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## Warlock Tweaks

### Entreat Patron
Once per day,  warlocks can spend a minute in concentration entreating their patron for power. At the end of the minute, they gain the benefits of the short rest for the purposes of regaining class features, such as Pact casting. This ritual fails if any spells they have cast are still in effect when they start they start the ritual. After doing so, taking a short rest does not allow them to regain any uses of their class features until their next long rest.

### Pact Magic

#### Spell list:
You gain [Warlock Homebrew Spells](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-L1uZZBi0NS3Z-NqnIRP). Remove Poison Spray and Toll the Dead  from the warlock cantrip list.

#### Eldritch Powers
You know one Eldritch Power of your choice from the warlock spell list. An Eldritch Power  is a spell that can be cast at will, without using a spell slot and without being prepared in advance. Your patron has gifted you the ability to produce the effect over and over. A Eldritch Power’s spell level is 0.

### Eldritch Mastery
At 2nd level, your patron has invested in you more power, which manifests in improvements to your Eldritch Powers. You gain an benefit depending on the power you chose:

**Sundering Blade.**  You gain proficency in medium armor. Your Eldritch blade can take the form of any weapon, and while wielding the weapon, you have advantage on concentration checks for your warlock spells. Additionally, if your weapon is charged, you gain the benefits of a shield.

**Agonizing Bolt.**  On a hit with your Eldritch Bolt, you add your charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.

**Calamitous Orb.** When a creature succeeds on a saving throw against your cantrips or Eldritch Power, the creature takes half the damage (if any) but suffers no additional effects. Additionally, each time you cast Eldritch Orb you choose one the following damage types and gain the corresponding benefit.
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| Type  | Benefit |
|:---:|:-----------:|
|  Force  |   On a failed save, creatures are pushed 5 feet away from the origin of the area of effect. If the it is centered on a creature, you choose.|
|  Lightning  | You can change the lighting of the area until the start or end of your next turn. You can also choose for the area to be heavily obscured. |
|  Thunder  |  A structure or nonmagical object that isn’t being worn or carried takes double damage if it’s in the spell's area. |
|  Radiant  | The area of effect increases by 5 feet. |
|  Psychic  | A cantrip you cast at that creature on your next turn deals additional psychic damage equal to its damage die. |
|  Necrotic  | If the target's remaining health is less than the damage the spell did, it is reduced to 0 hitpoints  |

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### Eldritch Powers

#### Eldritch Bolt
*Eldritch Power*

*(Same as Eldritch Blast)*

#### Eldritch Orb
*Eldritch Power*
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 60 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** 1 round.
___

You conjure an dark indigo ball of energy and hurl it a point within range where it silently detonates in a shadowy explosion. Each creature in a 5 foot diameter Sphere centered on that point must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 necrotic damage. When you cast the cantrip, you can hold back its power and charge it, concentrating the energy with both hands. On a subsequent turn you can spend your action to release it at a point within range or dispell the effect (no action required). The spells area of effect increases to a 10 ft diameter.

The spell's damage increases by 1d8 when your warlock level reaches 5th (2d8), 11th  (3d8), and 17th  (4d8).

#### Eldritch Blade
*evocation Cantrip*
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** Touch
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** Until dispelled.

You create a weapon in your empty hand that has the stats of a dagger and can be used as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. Use your spellcasting attack modifier for attack and damage rolls with this weapon. This spell ends if your *eldritch blade* is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also ends if you cast this spell again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die. When you cast a warlock spell that uses your eldritch blade as a material component, your blade becomes charged until the end of your next turn.

Using an action, you can make an melee attack with your blade against one creature within reach. On a hit, if your blade was charged, the target takes additional force damage equal to the spell slot level of the spell cast.

This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, and the force damage due to a charged blade increases to 1d8 + the spell slot level. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level and 17th level.

### Pact Boon

#### Pact of the Blade
*removed*

#### Pact of the Talisman

See: [Pact of the Talisman](https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/SJANpaJ3-)

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#### Pact of the Cauldron

See: [Pact of the Cauldron]()
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### Spells

#### Aftershock
*1st-level Evocation*

___
- **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action
- **Range:** self
- **Components:** V, M (any weapon)
- **Duration:** Concentration, up to one minute
___

You destabalize the lingering magical energies of a spell you cast earlier this turn to explode with one last spasm. This effect only occurs on a spell that damages creatures in an area of effect on a failed save. Creatures in the area of effect of that spell must make a dexterity saving throw or  take 1d6 force damage

On a subsequent turn, you can use your bonus action to destabilize another spell and repeat the effect.

#### Blood ward
*1st-level Necromancy*

___
- **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action
- **Range:** 5 feet
- **Components:** V
- **Duration:** Concentration, up to an hour
___

You place a blood ward on a creature that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, that creature has disadvantage on attack rolls to hit you.

Additionally, you gain 1d10 temporary hit points each time you hit a creature with an melee attack. You gain a bonus to your concentration check equal to the number of these temporary hitpoints you had before the triggering damage was applied.

If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to ward a new creature. A remove curse cast on the target ends this spell early. 
### Eldritch Invocations

At 2nd level, you gain **one** eldritch invocation of your choice. Remove all invocations with the blade pact prerequisite.

#### Apocryphal Orb

You can choose to cast your Eldritch orb with a range of self and increase the diameter of the area of effect by 10 feet.

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#### Summary

The changes to warlock are only in the first 3 levels, plus additional [homebrew spells](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-L-EAq8AAJGFPpiIQw9E) to fill the pact of the blade niche.

1. At level one you choose between one of the 3 "Eldritch Powers" and learn it. They are like cantrips but you can't learn these  any other way and they scale off warlock level. 
2. At level two, you gain "Eldritch Mastery," Which improves your cantrips overall. This replaces one of your invocations.
3. At level three, blade pact is replaced by Talisman pact (Peanut), and Cauldron pact (In Progress).

#### Notes 
The issue with warlocks is that:
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1. They present too few combat choies,
2. There are several instances where they allow you to choose between significant in-combat boosts and flavorful out of combat features. Agonizing blast and Eldritch blast are the prime examples of this.
3. They attempt to satisfy the gish niche through an pact, which is ill suited for the job as pacts don't have much combat budget and are more suited for fun OOC Utility. As a result to keep up with other martials they need additional invocation taxes. Then, if we spend every invocation on martial combat, we are a full casting martial.
4. EB shouldn't scale off player level. Its more of a class feature. You can't multiclass 2 levels in any other class and get the same amount of at-will DPR as the class you're multiclassing into.

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Our solution involves several changes to how warlocks work. Listed in no particular order:
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1. Supplement the warlock spell list with melee spell options, remove blade pact. We can prevent melee warlock from stepping on martials' shoes by giving them windows of strength via spellcasting. 
2. EB now scales off class level, but is given freely. (this amounts to a slight buff, a +1 cantrip)
3. Offer an alternative to EB, which is a blade pact cantrip, which retains the aesthetic of having a weapon. We can make blade pact cantrip competitive if we have people choose between EB and blade pact cantrip instead of giving both. Our implementation is designed to improve survivability and increase reliability of bladelock playstyle, which would otherwise be untenable.
4. Offer another alternative to EB, which is Eldritch Orb. This does less damage on average than EB but is more flexible and situationally stronger. It also improves the spell-slingy feel as it replaces what would be low spell slot AOE spell casts.
5. We do a simple damage buff to all cantrips (Potent spellcasting). This isn't a perfect solution, since EB scales multiplicatively at lvl 5 (100% increase in DPR) while the others will not (50% increase in DPR). In general though, this will improve the viability of other cantrips without increasing power creep by much  
6. EB is competitive at lvl 1 because of hex. Add in  other lvl 1 spells that synergize with other eldritch powers as well.

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#### Eldritch Bolt
*Evocation Cantrip*

___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 120 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** Until dispelled.

A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage.

The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.

#### Infectious Torment
*1st-level Transmutation*

- **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action
- **Range:** self
- **Components:** V, M (any weapon)
- **Duration:** Concentration, up to one hour.

A creature you can see has its head filled with mind-numbing murmurings of shame and torment. When you cast a spell that requires that creature to make a saving throw, each creature that fails the saving throw takes an additional 1d6 psychic damage. If this damage would cause a creature to make a concentration check, the creature has disadvantage on that concentration check.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd or 4th level, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 8 hours. When you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 24 hours

#### Spell Spasm
1?

- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** self
- **Components:** V, M (any weapon)
- **Duration:** 1 round

You destabalize the magical energies of your spellcasting to linger briefly before exploding with one last spasm.

Choose a spell of a spell level equal or lower that you can cast, that has a Casting Time of 1 action and has duration instantaneous. You cast that spell as part of casting Energy Inversion, expending Spell Slots for both.

The area effect of the spell is considered difficult terrain and lightly obscures the area. Any creatures that are in that area at the start of your next turn must make a dexterity saving throw or take an additional 2d10 damage of the corrosponding type according to this chart:

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd or higher damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 1st.

#### Greater Mirror Image
*4th

- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 20 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** one minute

#### Ghoulish touch
*5th lvl

- **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action
- **Range:** 5 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** one round

Make a melee spell attack against a creature you choose within range. On a hit, the target is paralyzed until the end of your turn.

#### Hold the line

#### Etheral Thrust

- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 60
- **Components:** V, M (a worm)
- **Duration:** instantaneous

You teleport to location within range and make a melee spell attack at a creature within 5 feet of you at advantage. On a hit, you deal 16d6 damage. The creauture is transported to the ethereal plane, and stunned

At the end of its next turn it reappears

#### Chains of Ichor

You can

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Instants: lvl2, lvl3,
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If you cast a spell that requires you to make a melee weapon attack as part of the action to cast the spell, you can substitute it for a melee spell attack
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### Changes/tweaks
You gain one Eldritch cantrip at lvl 1, and can choose to gain another one any time you get an additional cantrip

At level two, you gain "Potent Eldritch Cantrips." Depending on your selection, you gain different benefits:
 "You add your Charisma modifier to the damage you deal with any Eldritch Bolt
 "You gain advantage on your next melee attack against the target before the end of your next turn.
 "Eldritch Orb does half damage on a successful save."

Alternatively, build-your-own-eldritch-cantrip:

### Eldritch Blade v1
*cantrip, to be compared with EB with both evocations 
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 5 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** Until dispelled.

You create a weapon in your empty hand, which takes on the form of any melee weapon that don't have the Two-Handed or Heavy property. You can use your *eldritch blade* as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells and your spell attack modifier for attack rolls with this weapon.
 
This spell ends if your *eldritch blade* is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also ends if you cast this spell again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.

At 5th level, you attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action and attack with your Eldritch Blade on your turn. You ignore this benefit if you already have a feature, like Extra Attack, that gives you extra attacks. At 11th level, the attacks deal an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, increasing to 2d8 at 17th level.

> #### why this is no good:
- Competes with Fighter
- Too strong, makes your DPR on par with a full martial while you also have spells (and in particular now, all invocations)
- Allows for martial-like activites, good opportunity attacks, + any spell that requires an melee attack as part of the spell gets an heft bonus (double scaling from cantrips)

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### Eldritch Blade v2
*cantrip, to be compared with EB with both evocations 
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 5 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** Until dispelled.

You create a weapon in your empty hand, which takes on the form of any melee weapon. When you cast this spell, and as an action on your subsequent turns, you can make a melee spell attack against a target within 5 feet. On a hit, you deal 1d8 force damage and [ gain advantage on your next melee attack against the target before the end of your next turn. Additionally,] the target has disadvantage on its first attack against you before the end of its next turn.
[ You gain your spellcasting modifier in temporary hit points.]

The weapon can take whatever form you choose. Warlocks of patrons who are associated with a particular weapon [(as Great Old Ones are associated with tentacled flails, and Fiends with spiked maces)] make this spell’s effect resemble that weapon. You can use this weapon as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells and your spell attack modifier for attack rolls with this weapon. An attack with this weapon deals 1d8 force damage + your spellcasting ability modifier.

This spell ends if your *eldritch blade* is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also ends if you cast this spell again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.

The spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when your warlock level reaches 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
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Damage: Want it to do 1d8 scaling
OA/other attack: Want it to do 1d8 + no effects

So this gets a subtle lvl 3 boost because of the increased number of spells

starting to realize: invocation tax exists to make everything simpler. You gain the invocation

Justification for +1 invocation, because wizards was wrong about short rests.
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### Eldritch Orb

- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 120 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** 1 round.

You conjure an dark indigo ball of energy and hurl it a point within range where it silently detonates in a shadowy explosion. Each creature in a 10 foot diameter Sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, creatures take 1d4 force damage and are pushed 5 feet away from the center of the blast. When you cast the cantrip, you can hold back its power. On your next turn you expend your action and can release it at a point within range. Roll all the damage die twice and add them together.

The spell's damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).

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### Eldritch Orb

- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 120 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** 1 round.

You conjure an dark indigo ball of energy and hurl it a point within range where it silently detonates in a shadowy explosion. Each creature in a 5 foot diameter Sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, creatures take 1d10 force damage and are pushed 5 feet away from the center of the blast. When you cast the cantrip, you can hold back its power. On your next turn you expend your action and can release it at a point within range. The spells area of effect increases to a 10 foot diameter.

The spell's damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).

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#### Eldritch Orb
*Evocation Cantrip*

- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 60 feet
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** 1 round.

You conjure an dark indigo ball of energy and hurl it a point within range where it silently detonates in a shadowy explosion. Each creature in a 5 foot diameter Sphere centered on that point must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 necrotic damage. When you cast the cantrip, you can hold back its power and charge it, concentrating the energy into a free hand. On a subsequent turn you can spend your action to release it at a point within range or dispell the effect. The spells area of effect increases to a 10 foot diameter.

The spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

### Invocations:

**Calamitous Orb.** At level 2, each time you cast the spell you choose one the following damage types:
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