Pact Option - The Staff

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Pact Boon

At 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 Staff

Your patron grants you a durable quarterstaff. You can use this staff as a spellcasting focus. You are considered proficient with this staff. Additionally, you learn the Shillelagh cantrip. This does not count against you number of cantrips known.

If you lose your staff, 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 staff. The staff turns to ash when you die.

Eldritch Invocations

Skilled Aegis

Prerequisite: Pact of the Staff feature

While wielding your staff, your unarmored armor class becomes 12 + your Charisma modifier. You cannot gain the benefits of a shield and gain the benefits of this invocation.

Willful Focus

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Staff feature

While wielding your staff, you can choose one skill that you are proficient with. You can treat rolls of 9 or lower as a 10 instead with that skill.

Elemental Channel

Prerequisite: 4th level, Pact of the Staff feature

Whenever you are hit by an attack that deals fire, cold, lightning, thunder, poison, or acid damage you can as a reaction absorb some of the elemental energy. On your next successful attack made with your staff you deal an additional 1d6 of the absorbed damage type.

Druidic Influence

Prerequisite: Pact of the Staff feature

Whenever you cast Shillelagh on your staff, the duration for Shillelagh becomes 1 hour.

Arcane Totem

Prerequisite: Pact of the Staff feature, 10th level

Whenever you cast Shillelagh on your staff, you can spend a spell slot as a reaction and change the damage die from 1d8 to 2d6.

Eldritch Strike

Prerequisute: 5th level, Pact of the Staff feature

Whenever you cast a spell or make an attack with your quarterstaff, you can make an additional attack with your staff as a bonus action.

Warding Staff

Prerequisite: 3rd level, Pact of the Staff feature

While wielding your staff you can cast Counterspell without expending a spell slot. You can't do so again until you take a short or long rest.

Infernal Rod

Prerequisite: 5th level, the Fiend patron, Pact of the Staff feature

While wielding your staff you can cast Fireball at 3rd level without expending a spell slot once per long rest.

Unfathomable Obelisk

Prerequisite: the Great Old One patron, Pact of the Staff feature

Whenever you succeed on an attack against a creature with your staff, you can as a reaction make a grappling check against the target as tentacles burst forth from your staff grabbing at the target.

Feywood Stave

Prerequisite: the Archfey patron, Pact of the Staff feature

While wielding your staff, whenever you attempt to cast a spell that charms a creature you may choose one additional target.

Hexstaff

Prerequisite: the Hex spell, Pact of the Staff feature

Whenever you attack a creature you have hexed with your staff you gain advantage on the first attack roll you make against them on your turn.