Warlock

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.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Beginning at 10th level, your patron teaches you how to turn the mind-affecting magic of your enemies against them. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

When a creature attempts to charm or frighten you, and you successfully resist the attempt, you can use your reaction to turn the effect back on that creature. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be charmed or frightened by you (the same as the original effect) 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 believes that 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.

Once you trap a creature in this illusion, you can't use this feature again until you finish a short or 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.

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.

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.

Your patron is an avatar of doom and death, a mysterious judge of mortal creatures which foresees their ends and ushers the passage of souls from one realm to the next. Such entities often reach into the world, sending spirits that take the form of animals to watch over a creature in anticipation of its impending demise.

Warlocks sworn to a Gatekeeper receive visions and whispers in their dreams, sending them on quests to defeat those who seek to cheat death through undeath or other imitations of mortality. Gatekeepers naturally detest intelligent undead, who possess the cunning to elude a timely demise, and expect their charges to strike these blasphemers down, whereas mindless undead such as skeletons and zombies are little more than stumbling automatons in their eyes.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to merge with your boundary companion. As a bonus action when your companion is sharing your space, your body assumes the form of your companion, and your companion disappears as though you dismissed it. While you are transformed, you undergo the following changes:

As an action, you can separate from your companion and return to your normal form, and your companion reappears in your space. You automatically separate from your companion if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

At 10th level, your patron grants you a protective blessing. You have advantage on death saving throws, and you gain resistance to necrotic damage.

Additionally, undead have difficulty harming you. If an undead targets you directly with an attack or a harmful spell, you can use your reaction to have that creature make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC (it needn't make the save when it includes you in an area effect, such as the explosion of fireball). On a failed save, you cannot be targeted by the creature with that attack or spell for its duration, potentially causing it to be wasted. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, you can use the power of your patron to bind a departing soul to your service. When you kill a hostile creature with one of your warlock spells, you can use your reaction to siphon its life essence, causing a doomshade to rise from the creature's space at the start of your next turn. This reaction has no effect when used on constructs or undead.

The doomshade appears as a shadowy approximation of the slain creature. It has the game statistics of a zombie, with the following modifications:

The doomshade is under your control and follows your verbal commands to the best of its ability. In combat, the doomshade shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. If it receives no commands from you, it attacks your foes indiscriminately. The doomshade vanishes when it is reduced to 0 hit points, when you die, or when you use this feature to create another doomshade.

Once you use this feature to create a doomshade, you can't do so again until you finish a short or 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.

At 6th level, 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.

Starting at 10th level, 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.

From 14th level, you can 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 a long rest.

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, you cause one of the following effects of your choice:

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you are immune to any effect that would sense your emotions or read your thoughts, you can't be compelled to tell the truth by magic, and magic that would determine if you are telling the truth indicates you are being truthful if you so choose.

Additionally, you 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. The charmed creature regards you fondly as its master, its superior, or as some other figure worthy of equivalent devotion and reverence.

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. The mighty sword Blackrazor is the most notable of these weapons, which have been spread across the multiverse over the ages. The shadowy force behind these weapons can offer power to warlocks who form pacts with it. Many hexblade warlocks create weapons that emulate those formed in the Shadowfell. Others forgo such arms, content to weave the dark magic of that plane into their spellcasting.

Because the Raven Queen is known to have forged the first of these weapons, many sages speculate that she and the force are one and that the weapons, along with hexblade warlocks, are tools she uses to manipulate events on the Material Plane to her inscrutable ends.

Starting at 6th level, you can curse the soul of a person you slay, temporarily binding it to your service. When you kill a humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter. When the specter appears, it gains temporary hit points equal to your warlock level.

The specter is friendly to you, indifferent to others, and obeys your verbal commands. In combat, the specter shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It gains a special bonus to its attack rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1).

The specter remains in your service until the end of your next long rest, at which point it vanishes to the afterlife.

Once you bind a specter with this feature, you can't use the feature again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a warlock spell slot to use it again.

At 10th level, your hex grows more powerful. If the target cursed by your Hexblade's Curse hits you with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to roll a d6. On a 4 or higher, the attack instead misses you, regardless of its roll.

Starting at 14th level, you gain complete control over the power of your fell curses. While a creature is cursed by your Hexblade's Curse, you can use a bonus action to transfer the curse to a different creature you can see within 30 feet of you, ending its effect on the previously cursed creature. You can also transfer the curse in this way as a reaction when the cursed creature dies; if you do so, you don't regain hit points from the death of the previously cursed creature.

You have plunged into a pact with an entity that lurks somewhere deep in the ocean, or even on the Elemental Plane of Water, such as a mighty kraken, an ancient primordial, or a monstrous being from creation's earliest days that 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 Leviathan 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, and you serve as your patron's eyes and ears, watching the world beyond its domain and reporting your findings.

At 6th level, your patron grants you abilities to exert greater control of the deep. You gain resistance to cold damage. In addition, while you are underwater, you can speak clearly, your speech is understood by any creature within 120 feet of you that is also underwater, and you can understand their speech.

Finally, your Grasp of the Deep feature 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.

At 10th level, you learn to magically draw forth your patron's ageless hunger and loose it upon your enemies. As an action, you choose a point you can see within 60 feet of you, and a manifestation of your patron appears in a 20-foot cube centered on that point. The manifestation lasts for 1 minute and turns its area into difficult terrain, and any creature that enters the manifestation's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there takes 2d6 acid, cold, or lightning damage (your choice each time it takes damage).

When the manifestation appears, each creature within its area must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be restrained until the manifestation ends. A creature restrained by the manifestation can use its action to repeat the saving throw, freeing itself on a success. At the start of your turn, if a creature is currently restrained by the manifestation, you gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level.

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

The appearance of the manifestation reflects some aspect of your patron. For example, you could conjure a writhing mass of tentacles, a maze of watery tendrils, the gaping maw of a giant lamprey, a swarm of razor-shelled crustaceans, or some other form entirely.

At 14th level, you can implore your patron directly for aid. As an action, you can call upon your patron to create a small tear in reality through which it unleashes a measure of its thalassic grandeur. This measure takes the form of one of the following effects of your choice:

Regardless of your choice, once you call upon your patron, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Your patron is an entity formed from the manifestation of ancient words of power, commonly known as a Logos. These enigmatic beings are stewards of the powerful emotions brought forth by language spoken and silent, written and gestured, positive and negative. Many of the first Logos came into existence as living scriptures of divine worship or as the sentient consciousness of an arcane grimoire, while others serve as mighty guardians of magical lore, jealously presiding over vast archives and ancient libraries hidden across the multiverse.

The Logos hone the power of magical incantations founded upon words of special significance, and your pact with such an entity reflects this. Those who strike bargains with a Logos find great value in channeling this magic, weaving words of formulaic eloquence to bring safety and salvation to their allies and despair and destruction upon their enemies.

Starting at 6th level, you can manifest the magical potential of creation to crush the hearts and minds of your enemies. As an action, you utter words of power and create a field of magical energy in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of you. The field lasts for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated, and its area is filled with dim light.

Each creature of your choice within the field when it appears must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature's mind is filled with magical incantations for the field's duration, during which time the creature is deafened and cannot speak or cast spells that include a verbal component. If an affected creature ends its turn within the field, the incantations intensify and deal 2d8 psychic or radiant damage (your choice when you create the field) to the creature.

An affected creature that ends its turn outside the field can repeat the Wisdom saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Once you create this field, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 10th level, the words woven into your magic induce ecstasy and dismay in whomever they reach. When you cast a warlock spell that deals damage, you can invoke additional words of power to modify it in the following ways:

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, you can exploit negative emotions to bind an enemy's body and mind with but a single utterance. When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, misses with an attack roll, or fails an ability check or saving throw, you can use your reaction to speak your patron's name and call forth their power upon that creature. If the creature can hear you, it must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, the creature is paralyzed until the end of its next turn. On a success, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

Once a creature fails its saving throw against your use of this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or 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 infamous vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich.

While you may seek to gain knowledge from your patron's countless lifetimes of experience, it may see you as a piece of a centuries-long plan. For such beings, time and morality are fleeting things, the concerns of those for whom grains of sand still rush through life's hourglass.

At 6th level, your patron's powers begin having a profound effect on your body. You no longer need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, although you still require rest.

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

At 10th level, your connection to undeath and necrotic energy now saturates your body. You have resistance to necrotic damage, and 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.

In addition, when you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can cause your body to explode, and each creature within 30 feet of you takes necrotic damage equal to 2d10 + your warlock level. You then revive with 1 hit point in your previous space, along with your gear, and you suffer a level of exhaustion. Once you revive in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, your body is now simply a vessel for your spirit. 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, and your spirit can remain outside your body for up to 1 hour or until your concentration ends (as if you were 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.