Sworn and Beholden

A warlock is defined by a pact with an otherworldly being. Sometimes the relationship between warlock and patron is like that of a cleric and a deity, though the beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are not gods. A warlock might lead a cult dedicated to a demon prince, an archdevil, or an utterly alien entity—beings not typically served by clerics. More often, though, the arrangement is similar to that between a master and an apprentice. The warlock learns and grows in power, at the cost of occasional services performed on the patron’s behalf.

Delvers into Secrets

Warlocks are driven by an insatiable need for knowledge and power, which compels them into their pacts and shapes their lives. This thirst drives warlocks into their pacts and shapes their later careers as well.

Stories of warlocks binding themselves to fiends are widely known. But many warlocks serve patrons that are not fiendish. Sometimes a traveler in the wilds comes to a strangely beautiful tower, meets its fey lord or lady, and stumbles into a pact without being fully aware of it. And sometimes, while poring over tomes of forbidden lore, a brilliant but crazed student’s mind is opened to realities beyond the material world and to the alien beings that dwell in the outer void.

Once a pact is made, a warlock’s thirst for knowledge and power can’t be slaked with mere study and research. No one makes a pact with such a mighty patron if he or she doesn’t intend to use the power thus gained. Rather, the vast majority of warlocks spend their days in active pursuit of their goals, which typically means some kind of adventuring. Furthermore, the demands of their patrons drive warlocks toward adventure.

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

Spell Points

The Warlock table shows how many Spell Points you have to the warlock spells you know 1st-level and higher. To cast a warlock spell, you must spend the amount of Spell Points indicated in the table below. You regain all of your expended Spell Points each time you finish a short or long rest.

For example, as a 3rd level sorcerer, you can cast the spell witch bolt at 2nd-level by spending 3 Sorcery Points.

Spells Known of 1st-level and Higher

At 1st level, you learn two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list. Refer to the Spells Known column of the Warlock table to see when you learn additional warlock spells. Each spell you learn must be of a level equal to your Spell Limit or lower. For instance, when you reach 3rd level, you can learn one new sorcerer spell of 1st or 2nd-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 equal to your Spell Limit or lower.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use Charisma when a spell refers to your spellcasting ability, when setting the saving throw DC for a spell, or when you make a spell attack roll for one of your warlock spells.

Pact of The Chain

Your patron bestows upon you a bonded familiar.

You learn the find familliar spell and you can cast it as a ritual. It counts as a warlock spell for you, but doesn't count against your total 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, any familliar you summon is granted a shard of your eldritch power and is gains the following benefits:

• Your familiar's hit point maximum increases by a number of hit points equal to your warlock level
• As a bonus action, you can command the familiar to take the Attack action
• Your familiar can use your proficiency bonus, in place of its own, such as for attacks and skills

Pact of The Tome

Your patron bestows upon you a grimoire called the Book of Shadows.

Choose one of the following classes: bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, or wizard. You learn two cantrips and two 1st-level spells from that class's spell list, which don't count towards your total number of Spells Known.

Whenever you learn a warlock spell, you can choose to learn a spell from the warlock spell list or your chosen class's spell list. If a spell you know does not appear in the warlock spell list, it must be written within your Book of Shadows, and you can cast it as normal spell while you have the book on your person. If your book is lost or destroyed, you can only cast spells which appear on the warlock spell list.

If a spell you know doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, it is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Pact of The Talisman

You patron bestows upon you a guiding talisman.

As an action, choose a creature within 60 feet. The target gains your talisman for 1 hour, and can add a d4 to ability checks and saving throws it makes within the duration. The talisman disappears from the target once it is used an amount of times equal to your proficiency bonus or the duration ends. Once the talisman disappears, it is recalled to your hand or to a place of your choice on your person.

If you attempt to apply your talisman to a new target while it is already targeting a creature, it disappears from the previous target and appears on the new target.

While your talisman is on your person, you can add a d4 to ability checks and saving throws you make a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Once you grant a creature your talisman, you must finish a long rest before the same creature can receive your talisman again.

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.

Mystic Arcanum

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you greater magic power called an Arcanum. Choose one warlock spell of 6th-level or lower to be your Arcanum spell. You can cast this spell once, at 6th-level, without expending Spell Points. Once you cast that Mystic Arcanum spell, you must complete a long rest before you can cast it again.

Your Mystic Arcanum doesn't count against your number of Spells Known. If you select a spell of 5th-level or lower to upcast as your Arcanum spell, it must also be a spell you know in order to cast it with Spell Points.

When you gain a warlock level, you can replace one of your Mystic Arcanums with another spell of your choice.

As you gain levels, your patron bestows upon you even more powerful Mystic Arcanum spells, as shown in the Warlock table: a 7th-level spell at 13th level, a 8th-level spell at 15th level, and a 9th-level spell at 17th level. You can cast each Mystic Arcanum spell once per long rest.

Master of Invocations

You have mastered the study of Eldritch Invocations through your study of occult lore. By 18th level, whenever you complete a long rest, you can replace one invocation you know with another invocation you could learn at that level.

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of mystical power and entreat your patron to restore your magical energy. For 1 minute, you can focus your mind and entreat your patron for aid, regaining all your expended Spell Points.

Additionally, when you finish a short rest, you regain your 6th-level and 7th-level Mystic Arcanums.

The Archfey

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.

The Celestial

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 to 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, 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.

Patron of the Sea

Starting at 1st level, your patron's connection to the dephts bestows upon you the gifts of the sea. You gain proficiency in the Navigator's tools.

Additionally, you gain a swimming speed of 40 feet, and you can breath underwater.

Patron Spells

You gain patron spells at the levels listed.

Tentacle of the Deep

At 1st level, you can magically summon a spectral tentacle that strikes at your foes. As a bonus action, you create a 10-foot-long tentacle at a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The tentacle lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature to create another tentacle.

When you create the tentacle, you can make a melee spell attack against one creature within 10 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 cold damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. When you reach 10th level in this class, the damage increases to 2d8.

As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the tentacle up to 30 feet and repeat the attack .

You can summon the tentacle a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Oceanic Soul

At 6th level, 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.

Guardian Coil

At 6th level, 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.

Patron of Nine Hells

Starting at 1st level, your patron's connection to the lower planes bestows upon you the gifts of the nine hells. You gain proficiency in either the Deception or Intimidation skill.

Additionally, you can emit the presence of your patron. To spells or other such effects that would detect your creature type, you appear as a fiend. You can choose to reserve this presence as an action, reverting your detected creature type to normal.

Patron Spells

You gain patron spells at the levels listed.

Dark One's Blessing

Also at 1st level, your patron gifts you the ability to siphon life after death. 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).

Twisted Fate

Beginning at 6th level, you can call upon your patron to twist fate in your favor. When you make an ability check or saving throw, you can add a d8 to the roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll's effects occur.

You can use this feature twice, and you regain all expended uses once you complete a short or long rest. You can use this feature three times between rests once you reach 14th level in this class.

Psychic Ward

At 6th level, your psychic strength allows you to ward off attacks. You gain resistance to psychic damage.

Also, when a creature that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to roll a d4 and add it to your Armor Class against the triggering attack.

Unfathomable Mind

Starting at 10th level, your immense knowledge becomes unfathomable and untraceable. Your mind can't be read by telepathy or other means, unless you allow it. You are also hidden from Divination magic and you can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical Scrying Sensors.

Occult Gift

Also at 10th level, your patron bestows upon you a gift of occult knowledge. You learn one additional Eldritch Invocation of your choice and your number of Invocations Known increases by 1. You must follow all normal rules for learning this invocation such as level and pact requirements.

Mind Link

Beginning at 14th level, you can use your action to touch an incapacitated humanoid and charm it, linking it to your mind.

As long as you and your Link remain on the same plane of existence, the following effects apply:

• Both you and your Link can communicate telepathically.
• You always know the exact location of your Link, and, as an action, can open up your mind to show your Link your exact location as well. Your Link always knows your exact location until you use an action to close your mind.
• You can issue your Link commands using your telepathy. Your Link will obey the command the best it can, unless the command is a task which will lead to the immediate harm or death of itself.

Your Link stays charmed by you until a remove curse spell is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed, or you use this feature to link to another creature.

The Hexblade

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.

Accursed Vigor

Starting at 6th level, when you reduce a humanoid to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to cause its spirit to invigorate you, gaining temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier + your warlock level. While you have these temporary hit points, you gain the following benefits:

• Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• You gain resistance to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage from nonmagical attacks.
• You gain a +2 bonus to your Armor Class.

Armor of Hexes

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 5 or 6, the attack instead misses you, unless it was a critical hit.

Master of Hexes

Starting at 14th level, you can spread your Hexblade's Curse from a slain creature to another creature. When the creature cursed by your Hexblade's Curse dies, you can apply the curse to a different creature you can see within 30 feet of you, provided you aren't incapacitated. When you apply the curse in this way, you don't regain hit points from the death of the previously cursed creature.

The Undead

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.

Necrotic Husk

At 10th level, 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 are 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 1d8 + your warlock level. Once you use this reaction, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Spirit Projection

At 14th level, 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 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:

• Your spirit and body gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
• When you cast a spell of the conjuration or necromancy school, the spell doesn’t require verbal or somatic components or material components that lack a gold cost.
• You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed and can hover. You can move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but you take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or an object.
• While you are using your Form of Dread, once during each of your turns when you deal necrotic damage to a creature, you regain hit points equal to half the amount of necrotic damage dealt.

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

Eldritch Invocations

Below are the Invocations available to warlocks. If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites.

Eldritch Smite

Prerequisite: 5th level
Once per turn when you hit a creature with your pact weapon, you can expend a spell point to deal an extra 2d8 force damage to the target, plus another 1d8 for each additional spell points you expend, to a maximum of 5d8.

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.

Far Scribe

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Tome feature
A new page appears in your Book of Shadows. With your permission, a creature can use its action to write its name on that page, which can contain a number of names equal to your proficiency bonus.

You can cast the sending spell, targeting a creature whose name is on the page, without using a spell slot and without using material components. To do so, you must write the message on the page. The target hears the message in their mind, and if the target replies, their message appears on the page, rather than in your mind. The writing disappears after 1 minute.

As an action, you can magically erase a name on the page by touching it.

Fiendish Vigor

You can cast false life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending spell points or material components.

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.

Ghostly gaze

Prerequisite: 7th level
As an action, you gain the ability to see through solid objects to a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you have darkvision if you don't already have it. This special sight lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). During that time, you perceive objects as ghostly, transparent images.

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

Gift of the Ever-Living Ones

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Chain feature
While your familliar is within 120 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine how many hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value.