Unchained Warlock

Unchained Warlocks quest for knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the multiverse. They often begin their search for magical power by delving into tomes of forbidden lore, dabbling in invocations meant to attract the power of extraplanar beings, or seeking places of power where the influence of these beings can be felt. In no time, each Unchained Warlock is drawn into a binding pact with a powerful patron. Drawing on the ancient knowledge of beings such as angels, archfey, demons, devils, hags, and alien entities of the Far Realm, Unchained Warlocks piece together arcane secrets to bolster their own power.

Unchained Warlocks view their patrons as resources, as means to the end of achieving magical power. Some Unchained Warlocks respect, revere, or even love their patrons; some serve their patrons grudgingly; and some seek to undermine their patrons even as they wield the power their patrons have given them.

Once a pact is made, an Unchained Warlock's thirst for knowledge and power can't be slaked with mere study. Most Unchained Warlocks spend their days pursuing greater power and deeper knowledge, which typically means some kind of adventure.

Patron's Attitude

Every relationship is a two-way street, but in the case of Unchained Warlocks and their patrons it's not necessarily true that both sides of the street are the same width or made of the same stuff. The feeling that an Unchained Warlock holds for their patron, whether positive or negative, might be reciprocated by the patron, or the two participants in the pact might view one another with opposing emotions.

When you determine the attitude your Unchained Warlock character holds toward your patron, also consider how things look from the patron's perspective. How does your patron behave toward you? Is your patron a friend and ally, or an enemy that grants you power only because you forced a pact upon it?

Special Terms of the Pact

A pact can range from a loose agreement to a formal contract with lengthy, detailed clauses and lists of requirements. The terms of a pact—what an Unchained Warlock must do to receive a patron's favor—are always dictated by the patron. On occasion, those terms include a special proviso that might seem odd or whimsical, but Unchained Warlocks take these dictates as seriously as they do the other requirements of their pacts.

Does your character have a pact that requires you to change your behavior in an unusual or seemingly frivolous way? Even if your patron hasn't imposed such a duty on you already, that's not to say it couldn't still happen.

Binding Mark

Some patrons make a habit of, and often enjoy, marking the Unchained Warlocks under their sway in some fashion. A binding mark makes it clear—to those who know about such things—that the individual in question is bound to the patron's service. An Unchained Warlock might take advantage of such a mark, claiming it as proof of one's pact, or might want to keep it under wraps (if possible) to avoid the difficulties it might bring.

If your Unchained Warlock's pact comes with a binding mark, how you feel about displaying it probably depends on the nature of your relationship with the one who gave it to you. Is the mark a source of pride or something you are secretly ashamed of?

Multiclassing

Ability Score Minimum: Charisma 13
When you gain a level in a class other than your first, you gain only some of that class's starting proficiencies.
Armor: Light Armor

Creating an Unchained Warlock

As you make your Unchained Warlock character, spend some time thinking about your patron and the obligations that your pact imposes upon you. What led you to make the pact, and how did you make contact with your patron? Were you seduced into summoning a devil, or did you seek out the ritual that would allow you to make contact with an alien elder god? Did you search for your patron, or did your patron find and choose you? Do you chafe under the obligations of your pact or serve joyfully in anticipation of the rewards promised to you?

Work with your DM to determine how big a part your pact will play in your character's adventuring career. Your patron's demands might drive you into adventures, or they might consist entirely of small favors you can do between adventures.

What kind of relationship do you have with your patron? Is it friendly, antagonistic, uneasy, or romantic? How important does your patron consider you to be? What part do you play in your patron's plans? Do you know other servants of your patron?

How does your patron communicate with you? If you have a familiar, it might occasionally speak with your patron's voice. Some Unchained Warlocks find messages from their patrons etched on trees, mingled among tea leaves, or adrift in the clouds—messages that only the Unchained Warlock can see. Other Unchained Warlocks converse with their patrons in dreams or waking visions, or deal only with intermediaries.

Class Features

• Hit dice: 1d8 per Unchained Warlock level.
  
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
  
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Unchained Warlock level after 1st.

Eldritch Blast

At 1st level, you learn the Eldritch Blast (MCoC) Cantrip, and it does not count against your Cantrips Known.

Your Unchained Warlock Subclass will give you the ability to modify this Cantrip's' Damage Type when you deal damage with it.

At Unchained Warlock Level 5, any Unchained Warlock Cantrip you cast that rquires an Attack Roll with a Range of 10+ feet can be modified. When you cast such a Cantrip, you can either deal all of its Cantrip Upgrade damage to a single target, or reduce its Damage Dice (a D12 becomes a D10, a D10 becomes a D8, a D8 becomes a D6, and a D6 becomes a D4) and target a number of different creatures equal to the number of Damage Dice the Cantrip has, making a separate Attack Roll for each Target.

Eldritch Invocations

At 1st level, you have unearthed Eldritch Invocations, pieces of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability or other lessons. You gain one invocation of your choice, such as Pact of the Tome. Invocations are described in the "Eldritch Invocation Options" section below.

Prerequisites. If an invocation has a prerequisite, you must meet it to learn that invocation. For example, if an invocation requires you to be a level 5+ Unchained Warlock, you can select the invocation once you reach Unchained Warlock level 5.

Replacing and Gaining Invocations. Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one of your invocations with another one for which you qualify. You can't replace an invocation if it's a prerequisite for another invocation that you have.

When you gain certain Unchained Warlock levels, you gain more invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations column of the Unchained Warlock Features table.

You can't pick the same invocation more than once unless its description says otherwise.

Eldritch Smite

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 5, Pact of the Blade
Once per Round, when you declare a Melee Weapon Attack with your Pact Weapon, you can use this feature (no action required). If you score a hit, you can deal an extra 1d8 Necrotic damage to the target. This damage increases at certain Unchained Warlock Levels as described on the table below. You may deal this damage a number of times equal to the amount listed on the table below, gaining more uses at certain Unchained Warlock Levels. You regain all expended uses of this Invocation when you finish a Long Rest. If you miss the Attack, you do not expend a use of this feature (but you can still only use this Feature Once per Round). This Feature cannot be used on the same Attack as a Martial Strike, Martial Maneuver, Weapon Mastery Property, the Power Attack Class Feature, the Unchained Rogue's Sneak Attack Feature, the Uncahined Ranger's Hunter's Mark Feature, or the Unchained Paladin's Divine Smite Feature. If you miss the Attack, you do not expend a use of this feature (but you can still only use this Feature Once per Round). If you have the Eldritch Hand Warlock Invocation, you can use this Invocation on your Unarmed Strikes.

Eldritch Spear

Prerequisites: Know an Unchained Warlock Cantrip That Deals Damage
Choose one of your known Unchained Warlock cantrips that deals damage and has a range of 10+ feet. When you cast that spell, its range increases by a number of feet equal to 10 times your Unchained Warlock level.

Fiendish Vigor

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
You learn the Spell False Life, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast False Life on yourself once without expending a spell slot. When you cast the spell with this feature, you don't roll the die for the Temporary Hit Points; you automatically get the highest number on the die. You regain the ability to cast False Life in this way again when you finish a Long Rest.

Gaze of Two Minds

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 5
You can use a Bonus Action to touch a willing creature 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 take a Bonus Action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn. The connection ends if you don't maintain it in this way.

While perceiving through the other creature's senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you can cast spells as if you were in your space or the other creature's space if the two of you are within 60 feet of each other.

Gift of the Depths

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 5
You can breathe underwater, and you gain a Swim Speed equal to your Speed.

You learn the Spell Water Breathing, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can also cast Water Breathing once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast Water Breathing in this way again when you finish a Long Rest.

Gift of the Protectors

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 9, Pact of the Tome
A new page appears in your Book of Shadows when you conjure it. With your permission, a creature can take an action to write its name on that page, which can contain a number of names equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one name).

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 Long Rest.

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

Investment of the Chain Master

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 5, Pact of the Chain
When you cast Find Familiar (MCoC), you infuse the summoned familiar with a measure of your eldritch power, granting the creature the following benefits.

Aerial or Aquatic. The familiar gains either a Fly Speed or a Swim Speed (your choice) of 40 feet.

Quick Attack. As a Bonus Action, you can command the familiar to take the Attack action.

Necrotic or Radiant Damage. Whenever the familiar deals Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing damage, you can make it deal Necrotic or Radiant damage instead.

Your Save DC. If the familiar forces a creature to make a saving throw, it uses your spell save DC.

Resistance. When the familiar takes damage, you can take a Reaction to grant it Resistance against that damage.

Lessons of the First Ones

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
You have received knowledge from an elder entity of the multiverse, allowing you to gain one Origin feat of your choice.

Repeatable. You can gain this invocation more than once. Each time you do so, choose a different Origin feat.

Lifedrinker

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 9, Pact of the Blade
Once per round, when you hit a creature with your Pact Weapon, you can deal an extra 1d6 Necrotic, Psychic, or Radiant damage (your choice when you score a hit) to the creature, and you can expend one of your Hit Dice to roll it and regain a number of Hit Points equal to the roll plus your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 Hit Point).

Mask of Many Faces

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 2
You learn the Spell Disguise Self, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast Disguise Self without expending a spell slot.

Master of Myriad Forms

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 5
You learn the Spell Alter Self, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast Alter Self without expending a spell slot.

Misty Visions

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
You learn the Spell Silent Image, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast Silent Image without expending a spell slot.

One With Shadows

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 3
You learn the Spell Invisibility, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. While you're in an area of Dim Light or Darkness, you can cast Invisibility on yourself without expending a spell slot.

Otherworldly Leap

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
You learn the Spell Jump, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast Jump on yourself without expending a spell slot.

Pact of the Blade

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
As a Bonus Action, you can conjure a pact weapon in your hand — a Simple or Martial Melee weapon of your choice with which you bond—or create a bond with a magic weapon you touch; you can't bond with a magic weapon if someone else is attuned to it or another Unchained Warlock is bonded with it. Until the bond ends, you have proficiency with the weapon, and you can use it as a Spellcasting Focus.

Whenever you attack with the bonded weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity; and you can cause the weapon to deal Necrotic, Psychic, or Radiant damage or its normal damage type.

Your bond with the weapon ends if you use this feature's Bonus Action again, if the weapon is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more, or if you die. A conjured weapon disappears when the bond ends.

Pact of the Chain

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
You learn the Find Familiar (McoC) spell, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast Find Familiar (MCoC) as a Magic action without expending a spell slot.

When you cast the spell, you choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: Imp, Pseudodragon, Quasit, Skeleton, Slaad Tadpole, Sphinx of Wonder, Sprite, or Venomous Snake (see the 2024 Player's Handbook and 2025 Monster Manual for these creatures' statblocks).

Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one attack of its own with its Reaction.

Pact of the Tome

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature
Stitching together strands of shadow, you conjure forth a book in your hand at the end of a Short or Long Rest. This Book of Shadows (you determine its appearance) contains eldritch magic that only you can access, granting you the benefits below. The book disappears if you conjure another book with this feature or if you die.

Cantrips and Rituals. When the book appears, choose three cantrips, and choose two level 1 spells that have the Ritual tag. The spells can be from any class's spell list, and they must be spells you don't already have prepared. While the book is on your person, you have the chosen spells prepared, they don't count against your total Unchained Warlock Spells prepared, and they function as Unchained Warlock spells for you.

Spellcasting Focus. You can use the book as a Spellcasting Focus.

Repelling Cantrip

Prerequisites: Pact Magic Class Feature, Know an Unchained Warlock Cantrip That Deals Damage via an Attack Roll
Choose one of your known Unchained Warlock cantrips that requires an attack roll. When you hit a Large or smaller creature with that cantrip, you can push the creature up to 10 feet straight away from you.

Thirsting Blade

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 5, Pact of the Blade
You gain the Extra Attack feature for your pact weapon only. With that feature, you can attack twice with the weapon instead of once when you take the Attack action on your turn. You can also replace one of these attacks with the casting of an Unchained Warlock Cantrip.

Visions of Distant Realms

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 7
You learn the Spell Arcane Eye, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. Yoy can cast Arcane Eye without expending a spell slot.

Whispers of the Grave

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 3
You learn the Spell Speak with Dead, always have it prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. You can cast Speak with Dead without expending a spell slot.

Witch Sight

Prerequisites: Unchained Warlock Level 15
You have Truesight with a range of 30 feet.

Pact Magic

At 1st level, Through occult ceremony, you have formed a pact with a mysterious entity to gain magical powers. The entity is a voice in the shadows—its identity unclear—but its boon to you is concrete: the ability to cast spells. See chapter 7 of the 2024 Player's Handbook for the rules on spellcasting. The information below details how you use those rules with Unchained Warlock spells, which appear on page 33 of this document.

Cantrips. You know two Unchained Warlock cantrips of your choice. Fire Bolt and Prestidigitation are recommended. Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one of your cantrips from this feature with another Unchained Warlock cantrip of your choice.

When you reach Unchained Warlock levels 4 and 10, you learn another Unchained Warlock cantrip of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips column of the Unchained Warlock Features table.

Spell Slots. The Unchained Warlock Features table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your Unchained Warlock spells of levels 1–5. The table also shows the level of those slots, all of which are the same level. You regain all expended Pact Magic spell slots when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

For example, when you're a level 5 Unchained Warlock, you have four level 3 spell slots. To cast the level 1 spell Witch Bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you must cast it as a level 3 spell.

Prepared Spells of Level 1+. You prepare the list of level 1+ spells that are available for you to cast with this feature. To start, choose three level 1 Unchained Warlock spells. Cause Fear (XGE), Charm Person, and Hex are recommended.

The number of spells on your list increases as you gain Unchained Warlock levels, as shown in the Prepared Spells column of the Unchained Warlock Features table. Whenever that number increases, choose additional Unchained Warlock spells until the number of spells on your list matches the number in the table. The chosen spells must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach level 6, for example, you learn a new Unchained Warlock spell, which can be of levels 1–3.

If another Unchained Warlock feature gives you spells that you always have prepared, those spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare with this feature, but those spells otherwise count as Unchained Warlock spells for you.

Changing Your Prepared Spells. Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one spell on your list with another Unchained Warlock spell of an eligible level.

Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is the spellcasting ability for your Unchained Warlock spells.

Spellcasting Focus. You can use an Arcane Focus as a Spellcasting Focus for your Unchained Warlock spells.

Unchained Warlock Subclass

At 1st level, you gain an Unchained Warlock subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Unchained Warlock levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Unchained Warlock level or lower.

Unchained Warlocks have Contracts with their Patrons. See page 33 of Unchained Rules for more information on forming your contract, and page 32 of that document for what could happen should you break the terms of your contract with your Patron.

Patron's Gift

At 2nd level, your patron gifts you with their power. Choose one Level 1 Unchained Warlock Spell granted by your Subclass. Once per Long Rest, you can cast that spell without expending a Spell Slot.

You choose an additional spell from the list granted by your Subclass at Unchained Warlock Levels 4 (Level 2), 6 (Level 3), 8 (Level 4), and 10 (Level 5).

Eldritch Scholar

at 3rd level, you add your Charisma Modifier (minimum +1) to all Intelligence (Arcana), Intelligence (History), and Wisdom (Nature) Skill Checks you make.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach Unchained Warlock Level 4, and again at Unchained Warlock Levels 8, 12, and 16, you gain the Ability Score Improvement Feat as well as one other feat of your choice for which you qualify.

Magical Cunning

At 6th level, you can perform an esoteric rite for 1 minute. At the end of it, you regain expended Pact Magic spell slots but no more than a number equal to half your maximum (round up). Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Contact Patron

At 9th level, you can communicate directly with your Patron; you always have the Contact Other Plane spell prepared, and it counts as an Unchained Warlock Spell for you. With this feature, you can cast the spell without expending a spell slot to contact your patron, and you automatically succeed on the spell's saving throw.

Once you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so in this way again until you finish a Long Rest.

Mystic Arcanum (6th Level)

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose two 6th-level spells as this arcanum.

You can cast each of the Spells from your arcanum once without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a Long Rest before you can cast either in this way again.

Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one of your arcanum spells with another Unchained Warlock spell of the same level.

Mystic Arcanum (7th Level)

At 13th level, you learn and always have prepared two level 7 Unchained Warlock Spells of your choice.

You can cast each of the Spells from your arcanum once without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a Long Rest before you can cast either in this way again.

Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one of your arcanum spells with another Unchained Warlock spell of the same level.

Mystic Arcanum (8th Level)

At 15th level, you learn and always have prepared two level 8 Unchained Warlock Spells of your choice.

You can cast each of the Spells from your arcanum once without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a Long Rest before you can cast either in this way again.

Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one of your arcanum spells with another Unchained Warlock spell of the same level.

Eldritch Gifts

At 17th level, choose a single level 1 Unchained Warlock spell. You always have this spell Prepared, it does not count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you may cast the spell without expending a Spell Slot.

When you finish a Long Rest, you can change which Spell is affected by this feature. If you do, the previous spell loses the benefits of this Feature, including being prepared (though you can choose to prepare it normally instead, in which case it still loses the other benefits of this feature).

Mystic Arcanum (9th Level)

At 17th level, you learn and always have prepared one level 9 Unchained Warlock Spell of your choice.

You can cast this spell from your arcanum once without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a Long Rest before you can cast it in this way again.

Whenever you gain an Unchained Warlock level, you can replace one of your arcanum spells with another Unchained Warlock spell of the same level.

Patron's Favor

At 18th level, you can now cast all of the Spells granted by your Unchained Warlock Subclass without expending a Spell Slot, but if you do, they are cast at their lowest level.

Epic Boon

At 19th Level, you gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Boon of Spell Recall is recommended.

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, when you use your Magical Cunning feature, you regain all your expended Pact Magic spell slots.

Additionally, choose a level 3 Unchained Warlock spell other than one granted by an Eldritch Invocation or your Unchained Warlock Subclass. You can cast this Unchained Warlock spell without expending a Spell Slot. When you do so, it is cast as a level 3 Spell, and you can't cast it in this way again until you finish a short or long rest.

Patron's Chosen

At 20th level, you are your Patron's Chosen One. Your Charisma score increases by 4, to a maximum of 26.

Ancient Dragon

Your patron is a mighty Ancient Dragon, a dragon who has lived for hundreds of human lifetimes and amassed great wealth and power. Now, it shares some of its power with you. Ancient Dragons often forge pacts with lesser folk so that they have reliable servants. Chromatic dragons tend to forge these pacts so that they can have loyal servants to aid in expanding their hoard and slay any who come to do harm to the dragon, Metallic dragons tend to make pacts so that they have loyal defenders of themselves and their hoard as well as emissaries to nearby lands, and Gem dragons vary wildly but often use their Unchained Warlocks to broaden their knowledge of the multiverse without having to abandon their precious hoards.

Lightning

Necrotic

Poison

Psychic

Radiant

Thunder

Dragon's Blessing

At 1st level, if you cast a Spell from the Ancient Dragon Spell List or a Spell chosen with your Mystic Arcanum Unchained Warlock Feature as an Unchained Warlock Spell that deals damage, you can change its damage type to that of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type (no action required). If it deals multiple Types of Damage, you choose one Damage Type to change.

Additionally, when you cast a spell whose original Damage Type is that of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Type, you add your Charisma Modifier to the damage you deal once.

Dragon's Influence

At 1st level, your body is altered by your Patron's influence. Your base Armor Class is 10 plus your Charisma and Constitution Modifiers when not wearing armor. You can wear a shield and still gain this benefit. When you reach 10th level in the Unchained Warlock class, your base Armor Class increases by 1 when using this feature.

Dragon's Transmutation

At 5th level, your body is further twisted by your patron's influence to become more like them. You gain resistance against your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type.

Additionally, you grow a pair of draconic wings that grant you a fly speed equal to your speed. You can retract or extend these wings as a Bonus Action.

Dragon's Fury

At 10th level, if a creature succeeds on a Saving Throw against an Unchained Warlock Spell you cast that deals your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type, you can force that creature to re-roll its saving throw once and use the new result.

You must finish a Short or Long Rest to use this feature again.

Draconic Echo

At 15th level, your patron's influence has given you the ability to take on a form that echoes their own. As a Bonus Action, you can transform yourself into a Draconic Echo. You remain in this form for 10 minutes, until you are reduced to 0 hit points, or you revert to your normal form as a Bonus Action.

• You become Huge in size.
• Your Creature Type becomes Dragon instead of its normal type.
• Your Resistance to your Patron's Eldritch Damage Type becomes Immunity.
• Your Speed becomes 40 feet if it isn't already, and you gaim a Climb and Fly Speed equal to your Speed.
• You gain 30 feet of blindsight and 60 feet of darkvision.
• You can make a special Unarmed Attack called a Rend Attack. It has a range of 10 feet, deals 2d6 Slashing Damage and 1d6 of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Type and uses your Charisma Modifier for its attack and damage rolls.
• When you take the Attack Action, you can make three Rend Attacks. You can replace one of these Rend Attacks with a casting of an Unchained Warlock Cantrip with a casting time of an Action.
• You can replace one of your Attack with a Breath Weapon use. This Breath Weapon strikes all creatures in a 60-foot cone, who must make a Dexterity Saving Throw against your Unchained Warlock Spell Save DC. On a failure, a creature takes 12d6 damage of your Patron's Eldritch Damage Type. On a success, a creature takes half damage. You may only use this Breath Weapon once per use of this transformation.

You must finish a Long Rest to use this feature again unless you expend one use of your Mystic Arcanum Spell Uses to use it again.

Archfey Patron

Your pact draws on the power of the Feywild. When you choose this subclass, you might make a deal with an archfey, such as the Prince of Frost; the Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the Gloaming Court; Titania of the Summer Court; or an ancient hag. Or you might call on a spectrum of Fey, weaving a web of favors and debts. Whoever they are, your patron is often inscrutable and whimsical.

Celestial Patron

Your pact draws on the Upper Planes, the realms of everlasting bliss. You might enter an agreement with an empyrean, a couatl, a sphinx, a unicorn, or another heavenly entity. Or you might call on numerous such beings as you pursue goals aligned with theirs. Your pact allows you to experience a hint of the holy light that illuminates the multiverse.

Fathomless

You have plunged into a pact with the deeps. An entity of the ocean, the Elemental Plane of Water, or another otherworldly sea now allows you to draw on its thalassic power. Is it merely using you to learn about terrestrial realms, or does it want you to open cosmic floodgates and drown the world?

Fiend Patron

Your pact draws on the Lower Planes, the realms of perdition. You might forge a bargain with a demon lord such as Demogorgon or Orcus; an archdevil such as Asmodeus; or a pit fiend, balor, yugoloth, or night hag that is especially mighty. That patron's aims are evil—the corruption or destruction of all things, ultimately including you—and your path is defined by the extent to which you strive against those aims.

Genie

You have made a pact with one of the rarest kinds of genie, a noble genie. Such entities rule vast fiefs on the Elemental Planes and have great influence over lesser genies and elemental creatures. Noble genies are varied in their motivations, but most are arrogant and wield power that rivals that of lesser deities. They delight in turning the table on mortals, who often bind genies into servitude, and readily enter into pacts that expand their reach.

Elemental Gift

At 5th 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).

In addition, as a bonus action, you can give yourself a fly speed equal to your speed that lasts for 10 minutes, during which you can hover. You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your Charisma Modifier (minimum once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Short or long rest.

Sanctuary Vessel

At 10th level, you enter your Genie's Vessel via the Bottled Respite feature, you can now choose up to five willing creatures that you can see within 30 feet of you, and the chosen creatures are drawn into the vessel with you.

As a bonus action, you can eject any number of creatures from the vessel, and everyone is ejected if you leave or die or if the vessel is destroyed.

In addition, anyone (including you) who remains within the vessel for at least 10 minutes gains the benefit of finishing a short rest, and anyone can add your proficiency bonus to the number of hit points they regain if they spend any Hit Dice as part of a short rest there.

Limited Wish

At 15th level, you entreat your patron to grant you a small wish. As an action, you can speak your desire to your Genie's Vessel, requesting the effect of one spell that is 6th level or lower and has a casting time of 1 action. The spell can be from any class's spell list, and you don't need to meet the requirements in that spell, including costly components; the spell simply takes effect as part of this action.

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

Great Old One Patron

When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the Chained God; Zargon, the Returner; Hadar, the Dark Hunger; or Great Cthulhu. Or you might invoke several entities without yoking yourself to one. The motives of these beings are incomprehensible, and the Great Old One might be indifferent to your existence. But the secrets you've learned nevertheless allow you to draw strange magic from it.

Thought Shield

At 5th 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 take.

Greedallion

You have made a pact with a Greedallion, creatures made through forbidden alchemical rituals and made up of steel coins known as medallions as well as crystal and gold coins known as Core Medallions. The latter grant great power to those who posses them, and in pursuit of their desires your patron has gifted you with the ability to make use of them to further their goals. Greedallion resemble a chimera of animals in humanoid form, but all of their animals follow a general type of creature; perhaps your patron is one whose Core Medallions are themed around various subspecies of bird, or maybe they're based on insects or aquatic life.

Greedallion Armaments

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with Longswords and Battleaxes, and you can use a Longsword or Battleaxe you are wielding as a Spellcasting Focus for your Unchained Warlock Spells.

Greedallion Buckler

At 1st level, you gain a +1 to Armor Class while wearing Light Armor or benefiting from the Armor of Shadows Eldritch Invocation. This bonus increases to +2 at Unchained Warlock Level 15.

Greedallion Cores

At 1st level, you gain a special belt buckle called a Greedallion Core Scanner with three slots to hold Greedallion Cores and Greedallion Cores from list in Greedallion Cores section below. Cores are Tiny objects shaped like coins made of glass with gold around the edge.

Core Types. Cores have three Slot Types: Head, Torso, and Leg. You can only benefit from three Cores at a time, one of each Slot Type. You must choose at least one Head, one Torso, and one Leg Core when you gain this feature.

Gaining Cores. You gain four Cores at Unchained Warlock Level 1, two of which must be of your Patron's Greedallion Form, and the Head Core you choose must be one from your Patron's Greedallion Form. You gain an additional four cores at Unchained Warlock Levels 5, 10, and 15.

Preparing Cores. When you gain this feature and again when you finish a Short or Long Rest, choose three Cores you have in your possession; a Head, a Torso, and a Leg. You gain the benefits of those Cores.

Changing Cores. You can change one Core for another of its slot as a Bonus Action.

Core Combos. If you have three Cores of the same Greedallion Type, you create a Core Combo. This confers the benefits listed for each in the Core Combos section below. Once you equip a Core Combo, it lasts for 1 minute or until you are reduced to 0 hit points, at which point all three cores eject themselves. Once you use a Core Combo, you cannot use it again until you finish a Long Rest. If you try to do so, you instantly gain 1 level of exhaustion and do not gain the benefits of that Combo.

Restoring Cores. If a Core is somehow destroyed, you cannot use it until it has been restored. You can estore it at the end of your next Long Rest provided you perform a 1-hour long ritual to do so during the Long Rest.

Core Saving Throws. If a Core's feature would cause a creature to make a Saving Throw, it is made against your Unchained Warlock Spell Save DC.

Greedallion Charge

At 5th level, when you deal damage with a Longsword or Battleaxe, you can deal 1d6 damage of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type. You can deal this extra damage Once per Round. This increases to 1d8 at Unchained Warlock Level 15. If you have the benefits of the Eldritch Hand Eldritch Invocation, your Unarmed Strikes also benefit from this Feature.

Core Recovery

At 10th level, you may drain the power from a Core to restore one Pact Magic Spell slot as a Bonus Action. While drained, a Core does not grant its benefits.

You can only use this feature once per Long Rest, and any drained Cores are restored at the end of a Long Rest.

Greedallion's Favor

At 15th level, your Patron briefly appears to aid you in battle. You gain access to the following options, which can be taken as a Reaction.

Patron's Guard. When you would be hit with an Attack, you can use a reaction to reduce the damage by 1d8 plus your Unchained Warlock Level.

Patron's Grace. When you would fail a Saving Throw against a Spell that inlifcts the Charmed condition on you or that deals the Damage of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type, you can re-roll that save once and must use the new result.

Patron Strike. When you miss with a Melee Weapon Attack using a Longsword or Battleaxe, you can use a reaction to force the target of the attack to take 1d8 damage of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type. If you have the benefits of the Eldritch Hand Eldritch Invocation, your Unarmed Strikes also benefit from this Feature.

Patron's Will. When a creature succeeds on a Saving Throw against an Unchained Warlock Spell you cast that deals damage of your Patron's Eldritch Magic Damage Type, you can use a reaction to force the creature to re-roll that save once, and it must use the new result.

You can use this Feature a number of times equal to your Charisma Modifier (minimum once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You can also expend one of your Mystic Arcanum uses to use this feature again if you have no uses remaining.

Greedallion Cores

Core Combos

Hexblade Patron

You’ve made a pact with a sentient magic weapon and the cursed forces contained within its blade. Such a weapon could be the sword sheathed at an Unchained Warlock’s side, or it could be an infamous magic weapon stored elsewhere, projecting its power across the multiverse to further its cunning plans. To those who are willing to follow this weapon’s whims, these inscrutable patrons offer the power to bestow malignant curses, deliver punishing blows, and bolster the wielder.

Malign Brutality

At 5th level, Your patron's might furthers your bloodthirst, granting you the following benefits.

Harrowing Hex. After you cast a level 1+ Unchained Warlock spell that has a casting time of an action, you can make one attack with a Melee Weapon as a Bonus Action. You may make an Attack in this way a number of times equal to your Charisma Modifier (minimum once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Hindering Curse. When you hit the target cursed by your Hexblade's Curse with an attack roll using a Melee Weapon, the target has Disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a Spell before the end of your next turn.

Inescapable Hex. When the target of your Hexblade's Curse ends its turn 30 feet or further from you, you can use a Reaction to move up to your Speed straight toward the target.

Armor of Hexes

At 10th level, when you take damage from the target cursed by your Hexblade's Curse Subclass Feature, you can take a Reaction to reduce the damage you take by an amount equal to 1d8 plus your Charisma Modifier plus half of your Unchained Warlock Level (rounded down). If this reduces the damage you take to 0, the target of your Hex immediately takes 1d8 plus your Charisma Modifier in Necrotic Damage.

Masterful Hex

At 15th level, your patron’s accursed might flows even more strongly through you, granting the following benefits.

Accursed Critical. Any attack roll you make against the target cursed by your Hex with a Melee Weapon scores a Critical Hit on a roll of a 18, 19, or 20 on the d20.

Explosive Hex. When you deal damage to the target cursed by your Hexblade's Curse, you can cause your curse to explode with sinister energy. The target and each creature of your choice in a 30-foot Emanation originating from the target take 3d6 Necrotic, Psychic, or Radiant damage (your choice), and their Speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. Once you use this benefit, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest unless you expend a Pact Magic slot (no action required) to restore your use of it.

Hex Restoration. You regain one expended use of Hexblade's Curse when you finish a Short Rest or use your Magical Cunning feature.

Observer

Your patron is some great, extraplanar intelligence that craves knowledge of all of reality. It might be a being of pure magic, a great scholar who has transcended the physical planes, or simply an unkowable being that seeks to hoard knowledge. Regardless, your Patron uses you to gain new knowledge for its repository, and in turn shares some of its knowledge with you. Warlocks who have an Observer Patron are uniquely scholarly in their pursuits, making them uniquely suited to using their sharp minds rather than force of personality for their Pact Magic.

Raven Queen

Your patron is the Raven Queen, a mysterious being who rules the Shadowfell from a palace of ice deep within that dread realm. The Raven Queen watches over the world, anticipating each creature's death and ensuring that it meets its end at the proscribed time and place. As the ruler of the Shadowfell, she dwells in a decayed, dark reflection of the world. Her ability to reach into the world is limited. Thus, she turns to mortal Unchained Warlocks to serve her will. Unchained Warlocks sworn to the Raven Queen receive visions and whispers from her in their dreams, sending them on quests and warning them of impending dangers.

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.

Sorcerer-King Patron

Your pact draws from the power of a monstrous, tyrannical force akin to a demigod or an overwhelmingly powerful magic-user. Through your pact, you herald this tyrant's interests in the world, channeling their influence and mind-bending, psionic power.

Undead Patron

You’ve made a pact with a creature that defies the cycle of life and death: a powerful lich, vampire, or other entity of undeath. Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient patrons know firsthand the paths of ambition and the routes past the doors of death. They eagerly share this profane knowledge, along with other secrets, with those who work their will among the living.

Blade Ward (MCoC)
Booming Blade (TCE)
Chill Touch
Eldritch Blast (MCoC)
Encode Thoughts (SCC)
Fire Bolt
Friends
Frostbite (XGE)
Green-Flame Blade (TCE)
Lightning Lure (TCE)
Mage Hand
Mending
Message
Mind Sliver
Minor Illusion
Poison Spray
Prestidigitation
Resistance
Starry Wisp
Sword Burst (TCE)
Thaumaturgy
Thunderclap
Toll the Dead
True Strike
Tyrant's Tail (SCoC)
Vicious Mockery

Credits

Changelog