Eldritch Invocations -For Warlocks Only-
Eldritch Invocation Options
AGONIZING BLAST
Prerequisite: At Least One Warlock Cantrip
Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips that deals damage. You can add your spellcasting ability modifier to that spell’s damage rolls. Whenever you gain a Warlock level, you can change which of your damaging Warlock cantrips benefits from this invocation.
ARMOR OF SHADOWS
Prerequisite: None
You can cast Mage Armor on yourself without expending a spell slot.
ASCENDANT STEP
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock
You can cast Levitate on yourself without expending a spell slot.
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
Prerequisite: none
You can cast speak with animals at will, without expending a spell slot.
BEGUILING INFLUENCE
Prerequisite: none
You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.
Bewitching Whispers
Prerequisite: Level 7+ Warlock
You can cast compulsion once without using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
DEVIL’S SIGHT
Prerequisite: None
You can see normally in Dim Light and Darkness—both magical and nonmagical—within 120 feet.
ELDRITCH MIND
Prerequisite: None
You have Advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain Concentration on a spell.
ELDRITCH SMITE
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock, Pact of the Blade
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 give the target the Prone condition if it is Huge or smaller.
ELDRITCH SPEAR
Prerequisite: At Least One Warlock Cantrip
Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips that deals damage and that has a range of at least 10 feet. When you cast that spell, its range increases by a number of feet equal to 30 times your Warlock level. Whenever you gain a Warlock level, you can change which of your damaging Warlock cantrips benefits from this invocation.
FIENDISH VIGOR
Prerequisite: None
You can cast False Life on yourself without expending a spell slot. When you cast the spell with this feature, you don’t roll the die for the Temporary Hit Points; you automatically get the highest number on the die.
GAZE OF TWO MINDS
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock
You can use a Bonus Action to touch a willing creature 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 a Bonus Action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn. The connection ends if you don’t maintain it in this way. While perceiving through the other creature’s senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you can cast spells as if you were in your space or the other creature’s space if the two of you are within 60 feet of each other.
GIFT OF THE DEPTHS
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock
You can breathe underwater, and you gain a Swim Speed equal to your 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 PROTECTORS
Prerequisite: Level 9+ Warlock, Pact of the Tome
A new page appears in your Book of Shadows when you conjure it. With your permission, a creature can use its action to write its name on that page, which can contain a number of names equal to your Proficiency Bonus. When any creature whose name is on the page is reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, the creature magically drops to 1 Hit Point instead. Once this magic is triggered, no creature can benefit from it until you finish a Long Rest. As a Magic action, you can erase a name on the page by touching it.
INVESTMENT OF THE CHAIN MASTER
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock, Pact of the Chain
When you cast Find Familiar, you infuse the summoned familiar with a measure of your eldritch power, granting the creature the following benefits: Aerial or Aquatic. The familiar gains either a Fly Speed or a Swim Speed (your choice) of 40 feet. Quick Attack. As a Bonus Action, you can command the familiar to take the Attack action. Necrotic or Radiant Damage. Whenever the familiar deals Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing damage, you can make it deal Necrotic or Radiant damage instead. Your Save DC. If the familiar forces a creature to make a saving throw, it uses your spell save DC. Resistance. When the familiar takes damage, you can use your Reaction to grant it Resistance against that damage.
LESSONS OF THE FIRST ONES
Prerequisite: Level 2+ Warlock
You have received knowledge from an elder entity of the multiverse, allowing you to gain one feat of your choice, such as Skilled, that lacks prerequisites. Repeatable. You can gain this invocation more than once. Each time you do so, you must select a different eligible feat.
LIFEDRINKER
Prerequisite: Level 9+ Warlock, Pact of the Blade
Whenever you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature takes 1d6 extra Necrotic, Psychic, or Radiant damage (your choice), and you can expend one of your Hit Dice to roll it and regain a number of Hit Points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).
MASK OF MANY FACES
Prerequisite: None
You can cast Disguise Self without expending a spell slot.
MASTER OF MYRIAD FORMS
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock
You can cast Alter Self without expending a spell slot.
MISTY VISIONS
Prerequisite: None
You can cast Silent Image without expending a spell slot.
ONE WITH SHADOWS
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock
While you’re in an area of Dim Light or Darkness, you can cast Invisibility on yourself without expending a spell slot.
OTHERWORLDLY LEAP
Prerequisite: Level 2+ Warlock
You can cast Jump on yourself without expending a spell slot.
THIRSTING BLADE
Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock, Pact of the Blade
You gain the Extra Attack feature for your pact weapon only. With that feature, you can attack twice with the weapon, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. When you reach level 11 in this class, this Extra Attack confers two extra attacks rather than one.
VISIONS OF DISTANT REALMS
Prerequisite: Level 9+ Warlock
You can cast Arcane Eye without expending a spell slot.
WHISPERS OF THE GRAVE
Prerequisite: Level 7+ Warlock
You can cast Speak with Dead without expending a spell slot.
WITCH SIGHT
Prerequisite: Level 15+ Warlock
You have Truesight with a range of 30 feet.
ELDRITCH STRIKE
Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip.
For you, the range of eldritch blast is reduced to 5 feet and it becomes a melee spell attack. Make a separate melee spell attack for each beam, dealing 1d12 force damage on hit. Any class features or Eldritch Invocations that affect the range of eldritch blast do not work with this Invocation.
HARMONIC SPELLCASTING
Prerequisite: Pact of the Strings feature
When you cast a warlock spell with a verbal component while using your pact instrument as your spellcasting focus, the saving throw DC for that spell increases by 1.
MIRROR OF FATES
Prerequisite: Pact of the Chalice feature
You can peer into the uncertain future. Using your Pact Chalice as a spellcasting focus, you can cast augury at-will, without expending a spell slot or material components.
CUP OF RECOVERY
Prerequisite: 5th-level, Pact of the Chalice feature
Using your pact chalice as a spellcasting focus, you can use an action to cast lesser restoration without expending a spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
CUP OF PROTECTION
Prerequisite: 7th-level, Pact of the Chalice feature
As an action, a creature of your choice can drink from your Pact Chalice, gaining the effects of death ward. Once used, you must finish a long rest to use this feature again.
ENCHANTING MELODY
Prerequisite: 9th-level, Pact of the Strings feature
You learn the charm monster spell, but it doesn't count against your total number of Spells Known, and you can cast charm monster once without expending spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
ALCHEMICAL RESTORATION
Prerequisite: 15th-level, Pact of the Chalice feature
As an action on your turn, you can cast reincarnate without expending a spell slot or material components. Once you cast reincarnate in this way, you must finish 1d4 long rests before you can cast the spell in this way again.
BOND OF THE TALISMAN
Prerequisite: 9th level, Pact of the Talisman feature
While someone else is wearing your talisman, you can use your action to teleport to the unoccupied space closest to them, provided the two of you are on the same plane of existence. The wearer of your talisman can do the same thing, using their action to teleport to you. The teleportation can be used a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a long rest.
REBUKE OF THE TALISMAN
Prerequisite: Pact of the Talisman feature
When the wearer of your talisman is hit by an attacker you can see within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to deal psychic damage to the attacker equal to your proficiency bonus and push it up to 10 feet away from the talisman's wearer.
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 process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.
CLOAK OF FLIES
Prerequisite: 5th level warlock
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.
DREADFUL WORD
Prerequisite: 7th level warlock
You can cast confusion once without using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
EYES OF THE RUNEKEEPER
Prerequisite: none
You can read all writing.
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.
PROTECTION OF THE TALISMAN
Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Talisman feature
When the wearer of your talisman fails a saving throw, they can add a d4 to the roll, potentially turning the save into a success. This benefit can be used a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a long rest.
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 warlock
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 warlock
You can cast invisibility at will, without expending a spell slot.
Sign of Ill Omen
Prerequisite: 5th level warlock
You can cast bestow curse once without using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Thief of Five Fates
Prerequisite: None
You can cast bane once without using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Trickster's Escape
Prerequisite: 7th level warlock
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.
Undying Servitude
Prerequisite: 5th-level warlock
You can cast animate dead without using a spell slot. Once you do so, you can't cast it in this way again until you finish a long rest.
Visions of Distant
Prerequisite: 15th level warlock
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 warlock
You can cast speak with dead at will, without expending a spell slot.
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