Shadow Patron (5e Subclass)
Shadow Patron[edit]
Warlock Subclass
Darkness is all that rules you. Darkness is all you know now. Darkness is all yours to command. The further you feed into your power well the more the shadows allow you to enthral others in your own vision of a new world, may you have mercy on their souls...
Expanded Spell List[edit]
The Shadows let you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st | hideous laughter, inflict wounds |
| 2nd | darkness, phantasmal force |
| 3rd | animate dead, slow |
| 4th | black tentacles, greater invisibility |
| 5th | geas, steel wind strike |
Soul Of Shadows[edit]
At 1st level, as a bonus action you may activate a dark power to wash over you covering parts of your body in shadow, while this is active you gain a charisma based touch attack that if succeeds deals 1d6 necrotic damage. At 5th level, the range of the attack becomes 60ft., the damage increases as you level up 2d6 (5th level), 2d8 (11th level), 3d10 (17th level). You also always have tiny amounts of black smoke around you and when under duress it thickens, this smoke gives you an unarmored armor class equal to 12+ your charisma modifier.
Shadow Reawaken[edit]
You can bring recently killed enemies back to life, they now take up the form of a black and purple shadow, with similar descriptions to a shade. The caster must role a Charisma role to determine if the summon was a success or a failure. 11-20 is a success while 10-1 is a fail. Their stats and skills are the same as before but they cannot cast magic, their hp is 1/2 their max + your spell modifier. All creatures you’ve summoned follow your every command. In battles the creature(s) follow your initiative.
At 1st level, your allowed to have up to 4 creatures. At 5th level, your max upgrades to 7. At 11th level, the max upgrade to 13. At 17th level, the max is 17. Your creatures are stored into the shadows till summoned, when one of your creature(s) dies it cannot be brought back to life. You can see and speak through them. You can only bring back creatures that are 1/2 your warlock level up to max of 4.
”My heart only knows shadows…”[edit]
At 6th level a purple aura protrudes from your where your heart is. When you achieve this skill you can you’d the spell called “Black Heart”. When you cast the spell you summon a bolt of shadows which can be used for a range spell attack [300ft] that deals with 6d8 necrotic damage to any creature hit by it. This spell can be used combo with the spell darkness, the damage by this spell is doubled when casted in a dark or magical dark area.
Shroud Of Darkness[edit]
At 10th level, your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it and you are hidden from divination magic, you can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors. Gain +2 to Stealth rolls.
Devouring Darkness[edit]
At 14th level, you are able to send forth large shadows able to reach out up to 30ft. from you (30 ft. Cone, 30 ft. Line, 30 ft. Sphere, 30 ft. Square) anything in the area affected must make a dexterity saving throw or take 10d10 necrotic damage. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest. Alternatively you can send forth the shadows to slowly "eat" away at anything within your radius that you choose leaving no trace left behind, different materials with take different amounts of time ie: metal would take much longer than stone and stone would take much longer than wood (DM's discretion). If the corpse of a creature is "eaten" you gain some memories of the creatures and you can mimic their voice if they spoke a language (If you don't know their language you can imitate but cannot say anything but simple phrases eg. "Hello", "How are you" "Where is the toilet?").
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