Bloodhunter

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Overview & Creation

In a landscape tormented by all manner of beasts, devils, and abominations from beyond the veil, most live in fear of the dark, of superstition, and of the unknown. Some grow hardened by this experience, instead choosing to stand up and fight against the tide of shadow. These folk are called ‘heroes.’   Some, however, are so fanatical and bent on destroying the anathema that plagues the countryside that they embrace dark, forbidden knowledge. They sacrifice some of their own vital force in dubious, forgotten blood rituals to better understand their enemies. Their methods sometimes blur the line between themselves and the evils they hunt, calling their own humanity into question.   These folk are called ‘Blood Hunters.’   Become the Enemy to Understand the Enemy   These warriors have chosen to merge the martial pursuit of deadly weapon play with elements of vicious blood magic to create impressively effective combat techniques. They surrender their own vitality to form a bond with their weapon, allowing them to harness the elements in a whirlwind of dangerous strikes. Their deep knowledge and unnatural connection with wicked creatures allows them an advantage in tracking, hunting, and destroying even the most resilient of abhorrent fiends. By mastering control over their own lifeblood and the lifeblood of others, they gain insight into their foes and the ability to manipulate them from the inside. Some brew crude, poisonous alchemical tonics from the harvested organs of felled monsters, mutating their blood and bodies to be even further in tune with their quarry, becoming something other than human themselves. Others go further, reaching out and making a pact with lesser dark entities in hopes of using their grim gifts against greater evils. Many blood hunters push too far for their goals, falling to their own hubris and becoming the monsters they’ve chosen to hunt. This is the greatest fear of a blood hunter, and of the societies at large that shun them.   Almost as Feared as their Prey   The nature of their abilities and training has bred many rumors across the lands, some of which aren’t too far from the truth. Common folk consider them cursed, often turning them away at the door. Nobles see them as occasionally convenient, but a generally reviled nuisance. Mages find them useful allies if kept at arm’s length, while pious clerics and paladins keep their distance with a watchful eye. To be a blood hunter is to accept a life of solitude until proven trustworthy and dependable.

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Class Features

Level	Bonus	Crimson Rite damage die	Blood maledictions	Blood curses known	Features
1st	+2	1d4	-	-	Crimson Rite, Hunter's Bane
2nd	+2	1d4	1	2	Blood Malediction, Empowered Blood
3rd	+2	1d4	1	2	Blood Hunter Order
4th	+2	1d4	1	2	Ability Score Improvement
5th	+3	1d4	2	3	Order Feature
6th	+3	1d4	2	3	Master Hunter's Bane
7th	+3	1d4	2	4	Order Feature
8th	+3	1d4	2	4	Ability Score Improvement
9th	+4	1d6	3	5	-
10th	+4	1d6	3	5	Hunter's Sight
11th	+4	1d6	3	6	Order Feature
12th	+4	1d6	3	6	Ability Score Improvement
13th	+5	1d6	4	7	Dark Velocity
14th	+5	1d6	4	7	Hardened Soul
15th	+5	1d6	4	8	Order Feature
16th	+5	1d6	4	8	Ability Score Improvement
17th	+6	1d8	5	9	-
18th	+6	1d8	5	9	Order Feature
19th	+6	1d8	5	10	Ability Score Improvement
20th	+6	1d8	5	10	Sanguine Mastery

Hunter's Bane Beginning at 1st level, you have survived the imbibing of the Hunter’s Bane, a poisonous alchemical concoction that alters your life’s blood, forever binding you to the darkness and honing your senses against it. You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls against Fey, Fiends, and Undead. You have advantage on Wisdom checks to track them, and Intelligence checks to recall information about them. If you are actively tracking one of these creature types, you cannot be surprised by any creatures of that type. You can only be tracking one type of creature at a time.   Crimson Rite At 1st level, you have learned a forbidden rite of blood magic that imbues a weapon with your blood, bonding it to you - known among blood hunters as a crimson rite. You can use your action to imbue one weapon you're holding with a crimson rite. As part of the invocation, you take damage equal to half your character level(round up), and you reduce your maximum hit points by the same amount. These lost maximum hit points return when the rite fades and cannot be restored otherwise. You can imbue multiple weapons, costing additional hit points and maximum hit points. You must use a separate action to imbue each weapon. You can allow a crimson rite to fade at any time (no action required). Your active crimson rites automatically fade when you die. As a bonus action, you can sheath a crimson rite weapon you are wielding in the elemental energy of one rite you know. This energy doesn't harm you or your equipment, and remains until you dismiss it (no action required), or until your crimson rite fades. Ranged weapons bestow this energy upon their ammunition. Your weapon can only be sheathed in one type of energy at a time. While wielding a weapon sheathed in elemental energy, your attacks with that weapon deal an additional 1d4 damage of the chosen type on hit. This damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Crimson Rite Damage Die column of the Blood Hunter table. The damage type of your crimson rite is determined by your known rites. There are two types of rites; primal rites, and esoteric rites, detailed below. At 1st level, you know all four primal rites, and you know one esoteric rite of your choice. You learn an additional esoteric rite of your choice at 5th, 11th level, and 17th levels.   Primal Rites   Rite of the Fang: Your rite damage is poison type. Rite of the Flame: Your rite damage is fire type. Rite of the Frost: Your rite damage is cold type. Rite of the Storm: Your rite damage is lightning type.   Esoteric Rites Rite of the Chemist: Your rite damage is acid type. Rite of the Dead: Your rite damage is necrotic type. Rite of the Oracle: Your rite damage is psychic type. Rite of the Roar: Your rite damage is thunder type.   Blood Malediction At 2nd level, you gain the knowledge to channel and sacrifice a part of your vital essence to manipulate your enemies, and cleanse your allies. You gain two blood curses of your choice, detailed below. You learn additional blood curses as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Blood Curses Known column of the Blood Hunter table. When you use your Blood Malediction, you choose which curse to invoke. While invoking a blood curse, but before it affects the target, you may choose to amplify the curse by suffering damage equal to your crimson rite damage die. An amplified curse gains an additional effect, noted in the curse’s description. Creatures that do not have blood in their bodies are immune to blood curses. You can use this feature one time at 2nd level. You gain additional uses of this feature as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Blood Maledictions column of the Blood Hunter table. You regain any expended uses whenever you finish a short or long rest.   Blood Curses The blood curses are presented in alphabetical order. If a blood curse requires the target to make a saving throw, the save DC = 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus.   Blood Curse of Beguiling Influence As an action, you can attempt to charm a humanoid you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you for 1 minute. You must concentrate(as if concentrating on a spell) to maintain the curse. The charmed target obeys your commands. If the target suffers any harm or receives a suicidal command, it repeats its saving throw, ending the effect on a success. When the curse ends, the target knows it was charmed by you. You must finish a long rest before invoking this blood curse again. Amplify: The target makes their initial saving throw against this blood curse with disadvantage.   Blood Curse of Binding As a bonus action, you can attempt to bind an enemy no more than one size larger than you within 30 feet. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or have their speed be reduced to 0 until the end of your next turn. Amplify: This curse becomes ongoing, and can affect a creature regardless of their size category. You must concentrate on halting the target's movement(as if you were concentrating on a spell). The creature can use its action to make another Strength saving throw. On a success, this curse ends.   Blood Curse of the Fallen Puppet The moment a creature falls unconscious or dies within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to give that creature a final act of aggression. That creature immediately makes one weapon attack against a target of your choice within its attack range. Amplify: The creature makes two weapon attacks, instead of one.   Blood Curse of Misdirection When an enemy within 60 feet of you makes an attack against a friendly creature, you can use your reaction to choose another creature within 5 feet of the attacking creature. The chosen creature becomes the target of the attack instead. Amplify: The creature has advantage on their attack roll.   Blood Curse of Mutual Suffering As a bonus action, you can link to a creature within 30 feet for up to a minute, forcing them to share in the pain they inflict upon you. The next time the cursed creature damages you with a weapon attack, this curse deals necrotic damage to the cursed creature equal to the damage you suffered. This curse then ends. Amplify: This curse instead deals twice the damage you suffered, and it ignores necrotic resistance.   Blood Curse of Proliferation As a bonus action, you can accelerate the healing of a creature within 60 feet. The target regains hit points equal to your crimson rite damage die rolled twice + your Wisdom modifier. Amplify: The creature also gains a number of temporary hit points equal to your crimson rite damage die + your Wisdom modifier.   Blood Curse of Pure Horror As a bonus action, you can instill pure horror in an enemy within 60 feet. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take psychic damage equal to your crimson rite damage die + your Wisdom modifier. The target must immediately use its reaction, if available, to move as far as its speed allows away from you. The creature doesn’t move into obviously dangerous ground, such as a fire or a pit. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and doesn't move away. Amplify: The target is also Frightened of you for 1 minute.   Blood Curse of Purgation As a bonus action, you can manipulate the vitality of a creature within 60 feet to expunge corruption from their blood. The creature makes a saving throw against a Poisoned condition afflicting it. Amplify: Your target makes its saving throw with advantage, or your target can instead make a saving throw against one other condition or disease afflicting it.   Blood Curse of the Rending Rite As a bonus action, you can enhance the blood within your crimson rite weapons. Until the end of your turn, all crimson rite damage you deal is doubled. Amplify: All crimson rite damage you deal is doubled until the end of your next turn.   Blood Curse of Spell Sunder When a creature within 30 feet of you casts a spell, you can use your reaction to squelch them. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the target's spell fails and has no effect. You must finish a long rest before invoking this blood curse again. Amplify: If the level of the spell is equal to or less than your proficiency bonus, the spell automatically fails.   Empowered Blood Beginning at 2nd level, the vile concoction you imbibed has honed your reflexes and strengthened your resolve at the cost of your own vitality. You gain three blood bargains, Blood Bargain of Cunning, Blood Bargain of the Hunter, and Blood Bargain of Sacrifice. You gain additional blood bargains as you gain levels in this class, detailed below. Once per turn, you can invoke one of the blood bargains you know. You must harm yourself as a bonus action to invoke a blood bargain(unless stated otherwise in the ability description). As part of the invocation, you suffer damage equal to your crimson rite damage die. If you choose to invoke a blood bargain, you can't invoke another blood bargain until the start of your next turn. The blood bargains are presented in the order you gain them. You gain a blood bargain when you meet its level prerequisite, which refers to your levels in this class.   Blood Bargain of Sacrifice Whenever you score a critical hit or kill a hostile creature, you regain hit points equal to half your crimson rite damage die(round up). This effect lasts for 1 hour.   Blood Bargain of Cunning: You don't need to use your action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide actions. This effect lasts until you take one of those actions, or until the end of your next turn. If you haven't invoked a blood bargain since the start of your last turn, you suffer no damage from invoking this blood bargain.   Blood Bargain of the Hunter: Prerequisite: 3rd level You can summon your crimson rite weapons at will, causing one crimson rite weapon of your choice to instantly teleport to your empty hand. This effect lasts until the end of your next turn. You can invoke this blood bargain as if you were interacting with an object, instead of using a bonus action, which can be done in tandem with your movement and action.   Blood Bargain of Precision: Prerequisite: 6th level You gain advantage on attack rolls. This effect lasts until you hit with two attacks, or until the end of your next turn. When you make an attack roll, you can use your reaction to invoke this blood bargain. You gain advantage on the triggering attack.   Blood Bargain of Prowess: Prerequisite: 9th level You gain advantage on ability checks. This effect lasts until you succeed on an ability check, or until the end of your next turn. When you make an ability check, you can use your reaction to invoke this blood bargain. You have advantage on the triggering ability check.   Blood Bargain of Sound Mind: Prerequisite: 12th level You gain advantage on saving throws. This effect lasts until you succeed on a saving throw, or until the end of your next turn. When you make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to invoke this blood bargain. You have advantage on the triggering saving throw.   Blood Bargain of Vicious Strikes: Prerequisite: 15th level Your attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20. This effect lasts until you score a critical hit, or until the end of your next turn. When you roll a 19 on the d20 for an attack roll, you can use your reaction to invoke this blood bargain. The triggering attack roll scores a critical hit.   Blood Hunter Order At 3rd level, you conscript to an order of blood hunters that have delved deeper into the dark arts, gaining access to their secrets and skills. Choose from Order of the Crimson Blade, Order of the Death Knight, Order of the Flagellant, Order of the Ghostslayer, Order of the Lycan, or Order of the Mutant, all detailed at the end of the class description. The order you choose grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 5th, 7th, 11th, 15th, and 18th level.   Ability Score Improvement 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.   Master Hunter's Bane At 6th level, your bonus to damage rolls against Fey, Fiends, and Undead increases to +4. You have advantage on saving throws against spells and abilities used by Fey, Fiends, and Undead.   Hunter's Sight When you reach 10th level, you can attune your senses to determine if any Fey, Fiends, or Undead lurk nearby. By spending 1 uninterrupted minute in concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), you can sense whether any Fey, Fiends, or Undead are present within 5 miles of you. This feature reveals which enemies are present, their numbers, and the creatures' general direction and distance (in miles) from you. If there are multiple groups of Fey, Fiends, or Undead within range, you learn this information for each group.   Dark Velocity Upon reaching 13th level, the shadow growing in your soul has granted you unnatural swiftness on the battlefield. You gain darkvision out to 30 feet, or if you have darkvision, extend it out an additional 30 feet. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks, your speed increases by 10 feet, and attacks of opportunity made against you have disadvantage.   Hardened Soul When you reach 14th level, you gain immunity to the Frightened condition, and you have advantage on saving throws against magical Charm effects.   Sanguine Mastery Upon becoming 20th level, your ability to harness the power of your blood, and the pain of your foes, is perfected. Whenever you score a critical hit or kill a hostile creature with a crimson rite weapon, you regain one use of your Blood Malediction feature. In addition, you suffer no damage from invoking blood bargains or amplifying blood curses while you are below one half of your total maximum hit points.   Blood Hunter Multiclassing Ability Score Minimum: Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13   Proficiencies Gained: Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, hand crossbows, heavy crossbows, longbows, nets, rapiers, scimitars, shortswords, whips, one skill from the blood hunter skill list, and alchemical supplies.   Blood Hunter Multiclassing with Spellcasting Classes   When multiclassing Order of the Crimson Blade with another class which has the Spellcasting or Pact Magic class features, you can use the spell slots you gain from the Crimson Pact Magic feature to cast spells you know or have prepared from another class feature, and you can use the spell slots you gain from another class feature to cast warlock spells you have prepared. You determine your number of spell slots, and what spells you know or can prepare, for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class. Each spell you know and prepare is associated with one of your classes, and you use the spellcasting ability of that class when you cast the spell. If you are multiclassing with Warlock, you use the higher of your Wisdom or Charisma scores for the spellcasting ability of your Warlock spells.   For example, if you are a crimson blade 3/cleric 5, you know three warlock cantrips, and four cleric cantrips. With a Wisdom score of 16, you can prepare four warlock spells of 1st level, and you can prepare eight cleric spells of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level, in any combination. From your crimson blade levels, you have one 1st level spell slot. From your cleric levels, you have a four 1st, three 2nd, and two 3rd level spell slots. You can cast any of the spells you have prepared by expending a spell slot of the spell's level or higher.   If you are multiclassing Order of the Crimson Blade with Warlock, you cannot gain Pact of the Blade from the Pact Boon feature. If you already have Pact of the Blade when you join the Order of the Crimson Blade, you must choose one of the other pact boons available to you. Your Pact of the Blade is replaced by the chosen boon.  
 

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background: a rapier and a shield or two simple weapons light crossbow and 20 bolts or hand crossbow and 20 bolts studded leather armor or scale mail armor an explorer's pack and a holy symbol

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Spellcasting

Order of the Crimson Blade ONLY  

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

 

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Subclass Options

The magics adopted by the wayward blood hunter prove formidable against many an evil across the realm. However, the darkest of abominations draw from an ancient well of cruel, unfathomable power. These terrors can control shadows to do their bidding, hide in plain sight among the noblest of nobles, and bend the minds of the most stalwart warrior with but a glance. These fiends are far trickier to hunt, and many lost their lives in pursuit of such wickedness. A small sect of blood hunters had finally had enough and delved into this same well of corrupting arcane knowledge, making pacts with lesser evils to better combat the greater. While they may have lost a part of themselves, the power gained far outweighed the price, for even devils now quake when they know they’ve drawn the attention of the Order of the Crimson Blade.   Crimson Pact Magic When you reach 3rd level, you strike a bargain with any otherworldly patron that will heed your call. As part of your pact, you gain the ability to cast spells. The pact you've garnered is a fickle one, as your patron grants and revokes powers on a whim, with promises of ultimate power should you truly submit to their pact.   Cantrips You learn two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn an additional warlock cantrip of your choice at 7th, and 13th levels.   Preparing and Casting Spells The Crimson Blade table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your warlock 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 short or long rest.   You prepare the list of warlock spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the warlock spell list. When you do so, choose a number of warlock spells equal to one-third of your blood hunter level (round up) + your Wisdom modifier. The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.   For example, if you are an 11th-level crimson blade, you have one 1st-level, one 2nd-level, and one 3rd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom score of 18, your list of prepared spells can include eight spells of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell Hex, you can cast it using a 1st-level, 2nd-level, or 3rd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.   You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of warlock spells requires time spent bargaining with your patron: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.   Spellcasting Ability Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom 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 Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

  Spellcasting Focus You can use your crimson rite weapon as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.   Pact of the Crimson Blade When you join this order at 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service.   You can use your action to create a crimson pact weapon in your empty hand. Your pact weapon takes on the form of a weapon that you are proficient with each time you create it. Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. Your pact weapon also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.   If you imbue your crimson pact weapon with your Crimson Rite feature, your crimson rite doesn't fade when your pact weapon disappears. Instead, the next time you create a crimson pact weapon, it will be already be imbued with your crimson rite. You can still allow your rite to fade at any time (no action required).   You can transform one magic weapon that you have proficiency with into your crimson pact weapon by performing a special ritual that can be completed as part of a short rest. You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears in the form of a weapon which you are proficient with each time you create your crimson pact weapon thereafter. The weapon ceases being your crimson pact weapon if you die, if you perform the ritual on a different weapon, or if you break your bond to it (no action required). When the bond breaks, the weapon reverts to its true form. If it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks, the weapon appears at your feet.   Sanguine Invocation At 5th level, in your study of occult lore, you have unearthed sanguine invocations, a type of forbidden blood magic that imbues you with an abiding magical ability. You learn two sanguine invocations of your choice, detailed below. As you gain levels in this class, you learn additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Crimson Blade table.   If a sanguine invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn an invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your levels in this class.   Sanguine Invocation List These invocations are presented in alphabetical order.   Blade Mastery Prerequisite: 9th level You can use your Pact of the Crimson Blade feature to transform up to two magic weapons into your crimson pact weapons, instead of one.   If you have two magic weapons as your crimson pact weapons, you must choose which one of them appear when you use your Pact of the Crimson Blade feature.   If you also know the Crimson Dualist invocation, up to two of your magic weapons appear when you use your Pact of the Crimson Blade feature.   Blood-seeker Any one-handed melee weapon you create with your Pact of the Crimson Blade feature gains the throwing property, with a normal range of 20 feet, and a long range of 60 feet.   In addition, if any weapon you create already has a listed range, then its normal range increases by 20 feet, and its long range increases by 60 feet.   Crimson Blade When you use your action to create a crimson pact weapon, you can make one attack with the weapon you create.   In addition, you can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.   Crimson Dualist You can use your Pact of the Crimson Blade feature to create two weapons you are proficient with which have the light property, instead of only one weapon. You decide what form each of the weapons take, and the weapons needn't take the same form. These weapons are considered a single weapon in regards to your Pact of the Crimson Blade, and Crimson Rite features. If you have a magic weapon as your pact weapon, it takes on the form of one of the weapons you create.   If you also know the Master Dualist invocation, the weapons you create may be any one-handed weapons you are proficient with.   Crimson Hex You always have the spell Hex prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of warlock spells you have prepared.   In addition, you automatically succeed on Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on Hex.   Finally, when a creature you can see dies while cursed by your Hex, you can use your reaction to curse another creature within 90 feet of you.   Crimson Occultist As part of the action used to create a crimson pact weapon, you can use your Crimson Rite feature to imbue your pact weapon.   While your crimson pact weapon is imbued by your crimson rite, you can use your Wisdom, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls of that weapon.   Hemovore Prerequisite: 11th level When you hit a creature with your crimson pact weapon, the creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1).   Once per turn when you deal this extra damage to a creature, you regain hit points equal to the extra damage dealt.   Improved Crimson Pact Weapon You can use your crimson pact weapon as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.   In addition the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, increasing to +2 at 9th level, and to +3 at 15th level.   If you have a magic weapon as your crimson pact weapon, you use the higher bonus to attack and damage rolls.   Initiate of the Eldritch Path You can cast Find Familiar at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.   In addition, when you learn this invocation, you choose one cantrip from any class's spell list. While you know this invocation, you can cast the chosen cantrip at will.   The chosen cantrip doesn't count against your number of cantrips known. Even if it doesn't appear on the warlock spell list, it is treated as a warlock spell for you.   Master Dualist Prerequisite: 7th level You gain proficiency with battleaxes, longswords, tridents, and warhammers. You can engage in two-weapon fighting while wielding any one-handed melee weapons.   In addition, when you engage in two-weapon fighting, you add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.   Repeating Shot Prerequisite: 7th level If your crimson pact weapon has the ammunition property, the weapon conjures one piece of ammunition each time you make an attack with it, unless it is already loaded. The conjured ammunition vanishes instantly after the attack hits or misses.   Additionally, you ignore the loading property of any weapon you create with your Pact of the Crimson Blade feature.   Returning Throw Prerequisite: 7th level If your crimson pact weapon has the thrown property, it disappears instantly after making a ranged attack with it, reappearing in your hand.   In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to all ranged attack rolls with your crimson pact weapon.   Sanguine Smite Once per turn when you hit a creature with your crimson pact weapon, you can expend a spell slot to deal an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, plus another 1d8 per level of the spell slot, and you knock the target prone if it is Huge or smaller.   Volley If your crimson pact weapon is a hand crossbow, shortbow, or sling, you can use a bonus action to make one attack with your pact weapon on each of your turns.   In addition, ranged attacks with your crimson pact weapon aren't subject to disadvantage due to attacking at long range, or being within 5 feet of a hostile creature.   Versatile Pact Magic Beginning at 5th level, your patron has begun allowing you to freely pick and choose what powers they have bestowed upon you.   Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can choose one warlock cantrip you know, and replace it with another cantrip from the warlock spell list.   Whenever you finish a long rest, you can choose one sanguine invocation you know, and replace it with another invocation that you could learn.   Mystic Frenzy Starting at 7th level, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.   Additionally, when you cast a cantrip that deals damage while wielding a crimson rite weapon, you add a crimson rite damage die for determining the damage the cantrip does.   Diabolic Channel At 11th level, you can temporarily infuse your rite with the seed of a powerful spell. As an action, you can imbue your rite-enhanced weapon with one warlock spell you can cast, and then immediately make an attack with that weapon. If the attack hits, all spell attack rolls hit the target automatically and the target automatically fails on its initial saving throw against the spell. The target takes weapon damage, and is subject to the effects of the spell, expending a spell slot. Area spells originate from the target’s space. If the attack misses, the spell has no effect.   The spell must be of 1st level or higher, and it must have a casting time of 1 action.   Eldritch Secrets When you reach 15th level, your patron bestows you with the ephemeral knowledge of spells normally beyond your grasp. Whenever you finish a long rest, you choose one spell that is of a level for which you have spell slots from any class's spell list. You can cast the chosen spell by expending a spell slot of the spell's level or higher. The chosen spell is treated as a warlock spell for you, even if it doesn't appear on the warlock spell list. Your knowledge of the spell fades when you finish a long rest.   Soul Siphon Upon reaching 18th level, whenever you score a critical hit or kill a hostile creature with your crimson rite weapon, you recover the highest level spell slot you have expended.   If you have no expended spell slots to recover, you can instead use your reaction to cast one of your prepared spells. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action, and be of a spell level for which you have spell slots. You cast the spell as a 4th level spell without expending a spell slot, or material components.