Subclass Changes

Subclass Changes [buffs]

• Archfey Warlock
• Celestial Warlock - minor
• Fathomless Warlock - minor
• Fiend Warlock - minor
• Great Old One Warlock
• Hexblade Warlock changed to Shadow Warlock
• Undying Warlock

The Archfey [Warlock]

Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey, a creature of legend who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races were born. This being's motivations are often inscrutable, and sometimes whimsical, and might involve a striving for greater magical power or the settling of age-old grudges. Beings of this sort include the Prince of Frost; the Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the Gloaming Court; Titania of the Summer Court; her consort Oberon, the Green Lord; Hyrsam, the Prince of Fools; and ancient hags.

Expanded Spell List

• The Archfey lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st - bane, faerie fire, sleep, wrathful smite
• 2nd - calm emotions, moonbeam
• 3rd - catnap, phantom steed
• 4th -  greater invisibility, phantasmal killer, staggering smite
• 5th - dominate person, geas, seeming

Bonus Cantrip

• At 1st level, you learn the friends cantrip. This counts as a warlock cantrip for you, but they don't count against your number of cantrips known.

Fey Presence

• Starting at 1st level, your patron bestows upon you the ability to project the beguiling and fearsome presence of the fey. As an action, you can cause each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. The creatures that fail their saving throws are all charmed or frightened by you (your choice) until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
  
  Additionally, when you reach level 10, this feature ignores creatures' immunity to being charmed and frightened and the radius increases to a 40-foot-radius. 

Misty Escape

• Starting at 6th level, you can vanish in a puff of mist in response to the possibility of harm. When you are about to take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible and teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You remain invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell.

Beguiling Defenses

• Beginning at 10th level, your patron teaches you how to turn the mind-affecting magic of your enemies against them. You are immune to being charmed & frightened, and when another creature attempts to charm or fear you, you can use your reaction to attempt to turn the charm or fear back on that creature. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be charmed or feared by you for 1 minute or until the creature takes any damage.
  
  If the creature is immune to the Charmed and Frightened condition, it has advantage on the saving throw instead.

Dark Delirium

• Starting at 14th level, you can plunge a creature into an illusory realm. As an action, choose a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. It must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. A creature that is already charmed or frightened by you automatically fails the saving throw. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute. This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage.
  
  Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a misty realm, the appearance of which you choose. The creature can see and hear only itself, you, and the illusion.
  
  You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.
• removed concentration effect

The Celestial [Warlock]

Minor Buff

Expanded Spell List

• The Celestial lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st - bless, guiding bolt, shield of faith
• 2nd - aid, lesser resotration, prayer of healing
• 3rd - daylight, aura of vitality, revivify 
• 4th -  guardian of faith, wall of fire
• 5th - greater restoration. hallow, summon celestial

Radiant Soul

• Starting at 6th level, your link to the Celestial allows you to serve as a conduit for radiant energy. You have resistance to radiant damage and you know the Celestial language.
  
  Additionally, when you are damaged by a creature, as a reaction, you can roll 4d12 and reduce the damage by that amount. If it reduces the damage to 0, the creature that tried to damage you takes the rolled amount in radiant damage.
  
  Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Mystic Arcanum: Expanded

The Fathomless [Warlock]

Minor Buff

Expanded Spell List

• The Fathomless lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st - create or destroy water, frost fingers, ice knife
• 2nd - Rime's binding ice, silence, Tasha's mind whip
• 3rd - call lightning, sleet storm, tidal wave
• 4th -  control water, summon elemental (water only), storm sphere, watery sphere
• 5th - Bigby's hand (appears as a tentacle), conjure elemental (water only), maelstrom

Bonus Cantrip

• At 1st level, you learn the shape water cantrip. This counts as a warlock cantrip for you, but they don't count against your number of cantrips known.

Tentacle of the Deeps

• Starting at 1st level, You can magically summon a spectral tentacle that strikes at your foes. As a bonus action, you create a 10-foot-long tentacle at a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The tentacle lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature to create another tentacle.
  
  When you create the tentacle, you can make a melee spell attack against one creature within 10 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 1d12 cold damage, and its speed is reduced by half of its movement speed until the start of your next turn. When you reach 10th level in this class, the damage increases to 2d12.
  
  

Oceanic Soul

• At 6th level, you are now even more at home in the depths. You gain resistance to cold damage. You can speak, read, and write Primordial. Primordial is a guttural language, filled with harsh syllables and hard consonants. In addition, when you are fully submerged, any creature that is also fully submerged can understand your speech, and you can understand theirs.

Fathomless Plunge

• At 14th level, you can magically open temporary conduits to watery destinations. As an action, you can teleport yourself and up to five other willing creatures that you can see within 30 feet of you. Amid a whirl of tentacles, you all vanish and then reappear up in a body of water you've seen (pond size or larger) or within 30 feet of it, each of you appearing in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the others.
  
  Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• removed distance limitation

The Fiend [Warlock]

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

Expanded Spell List

• The Fiend lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st - burning hands, command, searing smite, wrathful smite
• 2nd - Agnazzar's scorcher, blindness/deafness, scorching ray
• 3rd - fear, fireball, stinking cloud
• 4th - fire shield, summon elemental (fire only), wall of fire
• 5th - banishing smite, conjure elemental (fire only), hallow, immolation
• updated spell list for gish builds with the fiend warlock

Bonus Cantrip

• At 1st level, you learn the mage hand cantrip. This counts as a warlock cantrip for you, but they don't count against your number of cantrips known.

Dark One's Blessing

• Starting at 1st level, when you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier + your warlock level (minimum of 1).

Dark One's Own Luck

• Starting at 6th level, you can call on your patron to alter fate in your favor. When you are hit by an attack or you fail a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add a d10 to your AC or to that saving throw. Additionally, when you make an ability check, you can use this feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll's effects occur.

Fiendish Resilience

• Starting at 10th level, you gain resistance to fire damage, and you don’t suffer the effects of extreme heat, as described in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Additionally, you can choose one damage type at the end of 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.

The Great Old One [Warlock]

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.

Expanded Spell List

• The Great Old One lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st - command, dissonant whispers
• 2nd - detect thoughts, phantasmal force, Tasha's mind whip
• 3rd - clairvoyance, bestow curse, nondetection, sending
• 4th -  confusion. dominate beast, Evard's black tentacles
• 5th - dominate person, Rary's telepathic bond, telekinesis
• 6th - find the path, programmed illusion
• 7th - mirage arcane, project image
• 8th - mind blank, telepathy
• 9th - weird, wish

Awakened Mind

• Starting at 1st level, your encounter with your patron gives you the ability to touch the minds of other creatures. You can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language. It can reply to your communications in a similar fashion to the message cantrip.
  
  Additionally, your psyche is opened to the arcane of your patron and you gain an otherworldly trait. Choose one of the following features:

• You learn the guidance cantrip. This counts as a warlock cantrip for you, but they don't count against your number of cantrips known.

• An invisible third eye appears on your forehead. This third eye allows you to add your Charisma modifier to any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Insight) checks. Additionally, you also add your Charisma modifier to your Passive Perception.

Entropic Ward

• At 6th level, your experiences with your patron have granted you protection from mental attacks whilst granting you the ability to make your own. You gain the following effects:
  • You gain resistance to psychic damage.
  • When an attack is made against you or an ally within 30ft, you can use your reaction to create a maddening doubt within their psyche, imposing disadvantage on the roll (you can choose to apply this before or after the roll is made). You use this feature once per short rest.

Unfathomable Mind

• Starting at 10th level, your psyche becomes clouded to exernal influence. You are immune to being frightened and your thoughts cannot be read by any means unless you allow it. If a creature attempts to read your unwilling mind they must make an Intelligence saving throw against your spellcasting DC or take 1d4 psychic damage.

Create Thrall

• At 14th level, you gain the ability to infect a single humanoid's mind with the primordial magic of your patron. You can spend 10 minutes to meld with an incapacitated humanoid through touch. That creature is then charmed by you until a remove curse spell is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed from it, or you use this feature again. Additionally whilst the creature is charmed the follow effects apply:
  • Mental Link. You can communicate telepathically with the charmed creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence.
  • Discordant Mark. The charmed creature gains the Third Eye feature from this subclass.
  • Subservient Mind. As an action, you gain the effects of a dominate person spell on your thrall for an hour. This effect requires no concentration and functions over any range so long as you both are on the same plane of existence. Once the spell's effects end the charmed creature retains no memory of it's actions. Once you use this feature you can't use it again until you've finished 1d4 long rests.

The Hexblade revised to the Shadow [Warlock]

You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell or Negative Energy Plane, granting you the power to inflict wicked curses.

Expanded Spell List

• The Shadow lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st - bane, false life, ray of sickness, shield
• 2nd - blindness/deafness, blur, silence
• 3rd - bestow curse, blink, nondetection, phantom steed
• 4th -  phantasmal killer, greater invisibility,  Mordenkainen's faithful hound, staggering smite
• 5th - banishing smite, hallow, cone of cold

Shadow's Curse

• Starting at 1st level, you gain the ability to place a shadow's curse on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target is cursed for 1 minute. The curse ends early if the target dies, you die, or you are incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits:
  • You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the cursed target. The bonus equals your proficiency bonus. 
  • Any attack roll you make against the cursed target is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.
  • If the cursed target dies, you regain hit points equal to your warlock level + your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Bonus Cantrip

• At 1st level, you learn the sapping sting cantrip. This counts as a warlock cantrip for you, but they don't count against your number of cantrips known.

Shadow Pact Boons

• When you select your pact boon at 3rd level, it is subtly altered in the following ways. 
  • Pact of the Chain: Your familiar can take the Hide action whenever it’s in dim light or darkness. It has disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks while in bright light. The same penalties apply to you while you’re using its senses or casting spells through it, while it’s in bright light. Your familiar can see in dim light within 30 feet of it as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. It can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. 
  • Pact of the Blade: The Dark one grants a blade made of an unearthly, shadowy material that is nearly invisible in dim light or darkness. Each time you create it, you can choose whether it does its standard damage type or necrotic damage. 
  • Pact of the Tome: Your book is literally a book of shadow; shadowy vapor drips from it whenever it is opened or held, and it weighs nothing. When you cast eldritch blast or hex, you can choose to deal psychic or necrotic damage, instead of the normal damage type, when you damage a creature with that spell.

Accursed Specter

• Starting at 6th level, you can curse the soul of a person you slay, temporarily binding it in your service. When you slay a humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter. When the specter appears, it gains temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level. Roll initiative for the specter, which has its own turns. It obeys your verbal commands, and it gains a special bonus to its attack rolls equal to your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of +0).
  
  The specter remains in your service until the end of your next long rest, at which point it vanishes to the afterlife.
  
  Once you bind a specter with this feature, you can't use the feature again until you finish a long rest.

Self-Hex

• Starting at 8th level, you become hexed with the magics of your patron. You gain an additional invocation known.
  
  At 15th level, you gain another additonal invocation known. 

Armor of Hexes

• At 10th level, your hex grows more powerful. If the target cursed by your shadow's curse 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, you can spread your shadow's curse from a slain creature to another creature. When the creature cursed by your shadow's curse dies, you can apply the curse to a different creature you can see within 30 feet of you, provided you aren't incapacitated. When you apply the curse in this way, you don't regain hit points from the death of the previously cursed creature.

The Undying [Warlock]

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.

Expanded Spell List

• The Undying lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
• Spell Level - Spells
• 1st -false life, inflict wounds, ray of sickness
• 2nd - augury, blindness/deafness, phantasmal force, silence
• 3rd - feign death, life transference, revivify, speak with dead
• 4th -  aura of life, death ward
• 5th - contagion, hallow, legend lore

Undead Fortitude

• Starting at 1st level, you learn the spare the dying cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you. It does not count against the number of warlock cantrips you know. For you, it has a range of 30 feet, and you can cast it as a bonus action.
  
  Additonally, you become supernaturally resilient and can gird yourself to prevent harm. When you take damage, you can make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to half the damage taken. On a successful save, your body shrugs off the damage, reducing it to 0. You are still affected by any other effects that might occur. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
  
  Lastly, when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can't use this feature if you are reduced to 0 hit points by radiant damage or by a critical hit. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Defy Death

• Starting at 6th level, you can give yourself vitality when you when you cheat death or when you help someone else cheat it. When you succeed on a death saving throw or when you stabilize a creature with spare the dying, you or that creature can spend up to half its maximum number of Hit Dice. For each Hit Die spent in this way, that creature rolls the die and adds its Constitution modifier to it. The creature regains Hit Points equal to the total. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
  
  Additionally, you gain resistance to poison damage and advantage against the poison condition.

Undying Nature

• Starting at 10th level, your body changes in unnatural ways. When you take a short rest, you can regain spent Hit Dice, up to a number of dice equal to your proficiency bonus. 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. Additionally, you age at a slower rate. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.
  
  In addition, you have advantage on death saving throws.

Indestructible Life

• When you reach 14th level, you partake of some of the true secrets of the Undying and can rapidly repair your body. On your turn, you can use a bonus action spend up to half your maximum number of Hit Dice. For each Hit Die spent in this way, you roll the die and add your Constitution modifier to it. You regain Hit Points equal to the total.
  
  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.