As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks like buzzing flies. The aura extends 5 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover. It lasts until you’re incapacitated or you dismiss it as a bonus action.
The aura grants you advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks but disadvantage on all other Charisma checks. Any other creature that starts its turn in the aura takes poison damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).
Once you use this invocation, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
The wording states that if you would turn it off when going to sleep you would not get it back after the long rest. But it also does not state that the effect turns off while unconscious. So you could theoretically go to sleep while keeping it active. Is this how it was meant to function RAW?
Cloak of Flies reads
Cloak of Flies
Prerequisite: 5th level
As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks like buzzing flies. The aura extends 5 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover. It lasts until you’re incapacitated or you dismiss it as a bonus action.
The aura grants you advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks but disadvantage on all other Charisma checks. Any other creature that starts its turn in the aura takes poison damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).
Once you use this invocation, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
The wording states that if you would turn it off when going to sleep you would not get it back after the long rest. But it also does not state that the effect turns off while unconscious. So you could theoretically go to sleep while keeping it active. Is this how it was meant to function RAW?
If you are unconscious you are also incapacitated. So the effect would indeed turn off when you fell asleep.
What Dave said. But also, you DO get it back after a long (or short) rest.
Does Cloak of Flies affect friend and foe?
For the poison damage part - it says "Any other creature" which is everybody except the Warlock - even friends.
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