Warlock
d8 hit dice
- Light armor
- Simple weapons
- WIS
- CHA
Level Chart
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| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Invocations Known | Cantrips Known | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
| 1st | +2 | Otherworldly Patron, Pact Magic | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 2nd | +2 | Choose: Eldritch Invocations | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 3rd | +2 | Choose: Pact Boon | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 5th | +3 | Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 3 | 3 | 6 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 6th | +3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 7th | +3 | Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 4 | 3 | 8 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 9th | +4 | Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 5 | 3 | 10 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | |
| 10th | +4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | ||
| 11th | +4 | Mystic Arcanum (6th level) | 5 | 4 | 11 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement 3, Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 6 | 4 | 11 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | |
| 13th | +5 | Mystic Arcanum (7th level) | 6 | 4 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | |
| 14th | +5 | 6 | 4 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | ||
| 15th | +5 | Mystic Arcanum (8th level), Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 7 | 4 | 13 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | |
| 17th | +6 | Mystic Arcanum (9th level) | 7 | 4 | 14 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | |
| 18th | +6 | Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 8 | 4 | 14 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement 6 | 8 | 4 | 15 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | |
| 20th | +6 | Eldritch Master, Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation | 8 | 4 | 15 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | |
Class Features
Otherworldly Patron (Level 1)
At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice: the Archfey, the Fiend, or the Great Old One, each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
Pact Magic (Level 1)
Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells.
Choose: Eldritch Invocations (Level 2)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Invocation: Agonizing Blast (Level 2)
When you cast eldritch blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.
Eldritch Invocation: Armor of Shadows (Level 2)
You can cast mage armor on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.
Eldritch Invocation: Beast Speech (Level 2)
You can cast speak with animals at will, without expending a spell slot.
Eldritch Invocation: Beguiling Influence (Level 2)
You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.
Eldritch Invocation: Book of Ancient Secrets (Level 2)
You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class's spell list (the two needn't be from the same 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 as rituals. You can't cast the spells 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.
Eldritch Invocation: Devil's Sight (Level 2)
You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
Eldritch Invocation: Eldritch Sight (Level 2)
You can cast detect magic at will, without expending a spell slot.
Eldritch Invocation: Eldritch Spear (Level 2)
When you cast eldritch blast, its range is 300 feet.
Eldritch Invocation: Eyes of the Rune Keeper (Level 2)
You can read all writing.
Eldritch Invocation: Fiendish Vigor (Level 2)
You can cast false life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.
Eldritch Invocation: Gaze of Two Minds (Level 2)
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.
Eldritch Invocation: Mask of Many Faces (Level 2)
You can cast disguise self at will, without expending a spell slot.
Eldritch Invocation: Misty Visions (Level 2)
You can cast silent image at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.
Eldritch Invocation: Repelling Blast (Level 2)
When you hit a creature with eldritch blast, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.
Eldritch Invocation: Thief of Five Fates (Level 2)
You can cast bane once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Invocation: Voice of the Chain Master (Level 2)
You can communicate telepathically with your familiar 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 senses, you can also speak through your familiar in your own voice, even if your familiar is normally incapable of speech.
Choose: Pact Boon (Level 3)
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 Blade (Level 3)
You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it. You are proficient with it while you wield it. 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.If your patron is the Archfey, your weapon might be a slender blade wrapped in leafy vines. If you serve the Fiend, your weapon could be an axe made of black metal and adorned with decorative flames. If your patron is the Great Old One, your weapon might be an ancient-looking spear, with a gemstone embedded in its head, carved to look like a terrible unblinking eye.
Pact of the Chain (Level 3)
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, 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.Your familiar is more cunning than a typical familiar. Its default form can be a reflection of your patron, with sprites and pseudodragons tied to the Archfey and imps and quasits tied to the Fiend. Because the Great Old One's nature is inscrutable, any familiar form is suitable for it.
Pact of the Tome (Level 3)
Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class's spell list (the three needn't be from the same list). While the book is on your person, you can cast those cantrips at will. They don't count against your number of cantrips known. If they don't appear on the warlock spell list, they are nonetheless warlock spells for you.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.Your Book of Shadows might be a fine, gilt-edged tome with spells of enchantment and illusion, gifted to you by the lordly Archfey. It could be a weighty tome bound in demon hide studded with iron, holding spells of conjuration and a wealth of forbidden lore about the sinister regions of the cosmos, a gift of the Fiend. Or it could be the tattered diary of a lunatic driven mad by contact with the Great Old One, holding scraps of spells that only your own burgeoning insanity allows you to understand and cast.
Ability Score Improvement 1 (Level 4)
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 5)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Invocation: Mire the Mind (Level 5)
You can cast slow once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Invocation: One with Shadows (Level 5)
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.
Eldritch Invocation: Sign of Ill Omen (Level 5)
You can cast bestow curse once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Invocation: Thirsting Blade (Level 5)
You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 7)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Invocation: Bewitching Whispers (Level 7)
You can cast compulsion once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Invocation: Dreadful Word (Level 7)
You can cast confusion once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Invocation: Sculptor of Flesh (Level 7)
You can cast polymorph once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Ability Score Improvement 2 (Level 8)
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 9)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Invocation: Ascendant Step (Level 9)
You can cast levitate on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.
Eldritch Invocation: Minions of Chaos (Level 9)
You can cast conjure elemental once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Invocation: Otherworldly Leap (Level 9)
You can cast jump on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.
Eldritch Invocation: Whispers of the Grave (Level 9)
You can cast speak with dead at will, without expending a spell slot.
Mystic Arcanum (6th level) (Level 11)
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 can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. 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.
Ability Score Improvement 3 (Level 12)
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 12)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Invocation: Lifedrinker (Level 12)
When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Mystic Arcanum (7th level) (Level 13)
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 can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. 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.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 15)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Invocation: Chains of Carceri (Level 15)
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.
Eldritch Invocation: Master of Myriad Forms (Level 15)
You can cast alter self at will, without expending a spell slot.
Eldritch Invocation: Visions of Distant Realms (Level 15)
You can cast arcane eye at will, without expending a spell slot.
Eldritch Invocation: Witch Sight (Level 15)
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.
Mystic Arcanum (8th level) (Level 15)
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 can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. 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.
Ability Score Improvement 5 (Level 16)
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Mystic Arcanum (9th level) (Level 17)
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 can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. 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.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 18)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Ability Score Improvement 6 (Level 19)
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Choose: Additional Eldritch Invocation (Level 20)
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. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.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.
Eldritch Master (Level 20)
At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of mystical power while entreating your patron to regain expended spell slots. You can spend 1 minute entreating your patron for aid to regain all your expended spell slots from your Pact Magic feature.Once you regain spell slots with this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.