You can cast clone once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Reasoning: One of the standard tropes of magic usage is to find a way to increase one's lifespan, longevity, or existence.
The easiest way for Wizards to do this is via the clone spell. Sorcerers can access that spell via wish. Arcana Clerics can access both clone and wish. Bards can access both clone and wish. Druids don't have access to either, but "trying to live forever" isn't really a Druidic theme, and they can always have a Druid buddy with reincarnate, which in some ways is even better than clone.
And then there's Warlocks. You'd think that if any Patron would have an invocation aimed at keeping one of their favorite chess pieces on the board for as long as possible, it's the Undying Patron. But they got left out of the Unearthed Arcana Warlock release, leaving it for homebrewing.
Giving up an Invocation for a spell that you're only really going to need to cast once per body is a pretty steep cost, but it's certainly not an imbalanced one, and it would help justify why a budding Warlock would take Larloch, for example, as a Patron.
I agree, this makes a lot of sense. But then again, if you have the Undying Patron, you live 10 times longer anyway. So if say you were an elf with a lifespan of 700 years or so, that would be bumped up to over 7,000 years. and in all that time it doesn't seem to unrealistic for the warlock to achieve lichdom or some other form of immortality.
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Hell yeah I am going to Polymorph the boss into a Rabbit. I have always wanted a being a pure evil stuffed into a ball of fluff.
Invocation: Rite of Returning
Prerequisite: 18th level, Undying Patron (from Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide)
You can cast clone once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Reasoning: One of the standard tropes of magic usage is to find a way to increase one's lifespan, longevity, or existence.
The easiest way for Wizards to do this is via the clone spell. Sorcerers can access that spell via wish. Arcana Clerics can access both clone and wish. Bards can access both clone and wish. Druids don't have access to either, but "trying to live forever" isn't really a Druidic theme, and they can always have a Druid buddy with reincarnate, which in some ways is even better than clone.
And then there's Warlocks. You'd think that if any Patron would have an invocation aimed at keeping one of their favorite chess pieces on the board for as long as possible, it's the Undying Patron. But they got left out of the Unearthed Arcana Warlock release, leaving it for homebrewing.
Giving up an Invocation for a spell that you're only really going to need to cast once per body is a pretty steep cost, but it's certainly not an imbalanced one, and it would help justify why a budding Warlock would take Larloch, for example, as a Patron.
Thoughts?
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I agree, this makes a lot of sense. But then again, if you have the Undying Patron, you live 10 times longer anyway. So if say you were an elf with a lifespan of 700 years or so, that would be bumped up to over 7,000 years. and in all that time it doesn't seem to unrealistic for the warlock to achieve lichdom or some other form of immortality.
Hell yeah I am going to Polymorph the boss into a Rabbit. I have always wanted a being a pure evil stuffed into a ball of fluff.
That works for an elf, but if you're a human or tiefling, your life could well be half-over by the time the extended lifespan kicks in.
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