Warlock Remastered

Class Features

As a warlock, you gain the following class features

Pact Magic

Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the warlock spell list.

Otherwordly Patron

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being chosen from the list of available patrons. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Eldritch Invocations

In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.

At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. A list of the available options can be found at the end of the document. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.

A level prerequisite in an invocation refers to warlock level, not character level.

Pact Boon

At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service. You gain one of the following features of your choice.

Pact of the Chain

You learn the find familiar spell and can cast it as a ritual. The spell doesn't count against your 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 you can use your action to command your familiar to make an attack. If you use your action on your turn to spend a pact slot and cast a spell of 1st-level or higher, you can instead command your familiar to make this attack as a bonus action. The familiar uses your spell attack and save DC for any attacks it makes or saves it forces.

Finally, when your familiar is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Pact of the Tome

Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag and three cantrips. The spells can be from any class's spell list, but needn't be from the same spell 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 of 1st level and higher as rituals and the cantrips at will. You can't cast the spells of 1st level or higher 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.

If you lose your Book of Shadows, 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 it destroys the previous book. The book turns to ash when you die.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 1 and gain a feat. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Mystic Arcanum (6th-level)

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 6th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this arcanum. You learn this spell and it does not count against your spells known.

You can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. Alternatively, you can use your arcanum to cast a warlock spell of 5th level or lower that you know without expending a spell slot and as if you had used a 6th level spell slot. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

At higher levels, you gain more warlock spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at 13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level. You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a long rest.

Mystic Arcanum (7th level)

At 13th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 7th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this arcanum. You learn this spell and it does not count against your spells known.

Once you use this feature to cast your arcanum spell, or to cast a warlock spell at 7th level, you cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Mystic Arcanum (8th level)

At 15th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 8th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this arcanum. You learn this spell and it does not count against your spells known.

Once you use this feature to cast your arcanum spell, or to cast a warlock spell at 8th level, you cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Mystic Arcanum (9th level)

At 17th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 9th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this arcanum. You learn this spell and it does not count against your spells known.

Once you use this feature to cast your arcanum spell, or to cast a warlock spell at 9th level, you cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, whenever you complete a short rest, you regain one of your 6th or 7th level mystic arcanum features.

Otherwordly Patrons

Fiendish Resilience

Starting at 10th level, you can choose one damage type or bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage when you finish a short or long rest. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature. Damage from magical weapons or silver weapons ignores this resistance.

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 can't use it again until you finish a short or 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 have learned 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 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.

Undying Pact Spells

Among the Dead

Starting at 1st level, you learn the spare the dying cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you, and you can choose to cast the spell as a bonus action whenever you cast it. You also become immune to disease.

Additionally, undead have difficulty harming you. If an undead targets you directly with an attack or a harmful spell, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC (an undead needn't make the save when it includes you in an area effect, such as the explosion of fireball). On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or forfeit targeting someone instead of you, potentially wasting the attack or spell. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. An undead is also immune to this effect for 24 hours if you target it with an attack or a harmful spell.

Defy Death

Starting at 1st level, you can give yourself vitality when you cheat death or when you help someone else cheat it. You can regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your Warlock level (minimum of 1 hit point) when you succeed on a death saving throw or when you stabilize a creature with spare the dying.

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

Undying Nature

Beginning at 6th level, you can hold your breath indefinitely, and you don't require food, water, or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests. You are also immune to poison and resistant to necrotic damage.

In addition, you age at a slower rate. For every 100 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.

Indestructible Life

When you reach 10th level, you partake some of the true secrets of the Undying. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your warlock level. Additionally, if you put a severed body part of yours back in place when you use this feature, the part reattaches.

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

Immortal

Starting at 14th level, you have become effectively immortal. If you ever die, your body slowly regenerates depending on the level of damage suffered, restoring you back to life with 1 hit point. If most of your limbs and vital organs are in one place, it takes 24 hours for you to be restored back to life, being restored to where most of your body is. If a significant amount of the vital portions of your body are missing, it takes 30 days for you to fully regenerate back to life, originating at the body part closest to where you died. If you are rendered to dust or the entirely of your body is otherwise destroyed, you regenerate back to life after 1 year as close to the spot where you died as possible.

While you are regenerating, you are helpless and unaware of your surroundings. Any spell that restores life to you during this state treats you as if you had just recently died and doesn't require material components to be cast on you. Otherwise, the only way to restore you back to life quicker is to find or replace your missing body parts

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.

Hex Warrior

At 1st level, you begin your combat training. You gain proficiency in shields and in three martial weapons of your choice.

Mettle

Beginning at 6th level, your connection to curses strengthens both your physical and mental resolve. You are immune to the frightened condition. Additionally, when you are subjected to a magical effect that allows you to make a saving throw and a success results in a lesser effect (such as only taking half damage), you instead are unaffected.

Additionally, you can cast the bestow curse spell as a bonus action if you cast it using a pact slot.

Armor of Hexes

At 10th level, your hex grows more powerful. If the target of your hex or bestow curse spell 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.

Master of Hexes

Starting at 14th level, the souls you've slain increase the prowess of your spells. Creatures of your choice within 10 ft. of you suffer a penalty to saving throws against your warlock spells equal to your Charisma modifier.

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, and 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.

Eldritch Invocations

Investment of the Chain Master

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain

When you cast find familiar, you infuse the summoned familiar with a measure of your eldritch power, granting the creature the following benefits:

• The familiar gains either a flying speed or a swimming speed (your choice) of 40 feet.
• As a bonus action, you can command the familiar to take the Attack action.
• The familiar's weapon attacks are considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks.
• The familiar's hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to five times your level in this class.
• When the familiar takes damage, you can use your reaction to grant it resistance against that damage.

Otherworldly Leap

You are constantly under the effects of the jump spell and you can cast feather fall on yourself (and only yourself) at-will.

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. 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 creature of your choice that starts its turn in the aura takes necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).

Chain Master's Whip

Prerequisite: 5th Level, Pact of the Chain

If your familiar takes any damage while you are on the same plane of existence, you can substitute your own hit points for the familiars and vice versa. If this reduces one of your to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to the other. This damage cannot be prevented or reduced in any way.

Additionally, if your familiar is within 30 feet of you, you can use your bonus action and expend half your movement to teleport, switching places with your familiar.

Thirsting Blade

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Gift of the Depths (XGE)

Prerequisite: 5th Level

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

You learn the water breathing spell. It counts as a warlock spell for you and it does not count against your spells known. You can also cast this spell once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Maddening Hex

Prerequisite: 5th level, hex or bestow curse spell

As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex or bestow curse spell. When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the cursed target equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1) and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock save DC. On a failed save, it must use its reaction to make a single melee attack against a random creature within its reach.

Relentless Hex

Prerequisite: 5th level, hex or bestow curse spell

Your curse creates a temporary bond between you and your target. Whenever the target of your hex or bestow curse spell makes an attack against a creature other than you, you can use your reaction to teleport up to 30 ft. to a space within 5 ft. of the creature that you can see. Immediately after you teleport this way, you can choose to make a single weapon attack against the target as part of the same reaction.

Tomb of Levistus

Prerequisite: 5th 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, 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.

Gift of the Protectors

Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Tome

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 Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).

When any creature whose name is on the page is reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, the creature magically drops to 1 hit point instead. Once this magic is triggered, no creature can benefit from it until you finish a short or long rest.

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

Ghostly Gaze

Prerequisite: 7th level

As an action, you gain the ability to see through solid objects and into the ethereal plane out 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.

One With Shadows

Prerequisite: 7th level

When you are an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to become invisible. This ends early if you are no longer in an area of dim light or darkness, take an action, or use a reaction.

Whispers of the Grave

Prerequisite: 7th level

You can cast speak with dead at will, without expending a spell slot.

Master of Myriad Forms

Prerequisite: 7th level

You can cast alter self at will, without expending a spell slot.

Azathoth's Wrath

Prerequisite: 11th level, Pact of the Tome

Immediately before or after you use your action to cast a warlock spell of 1st level or higher while you have your tome on you, you can use your bonus action a warlock cantrip you know.

Lifedrinker

Prerequisite: 11th level, Pact of the Blade

Once per turn, whenever you hit with an attack while holding your pact weapon, you can choose to deal 1d8 + your Charisma modifier additional necrotic damage to the target and gain temporary hit points equal to the damage you dealt.

Chains of Carcieri

Prerequisite: 11th level, Pact of the Chain

You can cast hold monster 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.

Shroud of Shadow

Prerequisite: 11th level

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

Trickster's Escape

Prerequisite: 11th level

Your speed is not reduced by difficult terrain, and you can expend 5 ft. of movement to automatically escape from nonmagical restraints, such as manacles or a creature that has it grappled. Additionally, being underwater imposes no penalties on your movement or attacks.

Finally, whenever you start your turn and are paralyzed or restrained, you can choose to immediately end the effect paralyzing or restraining you. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Visions of Distant Realms

Prerequisite: 15th level

You can cast arcane eye at will, without expending a spell slot.

Witch Sight

Prerequisite: 15th level

You gain true sight out to a range of 30 ft. Within your true sight, you can see into the ethereal plane and automatically notice secret doors hidden by magic. Additionally, you are constantly under the effects of the detect magic and detect evil and good spells--you can suppress this effect as an action.

Mistwalker

Prerequisite: 15th level

You can cast the misty step spell at will without expending a spell slot.

Chainbound Soul

Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain

Whenever you cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also affect your familiar with the spell if the familiar is within 30 feet of you. Once you use this feature on a spell of 1st level or higher, you cannot use it that way again until you complete a long rest.

Riftblade

Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Blade

Once per turn, whenever you hit with an attack while holding your pact weapon, you can force the target to teleport to an unoccupied space within 10 feet of it. This must teleport the target onto some safe ground or liquid that can support it.

Eldritch Secrets

Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Tome

Three spells of 1st-level or higher from any class appear in your Book of Shadows. While your Book of Shadows is on you, you can cast these spells using the appropriate pact magic slots or by expending a use of your Mystic Arcanum feature, treating it as a warlock spell. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of those three spells with any other spell.

Multiclassing Requirements and Proficiencies

The following are the multiclassing requirements and proficiencies for the warlock class.

Changelog

Invocations

• The vast majority of invocation which let you cast a spell 1/rest are removed and their respective spells added to the warlock spell list.
• The vast majority of Eldritch Blast invocations now work on all warlock cantrips and pact weapons.
• Armor of Shadows gives you 10 + DEX + CHA AC when not wearing armor or using a shield.
• Beast Speech does not require you to cast a spell and is passive.
• Beguiling Influence gives you expertise in one of the skills chosen.
• New Invocation: Forbidden Knowledge, a Tome invocation that gives you a tool or skill proficiency from a list, which you can swap out on a long rest.
• New Invocation: Blademaster's Secrets, a Blade invocation that gives you a fighting style.
• Otherwordly Leap simply increases your jump distance instead of requiring you to cast Jump.
• Cloak of Flies is no longer on a recharge and is at-will.
• New Invocation: Chainmaster's Whip lets you substitute your own HP for your familiars when they take damage and vice versa.
• New Invocation: Azathoth's Wrath. Lets you cast a cantrip as a bonus action after casting a leveled spell.
• One With Shadows moved to 7th level, but still lets you move so long as you remain in dim light or darkness.
• Whispers of the Grave moved to 7th level.
• Master of Myriad Forms moved to 7th level.
• Lifedrinker moved to 11th level and now deals 1d6 necrotic damage and gives you temporary hit points when you deal damage with it.
• Chains of Carcieri moved to 11th level.
• Shroud of Shadow moved to 11th level.
• Trickster's Escape moved to 11th level, but is now a passive benefit.
• Visions of Distant Realms moved to 11th level.
• Witch Sight now also lets you see magical auras as if you were under the effects of detect magic and detect evil and good spells.
• Repelling Blast cannibalized. Grasp of Hadar now simply lets you move a creature horizontally.