Otherworldly Patron - The Alien
You have had an experience that few others have, certainly nobody you know. You have encountered a creature from beyond the Great Wheel, from the furthest reaches of the Astral Sea, from a plane known as the Far Realm. This creature has imbued you with some of its truly unknowable power.
Expanded Spell List
Your Alien patron has granted you spell choices from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st | absorb elements, chaos bolt |
| 2nd | alter self, web |
| 3rd | conjure animals, stinking cloud |
| 4th | arcane eye, giant insect |
| 5th | contagion, rary's telepathic bond |
Pseuodonatural Defense
When you choose this feature at level 1, your patron allows you to gain some amount of its otherworldly biology to protect yourself from harm. As a reaction after you are hit by an attack, but before you take damage, you may gain a number of temporary hit points equal to three times your warlock level. After one minute, any remaining temporary hit points granted by this feature are lost. Once you use this feature, you may not again until you finish a short or long rest.
Otherworldly Boon
Starting at level 6, the boons granted to you by your patron do not quite fit in with this world. As such, the option you chose as your Pact Boon has an extra benefit, according to which one you chose.
Pact of the Tome: You can use your tome to cast alien facsimiles of the cantrips it contains. When you use your Tome of Shadows cast a cantrip (other than eldritch blast) that deals damage, you may add your Charisma modifier to the damage. If you do so, change the damage type to psychic.
Pact of the Blade: Your weapon does not act like other weapons with which it shares a shape. When you summon your pact weapon, you may give it one of the following properties (provided it does not have the property already): reach, thrown, or light. Once you dismiss the weapon, it loses any property it gains from this feature.
Pact of the Chain: Your familiar is a creature from the far realms that simply acts like the creature it appears to be. The familiar becomes an aberration, and has hit points equal to three times your warlock level. Additionally, when another creature makes an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, your familiar may use its reaction to momentarily expose its true form, and impose disadvantage on the target, provided the target is within 30 ft and can see the familiar. Once your familiar uses this ability, it cannot use it until you finish a short or long rest.
Obscure Biology
Starting at 10th level, you gain the ability to use your patron’s heritage to course through your blood, protecting you from some effects. As a reaction before you roll a saving throw against a spell or effect that targets humanoids, you may choose to succeed on the saving throw instead of rolling. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.
Far One's Corruption
When you reach level 14, you gain the ability to give another creature a glimpse of the Far Realm. You may use this feature to cast a version of Confusion without using a warlock spell slot. The version you cast acts as the spell, with the following changes:
- The spell affects one target within 90 ft
- The spell lasts for 1 hour, and does not require concentration
- The target gets one saving throw when you cast this spell, and one at the end of its next turn. If it succeeds on either one, the effect ends. If the target fails on both, it does not make another saving throw for the duration of the effect.
How "Alien" is your Alien?
Work with your DM to determine what type of creature your patron is. Your patron might be an especially powerful Death Slaad, or perhaps even a Star Spawn. Perhaps you get your power from a creature that is not represented in the Monster Manual, one that not even Volothamp and Mordenkainen have heard of? How did you come to encounter this creature?