You can regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point) when you succeed on a death saving throw or when you stabilize a creature with Spare the Dying. Starting at 6th level, you can give yourself vitality when you cheat death or when you help someone else cheat it. An always-active Sanctuary that only works on undead is kind of terrible the undead can just hurt your allies instead. The Spare the Dying cantrip doesn’t say it doesn’t count against your total warlock cantrips known: I think the intent is that it’s supposed to not count against your total cantrips known, but talk to your DM. An undead is also immune to this effect for 24 hours if you target it with an attack or a harmful spell. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or forfeit targeting someone instead of you, potentially wasting the attack or spell. If an undead targets you directly with an attack or a harmful spell, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC (an undead needn’t make the save when it includes you in an area effect, such as the explosion of Fireball). You also have advantage on saving throws against any disease.Īdditionally, undead have difficulty harming you.

Starting at 1st level, you learn the Spare the Dying cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you. I have big problems with recommending this combo since this is a cheesy playstyle that very few tables are willing to accommodate, but it’s not inherently broken to use it for this purpose.ĥth: Contagion and Legend Lore both suck. The cheese is pretty obvious: take a few short rests in a row and cast it on your whole party. However, unlike Armor of Agathys and other spells, it has an eight hour duration. At least Speak With Dead is pretty good.Ĥth: Aura of Life is a fine spell that can give your whole party resistance to necrotic damage or heal them, and Death Ward would be pretty good if you had more slots. Expect it to do nothing if you don’t prepare or use it strategically.ģrd: I doubt anyone has ever cast Feign Death. Silence is a decent spell, but only if your allies can somehow keep enemies in the area, and only if those enemies are things like spellcasters who can no longer use verbal components. It’s less terrible on a Wizard since they can cast a concentration spell and then Ray of Sickness, but you have Eldritch Blast already, and casting a concentration spell and ray of sickness will cost most warlocks all of their spell slots.Ģnd: Blindness/Deafness is a decent concentration-free debuff but isn’t any better than your usual 2nd level picks. Ray of Sickness is a mediocre spell and not worth using your precious few spell slots. You get 1.5 temporary hit points on average, but that’s not worth it. Click here to pick up your own copy of the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide!ġst: False Life is almost identical to Armor of Agathys, but it doesn’t deal cold damage to people who hit you in melee and has the same one hour duration. The Undying Warlock subclass is found in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide. You will be a normal warlock, but slightly more durable. The features of the Undying Warlock are weak and insubstantial, but you can make a decent character with it, possibly by exploiting a few spells in the expanded spell list to buff yourself and your allies. Undying Warlocks make pacts with powerful undead and undead-adjacent entities, from powerful liches to the almighty Vecna. Do not confuse these two subclasses for each other, because the Undying Warlock is a terrible subclass. It also has a similarly named and much lamer cousin known as the Undying Warlock. The Undead Warlock is one of the strongest warlock subclasses out there.

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