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Do the swim speeds gained from Gift of the Sea and Gift of the Depths add together?
I made a warlock that gains 40ft of swimming speed due to the fathomless pact (Gift of the Sea).
If I now pick the Gift of the Depths Eldritch Invocation will they add up and result in a swimming ...
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If my Pact of the Chain warlock switches to Pact of the Tome, will it affect the form of my existing familiar from the Find Familiar spell?
I'm currently playing a Warlock, and at 3rd level, I picked Pact of the Chain as my Pact Boon. I then, using one of the special forms provided by Pact of the Chain, summoned a Sprite familiar:
When ...
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Does the Hex Warrior feature allow a Hexblade warlock to create a ranged pact weapon?
Can a Hexblade warlock create a ranged pact weapon using the Hex Warrior feature, assuming they do not have the Improved Pact Weapon eldritch invocation?
I'm pretty sure they can't, because it's not ...
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Is witch the equivalent of the warlock of D&D (lorewise)?
As a warlock fan in D&D 5e, I wanted to see if it is possible to play something like that in Pathfinder. I looked into a little bit, and it feels like the witch is the one. Is it correct to say ...
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What spells force the target to make an ability check?
The warlock spell Hex says:
choose one ability when you cast the spell. The target has disadvantage on ability checks made with the chosen ability.
I would like to know the spells which impose an ...
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Does the reaction from the Tomb of Levistus warlock invocation interrupt (and halt) ongoing movement?
I've been wondering about the following scenario:
Our party is moving through a dungeon and comes upon a wall of fire.
To proceed, we need to pass through. Dispelling does not work and
we have no wish ...
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How does learning spells work when multiclassing out of Warlock? [duplicate]
I am trying to prepare a Warlock/Bard multiclass in DnD 5e (starting at Warlock and multiclassing into Bard) and am a bit tied up on the specifics of learning Bard spells.
As a 6th level Warlock ...
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Can an item that was imbued with the magic weapon spell become a pact weapon? [duplicate]
Can a warlock make a weapon that is imbued with magic weapon spell his/her pact weapon?
Example:
A sorcerer that has wizard levels extended the spell magic weapon for the duration to be 2 hours and ...
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Spike growth with forced movement
I am playing a level 5 warlock that is pact of the genie (dao) with the Repelling Blast, Grasp of Hadar, and lance of lethargy Eldritch Invocations.
I cast spike growth centered on an enemy.
On my ...
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How many damage dice does an Undead Warlock get to roll with Eldritch Blast?
In dnd 5e the Undead Warlock has the Grave Touched ability starting at 6th level. Most of the ability is for role playing but the ability says
In addition, once during each of your turns, when you ...
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Does a Warlock's Repelling Blast Stack with Lance of Lethargy?
Lance of Lethargy states:
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 ...
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Can Misty Escape be used out of combat?
DnD 5e: What if my character is not in combat when using Misty Escape? For example, she could be imprisoned in a cell and use it to escape the cell. In that case, she teleports, but is not in combat ...
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Balance implications of houseruled “Megaman Warlock”
One of the first 5e character concepts I heard people discussing was the so-called “Megaman Warlock,” based on using monster weapons as pact weapons since the Player’s Handbook rules text for Pact of ...
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Can a Fathomless Warlock effectively communicate with any fully submerged creature, regardless of languages known?
The Fathomless Warlock's 6th level feature Oceanic Soul states:
You are now even more at home in the depths. You gain resistance to cold damage. In addition, when you are fully submerged, any ...
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Is it imbalanced to change a Warlock Subclasses' Expanded Spell List to Additional Spells Known?
Warlocks have a relatively limited number of spells known, and (in my experience) the fewest uses of spells throughout a given day in a campaign. I feel with these limits, it would not be unfair to ...
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Would allowing the Pact of the Blade warlock feature to hide a non-weapon be overpowered?
I am playing a warlock (Fiend patron, if it matters), and am trying to avoid some of the common min/max-ed stereotypes since they're likely to imbalance my party of beginners with unoptimized builds. ...
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When would it be most effective to multiclass into warlock as a 3rd level swashbuckler rogue?
I am currently playing a level three Satyr Swashbuckler Rogue with the Sailor (Pirate) Background. I want to multiclass into Warlock, but I still want to be at least okay in combat with my mostly min-...
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Can someone with Devil's Sight see inside a Fog Cloud spell while a sphere of Darkness remains at the centre of the fog?
Basically, in a session, we had the party come up against a group of Bugbears who attacked the party in an ambush. In a moment of haste, the party's warlock cast Fog Cloud to help obscure against the ...
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Can a character that has multiclassed as a War Domain Cleric and Blade Pact Warlock attack 3 times in a round?
In DnD 5e a 1st level a War Domain cleric gets "bolts of inspiration" that allow an extra attack as a bonus action. This ability can only be used a limited number of times per long rest.
At ...
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Can I add an Artificers infusion to my pact blade?
In the Artificer section that talks about Artificer infusions it says "you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions". So if I was to use an Artificer infusion ...
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Do warlocks require alchemist's supplies to cast healing elixir? [duplicate]
I play a Celestial Warlock in a campaign we just started, who took healing elixir (link to Unearthed Arcana document) as one of his first spells to support our party. I plan to expand into Divine Soul ...
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What happens if Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum gets cast inside a Genie Warlock's vessel?
Specifically the part of Private Sanctum that reads:
Nothing can teleport into or out of the warded area.
Planar travel is blocked within the warded area.
What would happen if Private Sanctum was ...
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What happens if a character takes the Thief of Five Fates invocation, but doesn't have Warlock spell slots?
Using the Eldritch Adept feat, a non-warlock can take any invocation that doesn't have a prerequisite. One invocation which meets that criteria is the Thief of Five Fates, which states:
You can cast ...
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Does the Eldritch Adept feat have an extremely limited list of invocations?
The Eldritch Adept feat is presumably intended to allow a non-Warlock to dip a little into the Warlock feature by granting them one invocation. However, selection of the invocation is limited as ...
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As a Warlock, can I cast Vampiric Touch on myself to grant my pact weapon an extra 3d6 necrotic damage?
If I'm playing as a Warlock and I take the Pact of the Blade, and then take the Thirsting Blade invocation (which allows me to make two melee attacks with my pact weapon), can I cast vampiric touch on ...
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Is a Blade Pact Warlock proficient when wielding their pact weapon in an improvised fashion?
The Pact of the Blade Warlock is proficient with their pact weapon while they wield it. Suppose that a Blade Pact warlock is wielding a longsword as their pact weapon (either because they created a ...
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The Genie warlock patron's Expanded Spell List adds the Wish spell as a 9th-level Mystic Arcanum option. Do they suffer stress from using Wish?
I was flicking through the Warlock section of the Tasha's Cauldron of Everything book, and found that the Expanded Spell List for the Genie warlock patron (p. 73) offers the spell wish at 9th level.
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Do Pact of the Tome Warlocks need to pay a cost to scribe their ritual spells?
The Pact of the Tome warlock is able to learn ritual spells of any kind and record them in their book of spells. Wizards also can learn new spells and record them in their spell book-- but the PHB ...
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Lore of relation between warlock and wild magic
I have a question about wild-magic areas in D&D.
I'm playing D&D 5e but my question is more lore related. I can accept a dead-magic answer (the same logic applies here) :)
Do wild-magic zones ...
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Are the Book of Shadow or Genie's Vessel granted by Warlock features considered as magic items?
Basically the title.
If a Warlock fights by wielding their Book of Shadow or Genie Vessel in one hand as a spell focus and keeps the other one empty to meet the requirement of somatic component, they ...
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