Bard (Whispers)

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Overview & Creation

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Cantrips Known	Spells Known
1	+2	Spellcasting, Bardic Inspiration (d6)	2	4
2	+2	Jack of All Trades, Song of Rest (d6)	2	5
3	+2	Bard College : Whispers, College Feature : Psychich Blades, Words of Terror, Expertise	2	6
4	+2	Ability Score Improvement	3	7
5	+3	Bardic Inspiration (d8), Font of Inspiration	3	8
6	+3	Countercharm, College Feature : Mantle of Whispers	3	9
7	+3		3	10
8	+3	Ability Score Improvement	3	11
9	+4	Song of Rest (d8)	3	12
10	+4	Bardic Inspiration (d10), Expertise, Magical Secrets	4	14
11	+4		4	15
12	+4	Ability Score Improvement	4	15
13	+5	Song of Rest (d10)	4	16
14	+5	Magical Secrets, College Feature : Shadow Lore	4	18
15	+5	Bardic Inspiration (d12)	4	19
16	+5	Ability Score Improvement	4	19
17	+6	Song of Rest (d12)	4	20
18	+6	Magical Secrets	4	22
19	+6	Ability Score Improvement	4	22
20	+6	Superior Inspiration	4	22

 

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Class Features

Level 1

Bardic Inspiration

You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.   Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.   Your Bardic Inspiration die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.  

Level 2

Jack of All Trades

Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.  

Song of Rest

Beginning at 2nd level, you can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance spend one or more Hit Dice to regain hit points at the end of the short rest, each of those creatures regains an extra 1d6 hit points. This increases to a higher die upon leveling.  

Level 3

You can choose a sub-class at this level, which gains you specific features at certain levels. For info on this subclass, see Info.  

Psychic Blades

When you join the College of Whispers at 3rd level, you gain the ability to make your weapon attacks magically toxic to a creature's mind.   When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal an additional 2d6 psychic damage to that target. You can do so only once per round on your turn.   The psychic damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 10th level, and 8d6 at 15th level.  

Words of Terror

At 3rd level, you learn to infuse innocent-seeming words with an insidious magic that can inspire terror.   If you speak to a humanoid alone for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to seed paranoia and fear into its mind. At the end of the conversation, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frightened of you or another creature of your choice. The target is frightened in this way for 1 hour, until it is attacked or damaged, or until it witnesses its allies being attacked or damaged.   If the target succeeds on its saving throw, the target has no hint that you tried to frighten it.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest or long rest.  

Expertise

At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.   At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies to gain this benefit.  

Level 4

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, you can increase one Ability Score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two Ability Scores of your choice by 1. Through this way, you can't increase an Ability Score beyond 20. Alternatively, you can pick a feat.  

Level 5

Font of Inspiration

Beginning when you reach 5th level, you regain all of your expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when you finish a short or long rest.  

Level 6

Countercharm

At 6th level, you gain the ability to use musical notes or words of power to disrupt mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start a performance that lasts until the end of your next turn. During that time, you and any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed. A creature must be able to hear you to gain this benefit. The performance ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).  

Mantle of Whispers

At 6th level, you gain the ability to adopt a humanoid's persona. When a humanoid dies within 30 feet of you, you can magically capture its shadow using your reaction. You retain this shadow until you use it or you finish a long rest.   You can use the shadow as an action. When you do so, it vanishes, magically transforming into a disguise that appears on you. You now look like the dead person, but healthy and alive. This disguise lasts for 1 hour or until you end it as a bonus action.   While you're in the disguise, you gain access to all information that the humanoid would freely share with a casual acquaintance. Such information includes general details on its background and personal life, but doesn't include secrets. The information is enough that you can pass yourself off as the person by drawing on its memories.   Another creature can see through this disguise by succeeding on a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by your Charisma (Deception) check. You gain a +5 bonus to your check.   Once you capture a shadow with this feature, you can't capture another one with it until you finish a short or long rest.  

Level 7

 

Level 8

Ability Score Improvement

For detail see Ability Score Improvement  

Level 9

 

Level 10

Magical Secrets

By 10th level, you have plundered magical knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Choose two spells from any class, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip.   The chosen spells count as bard spells for you and are included in the number in the Spells Known column of the Bard table.   You learn two additional spells from any class at 14th level and again at 18th level.  

Level 11

 

Level 12

Ability Score Improvement

For detail see Ability Score Improvement  

Level 13

 

Level 14

Shadow Lore

At 14th level, you gain the ability to weave dark magic into your words and tap into a creature’s deepest fears.   As an action, you magically whisper a phrase that only one creature of your choice within 30 feet of you can hear. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. It automatically succeeds if it doesn’t share a language with you or if it can’t hear you. On a successful saving throw, your whisper sounds like unintelligible mumbling and has no effect.   If the target fails its saving throw, it is charmed by you for the next 8 hours or until you or your allies attack or damage it. It interprets the whispers as a description of its most mortifying secret.   While you gain no knowledge of this secret, the target is convinced you know it. While charmed in this way, the creature obeys your commands for fear that you will reveal its secret. It won’t risk its life for you or fight for you, unless it was already inclined to do so. It grants you favors and gifts it would offer to a close friend.   When the effect ends, the creature has no understanding of why it held you in such fear.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.  

Level 15

 

Level 16

Ability Score Improvement

For detail see Ability Score Improvement  

Level 17

 

Level 18

 

Level 19

 

Level 20

Superior Inspiration

At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left, you regain one use.

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:  

• (a) a rapier, (b) a longsword, or (c) any simple weapon
• (a) a diplomat's pack or (b) an entertainer's pack
• (a) a lute or (b) any other musical instrument
• Leather armor and a dagger

 

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Spellcasting

You have learned to untangle and reshape the fabric of reality in harmony with your wishes and music. Your spells are part of your vast repertoire, magic that you can tune to different situations.  

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn additional bard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Bard table.  

Spell Slots

The Bard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Cure Wounds and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Cure Wounds using either slot.  

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the bard spell list.   The Spells Known column of the Bard table shows when you learn more bard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the table. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.   Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the bard spells you know and replace it with another spell from the bard spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.  

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your bard spells. Your magic comes from the heart and soul you pour into the performance of your music or oration. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.   Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier  

Ritual Casting

You can cast any bard spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.  

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a musical instrument (found in chapter 5) as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.  

Spell Slot Table

Level	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	4	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	4	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	4	3	3	1	-	-	-	-	-
8	4	3	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
9	4	3	3	3	1	-	-	-	-
10	4	3	3	3	2	-	-	-	-
11	4	3	3	3	2	1	-	-	-
12	4	3	3	3	2	1	-	-	-
13	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	-	-
14	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	-	-
15	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	-
16	4	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	-
17	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1
18	4	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1
19	4	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1
20	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1

 

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Subclass Options

Bard: College of Whispers

Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like any other bard, sharing news, singing songs, and telling tales to the audiences they gather. In truth, the College of Whispers teaches its students that they are wolves among sheep. These bards use their knowledge and magic to uncover secrets and turn them against others through extortion and threats.   Many other bards hate the College of Whispers, viewing it as a parasite that uses the bards’ reputation to acquire wealth and power. For this reason, these bards rarely reveal their true nature unless they must. They typically claim to follow some other college, or keep their true nature secret in order to better infiltrate and exploit royal courts and other settings of power.   Source: Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Warlock - Ravenqueen

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Overview & Creation

Your patron is the Raven Queen, a mysterious being who rules the Shadowfell from a palace of ice deep within that dread realm.
Her ability to reach into the world is limited. Thus, she turns to mortal warlocks to serve her will.
She concerns herself with ensuring that those fated to die pass from the world as expected, and bids her agents to defeat those who seek to cheat death through undeath or other imitations of immortality.

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Class Features

Otherworldly Patron

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice: the Ravenqueen, which is detailed later at the class description.
Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.  

Eldritch Invocations

In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.
A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class.   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.   If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites.
A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class.   Agonizing Blast
Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip
When you cast Eldritch Blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.   Armor of Shadows
You can cast Mage Armor on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.   Ascendant Step
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast Levitate on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.   Aspect of the Moon
Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome feature
You no longer need to sleep and can’t be forced to sleep by any means.
To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all 8 hours doing light activity, such as reading your Book of Shadows and keeping watch.   Beast Speech
You can cast Speak with Animals at will, without expending a spell slot.   Beguiling Influence
You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.   Bewitching Whispers
Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast Compulsion once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Book of Ancient Secrets
Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome feature
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; these rituals needn’t be from the same spell list.
The spells appear in the book and don't count against the number of spells you know.
With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells 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.
  Chains of Carceri
Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain feature
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.
  Chronicle of the RavenQueen
Prerequisite: RavenQueen patron, Pact of the Tome
You can place a corpse's hand or similar appendage on the Book of Shadows and ask one question aloud.
After 1 minute, the answer appears written in blood in your book.
The answer is provided by the dead and is translated into a language of your choice.
You must use this ability within 1 minute of a creature's death, and given creature can only be asked one question in this manner.   Cloak of Flies
Prerequisite: 5th level
As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks like buzzing flies.
The aura extends 5 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover.
It lasts until you're incapacitated or you dismiss it as a bonus action.
The aura grants you advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks but disadvantage on all other Charisma checks.
Any other creature that starts its turn in the aura takes poison damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).
  Once you use this invocation, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
  Devil's Sight
You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.   Dreadful Word
Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast Confusion once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Eldritch Sight
You can cast Detect Magic at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.   Eldritch Smite
Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade feature
Once per turn when you hit a creature with your pact weapon, you can expend a warlock spell slot to deal an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, plus another 1d8 per level of the spell slot, and you can knock the target prone if it is Huge or smaller.   Eldritch Spear
Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip
When you cast Eldritch Blast, its range is 300 feet.   Eyes of the Rune Keeper
You can read all writing.   Fiendish Vigor
You can cast False Life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.   Gaze of Two Minds
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.   Ghostly Gaze
Prerequisite: 7th level
As an action, you gain the ability to see through solid objects to a range of 30 feet.
Within that range, you have darkvision if you don’t already have it.
This special sight lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell).
During that time, you perceive objects as ghostly, transparent images.
  Once you use this invocation, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.   Gift of the Depths
Prerequisite: 5th level
You can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
You can also cast Water Breathing without expending a spell slot.
You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
  Gift of the Ever-Living Ones
Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain feature
Whenever you regain hit points while your familiar is within 100 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you.   Grasp of Hadar
Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip
Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Eldritch Blast, you can move that creature in a straight line 10 feet closer to yourself.   Improved Pact Weapon
Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade feature
You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.
In addition, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is a magic weapon that already has a bonus to those rolls.
Finally, the weapon you conjure can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.
  Lance of Lethargy
Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip
Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Eldritch Blast, you can reduce that creature’s speed by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.   Lifedrinker
Prerequisite: 12th level, Pact of the Blade feature
When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).   Maddening Hex
Prerequisite: 5th level, Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses
As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your Hex spell or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade’s Curse and Sign of Ill Omen.
When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the cursed target and each creature of your choice within 5 feet of it.
The psychic damage equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 damage).
To use this invocation, you must be able to see the cursed target, and it must be within 30 feet of you.   Mask of Many Faces
You can cast Disguise Self at will, without expending a spell slot.   Master of Myriad Forms
Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast Alter Self at will, without expending a spell slot.   Minions of Chaos
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast Conjure Elemental once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Mire the Mind
Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast Slow once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Misty Visions
You can cast Silent Image at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.   One with Shadows
Prerequisite: 5th level
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.   Otherworldly Leap
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast Jump at will, without expending a spell slot.   Raven Queen's Blessing
Prerequisite: Ravenqueen patron, eldrtich blast cantrip
When you score a critical hit with your eldritch blast cantrip, pick yourself or an ally you can see within 30 feet of you.
The chosen crature can immediately expend a Hit Die to regain hit points equal to the roll + the creature's Constitution modifier(minimum of 1 hit point).   Relentless Hex
Prerequisite: 7th level, Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses
Your curse creates a temporary bond between you and your target.
As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of the target cursed by your Hex spell or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade’s Curse and Sign of Ill Omen.
To teleport in this way, you must be able to see the cursed target.   Repelling Blast
Prerequisite: Eldritch Blast cantrip
When you hit a creature with Eldritch Blast, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.   Sculptor of Flesh
Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast Polymorph once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Shroud of Shadow
Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast Invisibility at will, without expending a spell slot.   Sign of Ill Omen
Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast Bestow Curse once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Superior Pact Weapon (UA)
Prerequisite: 9th level, Pact of the Blade feature
You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.
In addition, the weapon counts as a magic weapon with a +2 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is already a magic weapon that you transformed into your pact weapon.
  Thief of Five Fates
You can cast Bane once using a warlock spell slot.
You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   Thirsting Blade
Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade feature
You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.   Tomb of Levistus
Prerequisite: 5th level
As a reaction when you take damage, you can entomb yourself in ice, which melts away at the end of your next turn.
You gain 10 temporary hit points per warlock level, which take as much of the triggering damage as possible.
Immediately after you take the damage, you gain vulnerability to fire damage, your speed is reduced to 0, and you are incapacitated.
These effects, including any remaining temporary hit points, all end when the ice melts.   Once you use this invocation, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
  Trickster's Escape
Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast Freedom of Movement once on yourself without expending a spell slot.
You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.   Ultimate Pact Weapon (UA)
Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Blade feature
You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.
In addition, the weapon counts as a magic weapon with a +3 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is already a magic weapon that you transformed into your pact weapon.
  Visions of Distant Realms
Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast Arcane Eye at will, without expending a spell slot.   Voice of the Chain Master
Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain feature
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.   Whispers of the Grave
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast Speak with Dead at will, without expending a spell slot.   Witch Sight
Prerequisite: 15th level
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.

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

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Spellcasting

Pact Magic

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

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list.
You learn additional warlock cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Warlock table.  

Spell Slots

The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your warlock spells of 1st through 5th level.
The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level.
To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot.
You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.
  For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell witch bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell.   Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher.
A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level column for your level.
When you reach 6th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.
  Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.  

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
  Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier   Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier  

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

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Subclass Options

RavenQueen

 

Expanded Spell List

The Raven Queen 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.  

Raven Queen Expanded Spells

Spell Level Spells

• 1st false life, sanctuary
• 2nd silence, gentle repose
• 3rd feign death, speak with the dead
• 4th Ice storm, locate creature
• 5th commune, cone of cold

 

Bonus Cantrip

At 1st level, you learn the spare the dying cantrip.
It counts as a warlock cantrip for you, but does not count against your number of cantrips known.  

Sentinel Raven

Starting at 1st level, you gain the service of a spirit sent by the Raven Queen to watch over you.
The spirit assumes the form and game statistics of a raven, and it always obeys your commands, which you can give telepathically while it is within 100 feet of you.
While the raven is perched on your shoulder, you gain darkvision with a range of 30 feet and a bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) score and to Wisdom (Perception) checks.
The bonus equals your Charisma modifier.
While perched on your shoulder, the raven can’t be targeted by any attack or other harmful effect; only you can cast spells on it; it can’t take damage; and it is incapacitated.
You can see through the raven’s eyes and hear what it hears while it is within 100 feet of you.
In combat, you roll initiative for the raven and control how it acts. If it is slain by a creature, you gain advantage on all attack rolls against the killer for the next 24 hours.
The raven doesn’t require sleep. While it is within 100 feet of you, it can awaken you from sleep as a bonus action.
The raven vanishes when it dies, if you die, or if the two of you are separated by more than 5 miles.
At the end of a short or long rest, you can call the raven back to you—no matter where it is or whether it died—and it reappears within 5 feet of you.
   

Soul of the Raven

At 6th level, you gain the ability to merge with your raven spirit.
As a bonus action when your raven is perched on your shoulder, your body merges with your raven’s form.
While merged, you become Tiny, you replace your speed with the raven’s, and you can use your action only to Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide, or Search.
During this time, you retain the bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) score and to Wisdom (Perception) checks granted by Sentinel Raven.
As an action, or if you take damage, you and the raven return to normal.
If the merger ends because of damage you can't use this feature for 1 minute.
   

Raven’s Shield

At 10th level, the Raven Queen grants you a protective blessing.
You gain advantage on death saving throws, immunity to the frightened condition, and resistance to necrotic damage.
 

Audience with the Queen

Starting at 14th level you can grant audiences with the Raven Queen.
As an action, choose a creature you can see within 60 feet of you.
At the end of your next turn, the target returns to the space it previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied space.
The target is frightened of you and suffers an additional effect based on its current hit points:
  100 hit points or fewer: blinded
80 hit points or fewer: blinded and deafened
60 hit points or fewer: binded, deafened, and stunned
40 hit points or fewer: killed instantly and cannot become undead
  At the end of each of its turns until the effects end, the target can make a Wisdom saving throw.
On a successful save, the effects end. Undead make this saving throw with disadvantage.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.