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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by TomCosta[/i] [br]So I was trying to create a cleric domain more specific to Cyric based on his 2E write ups in Faiths and Avatars, Warriors and Priests of the Realms, and the presentation of his seraph Malik in various novels. I started by just tweaking the Trickery domain, but then I got to thinking that Cyric should be more different than that, which led me to the warlock. Now to be fair, this is more of a tweaking of the Archefy and Great Old One patrons.... Comments welcome. The Dark Sun Your patron is Cyric, the Dark Sun, god of lies, deceit, deception, intrigue, pandemonium, treachery, strife, and madness. Because Cyric does not trust his clergy, he prefers to make pacts with them, rather than reward their faith. Consequently, your warlock class features are divine, rather than arcane in nature. You may choose from any of the pact boons, including the Pact of the Star Chain from Unearthed Arcana: The Faithful. Expanded Spell List The Dark Sun lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you. Wanderer in the Storm Domain Spells Spell Level Spells 1st Dissonant whispers, Tasha’s hideous laughter 2nd Detect thoughts, phantasmal force 3rd Nondetection, spirit guardians (a.k.a. shrieking spirits that deal psychic damage) 4th Evard’s black tentacles, phantasmal killer 5th Hallow, mislead Dark Sun of Strife Starting at 1st level, you learn the vicious mockery cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you. In addition, you gain access to three new eldritch invocations detailed below: Gibbering Blade, Mad Strike of Pandemonium, and Skull of Secrets. However, the Dark Sun will not grant you access to the following eldritch invocations: Beast Speech, Lifedrinker, and Otherworldly Leap. Marquess of Deceit and Madness As Archfey’s Fey Presence. Deceptive Escape As Archfey’s Misty Escape True Words of the Cyrinishad Your mind is protected by the pandemonium of the Dark Sun’s thoughts. You gain the following benefits: • Your thoughts can’t be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it. • You gain advantage on saving throws against apathy, despair, dread, fear, hopelessness, horror, insanity, and madness. • You gain resistance to psychic damage. Dark Sun’s Delirium As Archfey’s Dark Delirium. Eldritch Invocations Gibbering Blade Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade feature The targets of your melee attacks hear a mad gibbering as you strike, distracting them, and granting you advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn’t taken a turn in the combat yet. In addition, any hit you score against a creature that is surprised is a critical hit. Mad Strike of Pandemonium Prerequisite: 12th level, Pact of the Blade feature When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature hears the shrieking of the Dark Sun in its head and takes extra psychic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). Skull of Secrets Prerequisite: 9th level. You can cast commune, creating a floating skull that speaks to you in Cyric’s voice, once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.