Pact of the Aegis Features

Eldritch Aegis

At 1st level, your patron grants you a special shield, giving it the power to enhance your defense and protect your allies. You receive a pact shield, which functions as a normal shield, with a form and appearance appropriate to your patron. In addition, you gain proficiency with medium armor, heavy armor, and shields.

You can use your pact shield as a melee weapon, dealing bludgeoning damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If your shield gets a magic bonus to its AC, you can apply that bonus to your attack and damage rolls with it. Your pact shield is always considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks.

In addition, your pact shield gains the Thrown (30/60) property. After you make a ranged attack by throwing your shield, it returns to you.

You can transform an existing shield into your pact shield by performing a special ritual over the course of 10 minutes while you hold it. It ceases to be your pact shield if you die, if you perform the ritual again on a different shield, or if you choose to break your bond to it.

Eldritch Bash

At 3rd level, your patron empowers your shield to punish your foes. You can now use your pact shield as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. In addition, once per turn when you hit an enemy with it, you can select one warlock cantrip you know. The attack's damage type is changed to a damage type dealt by the cantrip, and the attack applies all of the cantrip's non-damaging effects.

Ally's Aegis

Also at 3rd level, your mighty shield helps protect all those around you. You and every allied creature within 5 feet of you gain a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws.

Extra Bash

At 5th level, you can attack with your pact shield twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Ricochet Attack

At 9th level, you learn to ricochet your spinning shield between targets. When you you hit with a ranged attack with a thrown shield, you can make your next attack with the shield on the same turn as a ricochet attack, with the following properties:

• A ricochet attack must target a different creature than the prior attack.
• A ricochet attack's range is determined from the location of the prior attack's target.

Empowered Bash

Also at 9th level, your pact shield's damage die increases to a d12.

Mighty Bulwark

At 18th level, your patron grants you and all your allies exceptional defenses. As a reaction when you or another creature within 5 feet takes damage, you can grant every creature of your choice within 5 feet (including yourself) resistance to that damage type until the start of your next turn.

v0.3

• Omega Warlock
  • Added Ally's Aegis to Omega Warlock version
  • Reworked Ricochet Attack's damage boost into Empowered Bash
  • Replaced Agonizing Aegis with Mighty Bulwark

v0.2

• Added heavy armor prof
• Added Omega Warlock version
• Minor text revisions

v0.1

• Rough Draft