Can Cast Spells: Yes
Warlocks are seekers of forbidden knowledge who have forged pacts with powerful otherworldly entities. Through these mysterious agreements, they gain access to eldritch magic and alien insights that few mortals dare to comprehend. Whether you've pledged yourself to an ancient archfey, made a bargain with a fiend, or bound yourself to a great old one whose very nature defies understanding, your patron's influence has forever changed you. Some warlocks serve their patrons with fervent dedication, while others seek to bend their borrowed power toward their own ends.
As a warlock, your magic manifests in unique and often unsettling ways. Unlike the studied spells of wizards or the divine grace of clerics, your powers are granted directly by your patron, allowing you to channel eldritch energies that bend reality itself. Your pact grants you access to invocations -- supernatural abilities that can be called upon at will -- and your spell slots, though limited, refresh after brief rests, making you a font of mysterious power. Whether you're wielding your signature eldritch blast, commanding powers from beyond the stars, or calling upon dark knowledge gifted by your patron, you represent a bridge between the mortal realm and forces beyond mortal comprehension.
Hit Dice: 1d8 per warlock level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution modifier per warlock level after 1st
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two skills from Arcana, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, and Religion
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice. Choose one warlock subclass. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells.
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 as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.
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 this 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.
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 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 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. 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 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.
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 this 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.
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 (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 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.
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.
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 light 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 once 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 you.
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 features 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 or Sign of Ill Omen. When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the cursed target and each creature of your choice that you can see 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 on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.
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 or 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.
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.
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.
Level |
Proficiency Bonus |
Features |
Cantrips Known |
Spells Known |
Spell Slots |
Slot Level |
Invocations Known |
| 1st | +2 | Otherworldly Patron, Pact Magic | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1st | -- |
| 2nd | +2 | Eldritch Invocations | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1st | 2 |
| 3rd | +2 | Pact Boon | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2nd | 2 |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2nd | 2 |
| 5th | +3 | --- | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3rd | 3 |
| 6th | +3 | Otherworldly Patron Feature | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3rd | 3 |
| 7th | +3 | --- | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4th | 4 |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4th | 4 |
| 9th | +4 | --- | 3 | 10 | 2 | 5th | 5 |
| 10th | +4 | Otherworldly Patron Feature | 4 | 10 | 2 | 5th | 5 |
| 11th | +4 | Mystic Arcanum (6th level) | 4 | 11 | 3 | 5th | 5 |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 11 | 3 | 5th | 6 |
| 13th | +5 | Mystic Arcanum (7th level) | 4 | 12 | 3 | 5th | 6 |
| 14th | +5 | Otherworldly Patron Feature | 4 | 12 | 3 | 5th | 6 |
| 15th | +5 | Mystic Arcanum (8th level) | 4 | 13 | 3 | 5th | 7 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 13 | 3 | 5th | 7 |
| 17th | +6 | Mystic Arcanum (9th level) | 4 | 14 | 4 | 5th | 7 |
| 18th | +6 | --- | 4 | 14 | 4 | 5th | 8 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 15 | 4 | 5th | 8 |
| 20th | +6 | Eldritch Master | 4 | 15 | 4 | 5th | 8 |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Ancient Dragon | Ancient Dragon warlock patrons bestow their pact-bearers with elemental powers and draconic transformations, drawing on the primordial might of dragon-kind. |
| The Archfey | Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey. |
| The Celestial | Your patron is a powerful being of the Upper Planes. |
| The Fiend | You have made a pact with a fiend from the lower planes of existence. |
| The Great Old One | Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. |
| The Hexblade | You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell. |
| Name | School | Casting Time | Duration | Range | Comp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blade Ward | Abjuration | 1 action | 1 round | Self | V, S |
| Chill Touch | Necromancy | 1 action | 1 round | 120 feet | V, S |
| Create Bonfire | Conjuration | 1 action | Concentration, up to 1 minute | 60 feet | V, S |
| Eldritch Blast | Evocation | 1 action | Instantaneous | 120 feet | V, S |
| Friends | Enchantment | 1 action | Concentration, up to 1 minute | Self | S, M |
| Frostbite | Evocation | 1 action | Instantaneous | 60 feet | V, S |
| Infestation | Conjuration | 1 action | Instantaneous | 30 feet | V, S, M |
| Mage Hand | Conjuration | 1 action | 1 minute | 30 feet | V, S |
| Magic Stone | Transmutation | 1 bonus action | 1 minute | Touch | V, S |
| Minor Illusion | Illusion | 1 action | 1 minute | 30 feet | S, M |
| Poison Spray | Conjuration | 1 action | Instantaneous | 10 feet | V, S |
| Prestidigitation | Transmutation | 1 action | Up to 1 hour | 10 feet | V, S |
| Thunderclap | Evocation | 1 action | Instantaneous | 5 feet | S |
| Toll the Dead | Necromancy | 1 action | Instantaneous | 60 feet | V, S |
| True Strike* | Divination | 1 action | Instantaneous | Self | S, M |
| Name | School | Casting Time | Duration | Range | Comp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armor of Agathys | Abjuration | 1 action | 1 hour | Self | V, S, M |
| Arms of Hadar | Conjuration | 1 action | Instantaneous | Self (10-foot radius) | V, S |
| Cause Fear | Necromancy | 1 action | Concentration, up to 1 minute | 60 feet | V |
| Charm Person | Enchantment | 1 action | 1 hour | 30 feet | V, S |
| Comprehend Languages | Divination | 1 action | 1 hour | Self | V, S, M |
| Expeditious Retreat | Transmutation | 1 bonus action | Concentration, up to 10 minutes | Self | V, S |
| Hellish Rebuke | Evocation | 1 reaction, which you take in response to being damaged by a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see | Instantaneous | 60 feet | V, S |
| Hex | Enchantment | 1 bonus action | Concentration, up to 1 hour | 90 feet | V, S, M |
| Illusory Script | Illusion | 1 minute | 10 days | Touch | S, M |
| Protection from Evil and Good | Abjuration | 1 action | Concentration up to 10 minutes | Touch | V, S, M |
| Unseen Servant | Conjuration | 1 action | 1 hour | 60 feet | V, S, M |
| Witch Bolt | Evocation | 1 action | Concentration, up to 1 minute | 30 feet | V, S, M |
Player's Handbook. Wizards of the Coast, 2014.
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