Something like 5d10 (half the damage of Hurl Through Hell). If you choose the homebrew mechanic that gives you advantage on Death Saves, short rest Defy Death becomes a really good feature.ġ0th lvl: Undying Nature - I'd leave as is.ġ4th lvl: Undestructible Life - Increase the number of hit points regained. If this is too strong, remove the 'ignore effect' from undead with more than 4HD.Īlternatively, become immune to disease and gain advantage on Death Saves.Ħth lvl: Defy Death - Make it recharge on a short rest. Undead with more than 4HD still follow the game mechanics as presented in SCAG. If you attack them or cast a harmful spell on them, they can attack you as normal. WARNING: None of this has seen any playtesting, and probably never will-ġst lvl: Among the Dead - Add HD thresholds identical do the Cleric's Destroy Undead, but instead of destroying them nice skeletons, undead with HD equal to or smaller than the number shown in the table (see the Cleric's ability) outright ignore you, no save necessary. That said, if I were to make a few tweaks in the archetype's mechanics, I'd probably go for something like this: As Garfunion said above, RP wise the archetype is fine.

Never played one, never seen one in play.

Make the reattaching of limbs a separate bonus action that isn't tied to resting, you don't often lose a limb so I don't see the harm. Take some of the limitations off other features, like Among the Dead making creatures immune to the feature for 24 hours if you target them. It seems a bit lame to limit such a niche skill to a LR on Warlock's SR based design. I personally would consider allowing Defy Death to recharge on a Short Rest, perhaps even consider giving an amount of uses equal to their constitution modifier (undying seems to push Con as a secondary stat thematically). Custom invocations are cool and can help further exemplify your warlocks unique skills, I wish there were more subclass based invocations. The idea to give them Magic Jar as a high level invocation is pretty good, like MaxWilson suggested. I think you'd have better luck making some changes to class features rather than the expanded spell list. I think it has its own theme down just fine, can't argue that at a glance it seems a little subdued compared to other patrons. Well I don't really see how Animate Dead is any *less* thematically appropriate than Speak with Dead in that regard, though if you have suggestions for other changes I would love to hear themWell, when you live for a really long time the people you liked to speak with often die long before you do, seems nice to have a way to bring them back around for a nice conversation. There's a lot of things I would consider doing before I considered encouraging warlocks to spam Animate Dead 24 hours a day. making the long rest abilities short-rest abilities and the short-rest abilities recharge 5-6.

You could even take the Undying's current abilities and just turn them up to 11, e.g. Or you could steal Hexblade's 'animate specter' ability and attach it to the Undying warlock. make them immune to Exhaustion and point out the synergies between Berserker Barbarians and Undying bladelocks, for example. If you just want to give Undying a small power boost, you could e.g. But it seems like a problem that doesn't need to exist-why create it? The problem might be self-correcting as other players realize they don't like hanging around waiting for the Undying warlock to finish babysitting his hordes, and they want to just proceed with the adventure and leave him behind. If the warlock realizes he can animate arbitrary numbers of zombies (up to a point), why should he stop at just one hour's worth? Why not three? Or five? Or ten? Well I don't really see how Animate Dead is any *less* thematically appropriate than Speak with Dead in that regard, though if you have suggestions for other changes I would love to hear themPassing out Animate Dead to a warlock just seems like asking for trouble with pacing.

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