Class Features

As a warlock, You will gain the following class features.

Spell Slots

The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level.

To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest. For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell witchbolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell. Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 6th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd 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 for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Pact Weapon

You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form of any weapon you are proficient in for this weapon to take each time you create it (see the Weapons section for weapon options). It need not be the same weapon every time. When you attack with this weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.

You can transform one magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual while you hold the weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter. You can’t affect an artifact or a sentient weapon in this way. The weapon ceases being your pact weapon if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks.

Extra Attack

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

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 17th level

Lifedrinker

Starting at 11th level, you may deal bonus necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier whenever you hit a creature with your pact weapon.

Pact of the Brand

Your Patron is a cruel one, and they have a special place in their heart for seeing you suffer. And they aren't going to let you die while you are still their plaything. There is a mark on your skin labeling you as their property. Its magic power protects you: especially if you don't want it to.

Pact of the Chain

Your patron has gifted you with a magical, ethereal chain, with which you are capable of summoning creatures that serve your patron and bind them to your service.

Mighty Familiar

Starting at 11th level, upon completing a long rest, you may have your familiar take the form of a Barbed Devil, Barlgula, Chuul Green Hag, Lamia, Mezzoloth, Succubus or Incubus, or Vampire Spawn. Starting at 17th level, you may have your familiar take one of these forms whenever you cast the Find Familiar spell.

Penultimate Familiar

Starting at 17th level, upon completing a long rest, you may have your familiar take the form of a Beholder Zombie, Bhuer Hag, Canoloth, Chain Devil, Hezrou, or Neogi Master. If it takes the form of a Canoloth, you are immune to its Dimensional Lock ability. If it takes the form of a Neogi Master, it may only have one creature charmed at a time. If it charms a target with its enslave feature, any other creature that was charmed by it is no longer charmed.

Pact of the Locket

You made a deal with your Patron: your service in exchange for the chance to talk to a loved one who has passed away. This pact boon is your patron making good on their promise: a locket that, when held, allows you to reunite with someone you lost.

Pact of the Ring

Not all patrons are ambivalent towards their Warlocks. Some of them are interested in them. Very interested. In fact, many Warlocks receive their powers from a lesser power, but one which gives them special attention. This attention may be a genuinely reciprocated bond, one that arose from the Warlock deceiving their patron, or one that was completely unwanted by the Warlock. Either way, the patron goes out of their way to give their warlock special attention and protect them.

Minor Miracle

While you are wearing the ring, you may use your bonus action to enlist your Patron's help to perform a minor miracle for you. Select one of the following options:

• You cast the Augury spell without expending a spell slot or using material components.
• You may choose a creature you see. Until your next turn, you score critical hits against that creature on a 19-20.
• You may add your Charisma modifier to your AC against opportunity attacks until your next turn.
• You may add your Charisma modifier to the damage roll of the next unarmed strike you make until your next turn. If it hits a creature that is medium or smaller, it is pushed back 5 feet.
• Your Patron casts Guidance or Resistance targeting you. They may not perform any more minor miracles while concentrating on this spell.

Aid from Above

While you are wearing the ring, you may perform a 10 minute ritual to request aid from your patron, asking them for assistance with a task at hand. This will take one of the following forms, as decided by your DM:

• A creature of CR no greater than 1/2, which will follow your Patron's commands in order to help you to the best of its ability for the next hour before returning to your patron. It may be no greater than CR 1 at 11th level and no greater than CR 2 at 17th level.
• A series of non magical items worth no more gp than your wizard level * 5, which disappear after 8 hours.
• A magical gem that, when crushed in one's hand, allows them to cast a specific 1st level spell or cantrip from any spell list that your Patron decides when the crystal is made. Your DM may decide that your patron is not able to provide certain spells, depending on who they are. The spell can be of 2nd level or lower at 8th level, of 3rd level or lower at 11th level, of 4th level or lower at 14th level, and of 5th level or lower at 17th level.

Once you perform this ritual you may not do so again until you've completed a long rest.

Patron's Intervention

Starting at 11th level, if you are wearing the ring, you may petition your Patron for supernatural aid. Doing so requires your action. They will assist you however they can, though the nature of this aid is decided by your DM. However, this aid will almost certainly be weaker than the aid provided by a Cleric's Divine Intervention feature. A warlock spell of 5th level or lower, either from the warlock spell list or your patron's extended spell list, would be appropriate.

Once you do this, you may not do so again until you've completed a long rest. You may do this twice before completing a long rest at 17th level.

Pact of the Tome

Your patron has gifted you a magical book containing a small fraction of the dark secrets that they know. Your knowledge of these secrets grants you awesome power.

Otherwordly Patrons

The following is the list of Otherwordly Patrons that you can enlist the help of to receive your Warlock powers.

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.

Expanded Spell List

The Archfey lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list.

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.

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 in 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.

Healing Light

At 1st level, you gain the ability to channel celestial energy to heal wounds. You have a pool of d6s that you spend to fuel this healing. The number of dice in the pool equals 1 + your warlock level.

As a bonus action, you can heal one creature you can see within 60 feet of you, spending dice from the pool. The maximum number of dice you can spend at once equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of one die). Roll the dice you spend, add them together, and restore a number of hit points equal to the total.

Your pool regains all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Radiant Soul

Starting at 6th level, your link to the Celestial allows you to serve as a conduit for radiant energy. You have resistance to radiant damage, and when you cast a spell that deals radiant or fire damage, you add your Charisma modifier to one radiant or fire damage roll of that spell against one of its targets.

Celestial Radiance

Starting at 10th level, you gain temporary hit points whenever you finish a short or long rest. These temporary hit points equal your warlock level + your Charisma modifier. Additionally, choose up to five creatures you can see at the end of the rest. Those creatures each gain temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level + your Charisma modifier.

Alternate Pact Spells

When you choose your pact spell at 10th level, you may also choose one of the following options: Geas, Greater Restoration, Revivify.

Searing Vengeance

Starting at 14th level, the radiant energy you channel allows you to resist death. When you have to make a death saving throw at the start of your turn, you can instead spring back to your feet with a burst of radiant energy. You regain hit points equal to half your hit point maximum, and then you stand up if you so choose. Each creature of your choice that is within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage equal to 2d8 + your Charisma modifier, and is blinded until the end of the current turn.

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

The Fiend

You have made a pact with a fiend from the lower planes of existence, a being whose aims are evil, even if you strive against those aims. Such beings desire the corruption or destruction of ali things, ultimately including you. Fiends powerful enough to forge a pact include demon lords such as Demogorgon, Orcus, Fraz'Urb-Iuu, and Baphomet; archdevils such as Asmodeus, Dispater, Mephistopheles, and Belial; pit fiends and balors that are especially mighty; and ultroloths and other lords of the yugoloths.

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. ]f the target is not a fiend, it takes 10d10 psychic damage as it reels from its horrific experience.

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

The Great Old One

Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known only in legends. Its motives are incomprehensible to mortals, and its knowledge so immense and ancient that even the greatest libraries pale in comparison to the vast secrets it holds. The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you'll have earned allow you to draw your magic from it.

Entities of this type include Ghaunadar, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

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.

Because the Raven Queen is known to have forged the first of these weapons, many sages speculate that she and the force are one and that the weapons, along with hexblade warlocks, are tools she uses to manipulate events on the Material Plane to her inscrutable ends.

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).

You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

Wielding Evil

Also at 1st level, you have advantage on saving throws against the effects of cursed magic items you are attuned to.

Accursed Spector

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. When the specter appears, it gains temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level. Roll initiative for the specter, which has its own turns. It obeys your verbal commands, and it gains a special bonus to its attack rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +0).

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 can't use the feature again until you finish a long rest.

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, roll a d6. On a 4 or higher, the attack instead misses you, regardless of its roll.

Alternate Pact Spells

When you choose your pact spell at 10th level, you may also choose one of the following options: Contagion, Creation, Locate Creature.

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 Seeker

Your patron is an inscrutable being who travels the Astral Plane in search of knowledge and secrets. In return for your patron’s gifts, you wander the world seeking lore that you can share with the Seeker.

Your patron could be any deity or other powerful entity dedicated to knowledge or forgotten lore. Celestian is an ideal patron for a Greyhawk campaign, and was the inspiration for this concept. In the Forgotten Realms, your patron might be Azuth or Oghma. Aureon makes an excellent patron in Eberron, while in Krynn and the Dragonlance campaign setting, Gilean is a good match for the Seeker’s role.

Far Wanderer

At 10th level, you no longer need to breathe, and you gain resistance to fire damage and cold damage.

Alternate Pact Spells

When you choose your pact spell at 10th level, you may also choose one of the following options: Legend Lore, Locate Creature, Scrying

Astral Sequestration

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to sequester yourself and your allies on the Astral Plane.

By performing a special ritual over the course of 5 minutes, you shift yourself and up to ten willing creatures you can see to the Astral Plane. You and those creatures gain the benefits of a short rest while sequestered on the Astral Plane. You then return to the spaces you all occupied when you used this ability, with no time having passed in the world.

During this short rest, you and the creatures you sequester can make use of any options available during a rest that affect only you and the creatures you sequester.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

The Undying

Death holds no sway over your patron, who has unlocked the secrets of everlasting life, although such a prize – like all power – comes at a price. Once mortal, the Undying has seen mortal lifetimes pass like the seasons, like the flicker of endless days and nights. It has the secrets of the ages to share, secrets of life and death. Beings of this sort include Vecna, Lord of the Hand and the Eye; the dread Iuz; the lich-queen Vol; the Undying Court of Aerenal; Vlaakith, lich-queen of the githyanki; and the deathless wizard Fistandantalus.

In the Realms, Undying patrons include Larloch the Shadow King, legendary master of Warlock's Crypt, and Gilgeam, the God-King of Unther.

Eldritch Invocations

When you take an Eldritch Invocation, you learn a powerful magical secret which you use to augment yourself and increase your repertoire of skills. When you take one, you may take one of the many listed later in this section.

Alternatively, you may, for your invocation, learn one of the following spells and cast them At Will at their lowest level, not requiring any material components. You must be of a certain level prerequisite to learn the spell in this way. If it says self only, you may only target yourself with it when casted in this way.

No Prerequisite: You may choose to learn Detect Evil and Good, Detect Magic, Detect Poison and Disease, Disguise Self, Jump, Silent Image, Speak with Animals, or any cantrip from any class as soon as you can take an invocation.

Aspect of the Moon

Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome feature

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.

Beguiling Influence

You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.

Bewitching Whispers

Prerequisite: 8th level

You can cast Compulsion once as a Warlock spell. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Chains of Carceri

Prerequisite: 14th level, Pact of the Chain feature

You can cast Hold Monster at will – targeting a celestial, fiend, or elemental – as a Warlock spell. You must finish a long rest before you can use this invocation on the same creature again.

Cloak of Flies

Prerequisite: 6th 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. It lasts until you're incapacitated 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 can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Devil's Sight

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

Dreadful Word

Prerequisite: 8th level

You can cast Confusion once as a Warlock spell. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Eldritch Sight

You can cast Detect Magic at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Eldritch Spear

When you cast Eldritch Blast, its range is 300 feet.

Eyes of the Rune Keeper

You can read all writing.

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: 6th 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 Depths

Prerequisite: 6th level

You can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

You can also cast Water Breathing without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Gift of the Ever-Living Ones

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain feature

Whenever you regain hit points while your familiar or one of you servants is within 100 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you.

Grasp of Hadar

Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Eldritch Blast, you can move that creature in a straight line 10 feet closer to yourself.

Lance of Lethargy

Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Eldritch Blast, you can reduce that creature’s speed by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.

Maddening Hex

Prerequisite: 6th level, Hex spell, Bestow Curse spell, or a warlock feature that curses

As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your Hex spell or Bestow Curse spell, or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade’s Curse. When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the cursed target and each creature of your choice within 5 feet of it. The psychic damage equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 damage). To use this invocation, you must be able to see the cursed target, and it must be within 30 feet of you.

Mask of Many Faces

You can cast Disguise Self at will, without expending a spell slot.

Mire the Mind

Prerequisite: 6th level

You can cast Slow once as a Warlock spell. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Misty Visions

You can cast Silent Image at will as a Warlock spell.

One with Shadows

Prerequisite: 6th level

When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to become invisible until you move or take an action or a reaction.

Otherworldly Leap

Prerequisite: 9th level

You can cast Jump at will as a Warlock spell.

Relentless Hex

Prerequisite: 6th level, Hex spell, Bestow Curse spell, or a warlock feature that curses

Your curse creates a temporary bond between you and your target. As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of the target cursed by your Hex spell, Bestow Curse spell, or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade’s Curse. To teleport in this way, you must be able to see the cursed target.

Repelling Blast

When you hit a creature with Eldritch Blast, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.

Sculptor of Flesh

Prerequisite: 8th level

You can cast Polymorph once as a Warlock spell. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Thief of Five Fates

You can cast Bane once at 1st level as a Warlock spell. You can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Tomb of Levistus

Prerequisite: 6th level

As a reaction when you take damage, you can entomb yourself in ice, which melts away at the end of your next turn. You gain 10 temporary hit points per warlock level, which take as much of the triggering damage as possible. Immediately after you take the damage, you gain vulnerability to fire damage, your speed is reduced to 0, and you are incapacitated. These effects, including any remaining temporary hit points, all end when the ice melts.

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

Trickster's Escape

Prerequisite: 8th level

You can cast Freedom of Movement once on yourself as a Warlock spell. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Ultimate Familiar

Prerequisite: 18th level

When you complete a long rest, you may choose to forsake your ability to cast your Mystic Arcanum spells. If you do, you may select an Aboleth, a Balhannoth, Boneclaw, a Deva, an Eirnyes, or a Nalfeshnee. You summon this creature as your familiar, and may continue to do so every time you cast the find familiar spell. However, it may not use any legendary actions or lair actions. However, you may spend a 1 hour ritual to turn an area no larger than a 100 foot sphere into a lair. If While in this area

If you choose the aboleth, it may only have one creature charmed at a time. If it charms a target with its enslave feature, any other creature that was charmed by it is no longer charmed.

Voice of the Chain Master

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain feature

You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and your servants and perceive through your familiar's senses as long as you are on the same plane of existence. Additionally, while perceiving through your familiar's/servant's senses, you can also speak through your familiar or servant in your own voice, even if they are normally incapable of speech.

Witch Sight

Prerequisite: 14th level

You can see the true form of any shapechanger or creature concealed by illusion or transmutation magic while the creature is within 30 feet of you and within line of sight.