Warlocks

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Daring souls who swear pacts with powerful entities, warlocks command bizarre and diverse supernatural powers.

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Warlock Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Charisma
Starting Hit Points: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d6
Languages: You can read the Arcane language.
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Initiative, Simple Weapons, Light Armor, and Arcane Magic and its Arcane Defense feature.
Skills: You can select two Skills.

Warlock Features

Cursed Strike

Once per turn, you can make a cursed strike with an eldritch blast or weapon attack. The attempt gains Reliability but unless you roll a 20, any major or critical success becomes a normal success.

Eldritch Knowledge

Your eldritch patron offers you understanding of mystical secrets. Choose one of the following options.

Shared Knowledge: Increase the number of schools or domains your Spellcasting feature grants by one. In addition, you learn your patron's granted skill and have Reliability when using it to make checks on certain subjects.
Trained in Blood: You become Trained in your patron's weapon group and can add your Charisma modifier to damage with weapon attacks with that group, instead of Strength or Dexterity.

Eldritch Might

Increase one ability score by 2 and another by 1.

Boon Option: Increase one ability score by 2 and another by 1.

Pact

Select an Eldritch Patron. You swear to give them something significant like your first-born child, a lifetime of service, or your soul when you die. In exchange, you gain the following benefits:

• You learn your patron's Gifted Language.
• Your Eldritch Blast gains the benefits of your patron's pact type.
• As part of your turn, you can spend a hero's surge to use your patron's pact power.
• When you forsake your dream to serve your patron, gain a fortune die.

Ritualist

As an action, you can spend a hero’s surge to cast a ritual you know.

Spellcasting

You know the Eldritch Blast cantrip. In addition, choose a domain or school from your Eldritch Patron's Spheres of Influence. You learn its 1st level rituals. Whenever you gain an odd level, you learn the next highest level of rituals from your chosen domains and schools. Any rituals you learn through this feature are treated as Arcane.

Boon Option: Gain access to the rituals of an additional school or domain of your patron's Spheres of Influence.

The Warlock

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Title
1	Warlock Features, Cursed Strike, Eldritch Knowledge, Eldritch Might, Pact, Spellcasting	4	Servitor
2	Drawn to Power/Weakness, Eldritch Gift, Pact Magicks	5
3	Eldritch Covenant, Pact Sign	5	Occultist
4	Boon	6
5	Valor	6
6	Eldritch Covenant Feature	7	Zealot
7	Boon	7
8	Eldritch Covenant Feature	8	Heretic
9	Boon	8
10	Heroism	9

LEVEL 2 Warlock

Drawn to Power/Weakness

When a creature you can see within 30' scores a critical hit, you can allow yourself to be pulled 5' toward it or the creature it critically hit.

Eldritch Gift

Your dedication to your patron earns you power. Choose one of the following options.

Eldritch Magick: You add your Charisma modifier to damage and hit points affected with Arcane Magic.
Eldritch Strike: Once per turn when you hit with a weapon attack, you can forgo adding any ability modifier to the attack's damage to deliver your Eldritch Blast's damage die and effect.

Pact Magicks

You gain access to your patron's pact spells. You can cast each spell you meet the required level of once per day.

Boon Option: Once per day, you can recast one pact spell.

LEVEL 3 Warlock

Eldritch Covenant

At level 3, you have proven worthy of your patron's greater secrets. Choose your Eldritch Covenant.

Forsworn

Forsworn Warlocks

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In your thirst for your patron's power, you have sworn vows of even greater allegiance.

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Eldritch Resilience

While you have a pact spell available, you reduce all damage you take by 1.

Boon Option: increase this Damage Reduction by 1.

Exploit Weakness

You are Adept with Arcane Magic attempts against creatures with less hit points than your maximum.

Boon Option: You become Adept in all attempts against such creatures.

Forswear

Choose Dodge, Parry, or an ability check or Martial Maneuver. You cannot make these attempts. When such an attempt is required of you, you fail it and gain a Fortune Die.

Forsworn Magicks

You learn the cantrips, orisons, and spells of a spell level up to your number of odd levels from the domains and schools you have Spellcasting access to. When you gain an odd level, you learn the next-highest level of spells from these domains and schools. In addition, as an action, you can spend a pact spell to cast a spell you know at the spell level of the pact spell.

Magic you cast through this feature is treated as Arcane.

Forsworn Rituals

As an action, you can spend a Fortune Die to cast a ritual you know.

LEVEL 6 Forsworn Warlock

Eldritch Cunning

You learn Arcane Magic's Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, and Manipulate Magic features.

LEVEL 8 Forsworn Warlock

Eldritch Greed

You choose a second restriction for your Forswear feature. In exchange, you select one of the following options:

Chosen Heretic: Increase your maximum number of Fortune Dice by one. In addition, as an action, you can spend a Fortune Die to cast a spell or pact spell you know at its minimum level.
Shifting Allegiances: Gain a second eldritch patron through your Pact feature. You can switch between them at will but can only benefit from one patron at a time.

Hexblade

Hexblades

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You channel your patron's gifts into martial prowess, striking eldritch devastation through the ranks of your foes.

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Eldritch Expertise

You learn a Fighter Combat Feat of your choice, though you can only use its actions or gain its benefits with your Pact Blade or Eldritch Blast. You consider your Telling Attacks damage to be 1d4 damage of your eldritch blast's damage types.

Boon Option: Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat with the same restrictions.

Eldritch Warrior

You become Trained in Weapons, Bucklers and Light and Medium Shields, and Medium Armor. If you took the Trained in Blood Eldritch Knowledge option, you also become Adept in your patron's weapon group.

Pact Blade

After taking a rest, you can touch a weapon to bind it to you as your pact blade. While you wield your pact blade, it gains the damage types and effects of your eldritch blast cantrip. In addition, it can be used as an implement for your spells and while it is on the same plane you can call it to your hand as a Move action, or as part of your turn if you used it on your turn to make an attack.

This effect persists until you bind a new pact blade. Boon Option: Bind to one additional pact blade at a time.

Pact Skin

You set a permanent eldritch mark into your skin, increasing your hit dice to d8 and your maximum hit points by 2.

Boon Option: Increase your hit dice to d10 and your maximum hit points by 1 per the level at which you take this boon.

LEVEL 6 Hexblade

Pact Armor

After taking a long rest, you can touch a suit of armor to bind it to you as your pact armor. While wearing this armor, you reduce damage of your eldritch blast damage types by an amount equal to your armor's combined physical Damage Reduction.

This effect persists until you bind a new pact armor.

Pact Blade's Soul

When you bind a pact blade, choose one of the following options. Your critical hits with it trigger this effect.

Shadow Devourer: You can teleport to an unoccupied space you can see that is within a distance in feet equal to your critical hit's damage.
Spirit Drinker: You gain Temporary Hit Points equal to the hit dice of the creature you critically hit.
Spine Breaker: The victim of your critical hit becomes frightened of you. It is unable to move closer and suffers Disadvantage on attempts against you. If the target has more hit points than your maximum, it can spend an attack to end this effect.
Soul Thief: If your critical hit reduces the target to 0 or fewer hit points, you raise it as if you cast the Animate Dead spell. This effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to the damage your critical hit dealt.
Boon Option: Imbue your pact blade with an additional option.

LEVEL 8 Hexblade

Eldritch Epiphany

Learn two additional Fighter Combat Feats through your Eldritch Expertise feature.

Spell Eating Blade

Once per turn when you hit a creature with your pact blade, you can attempt to dispel one magical effect from the creature as if you used Dispel Magic at an Adept rank. A spell ended in this fashion is eaten by your pact blade. Thereafter, as an action you can spend a pact spell to cast the eaten spell, using your pact blade as the implement.

This spell remains available in your pact blade until it eats another spell or until you cast the eaten spell.

Revenant

Revenant Warlocks

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You were saved from or brought back from death by your eldritch patron. Now they demand you deliver vengeance to those who sought to strike you down.

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Revenant’s Curse

Once per turn as part of your turn, you can curse a creature you can see. Your attacks against cursed targets that result in limited success deal your Charisma modifier in bludgeoning damage to it. This curse ends if you fall unconscious, if your cursed target dies, or if you curse a new target.

Boon Options:

• Bestow a second Revenant’s Curse without ending the first.
• Regain your Charisma modifier in hit points when the target of your Revenant’s Curse dies.

Instrument of Vengeance

As a day-long ritual, you can name a creature as your target of vengeance. You consider this target to be under the effects of your Revenant’s Curse until it dies or is destroyed.

In addition, you can permanently scribe the target's name onto a weapon, piece of ammunition, implement, footgear, suit of armor, or shield. If you weren't proficient with this Instrument of Vengeance, you become Trained in it. While you can see your scribed target, you can call your Instrument of Vengeance into your hand or onto your person as part of your turn. You also gain benefits based on the item type. When your scribed target dies, this inscribing vanishes.
Ammunition: Your attack against the scribed target has Advantage and Reliability.
Armor: While in combat with the scribed target, your current and maximum hit points increase by 50%.
Footgear: While you can see the scribed target, increase your speed by 15'.
Implement: Your spells against the scribed target have Reliability.
Shield: When the scribed target makes an attack that only targets you, your defenses against the attack gain Reliability.
Weapon: Your attacks against the scribed target deal double your weapon's damage dice.
After your target of vengeance dies and at each even level, you can perform this ritual again, either to name a new target, scribe an instrument of vengeance, or both.
Boon Option: Become Adept in your Instruments of Vengeance.

Revenant’s Curse

Once per turn as part of your turn, you can curse a creature you can see. Your attacks against cursed targets that result in limited success deal your Charisma modifier in your Eldritch Blast damage types to it. This curse ends if you fall unconscious, if your cursed target dies, or if you curse a new target.

Boon Options:

• Bestow a second Revenant’s Curse without ending the first.
• Regain your Charisma modifier in hit points when the target of your Revenant’s Curse dies.

Revenant Strike

Once per turn as an Attack action, you can make two weapon attacks, cast Eldritch Blast twice, or make a weapon attack and cast Eldritch Blast. These attacks do not add any ability modifier to their damage.

Terrifying Visage

Your Persuade (Intimidate) attempts against creatures working for or with your target of vengeance have Reliability.

LEVEL 6 Revenant Warlock

Nightmare Slayer

You gain a +1 rank bonus on weapon, Persuade (Intimidate), and Arcane Magic attempts against creatures with more hit points than your maximum.

Revenant Blood

While you have a target of vengeance, you regain 1 hit point at the end of your turns, so long you are not dying and your hit points are less than half their maximum.

LEVEL 8 Revenant Warlock

Cursed Spell

You learn the level 3 and lower spells of schools and domains you have Spellcasting access to. As an action once per minute, you can spend a hero's surge to cast a spell you know at its minimum spell level. However, it can only affect a target afflicted by your Revenant’s Curse.

Revenant Step

You can increase the distance of movements you make by 5'.

Pact Sign

Double your Reknown amongst those who serve or served your eldritch patron