My GOOlock's patron is an ancient AI satellite, ala VALIS by Philip K Dick, but I see my EB like Space Cobra's Psycho Gun, my arm briefly looking like alien tech as it blasts.
Hmmm. you could even just point at the target and have a beam of energy hit the target from space. death from above.
In a 1shot, i played a Goblin warlock with the undead-themed patron. His Eldritch Blast was like this: he had a bag he called his Juju Bag (just a regular empty old small drawstring sack) which hung at his hip. He'd say spooky sounding syllables, gripping the bag on his hip, pointing with the other hand at his foe. Small spectral spirits of things he'd killed which glow a sickly yellow-green, and whose appearance reflected the manner in which they'd died, would shoot out. At first it was squirrels and fish, small wild cats and dogs and such, but as the session wore on, and we'd killed more and varied things, stuff like orcs, other goblins, and wolves would shoot out. Rather than calling out "i cast eldritch blast and it looks like this" every time, i only did it the first time, letting people know that's what his EB looked like. From then on, I said "(Scrimshaw) orders XYZ creature to attack ABC enemy" (or Attacks XYZ creature with ABC spirit) and make my attack rolls.
We started at 4th level and ended at 6th, so at first I was throwing squirrels at baddies, and mid way through I'd gotten the killing blow on some big bad orc, so that's the spirit i'd throw out.
When I first cast it, i explained briefly that it caused the spirits great anguish to be called from the afterlife in this way, so using the orc was meant to cause him extra suffering.
My hexblade warlock's patron is a spirit trapped in his pact weapon, so his eldritch blast looks like a wispy blue tendril of that spirit reaching out towards his enemies.
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Deleted the old comment cos I thought up a better desc - Changeling Feylock still identifies magic by colours - a tell that none of the party has picked up on yet, even though I've consistently corrected colour descriptions - and the EB now looks like a purple vine with red maple leaves on it, splitting off after a little bit cos they've got multiple now
I have a tiefling Goolock whose patron is some kind of beholder/eyeball monster. His eldritch blasts are a mix of purple and black shadows, tentacle tendrils, and blinking eyes.
My patron is a legendary silver dragon slowly transforming into an aberration after battling an ancient aboleth spawn of Bolothamogg. It has trapped itself in a pocket dimension to slow the progression and cure itself before the condition fully corrupts it.
The character's eldritch blasts are cast-offs of the corruption being sent from the pocket dimension into the character's plane as pinkish ribbons wafting out of small portals created in random locations around the target. The ribbons, wind like a tapeworm through the air and the exposure to the alien plane and separation from the nourishment gained feasting on the mind of the dragon causes the ribbons to lose stability and to violently be rent from reality. On a critical hit the ribbons penetrate into the soft flesh of the target before being rent from reality.
Just some pretty pink ribbons floating through the air.
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IMHO, Earthdawn is still the best fantasy realm, Shadowrun is the best Sci-Fi realm, and Dark Sun is the best D&D realm.
My hexblade's patron is Belashyrra, The Lord of Eyes, so mine's got an eyeball in the palm of his hand. When he wants to unleash an eldritch blast, he extends his arm outward with his open hand facing out and the eye in his palm widely opens up to a horrific degree like it's about to bulge out. Particles of energy and magic gather in the space in front of the pupil where they condense into a brightly solid, purple-white ball of energy, and a roaring blast thunders out and rips through the air a la shin-godzilla's atomic breath.
Patron-wise, my character is slightly confusing. my character is a 3 Hexblade warlock/5 Draconic Sorcerer (flavored as a gift from my patron, not a dragon). He is an Eladrin with strong connections to Erevan Ilesere (elven god of mischief), and his patron is the raven queen (I'm a Hexblade because I don't allow UA). As such, when he uses his eldritch blast, his form slightly changes to the features of a random sylvan creature or a forest beast (visual only) and the blast emanates from the most changed part (between deer antlers, from a displacer beasts tail) and looks like a pulsating, icy vine which significantly brightens during Hexblades Curse. On impact, the vine wraps around the target, brightens, turns to ice, then disintegrates. If I have multiple targets the vine starts twined and splits off to hit multiple monsters.
The focus is mostly focused on Erevan Ilesere because I will be a sorcerer longer than a warlock.
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Patron-wise, my character is slightly confusing. my character is a 3 Hexblade warlock/5 Draconic Sorcerer (flavored as a gift from my patron, not a dragon). He is an Eladrin with strong connections to Erevan Ilesere (elven god of mischief), and his patron is the raven queen (I'm a Hexblade because I don't allow UA). As such, when he uses his eldritch blast, his form slightly changes to the features of a random sylvan creature or a forest beast (visual only) and the blast emanates from the most changed part (between deer antlers, from a displacer beasts tail) and looks like a pulsating, icy vine which significantly brightens during Hexblades Curse. On impact, the vine wraps around the target, brightens, turns to ice, then disintegrates. If I have multiple targets the vine starts twined and splits off to hit multiple monsters.
The focus is mostly focused on Erevan Ilesere because I will be a sorcerer longer than a warlock.
Your dm let you play a coffee lock? That's bold.
Alternatively known as a crack lock; you never need to rest. Use warlock slots to get sorcerer points, rest for an hour, use sorcerer points to buy spell slots, and you have your warlock slots back. After 24 hrs you normal take a level of exhaustion, but then you use sorcerer points to cast greater restoration: no more exhaustion. Yes, it costs 500g a day, but that's why you start as a coffee lock until higher levels (or until you use downtimeto open a hotel or something to generate passive income); you do the same thing before then, just with one long rest before 48 hrs pass
I did it for the eldritch blast maxing, not the coffeelock, though it is a bonus. And now that I think of it, a coffeelocked Sorlock, which can be a DM's nightmare, has connections to someone who is basically Loki.
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Hello!
By reading this signature, you have agreed to pull 20 cards from the deck of many things. If you lose your soul in any way, it will go to me and the following will happen: When you create your next character, you will become a celestial warlock in servitude to me. Once a month, I require an ounce of empyrean blood. If you fail to deliver on this, all the cards you pulled will converge on you at once.
My character fights using a magic tarokka deck, where the cards disperse from their pouch and float in the air around her. When she casts it, one card for each blast transmutes itself into a small silver lance of light and streaks towards its target.
Mine is a large fast moving, glowing purple screaming eyeball that rapid twitches to observe everything around with gums and teeth for an eyelid that clack as they blink. Basically, my warlock has a pact with an ancient elder thing that wishes to experience the mortal realm. A lot of his magic actually summons parts of it's body to experience whatever sensory information it can from our plane.
I have a fathomless warlock who has a very unwilling pact with Umberlee - not so much a bargain as it is Umberlee saying, "You work for me now." I leaned hard into the tentacle theme of the subclass, so pretty much every one of his spells manifest as tentacles protruding from his back that are manipulated by Umberlee herself. He doesn't control the tentacles, they control him (think Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2). When he casts eldritch blast the tentacles lash out at the target with brutal violence, much to his chagrin.
I have a Bard/Warlock in a Hoard of the Dragon Queen game, who has the "I used to be a dragon but Bahamut turned me into a person" backstory element. While the character is not aware of this, the DM and I have been treating their "true dragon self" as their Warlock patron, and so his Eldritch Blast looks like a copper dragon's breath weapon. Some of his other dragon abilities (darksight, blindsight, etc) are going to start creeping in through evocations/etc as well as things progress.
Hmmm. you could even just point at the target and have a beam of energy hit the target from space. death from above.
I play a hexblade with grasp of hadar invocation, so I describe the beam being like chains of pure darkness that drag the target.
In a 1shot, i played a Goblin warlock with the undead-themed patron. His Eldritch Blast was like this: he had a bag he called his Juju Bag (just a regular empty old small drawstring sack) which hung at his hip. He'd say spooky sounding syllables, gripping the bag on his hip, pointing with the other hand at his foe. Small spectral spirits of things he'd killed which glow a sickly yellow-green, and whose appearance reflected the manner in which they'd died, would shoot out. At first it was squirrels and fish, small wild cats and dogs and such, but as the session wore on, and we'd killed more and varied things, stuff like orcs, other goblins, and wolves would shoot out. Rather than calling out "i cast eldritch blast and it looks like this" every time, i only did it the first time, letting people know that's what his EB looked like. From then on, I said "(Scrimshaw) orders XYZ creature to attack ABC enemy" (or Attacks XYZ creature with ABC spirit) and make my attack rolls.
We started at 4th level and ended at 6th, so at first I was throwing squirrels at baddies, and mid way through I'd gotten the killing blow on some big bad orc, so that's the spirit i'd throw out.
When I first cast it, i explained briefly that it caused the spirits great anguish to be called from the afterlife in this way, so using the orc was meant to cause him extra suffering.
Celestial warlock, Ki-rin patron... EB is a golf-ball sized miniature sun complete with red and orange solar flares
Not yet cast it but I see my Warlock's as being dark almost black purple shadows full of glittering ice crystals
My hexblade warlock's patron is a spirit trapped in his pact weapon, so his eldritch blast looks like a wispy blue tendril of that spirit reaching out towards his enemies.
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Deleted the old comment cos I thought up a better desc - Changeling Feylock still identifies magic by colours - a tell that none of the party has picked up on yet, even though I've consistently corrected colour descriptions - and the EB now looks like a purple vine with red maple leaves on it, splitting off after a little bit cos they've got multiple now
I have a tiefling Goolock whose patron is some kind of beholder/eyeball monster. His eldritch blasts are a mix of purple and black shadows, tentacle tendrils, and blinking eyes.
My arch-fey warlock's looks almost like a mini sun? It's a deep orange and the magic/energy looks very wild so it's not an exact shape each time.
My patron is a legendary silver dragon slowly transforming into an aberration after battling an ancient aboleth spawn of Bolothamogg. It has trapped itself in a pocket dimension to slow the progression and cure itself before the condition fully corrupts it.
The character's eldritch blasts are cast-offs of the corruption being sent from the pocket dimension into the character's plane as pinkish ribbons wafting out of small portals created in random locations around the target. The ribbons, wind like a tapeworm through the air and the exposure to the alien plane and separation from the nourishment gained feasting on the mind of the dragon causes the ribbons to lose stability and to violently be rent from reality. On a critical hit the ribbons penetrate into the soft flesh of the target before being rent from reality.
Just some pretty pink ribbons floating through the air.
IMHO, Earthdawn is still the best fantasy realm, Shadowrun is the best Sci-Fi realm, and Dark Sun is the best D&D realm.
My hexblade's patron is Belashyrra, The Lord of Eyes, so mine's got an eyeball in the palm of his hand. When he wants to unleash an eldritch blast, he extends his arm outward with his open hand facing out and the eye in his palm widely opens up to a horrific degree like it's about to bulge out. Particles of energy and magic gather in the space in front of the pupil where they condense into a brightly solid, purple-white ball of energy, and a roaring blast thunders out and rips through the air a la shin-godzilla's atomic breath.
Patron-wise, my character is slightly confusing. my character is a 3 Hexblade warlock/5 Draconic Sorcerer (flavored as a gift from my patron, not a dragon). He is an Eladrin with strong connections to Erevan Ilesere (elven god of mischief), and his patron is the raven queen (I'm a Hexblade because I don't allow UA). As such, when he uses his eldritch blast, his form slightly changes to the features of a random sylvan creature or a forest beast (visual only) and the blast emanates from the most changed part (between deer antlers, from a displacer beasts tail) and looks like a pulsating, icy vine which significantly brightens during Hexblades Curse. On impact, the vine wraps around the target, brightens, turns to ice, then disintegrates. If I have multiple targets the vine starts twined and splits off to hit multiple monsters.
The focus is mostly focused on Erevan Ilesere because I will be a sorcerer longer than a warlock.
Hello!
By reading this signature, you have agreed to pull 20 cards from the deck of many things. If you lose your soul in any way, it will go to me and the following will happen: When you create your next character, you will become a celestial warlock in servitude to me. Once a month, I require an ounce of empyrean blood. If you fail to deliver on this, all the cards you pulled will converge on you at once.
Many thanks,
Gweledydd Slantse
Your dm let you play a coffee lock? That's bold.
Alternatively known as a crack lock; you never need to rest. Use warlock slots to get sorcerer points, rest for an hour, use sorcerer points to buy spell slots, and you have your warlock slots back. After 24 hrs you normal take a level of exhaustion, but then you use sorcerer points to cast greater restoration: no more exhaustion. Yes, it costs 500g a day, but that's why you start as a coffee lock until higher levels (or until you use downtimeto open a hotel or something to generate passive income); you do the same thing before then, just with one long rest before 48 hrs pass
Interesting EB though
I did it for the eldritch blast maxing, not the coffeelock, though it is a bonus. And now that I think of it, a coffeelocked Sorlock, which can be a DM's nightmare, has connections to someone who is basically Loki.
Hello!
By reading this signature, you have agreed to pull 20 cards from the deck of many things. If you lose your soul in any way, it will go to me and the following will happen: When you create your next character, you will become a celestial warlock in servitude to me. Once a month, I require an ounce of empyrean blood. If you fail to deliver on this, all the cards you pulled will converge on you at once.
Many thanks,
Gweledydd Slantse
My character fights using a magic tarokka deck, where the cards disperse from their pouch and float in the air around her. When she casts it, one card for each blast transmutes itself into a small silver lance of light and streaks towards its target.
Mine is a large fast moving, glowing purple screaming eyeball that rapid twitches to observe everything around with gums and teeth for an eyelid that clack as they blink. Basically, my warlock has a pact with an ancient elder thing that wishes to experience the mortal realm. A lot of his magic actually summons parts of it's body to experience whatever sensory information it can from our plane.
I have a fathomless warlock who has a very unwilling pact with Umberlee - not so much a bargain as it is Umberlee saying, "You work for me now." I leaned hard into the tentacle theme of the subclass, so pretty much every one of his spells manifest as tentacles protruding from his back that are manipulated by Umberlee herself. He doesn't control the tentacles, they control him (think Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2). When he casts eldritch blast the tentacles lash out at the target with brutal violence, much to his chagrin.
I have a Bard/Warlock in a Hoard of the Dragon Queen game, who has the "I used to be a dragon but Bahamut turned me into a person" backstory element. While the character is not aware of this, the DM and I have been treating their "true dragon self" as their Warlock patron, and so his Eldritch Blast looks like a copper dragon's breath weapon. Some of his other dragon abilities (darksight, blindsight, etc) are going to start creeping in through evocations/etc as well as things progress.
I get like a green lantern vibe from it so its energy forms that vary slightly based on what invocations are tied to it.