Warlock

Warlocks are seekers of the knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the multiverse. Through pacts made with mysterious beings of supernatural power, warlocks unlock magical effects both subtle and spectacular.

You must have a Charisma score of 15 or higher in order to multiclass in or out of this class.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per warlock level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple Weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, and Religion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (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

Otherworldly Patron

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 20th level.

Pact Magic

Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells.

Pact Spells

The Archfey has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Fey Presence

Starting at 1st level, your patron bestows upon you the ability to project the beguiling and fearsome presence of the fey. As an action, you can cause each creature in a 10-foot cube originating from you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. The creatures that fail their saving throws are all Charmed or Frightened by you (your choice) until 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.

Misty Escape

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.

Beguiling Defenses

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.

Dark Delirium

Starting at 14th level, you can plunge a creature into illusory realms. 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 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 use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again.

Archfey's Resolve

At 20th level, you become empowered by your patron, gaining the unnatural strength and endurance akin to your patron. You gain the following traits:

• You are immune to Poison damage.
• Your Ability scores can't be decreased by any means.
• You are immune to any effect that would alter your form against your will.

Pact Spells

The Fathomless has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

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 1d12 Cold damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

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, regaining all expended uses after a long rest.

Gift of the Sea

Also at 1st level, you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed, and you can breathe underwater.

Oceanic Soul

At 6th level, you are now even more at home in the depths. You gain resistance to Cold damage.

Additionally, you deal an additional 1d6 Cold damage with your melee and ranged attacks. This extra damage increases to 2d6 while you are fully submerged in water.

Twin Tentacles

At 10th level, you summon two tentacles, instead of one, when you use your Tentacle of the Deep feature. You can use a bonus action to move one tentacle and make a melee attack with it as normal.

Ancient Waterways

At 14th level, your patron allows you to use ancient, mystical waterways to move travel great distances in short periods of time. While you and up to five other creatures are standing in or submerged in water, you can call upon your patron to pull you through these waterways to instantly transport you and those creatures up to 1 mile away, provided the destination is also in water or underwater.

Once you use this trait, you must complete a short or long rest to do so again.

Whirlpool of Doom

At 20th level, you gain the ability to cause a creature to temporarily plunge straight to your patron's domain to suffer their wrath. As an action, you can attempt to send one creature you can see within 60ft of you that is standing in or is submerged in water to your patron. The target vanishes until the end of its next turn, and must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 10d6 Psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again.

Pact Spells

The Fiend has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Dark One's Blessing

Starting at 1st level, 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).

Dark One's Own Luck

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 1d10 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.

Fiendish Resilience

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.

Hurl Through Hell

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 8d10 psychic damage as it reels from its horrific experience.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again.

Unyielding Dedication

At 20th level, your unyielding dedication to your patron prevents you from being distracted by mortal magics. You gain the following traits:

• You have advantage on saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened.
• When a spell or other magical effect on you would last multiple rounds, it lasts 1 round instead.

Genie Kind

Expanded Spell List

At 1st level, the Genie lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. You gain access to some of the spells at the levels specified below, depending on which genie patron you have: dao, djinni, efreeti, or marid. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Genie's Vessel

Also at 1st level, your patron gifts you a magical vessel that grants you a measure of the genie's power. The vessel is a Tiny object, and you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. You decide what the object is; your choice has no effect on its abilities.

While you are touching the vessel, you can use it in the following ways:

• Bottled Respite. As an action, you can magically vanish and enter your vessel, which remains in the space you left. The interior of the vessel is an extradimensional space in the shape of a 20-foot-radius cylinder, 20 feet high, and resembles your vessel. It can hold up to 1,000 lbs, but always weighs 15 lbs regardless of its contents. The interior is appointed with cushions and low tables and is a comfortable temperature. While inside, you can hear the area around your vessel as if you were in its space. You can remain inside the vessel up to a number of hours equal to twice your proficiency bonus. You exit the vessel early if you use a bonus action to leave, if you die, or if the vessel is destroyed. When you exit the vessel, you appear in the unoccupied space closest to it. Any objects left in the vessel remain there until carried out, and if the vessel is destroyed, every object stored there harmlessly appears in the unoccupied spaces closest to the vessel's former space. Once you enter the vessel, you can't enter again until you finish a long rest.
• Genie's Wrath. Once during each of your turns when you hit with an attack roll, you can deal extra damage to the target equal to your proficiency bonus. The type of this damage is determined by your patron: Bludgeoning (dao), Thunder (djinni), Fire (efreeti), or Cold (marid).

The vessel's AC equals your spell save DC. Its hit points equal your warlock level plus your proficiency bonus, and it is immune to poison and psychic damage.

If the vessel is destroyed or you lose it, 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 the previous vessel is destroyed if it still exists. The vessel vanishes in a flare of elemental power when you die.

Elemental Gift

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).

Additionally, as a bonus action, you can give yourself a flying speed of 30 feet that lasts for 1 minute, during which you can hover. Once you do so, you must complete a short or long rest to do so again.

Pact Spells

The Great Old One has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Mortal Reminder

Starting at 1st level, your alien knowledge gives you the ability to rend the minds of other creatures. When you critically hit a creature with an attack, that creature must succeed a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or become Frightened of you until the end of their next turn. While Frightened in this way, the creature can't move, as it is wracked with violent psionic pulses.

Entropic Ward

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 must complete a short or long rest to do so again.

Thought Shield

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.

Draining Touch

At 14th level, you gain the ability to drain a humanoid's mind with the alien magic of your patron. You can use your action to touch an Incapacitated humanoid. The target must succeed an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 4d8 Psychic damage, and one of its ability scores of your choice is reduced by 2. On a successful save, the creature takes half that damage and its ability scores aren't reduced.

This reduction lasts until the target completes a short or long rest.

Once a creature is affected by this ability, it is immune to its effects until it completes a short or long rest.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again.

Cull the Weak

At 20th level, you gain the ability to mentally destroy those incapable of defending against your mystical might. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an Intelligence score that is less than yours with an attack that deals Psychic damage, you can deal an additional amount of damage equal to your Intelligence score.

Once a creature is affected by this ability, it is immune to its effects until it completes a short or long rest.

Pact Spells

The Hexblade has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Hexblade's Curse

Starting at 1st level, you gain the ability to place a baleful curse on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target is cursed for 1 minute. The curse ends early if the target dies, you die, or you are Incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the cursed target. The bonus equals your proficiency bonus.
• Any attack roll you make against the cursed target is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.
• If the cursed target dies, you regain hit points equal to your warlock level + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

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.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest to do so again.

Hex Warrior

Also at 1st level, you acquire the training necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.

The influence of your patron also allows you to mystically channel your will through a particular weapon. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon's type.

Accursed Specter

Starting at 6th level, you can curse the soul of a person you slay, temporarily binding it in your service. When you slay a Humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter, the statistics of which are in the Monster Manual. When the specter appears, it gains temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level, and it has a special bonus to its attack rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +0).

Specters you create in this way share your initiative count, but take their turns immediately after yours. They can move and use their reaction on their own, but the only action they take on their turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are Incapacitated, the specter can take any action of their choice, not just Dodge.

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 must complete a long rest to do so again.

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 4 or higher, the attack instead misses you, regardless of its roll.

Pact Spells

The Hoarded has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Draconic Power

At 1st level, you gain the ability to channel the destructive power of your patron. Choose a type of dragon from the following list; it affects features you gain later.

Destructive Exhalation

Also at 1st level, as an action, you can exhale the destructive energy of your patron. It deals damage in an area according to your Draconic Power. When you use this feature, all creatures in the area must make a saving throw, the type of which is determined by your Draconic Power. Creatures take 1d10 damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

This feature's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

You can use your Destructive Exhalation a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, after which you must complete a long rest or expend a Warlock spell slot to do so again. You regain all expended uses after a long rest.

Draconic Empowerment

At 6th level, your patron teaches you to use your Draconic Power to enhance yourself. You gain one of the following abilities based on your Draconic Power:

• Black: Acid Reflux. You learn the Acid Splash cantrip. Once per day when you use your Destructive Exhalation, you can cast the Acid Splash cantrip as a bonus action on the same turn.
• Blue: Desert Claws. You gain a burrowing speed equal to your walking speed.
• Brass: Sleep Breath. As an action, you can expend one of your uses of your Destructive Exhalation to cast the Sleep spell (5th level) without expending a spell slot or material components
• Bronze: Repulsion. Creatures that fail their save against your Destructive Exhalation are also launched 10 feet away from you in a straight line.
• Copper: Eroding Acid. Creatures that fail their save against your Destructive Exhalation also have their AC reduced by 1 until the end of your next turn.
• Gold: Scorching Flames. Creatures that fail their save against your Destructive Exhalation also begin Burning until the end of your next turn.
• Green: Poison Leak. Creatures that fail their save against your Destructive Exhalation become Poisoned until the end of your next turn.
• Purple: Mind Ravage. Creatures that fail their save against your Destructive Exhalation must subtract 1d4 from their next saving throw.
• Red: Devastating Flames. Your Destructive Exhalation deals an additional 1d10 Fire damage.
• Silver: Sleet Sight. You have 10 feet of Blindsight. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
• White: Freezing Storm. When you use your Destructive Exhalation, excess frost surrounds you in a 5ft radius. Creatures within this zone must succeed a Constitution saving throw or take 2d10 Cold damage.

Pact Spells

The Undying has the following list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified below. Once you gain access to a pact spell, you always have it prepared. Pact spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain a pact spell that doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Among the Dead

Starting at 1st level, you learn the Spare the Dying cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you.

Additionally, you don’t need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep. To complete a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you Unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Power from Beyond

At 6th level, your patron’s powers have a profound effect on your body and magic. You are resistant to Necrotic damage.

Additionally, you can cast Animate Dead as a bonus action on your turn. Once you do so, you must complete a short or long rest to do so again.

Aura of Antilife

At 10th level, you radiate pure necromantic energy in a 15ft radius. You and any Undead creatures of your choice within this zone have resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage from nonmagical attacks. You must be conscious to grant this benefit.

Additionally, you don't need a corpse to cast the Animate Dead spell or similar spells if you create it in this aura.

Indestructible Life

By 14th level, you partake of some of the true secrets of the Undeath. You are immune to Necrotic damage.

Additionally, when you cast a necromancy spell of 1st level or higher, you gain temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your warlock level.

Apostle of the Undying

At 20th level, your ability to channel the necromantic powers of your patron. You are immune to Necrotic damage, and your hit point maximum can't be reduced.

Additionally, you do not age, and you can't be aged magically.

Agonizing Blast

(Prerequisite: At least one damaging warlock cantrip)

When you cast a warlock cantrip that deals damage, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.

Armor of Shadows

(Prerequisite: None)

You can cast the Mage Armor spell on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Ascendant Step

(Prerequisite: 9th level)

You can cast the Levitate spell on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Aspect of the Moon

(Prerequisite: Otherworldly Tome invocation)

You no longer need to sleep, and can't be forced to sleep by any means. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all 8 hours doing light activity, such as reading your Book of Shadows and keeping watch.

Beast Speech

You can cast the Speak with Animals spell at will, without expending a spell slot.

Beguiling Influence

You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.

Bewitching Whispers

(Prerequisite: 7th level)

You can cast the Compulsion spell once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Bond of the Talisman

(Prerequisite: 12th level, Otherworldly Talisman invocation)

While someone else is wearing your talisman, you can use your action to teleport to the unoccupied space closest to them, provided the two of you are on the same plane of existence. The wearer of your talisman can do the same thing, using their action to teleport to you. The teleportation can be used a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a long rest.

Book of Ancient Secrets

(Prerequisite: Otherworldly Tome invocation)

You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class's spell list (the two needn't be from the same list). The spells appear in the book and don't count against the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can't cast the spells except as rituals, unless you've learned them by some other means. You can also cast a warlock spell you know as a ritual if it has the ritual tag.

On your adventures, you can add other ritual spells to your Book of Shadows. When you find such a spell, you can add it to the book if the spell's level is equal to or less than half your warlock level (rounded up) and if you can spare the time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.

Chains of Carceri

(Prerequisite: 15th level, Otherworldly Servant invocation)

You can cast the Hold Monster spell at will – targeting a Celestial, Fiend, or Elemental – without expending a spell slot or material components.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this invocation on the same creature again.

Cloak of Flies

(Prerequisite: 5th level)

As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks like buzzing flies. The aura extends 5 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover. This aura lasts until you're Incapacitated, you die, or you dismiss it as a bonus action.

The aura grants you advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks but disadvantage on all other Charisma checks. Any other creature that starts its turn in the aura takes poison damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).

Once you use this invocation, you must complete a short or long rest to do so again.

Devil's Sight

You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.

Dreadful Word

(Prerequisite: 7th level)

You can cast the Confusion spell once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.