@3:45 Warlock extended spells are not always available. You just get to choose them as an option when you are selecting spells.

Wonder if I could take Taliesin Jaffee as my character patron

Undead at 20~ hp. Calls out to Wizard in the back, "Get it ready!!!" Warlock runs into large group of enemies, Wizard casts Fireball. Necrotic blast, Fireball... Undying hobbles out of smoke.

The Undying: You can not kill me The Undead: Death will not stop me

I just want to point out that Warlock's don't automatically know the spells from their expanded spell list. It just adds the spells to their spell list, they still have to select them when they level up.

Lord Soth does not suffer the ridicule of fools. Lord Soth is quick to anger, yet can be quite slow to act... Your insolence has been noted. Beware future dealings with or within the ShadowFell where He is at His most malignant. For when you find your guard wanes only then will He make His intentions known! ....even now, His grasp extends to the Prime Material Plane & His Pact-Minions move amongst you. Perhaps even amongst your party members? Only when they act (or perhaps seemingly fail to...?) will you know that your end has been imminently circling ever closer until the very moment of your carefully culminated corruption!

There’s a Dracolich in explorer’s guide to wildemount who’d make a cool patron

I am playing an undying warlock and BOY does this look good. I cant wait to switch to this instead.

for a Dracolich patron go for the Creeping Doom, or by his true name Daurgothoth. the strongest of all dracolich blessed by Mystra to keep inventing new spells. but in contrast for what i want for this subclass, i would want it to have medium armor and martial weapon proficiency, it would make it a true contestant for a melee build for warlocks. imagine a Undead warlock running around in bone armor and with a scythe (Glaive) :D

This new Warlock SCREAMS Talion from Shadow of Mordor.

I hope wildfire druid stays...

Not gonna lie, this feels like more of a Shadowfell patron than the Hexblade ever was... mostly because it actually uses SHADOWY and FELL magic. So, yeah, color me interested.

What happens if someone uses spirit projection and the spirit and body are both hit by fireball? It mentions that both gain resistance but doesn't say if the HPs are linked or separate. Would you take double damage? Would they get hurt separately and the soul HP doesn't matter as long as it doesn't go to zero?

Looking at the difference between the Undead and the Undying I feel like any theme that falls into avoiding death is what you get for an Undying Warlock, where an Undead Warlock is very much tied to specifically undead creatures. So like, I could see an Undying Warlock being a psuedo Sorcerous Origin where a cosmic or technological disaster ended up putting you down that road. Undead pacts are very deliberate moves made by an ancient entity.

That was actually the correct way to pronounce 'melee'. Such a rare thing to hear the correct pronunciation of that word on KZfaq!

The capstone feature, for me, changes this from blade lock into: B.P.R.D.'s Johann Kraus, from Hellboy

Would love to see a Pumpkin King or some sort of Undead with a pumpkin flavoring as a Patron. Throwing fire and necrotic energy.

Nazgul here i come :)

I'm impatiently waiting for this to be added to DND Beyond lol

Been wanting to play a Skeleton "knight". A paladin that died in battle centuries ago. And through "back story" reasons has awaken to find themselves in a tomb. They have sentient thought but can't remember their past. And they don't register as "Undead" nor "living" but something in between. Would be a fun race to RP and delve into why this might happen. Just something that's been pinging around in my head for a while.

I did too wonder when i looked at the level 6th feature. when i noticed i figured many might be confused and one way i thought to clearly make it seem powerful still but less confusing. I figured maybe only rolling one more eldritch blast beam or 1 more dice per casting of the spell. so at level 1 it would be treated as it was lv 5 for amount of damage. Also like other abilities they limit the extra damage to only one of the attacks. One way i possible see fixing some confusing tactics some may have with the ability.

This made me think of the crew of The Black Pearl, from the first Pirates of the Caribbean film

I love this for a very specific warlock build. Entertainer background tome lock with Shillelagh, and either green flame blade or booming blade. Main weapon is a fancy cane/club and his patron is Jack Skellington.

I've been using an Artificer Lich as a patron for my Hexblade in a campaign but I like the idea of going pact of the blade on this. Take that one shield feat from the UA that lets you use a shield freely and use it as a spell focus and you've got a nice setup for a creepy dark warrior.

I'm compiling a list of Theros Warlock hooks and this is perfect.

So undead and undying, interesting. Would love to have it where an entity gives you power, but gives you either form, like roll to determine which.

So how would you describe the 2 different paths(undying an undead)? Imo looks like undying is in search of immortality either thru means of lichery(vecna), or thru ascension(gilgeam the demigod) tho point is by any means necessary good or bad. However undead looks to focus on the darker aspect as in an undead.

This is certainly a Warlock version of the Phoenix Sorcerer

I love this!!! I feel like this gets back into the roots of warlocks becoming extensions of their patrons.

This seems like a good foundation for a Renfield like character.

One of the next characters i want to play (ive been a DM for many groups, my chances are low to be a PC sigh...but) i want to make a pumpkin headed jack magelock of the raven queen, using an undead aspect of warlock like this as the base

Conquest paladin undead warlock sounds crazy

I do like the idea of pairing an Undead Blade Warlock with Zealot Barbarian

I look forward to building out some concepts on beyond with this once it is added

Would this class be able to survive inside items like a bag of holding seeing as it doesn't breathe?

So, anybody else want to grab the Agonizing Blast invocation while playing an Undead Warlock?

As a lover of the 3rd edition Dread Necromancer, this patron looks like it's to die for! I cant wair to see the official version.

I love it. I'm a fan of everything undeath, so this easily pleases me. I do feel like it does cross paths with the undying in terms of pact origin, which is something we haven't seen, but I'm not against it. Anyway, here are my thoughts. for the spell list, although false life is very thematic, i doubt many people would choose it over armor of agathys. phantasmal steed is fantastic and i would take it 100% of the time despite its use being very situational for a warlock's limited casting. extra damage in dread form for spells like vampiric touch or enervation is *chef kiss*. the extra damage for an eldritch blaster is strong at lower levels, but ends up being about the same as hex blade's curse. though, you can use your form of dread twice as much initially, and 6 times as often by 17th level. I like the imagery of mortal husk, but I don't understand why your body would explode; it's not a very common undead ability. I think it would be more thematic to have your soul, being so suffused with necrotic energy, lash out before returning to your mortal husk and filling it with stolen life. having the soul or spirit do this would also lead nicely into the next ability, spirit projection. also, to make it less tailored towards melee warlocks, you could have the damage upon death target the thing that took you down. can you use spirit projection continuously? I'm imagining a warlock who keeps their body in a lead-lined adamantine coffin that they drag around and only interact in ghost form. please let this be true.

Imagine a Vengeance Paladin that dies and forms a pact with an undead patron to allow it get Vengeance on the one who killed them

I REALLLY want te Alchemist Artificer to get an update that takes the idea from Grave Touched! They should totally be able to switch their spell damage to their limited damage list!! this one change would fix a ton of its issues with cantrip/damage battle output. since it would let them use all the cantrips.. like the debuff ones! That, and then double up the elixirs (make them equal to profiency in alchemist class) and 1 spell = remake the elixir amount.. class be perfect then. though gravy would be spell list alterations (prayer of healing for one)

Imagine releasing a subclass that doubles the damage from eldritch blast.

I have really liked the idea of a Dragon Warlock, it reminds me of the first Dragonheart movie. Also the naked Spirit Warlock could be fun. LOL.

Hey guys I’m new, when picking a patron can we make one up that isn’t as powerful like a dracolich instead of choosing a named patron or how does this work

Undead blade pact Warlock drow. With Elven Accuracy and focus on EB invocations after devil's sight and improved pact weapon with hex. That is 17 avg per bolt or 16 per blade if a D8 base. Not bad for a cantrip and 1st lvl combo

Woot! Raven queen warlock themed blaster is looking like a darker future!

Agonizing Blast and lvl 6 with a Charisma of 20 means for one action you can do 4d10+10 necrotic damage WITH A CANTRIP and you can do that as many times as you have actions to cast it. that is something I can see needing toned down.

I made a warlock for my brother who wanted to try D&D and he wanted to be a evil Necromancer and I told him this is it, with the summon undead spell from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and him being a Dimpirr as a lesser vampyr

I had a Wild Soul Sorcerer who was a zombie. She died as a young adventurer, and was revived by some mysterious force. I would love to change her to an Undead Warlock, with a few levels in, maybe Sorcerer again, to signify the class she was when she was alive. The potential multiclass flavor of this subclass is amazing.

Gith, bard lore/ undead lock summoner style(and generally support.) I follow Vlaakith as my "patron." Been a pot of fun. Only 6 lvls lock and 14 bard to cherry pick spells and it just worked out that way.

There was a Dracolich in the novel Spellfire

I like the capstone, it reminds me of the necromunger leader in chronicle of riddick

When will it be available in the character builder on dnd beyond?

Grave Touched makes this super powerful. Grab a few sorc levels for Quickened and you and you can do more damage than almost anything else on a single spell

YES! Arvin Undead Warlock! Looks like it’s time to make a new character.

Anyone tell them about Alasklerbanbastos?

My undying warlocks patron is the dracolich Daurgothoth. He is a forgotten realms cannon dracolich

Does anyone know the difference between undying and undead patrons? The names imply that one has achieved immortality and can’t die and the other has already died and came back. But both subclasses use liches as examples as patrons, who I’d think would only count as undying patrons.

I would love to play this warlock with Lord Soth or Lord Ausric Krell as my patron in Dragonlance.

I like the. Sub class but honestly but I am in love with the swordcoast the races and sub classes I honest hate the when I want to play the I have to manually. Enter them in roll20. What I normally play on. So I end up not playing them

Once I found this I quickly realized that my warlock paladin would fit this nicely because they actually cursed themselves through a friend so that when they die they'd become a deathknight & this curse is what makes them a warlock

Am I the only one who feels like the extra necrotic damage is crazy?? Like that’s 2d10+CHA two to four times on A CANTRIP?

can you go in dread form while your in spirit??

I understand that mechanically this 2 are very different and apparently quite a few people preffer the undead patron over the undying patron... but lorewise... what is really the difference? can't the same entity be either? It was mentioned that the undying is very associated with liches and liches are undead... so I fail to see from a lore point of view what differentiates one from the other.

I had a Centaur Undying Warlock whos patron was their Lich father

Suddenly I'm looking at King Kaius III in a whole new light. You're a loyal agent of your nation, and he grants you power to better serve Karrnath.

I too have a character that keeps his demi lich grandfather's head .Whom worships him and seeks his guidance

What about adding the d10 per target?

Grave Touched makes this subclass better than Hexblade for Eldritch Blasting, but it's harder to dip for a Sorlock so you really need to go full Warlock in a campaign where you can get the Illusionist's Bracers to maximize it. Math below: At Lvl 6: Attack Bonus (8), Target AC (15). Activate Form of Dread just before starting combat. Turn 1: Hex, Eldritch Blast 2x (Avg DPR = 28.75 / 42 with Elven Accuracy Advantage). Turn 2: Using Illusionist's Bracers for double Cantrips (Avg DPR = 57.5 / 84.1 with Adv) At Lvl 11: Attack Bonus (9), Target AC (17). Same setup with Eldritch Blast 3x. Turn 1 (43.1 / 63.1). Turn 2 (86.25 / 126.25). At Lvl 17: Attack Bonus (11), Target AC (19). Same setup with Eldritch Blast 4x. Turn 1 (53.6 / 82.9). Turn 2 (107.2 / 165.8)

Didnt Sword Coast have one of these already?

I like undying batter but I always wants to play that warlock

The undying warlock is dead, this undead warlock comes to dispose of the rest and take his place

So when can we expect to see this on DDB?

A game on Ravnica benefits greatly from this subclass, because four Guilds dip their toes into the undeath pond. Sure, the Orzhov Syndicate could support Celestial Warlocks, they've got angels, and the Cult of Rakdos is literally a demonic cult, so Archfiend Warlocks are in. But all four Black-colored Guilds have undead. The Orzhov Syndicate is (or was) run by a council of ghosts. Zombies, vampires, and liches abound. It's a good place to be an Undead Warlock.

Multiclass Sorcerer: Quicken Eldritch Blast + Grave Touch = 16d10+40 damage for 2 sorcery points.

Level 20 Undead Warlock (20 Charisma) using Eldritch Blast with Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Eldritch Spear [Range 300'], Lance of Lethargy 4 Beams = 2d10+5 per Beam = Min 7 Necrotic per Beam ||| Max 25 Necrotic per Beam

I just wish you got Animate Dead with your expanded spell list

I'm going to play Sir Daniel Fortesque from Medieval. Who bargained for the power to be a real hero without realizing he is channeling his own future self. Now just need a good fate based patron.

You could be like a Hexenbiest & Zauberbiest from Grimm! Witah all that Death Hag vibe hehe

As a DM, I don't think Grave Touched is broken but it is certainly strong. I think I would tweak it to the first time you hit a given creature in a round, you get the extra die.

On whther the additional necrotic damage is OP for Eldritch Blast, at 17th the Warlock could do 100 damage max to a target or 25 to 4 (crits are an option). At 17th, a Wizard can Fireball ~ 16x a day (with Arcane Recovery), which does guarunteed damage and can melt large swathes of enemies. 16 Fireballs at various levels will probs be far more than enough for an average day's combat, so I don't feel it's OP. Also this class loses out on some of the utility or healing of other Warlock patrons.

Fear effects don’t give you advantage on attack rolls against the frightened target so there is no synergy with elven accuracy. You should use a greataxe not a great sword so that at 6th level you do 4d12+8 (34) with thirsting blade or 4d12+28 (54) with GWM. It basically makes your great axe always crit if it hits. Compare to Eldrich blast on a normal warlock 2d10 +8 (19) and you see that it does around twice the damage without a feat and substantially more than that with one. Under perfect conditions you could be dealing upwards of 6d12+42 (81) if you hit all three attacks and drop at least one target allowing you to use your bonus action. This seems a little stronger than the other pacts.

Wait, does Mortal Husk mean you don't need to worry about running out of breath underwater? What about poison clouds from traps or spells? And in the warlock considered an undead by spells or is just a magically mutated human, so to speak?

did anyone else think of a night walker or similar creature as a patron for the undead warlock?

The level 14 feature feels... meh, i'd rather have something else,like the level one feature going permanant or on an off switch, regardless it feels like something is missing

Lord Soth all the way! Loved this character and story.

I don't like the level 14 ability in regards to theme, if I want to play a vampire character, or have a vampire patron, having myself leave my body like a ghost... that just doesn't work.

It's like they made it for me. Lol. Perfect character option. I would choose this immediately

I would have to continue arguing that this is too similar too the Undying warlock, and that I’d love to see more unique warlocks later. After all, a couple of the features of the two are quite similar and the expanded spell lists have nearly half their spells in common.

I was just being sad that there really wasn't any necro type warlock like a week before this came out. Nice.

I totally see Ludwig from bloodborne either being a hex blade or an undead. This is sick!

feels like playable Sylvanas from WoW

So dragonborn warlock for dracolich or take a race with natural attacks for when you go ghost form, hell be an exploding half orc.

Well golly gee there guys, could you maybe, perhaps, when you get the opportunity, put the link to the pdf in the description instead of a boatload of advertising? That'd be very helpful.

Makes me think of Lucifer (TV show) showing his his devil face

Mortal Husk+ 1 Level of Ranger using the Class Features UA to take Tireless and after exploding just.. Short rest remove your Exhaustion point and be ready for next fight. XD

can this subclass be dex based?

I can see this work with a Fey patron. Just change up the spells a bit and the flavor and your done.

This one would be my favorite warlock subclass now. Absolutely.

Speaking of Warlock patrons is there one for Dragons?

You... explode and then reform? You can prevent your own death? This just seems like The Undying all over again. They need to be more distinct than this. The only thing they should share is RAISE DEAD. WHY is Raise Dead not on the expanded spell list? I can flash vampire face but I can't create thralls? This subclass is a huge thematic miss for me.