak, the vampire tyrant Kas the Bloody-Handed, the githyanki lich-queen Vlaakith, the dracolich Dragotha, the undead pharaoh Ankhtepot, and the elusive Darklord, Azalin Rex.

6th-level Undead feature

Your patron's powers have a profound effect on your body and magic. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

In addition, once during each of your turns, when you hit a creature with an attack roll and roll damage against the creature, you can replace the damage type with necrotic damage. While you are using your Form of Dread, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the necrotic damage the target takes.

10th-level Undead feature

Your connection to undeath and necrotic energy now saturates your body. You have resistance to necrotic damage. If you are transformed using your Form of Dread, you instead become immune to necrotic damage.

In addition, when you would be reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to drop to 1 hit point instead and cause your body to erupt with deathly energy. Each creature of your choice that is within 30 feet of you takes necrotic damage equal to 2d10 + your warlock level. You then gain 1 level of exhaustion. Once you use this reaction, you can't do so again until you finish 1d4 long rests.

14th-level Undead feature

Your spirit can become untethered from your physical form. As an action, you can project your spirit from your body. The body you leave behind is unconscious and in a state of suspended animation.

Your spirit resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game statistics but not your possessions. Any damage or other effects that apply to your spirit or physical body affects the other. Your spirit can remain outside your body for up to 1 hour or until your concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell). When your projection ends, your spirit returns to your body or your body magically teleports to your spirit's space (your choice).

While projecting your spirit, you gain the following benefits:

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Death holds no sway over your patron, who has unlocked the secrets of everlasting life, although such a prize—like all power—comes at a price. Once mortal, the Undying has seen mortal lifetimes pass like the seasons, like the flicker of endless days and nights. It has the secrets of the ages to share, secrets of life and death. Beings of this sort include Vecna, Lord of the Hand and the Eye; the dread Iuz; the lich-queen Vol; the Undying Court of Aerenal; Vlaakith, lich-queen of the githyanki; and the deathless wizard Fistandantilus.

In the Realms, Undying patrons include Larloch the Shadow King, legendary master of Warlock's Crypt, and Gilgeam, the God-King of Unther.

Starting at 6th level, you can give yourself vitality when you cheat death or when you help someone else cheat it. You can regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point) when you succeed on a death saving throw or when you stabilize a creature with spare the dying.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Beginning at 10th level, you can hold your breath indefinitely, and you don't require food, water, or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests.

In addition, you age at a slower rate. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.

When you reach 14th level, you partake some of the true secrets of the Undying. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your warlock level. Additionally, if you put a severed body part of yours back in place when you use this feature, the part reattaches.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.