Warlock

Types

• Fey
• Infernal
• Shadow

General Abilities

Invocation

You can draw upon another plane to power a magical effect. There is lways a skill check (usually Spellcasting).

• Success: it works as designed.
• Mixed: it either works and you gain +1 Taint, or it fails and you gain +0.
• Failure: it either fails and you gain +1 Taint, or it misfires destructively and you gain +0.

Some Invocations may have circumstances where you might gain or lose Taint irrespective of the above.

A "free" power use has no risk of Taint. A "risk" use has the standard risk described above.

Tiers

Tier 1

• Summon: you can summon tier 1 minions of your type
• Invocation: see Invocations section
• Basic Invocations:
  • Command Outsider
  • Summon Outsider
  • Detect Planar Affinity
  • Banish

Fey

• Summon Sprite
• Jubilation (color spray meets jubilation)
• Glamour (disguise, +social)

Infernal

• Immolation (immolate, conflagrate, combustion)
• Sin Sight (detect sins, gain bonuses against sinners)
• ?

Shadow

• Cloak of Darkness

• Drain Life

• Shadowstuff

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Summons

Fey	Infernal	Shadow
Pixie	Imp	Shade
Felhunter	Succubus	Voidwalker

Talents

Summoning

See summoner

Invocations

Add spells to spell list Get better at invoking with less Taint

Glamour (Fey)

• Inspiring Song: does bardic music type things
• Fascination: targets are spellbound by your glamour (hypnotic pattern)
• Fatal Attraction: charm, compel, divide enemies, etc

Mischief (Fey)

• Legerdemain:
  • Free: pick locks, probe traps, pick pockets at range.
  • Risk: teleport an item from enemy to your body/hand, or vice versa.
• Switcheroo:
  • Free: swap places with ally
  • Risk: swap places with enemy (you/enemy, enemy/enemy, enemy/ally)
• Magic Fingers?
• Curse of Tongues
• Strip

Color (Fey)

• Color Veil
• Color Pool
• Rainbow Beam
• Chromatic Orb

Tier 2:

• Prismatic Spray
• Prismatic Wall

Tier 3:

• Prismatic Self

Wonder (Fey)

• Ideation
• Wonder (better name tbd)
• Spellmorph

tier 2:

• Wonderland

tier 3:

• Many Things

Summons (Fey)

• Summon Treant
• Summon Nymph? (healer of some kind)

Tier 2:

• Summon Faerie Dragon
• Summon Host of Oberon

Tier 3:

• Summon Leprechaun

Summoner

• Improved Pixie: pixie gains sneak attack, sleep; grants allies bonus movement.
• Improved Felhunter: felhunter gains shadow tunnel, spell lock; grants allies protection from magical damage.
• Improved Voidwalker: voidwalker gains pound, gravity; allies gain damage absorption every round.

Binding

• Devilsight (Mystic Eyes?)
  • Tier 1: you can see in darkness of any kind.
  • Tier 2: you can see through concealment of any kind.
  • Tier 3: you can see through cover of any kind.
• Flight
  • Tier 1: gain levitation (walking speed, max height 1/2 speed)
  • Tier 2: gain fly speed = walking speed
  • Tier 3: fly speed improves to 3x walking
• Energy Resistance
  • Tier 1: gain resist 50% to one energy type
  • Tier 2: gain immunity to energy type
  • Tier 3: gain absorption to energy type
• Invisibility
  • Tier 1: obscure features at will, hide in plain sight, become invisible while not moving after 1 rd
  • Tier 2: invisible at will as a bonus action
  • Tier 3: always invisible, as preferred
• Teleportation
  • Tier 1: teleport as a move action within walking speed, recharge 33%
  • Tier 2: local teleport is now at will. Can teleport within 1 mile, recharge short rest (bonus once per Taint).
  • Tier 3: 1-mile teleport is now recharge 33%. Can teleport anywhere in the world once per long rest (bonus once per Taint).

Fusion

• Weapon Fusion:
  • Imp: adds fire
  • Succubus: makes it whippy, necro
  • etc...
• Armor Fusion
• Metamorphosis

General

Borrow summons, invocations, etc from other flavors

Alternate Build System

Basics:

• Knowledge (the Planes) handles Detect Planar Affinity, Summon Outsider, Command Outsider, Banish Outsider. Maybe a better name might be Planar Magic, or simply Invocation. Costs described within the skill.
• Summoning basic minions:
  • Could cost 1 talent each. That's very expensive in this system. Make them better?
  • Could treat them as resources. Maybe each costs 1 or more Soul Shards (conversion to Resource Points?).
  • Remember: you can summon these minions with just the Invocation skill above. This ability means you can skip all the dangerous and tedious domination mechanics every time.

Flavors/Types:

• Just make each power a talent, like all other talents.