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Undying warlock 5e scag12/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Clearly this is situational, but could be hilarious.įinally, at level 14, you get Dark Delirium. This lasts 1 minute or until the creature takes damage. You're immune to the charmed condition, and when another creature attempts to charm you, you can use your reaction to charm them back, forcing a Wisdom save. Pretty good.Īt 10, you get Beguiling Defenses. Honestly, this is a pretty good survival ability that can get you out of trouble in a pinch. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible (which prevents opportunity attacks) and teleport 60 feet to an unoccupied space you see, staying invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell (which you're unlikely to do, given that you just used your reaction.) You can use this once per short or long rest. A tad underwhelming, but you are only level 1 when you get this.Īt level 6, you get Misty Escape. You can do this once per short or long rest. As an action, you can make each creature in a 10 foot cube surrounding you make a wisdom save or become charmed or frightened by you until the end of your next turn (you choose the charm or fear effect). There are some really good ones in here, and I'd highly recommend grabbing faerie fire from the get go. Your expanded spell list has faerie fire, sleep, calm emotions, phantasmal force, blink, plant growth, dominate beast, greater invisibility, dominate person, and seeming. ![]() Norrel is the best example of this I can think of.) Anyway: (The Gentleman with the Thistle-Down Hair from the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Let's start with the early Warlock patrons.įrom the get-go, the Archfey gives you a possibility for a more benign patron, but on the other hand, Fey can be extremely nasty - not only can your patron be a coven of hags, but you could also just have a traditionally handsome elf-prince who just has a 100% alien sense of morals. It sort of becomes just anything that you want, which is a shame, because I think having a dedicated Shadowfell patron (which the Hexblade kind of hints at) would be really cool (though the Undying and Undead patrons both can fit this as well.) Were I to redesign the class, I'd give the Hexblade's Hex Warrior features (specifically being able to use charisma for attacks with your chosen weapon and getting Medium Armor and Shields) to anyone who takes Pact of the Blade. The Hexblade (which we're going to cover in the next post) brings so much to the table at level 1 that I think just about every Warlock character I've seen on any streaming show, and most that I encounter while playing, pick this subclass, which also has, in my mind, the least-defined flavor. The subclass-associated spells are also a bit weird, as unlike basically every other class that gives additional spells based on subclass, these are simply added as options for you, and not just granted to you automatically.īefore we even get started, I'll mention that I think of all classes, Warlocks suffer from having one subclass that is overshadowingly powerful. At later levels, the Mystic Arcana ironically start to work more like traditional casting (even a Wizard never gets more than one 8th or 9th level spell slot.) It's also a very weird kind of pure caster, thanks to the tiny number of spell slots you get. Warlocks are also a very customizable class, thanks to Eldritch Invocations, so some options can play very differently. When looking at subclasses, we're going to be specifically talking about Patrons, as opposed to Pact Boons, which I think tend to have a smaller impact on the character. While you're free to come up with a character who has already fulfilled their end of the Pact, you can also make one who still has some duties to perform, and given that Warlocks often make deals with extremely dangerous and potentially evil patrons, such pacts can create big conflicts. The Warlock is maybe my favorite class in terms of flavor. ![]()
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