Overhaul Classes - Warlock

Damage Reduction 1/-

Eldritch Blast 2d6

Damage reduction 2/-

Eldritch blast 4d6

Damage reduction 3/-

Eldritch blast 6d6

Eldritch blast 9d6

Energy resistance 10

A warlock attacks his foes with eldritch power, using baleful magical energy to deal damage and sometimes impart other debilitating effects.

An eldritch blast is a ray with a medium range. It is a ranged touch attack that affects a single target, allowing no saving throw. An eldritch blast deals 1d6 points of damage at 1st level and increases in power as the warlock rises in level. An eldritch blast is the equivalent of a 1st-level spell. If you apply a blast shape or eldritch essence invocation to your eldritch blast, your eldritch blast uses the level equivalent of the shape or essence.

An eldritch blast is subject to spell resistance, although the Spell Penetration feat and other effects that improve caster level checks to overcome spell resistance also apply to eldritch blast. An eldritch blast deals half damage to objects. Metamagic feats cannot improve a warlock's eldritch blast (because it is a spell-like ability, not a spell).

A warlock can use eldritch blast at will.

Essentially the base version is a 20M (Medium) ranged ranged touch attack with spell resistance, cast as if a level 1 spell, doing 1d6 magical damage.

You cause various bits of trash and detritus in an area - loose wood, rotting garbage, old clothes, discarded dishes, scraps of parchment, even dead animals - to fly about and latch onto a single target creature.

If the target fails a Reflex save, he is entangled. The subject can escape with a successful DC 20 Strength or Discipline check, which can be repeated in every round as a standard action. The invocation ends when the target successfully escapes, or after 1 round per caster level.

This invocation requires that the area is artificial, such as a city, so it does not function in natural areas such as the wilderness.

Creatures of Huge or larger size are immune to this invocation.

In addition to normal eldritch blast damage, the draining blast forces any creature struck to make a Will save or become slowed.

Slowed creatures will move at 50% of their current speed. They will also suffer a -2 penalty to armor class, reflex saves, and attack rolls, and will be limited to one attack per round (excluding offhand and bonus attacks). If a creature is slowed who already has a haste effect then it supresses one instance of haste. Multiple slow effects do not have any additional effect but can surpress multiple haste effects.

Your eldritch blast takes on physical substance, appearing similar to a glaive.

You can make a melee touch attacks according to your base attack bonus (eg a 6 BAB allows 2 attacks, 1 at +6 and one at +1). If you hit, your target is affected as if struck by your eldritch blast (including any eldritch essence applied to the blast).

You invoke your eldritch blast through your melee weapon. The next creature hit by the weapon is affected as if struck by your eldritch blast (including any eldritch essence applied to the blast). The effects will dissipate after 30 seconds.

This should be simplified if we use an On Hit effect applied to the weapon (or item selected the Warlock has), for 30 seconds, nothing else special.

Note the "next creature" part may be removed since functionally this doesn't work well in NWN terms unless we make it an instantly cast spell which is all kinds of weird.

Sickened is this:

The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.

Kinda doom-like. Just can't stack.

By channeling the fiendish and infamous river, you become an aquatic creature.

Your hands and feet become slightly webbed, granting you a swim speed equal to your base land speed (and all other benefits derived from a swim speed, including a +8 racial bonus on Swim checks; see MM 311). You gain the ability to breathe water as well as air. This invocation lasts for 24 hours.

This eldritch essence invocation allows you to change your eldritch blast into a brimstone blast. A brimstone blast deals fire damage.

Any creature struck by a brimstone blast must succeed on a Reflex save or catch on fire, taking 2d6 points of fire damage per round until it makes a reflex save to extinguish the flames or the duration expires. The fire damage persists for 1 round per five class levels you have up to a maximum of 4 rounds at level 20.

For example, a 15th-level warlock deals 2d6 points of fire damage for 3 rounds after the initial brimstone blast attack. A creature burning in this way never takes more than 2d6 points of fire damage in a round, even if it has been hit by more than one brimstone blast.

This blast shape invocation allows you to improve your eldritch blast by turning it into an arc of energy that “jumps” from the first target to others. An eldritch chain can jump to one or more secondary targets within 30 feet of the first target, allowing you to make additional ranged touch attacks and deal damage to the secondary targets if you hit.

You can “jump” the chain to one secondary target per five caster levels, so you can strike two additional targets at 10th level, three additional targets at 15th level, and four additional targets at 20th level. Each new target must be within 30 feet of the previous one, and you can’t target the same creature more than once with the eldritch chain. If you miss any target in the chain, the eldritch chain attack ends there.

Each target struck after the first takes half the damage dealt to the first target. This reduction in damage to secondary targets applies to any effect that increases the damage of your eldritch blast (such as vitriolic blast).

You must make a separate spell penetration check for each target, if applicable.

This works as animate dead and summons forth an undead minion. The type of undead summoned is dependent upon the caster level.

caster level - summon

1 to 5 - tyrantfog zombie

6 to 9 - skeletal warrior

10+ - skeletal chieftain

All creatures within the area of effect are shrouded in a haze of darkness which blinds all within it (and makes them invisible to those outside of the darkness). The magical darkness can only be pierced using Ultravision or True Seeing.

Additionally the area is filled with summoned bat swarms that attack all creatures inside the darkness, except you. These attacks bypass spell resistance and do 1d6 points of magical damage, and creatures must succeed on a DC 11 fortitude save or be nauseated for 1 round.

This spell requires concentration to maintain, attacking or casting spells or doing complex actions stops the spell after 2 more rounds.

You can use dispel magic as the spell. Any creature with an active spell effect dispelled by this invocation takes 1 point of damage per level of the spell effect (no save).

This spell cannot be used for Counterspell (since Warlocks cannot counterspell).

This spell attempts to strip all magical effects from a single target. It can also target a group of creatures, attempting to remove the most powerful spell effect from each creature. To remove an effect, the caster makes a dispel check of 1d20 +1 per caster level (to a maximum of +10) against a DC of 11 + the spell effect's caster level.

Easy to do, we can check spells before and after to check what effect link IDs are removed, and do damage.

Also notably this can't be used to counterspell, which is great.

So named for the people who most commonly suffer its effects, this invocation allows you to make a deadly trap of an ordinary door.

You can produce a hold portal effect, as the spell. In addition, should anyone other than you open the ensorceled portal from the outside by any means (including knock or dispel magic spells) before the spell’s duration expires, the portal (or a large portion thereof) instantly explodes outward, dealing 5d6 points of damage to all within 20 feet of the door on that side.

Creatures standing on the inside of the door are unaffected. Each creature but the one that triggered the effect (assuming it was standing in front of the door) can attempt a Reflex save for half damage.

Spell resistance does not apply to the damage caused by this effect.

You transform your eldritch blast into a baneful blast.

This blast deals an extra 2d6 points of damage against creatures of a specific type.

You must select the creature type when you first gain this invocation, and you can’t later change your mind (though you can take this invocation more than once, choosing a new creature type each time). You choose your creature type from the categories offered for a ranger’s favored enemy (PH 47), including a subtype if you choose humanoid or outsider.

Your unnatural aura renders you partly immune to the ravages of the environment.

You remain cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather, as the spell endure elements. Additionally, you radiate a small aura of warmth or cold; allies within 30 feet of you also benefit from this effect. This invocation lasts for 24 hours.

One of your eyes leaves your head and sprouts spidery legs. You can see through the eye no matter where it goes, so you can use it to scout or spy. The eye can’t crawl of its own volition, but you can direct it to move or climb up to 20 feet as a move action. Its Climb modifier is equal to your warlock level +8. You can direct a crawling eye in your space to climb back into your eye socket as a move action.

When you use this invocation, your current and full normal hit point totals are reduced by 2 for as long as the eye is detached. The eye is considered a Fine creature with AC 20 and 2 hit points. Its Hide and Move Silently modifiers are equal to your warlock level.

For all other purposes, its statistics are equal to yours. You can’t cast most invocations or spells through the eye, but any spells or invocations that affect your sense of sight—such as devil’s sight, all-seeing eyes, or detect magic— function through the eye as though it was still attached.

If your crawling eye is destroyed, you are dazzled for 1d4 hours, during which time the eye regrows. (If you normally have only one eye, you are blinded instead). At the end of this period, you regain the 2 lost hit points, and the dazzled condition ends.

Only one of your eyes can be used for crawling eye at any time; if your crawling eye is destroyed, you can’t use this invocation again until your eye regrows.

One of your hands drops off at the wrist and floats in the air. You can use the hand in all ways as if it were still attached—manipulating items, delivering attacks with a light or one-handed weapon, or even delivering a touch attack with a spell or invocation that you cast before it detaches. However, it requires you to expend the same action that would have been required—picking up an item takes a move action, making an attack takes a standard action, and so forth.

The hand flies rather than crawls, but it can’t move on its own. You can move the hand up to 30 feet through the air as a move action. You can direct a disembodied hand in your space to reattach to your arm as a move action.

When you use this invocation, your current and full normal hit point totals are reduced by 5 for as long as the hand is detached.

The hand is considered a Diminutive creature with AC 20 and 5 hit points. Its Hide and Move Silently modifiers are equal to your warlock level. For all other purposes, its statistics are equal to yours.

If your disembodied hand is destroyed, it regrows in 1d4 hours. At the end of this period, you regain the 5 lost hit points.

Only one of your hands can be used for disembodied hand at any time; if your disembodied hand is destroyed, you can’t use this invocation again until your hand regrows.

Make a touch attack against a living creature of your size category. If you succeed, your physical appearance (including garb) changes to match his, as disguise self.

In addition, when you use this invocation you can choose to bestow a -1d6 penalty to the touched creature’s Charisma score. This penalty can’t reduce the creature’s Charisma below 1.

A successful Will save by the target negates both effects. A creature that successfully saves can’t be affected by your mask of flesh for 24 hours.

Both effects last for 1 hour per warlock level; if you dismiss the invocation, both effects end.

You can use the targeted version of dispel magic, as the spell. The round after you use this invocation, the target of the effect is subjected to another targeted dispel magic at the start of your turn (with no additional action required on your part).

This spell cannot be used for Counterspell (since Warlocks cannot counterspell).

This spell attempts to strip all magical effects from a single target. To remove an effect, the caster makes a dispel check of 1d20 +1 per caster level (to a maximum of +10) against a DC of 11 + the spell effect's caster level.

You speak a word that sends wracking pain through the limbs of a single target creature within a medium range.

Though these seizures are not powerful enough to immobilize the creature, they do reduce its speed by 30% and their attack by -3.

This effect lasts for 3 rounds; a successful Fortitude save negates the effect.

You speak a word of the Dark Speech (Book of Vile Darkness 47), causing one flying creature to be forced downward suddenly. You can affect a single target creature within 60 feet. The target must make a Will save or fall 5 feet per caster level.

A creature that is forced to the ground as a result of this invocation takes 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet traveled and cannot fly again for 1 round.

You can transform yourself into the form of a Small or Medium fiendish monstrous spider.

The available range of sizes you can assume increases as your caster level increases.

This invocation is a polymorph effect. It lasts for a number of hours equal to your caster level, or until you choose to end it.

When you kill a living creature with one of your invocations (including eldritch blast), a swarm of spiders bursts from the corpse.

This swarm has the same statistics as a normal spider swarm (MM 239), except that you add your warlock level to its hit points and the save DC for its poison.

The swarm is entirely under your mental control, and fights as you direct it. Commanding the swarm is a free action.

The swarm remains for a number of rounds equal to your caster level or until it is destroyed. The swarm can take only a standard action in the round when it emerges.

At any given time, you can control only one of these swarms. If you slay a second creature when a previous swarm is still active, you can choose either to create a second swarm (in which case the first disappears) or to leave the first swarm active and not create a second one. Sudden swarm lasts for 24 hours or until its effect is triggered.

This eldritch essence invocation allows you to change your eldritch blast into a repelling blast. Any Medium or smaller creature struck by a repelling blast must make a Reflex save or be knocked prone by the energy of the attack.

This eldritch essence invocation allows you to change your eldritch blast into a vitriolic blast. A vitriolic blast deals acid damage, and it is formed from conjured acid, making it different from other eldritch essences because it ignores spell resistance. Creatures struck by a vitriolic blast automatically take an extra 2d6 points of acid damage on following rounds. This acid damage persists for 1 round per five class levels you have.

For example, a 15th-level warlock deals 2d6 points of acid damage per round for 3 rounds after the initial vitriolic blast attack.

This invocation allows you to conjure forth a field of soul- chilling black tentacles that ooze from the ground, groping for victims.

This invocation functions identically to the Evard’s black tentacles spell, except that each creature within the area of the invocation takes 2d6 points of cold damage each round. Creatures in the area take this cold damage whether or not they are grappled by the tentacles.

This invocation allows you to deliver a targeted greater dispel magic with your touch.

You gain 5 temporary hit points for each spell level dispelled by this touch. For example, if you successfully dispel a wall of ice, you gain 20 temporary hit points. These temporary hit points fade after 1 minute and do not stack with other temporary hit points.

If you devour a new spell, you can replace the old temporary hit points with the ones gained from the more recent spell, thus resetting the duration.

You cannot devour your own invocations.

The dark powers cloak you and shield you from harm while draining vitality from nearby foes. This invocation grants you total concealment in any area that isn’t brightly lit (it will not work in daylight or in the radius of a spell with the light descriptor).

In addition, any living creature adjacent to you with this ability active must make a Fortitude save at the beginning of its turn or take a -4 penalty to Strength for 5 rounds. Once a creature is affected by enervating shadow, it cannot be affected again by your enervating shadow for 24 hours. The duration of this ability is 5 rounds, and it can be countered or dispelled by any light spell or effect of equal or higher level.

Mayybeee. This is basically the spell Displacement with additional restrictions, which are reasonably hard in NWN. Possibly you could do it so it doesn't work in outdoor, daytime periods, and light spell interaction isn't the worst (just have it dispel it).

The adjacent == strength loss isn't the worst to do and isn't too effective since it only works once (per 24 hours).

You can conjure a wall of fire as the spell with this invocation. Half the wall’s fire damage results from supernatural power and is therefore not subject to being reduced by resistance to fire.

If a creature is reduced to 0 hit points or lower by a wall of perilous flame, its remains are completely consumed.

Can do the "not reduced by resistance to fire" as magic damage to just bypass all the immunity/resistance stuff.

The consuming remains is fun and doable as per Destruction and it's setting of the bodybag and forcing it to go.

You can use a suggestion effect, as the spell. Additionally, when the duration ends or the task is completed, the subject must attempt a second Will save with a –5 penalty.

If this second save fails, the subject completely forgets that you were the one who suggested the course of action mandated by the use of devil’s whispers, instead becoming convinced that it was his own idea—even if he’s not certain why he might have chosen to perform such an action.

A successful break enchantment spell can rid him of this delusion, but dispel magic and similar effects cannot. You can have a number of devil’s whispers active at any one time equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

Devil’s whispers is a mind-affecting compulsion effect.

Using this invocation makes you resistant to the attacks and special abilities of dragons for 24 hours. You gain the following benefits, which apply against any creature of the dragon type:

• Immunity to frightful presence.
• Damage reduction 5/– against physical damage from dragons.
• Resistance 20 against any acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage dealt by a breath weapon.

Might just make it immunity to fear from dragons, resistance of damage from dragons and against physical damage from dragons. Although just making it the breath weapons would be pretty easy since they're codified together and therefore a dragon could still fireball you.

One with the powers of darkness, you learn to abandon your body. When you use this ability, you becomes a swarm of Diminutive, batlike shadows that fills two 10-foot squares (or eight contiguous 5-foot squares, shapeable as you desire). The duration of this ability is 24 hours. In this swarmlike form, you gain the following characteristics and traits.

—Abilities: Your Strength score drops to 1, but your Dexterity score increases by 6.

—Armor Class: You lose any natural armor or armor bonuses to Armor Class. You gain a +4 size bonus to AC, and a deflection bonus to AC equal to your Charisma modifier.

—Movement: You gain a fly speed of 40 feet with perfect maneuverability. You can pass through openings a Diminutive creature could pass through.

—Swarm Traits: You are not subject to critical hits or flanking, and you are immune to weapon damage. You cannot be tripped, grappled, or bull rushed, and you cannot grapple an opponent. You are immune to any spell or effect that targets a specific number of creatures, except for mind-affecting spells and abilities. You take half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an area. Unlike other swarms of Diminutive creatures, you are not vulnerable to wind effects. If reduced to 0 hit points or less, or rendered unconscious by nonlethal damage, you instantly return to your normal form in a square of your choice that was formerly covered by the swarm.

—Swarm Attack: You gain a swarm attack that deals 4d6 points of damage to any creature whose space you occupy at the end of your turn. Your swarm attack strikes as a magic weapon of your alignment.

—Distraction: Any living creature vulnerable to your swarm attack that begins its turn in a square occupied by your swarm must make a Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1 round. Spellcasting or concentrating on spells within the area of your swarm requires a Concentration check (DC 20 + spell level).

—Possessions: All of your worn or carried equipment and items become nonfunctional, absorbed into your new form. You can take only move actions (so you cannot use other invocations) while under the effect of dark discorporation.

Level 1: 1, Level 2/3: 2, Level 4/5: 3 etc.

6, 11, 16 unlock new tiers.

Max out at Eldritch Blast plus 12 Invocations known

Two main options using spellbooks.

• Cleric-style spellbook (all spells known, limited spell slots to put them in)
• Take bonus feats to choose which invocations to obtain
• Simply unlocks all spells, then enforce through the spell slot functions what is available so it can be put on the quickbar and refreshed so unlimited (eg a heartbeat script)
• Have Eldritch Blast as level 1, and unlock more slots as they advance appropriate to the 12 given ones mainly for aesthetics. Technically they could take 12 "least" ones

Second option is more spell-book-choosy so easier to parse the available invocations:

• Sorcerer-style spellbook (limited spells known, spell slots per level but any can be cast, just set it to something high like 100)
• SpellKnownTable we simplify, the levels we use are:
  • 0 - Eldritch Blast is a "cantrip" so always selected
  • 1 - Least
  • 2 - Lesser
  • 3 - Greater
  • 4 - Dark
    • The main jank on this is: Enemy Counterspells are much more effective, Automatic metamagic works more easily, and concentration checks are much easier
    • We can work around some aspects like ResistSpell (ie globes etc.) with custom checks.
    • Would need a new style of spell book to accommodate these things, or a "RealLevel" in spells.2da for these aspects...!

The other option is feats which are a pain, since you can't inherently swap them out or find them on the spell radial:

• ActionCastSpell with cheat cast, might accommodate some of this
  • Can be from a NUI panel (ie done after level up) but no quickbar use then but can swap them out
  • Can be done from feats but this makes them permanent and not swappable (not the worst thing since it is easier to access on quickbar still)
  • For Arcane Spell Failure portion can apply in the spell hook. This should have concentration checks as normal, but I don't think counterspelling will work as usual. Need to check how cheat-cast spells fully work.

Eldritch Blast changes; usually a toggle, sometimes a permanent choice

Need spell-like ability versions

NB: For now not enabled (except the automatic variants which cannot be disabled)

We should probably mimic this with feats allowing some NUI toggles, since it allows it to be enabled

Of course limits it to Empower, Maximise, Extend and possibly Still (just don't do ASF check in spell hook). Silent and quicken are not possible.

We could have the original Metamagic feats work but in a sense restrict them to a limited amount of uses/day (and limit spell level it can use based on caster level) using the spell book manipulations. Simplifies things mechanically.

We could also add bonus feats when the Ability version feats are chosen, that are disabled after X uses...but needs proper spell books.