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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

You can create an area of shadow (as the darkness spell) that is filled with bats (as the bat swarm, page 237 of the Monster Manual, except the swarm fills every square occupied by the darkness). The hungry darkness is stationary.

You are immune to the attacks of your own hungry darkness, but you are still subject to the effect of the darkness. The hungry darkness remains as long as you concentrate on it (like concentrating on a spell), plus 2 rounds thereafter. If the bat swarm is destroyed, the darkness disappears as well.

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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 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 all of its speeds by 1/2 (round fractions up to the nearest 5-foot increment). The target also takes a -5 penalty on attacks made against creatures more than 5 feet away from it (or against creatures outside its own space, for creatures with a natural reach of 0 feet).

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.