Dungeons & Dragons 5e Classes: Warlock

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

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.

Name	Description	Prerequisite
Agonizing Blast	When you cast eldritch blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit	Eldritch Blast Cantrip
Armor of Shadows	You can cast mage armor on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.	None
Ascendant Step	You can cast levitate on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.	9th Level
Beast Speech	You can cast speak with animals at will, without expending a spell slot.	None
Beguiling Influence	You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.	None
Bewitching Whispers	You can cast compulsion once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest	7th Level
Book of Ancient Secrets	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.	Pact of the Tome
Chains of Carceri	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.	15th level, Pact of the Chain feature
Devil's Sight	You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.	None
Dreadful Word	You can cast confusion once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.	7th level
Eldritch Sight	You can cast detect magic at will, without expending a spell slot.	None
Eldritch Spear	When you cast eldritch blast, its range is 300 feet	Eldritch Blast Cantrip
Eyes of the Rune Keeper	You can read all writing.	None
Fiendish Vigor	You can cast false life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.	None
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.	None
Lifedrinker	When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).	12th level, Pact of the Blade feature
Master of Myriad Forms	You can cast alter self at will, without expending a spell slot.	15th Level
Minions of Chaos	You can cast conjure elemental once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.	9th level
Mire the Mind	You can cast slow once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.	5th level
Misty Visions	You can cast silent image at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.	None
One with Shadows	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.	5th level
Otherworldly Leap	You can cast jump on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.	9th level
Repelling Blast	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 Blast Cantrip
Sculptor of Flesh	You can cast polymorph once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.	7th level
Sign of Ill Omen	You can cast bestow curse once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.	5th level
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.	None
Thirsting Blade	You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.	5th level, Pact of the Blade feature
Visions of Distant Realms	You can cast arcane eye at will, without expending a spell slot	15th level
Voice of the Chain Master	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.	Pact of the Chain feature
Whispers of the Grave	You can cast speak with dead at will, without expending a spell slot	9th level
Witch Sight	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.	15th level

 

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

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 (see the Weapons section for weapon options). 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.  

Pact of the Chain

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 with its reaction.  

Pact of the Tome

  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.
 

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. Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

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.

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.

The Archfey

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.

The Celestial

Your patron is a powerful being of the Upper Planes. You have bound yourself to an ancient empyrean, solar, ki-rin, unicorn, or other entity that resides in the planes of everlasting bliss. Your pact with that being allows you to experience the barest touch of the holy light that illuminates the multiverse.   Being connected to such power can cause changes in your behavior and beliefs. You might find yourself driven to annihilate the undead, to defeat fiends, and to protect the innocent. At times, your heart might also be filled with a longing for the celestial realm of your patron, and a desire to wander that paradise for the rest of your days. But you know that your mission is among mortals for now, and that your pact binds you to bring light to the dark places of the world.

You have made a pact with a powerful ruler of genie kind on one of the Elemental Planes. The Djinn aims swing wildly from inscrutable by mortal minds to startlingly simple and innocuous. Djinn struggle endlessly to one-up each other, and rivalries between these elemental rulers can engulf entire nations. If they think it will gain them an advantage, genie lords aren’t above bribing a rival’s mortal agents to switch sides. Djinn include: Astallah, djinni Calipha of the Bright Wind from the Plane of Air; Ghorek, dao Khan of the Onyx Depths on the Plane of Earth; Ixingaltrix, efreeti Emir and Keeper of the Molten Tower on the Plane of Fire; and Saliandla, marid Pasha of the Pearl Fane from the Plane of Water.

Elementalism

You focus your arcane studies on the power inherent to one of the Elemental Planes. Sometimes mistaken for evokers, Elementalists believe in the superiority of their chosen element above all others, and they aren’t shy about making that fact known. Elementalists are often secluded researchers, or they sign on with groups who appreciate their singular talents.

The 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?   Perhaps you were born into a generational cult that venerates the Fathomless and its spawn. Or you might have been shipwrecked and on the brink of drowning when your patron’s grasp offered you a chance at life. Whatever the reason for your pact, the sea and its unknown depths call to you.   Entities of the deep that might empower a warlock include krakens, ancient water elementals, godlike hallucinations dreamed into being by kuo-toa, merfolk demigods, and sea hag covens.

The Fiend

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.

The 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.  

1d4	Kind	Element
1	Dao	Earth
2	Djinni	Air
3	Efreeti	Fire
4	Marid	Water

The world seems chaotic, but not all worlds are. There are infinite planes of precisely moving parts, gears whose movement is counted in the lifetime of suns in the material world. There are beings of pure rational law. Your patron is such a being of cold precision, to a degree beyond mortal measure. Logical and deliberate but utterly incomprehensible, it might be a denizen of the plane of Rusty Gears or it might have arisen out of the clockwork magic of the material plane. There you it in this great device is unclear to any but the being itself, and perhaps its rivals. Its knowledge is vast and inversely proportional to its tolerance for variation from its plans. It may call on you to enforce the order of your land, to hunt down oath breakers, to purge those who sin, or to make adjustments of the cosmic order in ways unfathomable to mortals. Rava, the Goddess of Gears, is but one example of this type of being; Zurvan, the Iron Angel, is another, and in the infinity of worlds there are countless more.
 

The Great Old One

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.

The Hexblade

You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell — a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow. The mighty sword Blackrazor is the most notable of these weapons, which have been spread across the multiverse over the ages. The shadowy force behind these weapons can offer power to warlocks who form pacts with it. Many hexblade warlocks create weapons that emulate those formed in the Shadowfell. Others forgo such arms, content to weave the dark magic of that plane into their spellcasting. Because the Raven Queen is known to have forged the first of these weapons, many sages speculate that she and the force are one and that the weapons, along with hexblade warlocks, are tools she uses to manipulate events on the Material Plane to her inscrutable ends.

The Light-Eater

You have made a pact with a being from the Plane of Shadows whose goal is to plunge the world into unending darkness. You may or may not share this ambition, but you’ve sworn loyalty to this entity. Unlike fiends who seek to corrupt and destroy, light- eaters want to make the Material Plane more like their own Shadow Realm. Many light-eaters were once liches, shadow dragons, death knights, vampiric wizards, or other shadow beings that existed long enough to amass great power before abandoning their former paths to pursue the glorifcation of the night as an end in itself.

The Endless Grave

The Endless Grave is a primeval entity that is older than most concepts of magic or civilization, your patron is likened to an endless abyss that draws in all life to devour and change it. This entity’s motives are to change life to inventible death, drawing a gradual curtain to the living world in the distant future as an inescapable end. This entity can appear as a reaper, a demon, as an overwhelming abyss or a limitless void to Warlocks that seek it out.

The Sibyl

You have made a pact with the Sibyl, a divine being associated with prophecy, knowledge, and fate. Your patron guides you through visions, portents, and periods of ecstatic clarity to act on its behalf and to further its stratagems. Your relationship to your patron is different from that of its clergy. You are not asked for faith, worship, or adulation; instead, you serve solely through your action and influence in the world. Because of that, you might have a strained relationship with the deity’s most dedicated priests and other zealots.