My first Homebrew spells

So, I am creating a new subclass for warlock and wanted to know if these spells are good spells to have as a warlock. I have yet to make them public yet because i want to get other peoples opinions on them before i make them public. I want  to know if they are too over powered or if the need to be nerfed.

Here they are.

Yang Soul Drain

Okay you should probably specify, attacked as in making an attack roll only? Because that would allow other spells like Fireball and Banishment to be used without consequences with seems ridiculous.

Yang Soul Drain - Force is by far the best, no competition. Okay there’s a VERY good reason why no cantrip can heal people, this could literally be used on random animals in order to heal the person using it until they are full with no consequences, that with a 1d8 makes it very strong.

Ying Soul Drain - I’m not sure what’s with the damage types, they seem kinda random. This one's a bit more balanced since it uses only TEMP hp, but it’s much weaker compared to its Yang counterpart. In general, the two Soul Drains punch above their weight class, both deal cantrip level damage, with half damage even on a success. This means that the player could do anything they want with their action if it’s not an attack and still deal a respectable damage, although this is mitigated with how important Shield and Counterspell is.

Essence Reflection - This is just Yang Soul Drain.

Did you design these to overshadow any other damage cantrip? It makes no sense to specifically make them cheat action economy, and you should not EVER heal from a cantrip, especially one that scales to double-digit damage.

If I was the DM, I would never allow these "cantrips".

Hey, Maruntoryx, calm down. You are right but it is his/her first try! 

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Okay you should probably specify, attacked as in making an attack roll only? Because that would allow other spells like Fireball and Banishment to be used without consequences with seems ridiculous.

Yang Soul Drain - Force is by far the best, no competition. Okay there’s a VERY good reason why no cantrip can heal people, this could literally be used on random animals in order to heal the person using it until they are full with no consequences, that with a 1d8 makes it very strong.

Ying Soul Drain - I’m not sure what’s with the damage types, they seem kinda random. This one's a bit more balanced since it uses only TEMP hp, but it’s much weaker compared to its Yang counterpart. In general, the two Soul Drains punch above their weight class, both deal cantrip level damage, with half damage even on a success. This means that the player could do anything they want with their action if it’s not an attack and still deal a respectable damage, although this is mitigated with how important Shield and Counterspell is.

Essence Reflection - This is just Yang Soul Drain.

 Okay, here is what it is for Essence Reflection

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Okay you should probably specify, attacked as in making an attack roll only? Because that would allow other spells like Fireball and Banishment to be used without consequences with seems ridiculous.

Yang Soul Drain - Force is by far the best, no competition. Okay there’s a VERY good reason why no cantrip can heal people, this could literally be used on random animals in order to heal the person using it until they are full with no consequences, that with a 1d8 makes it very strong.

Ying Soul Drain - I’m not sure what’s with the damage types, they seem kinda random. This one's a bit more balanced since it uses only TEMP hp, but it’s much weaker compared to its Yang counterpart. In general, the two Soul Drains punch above their weight class, both deal cantrip level damage, with half damage even on a success. This means that the player could do anything they want with their action if it’s not an attack and still deal a respectable damage, although this is mitigated with how important Shield and Counterspell is.

Essence Reflection - This is just Yang Soul Drain.

 Okay, here is what it is for Essence Reflection

 

 

 

Level

1st

Casting Time

1 Reaction *

Range/Area

Self

Components

S

Duration

Instantaneous 1 Round

School

Abjuration

Attack/Save

None

Damage/Effect

 Poison (...)

 

The spell reflects some of the incoming essence, lessening its effect on you and immediately deflecting the essence toward the nearest foe. You have resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn. The creature that attacked you is hit by their own attack, taking 1d6 of the triggering damage type. 

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

* - which you take when you take poison, force, psychic, necrotic, or radiant damage.

 

And did have both be temp HP but I was not sure how good that was since warlock already has a way to gain temp HP via Dark ones blessings. If anything, I may cut the damage to 1d6 or even 1d4. then either keep half damage on failed save or remove it all together and have it stay at 1d8 damage. And for the Hp gain, i will make both of them temp HP but have it limited to having a cap on temp HP from this ability like "You can only have Temp gain Temp Hp up to half the max damage of this spell."

 

 

And damage types are actually split between the two spells as diametrically or dualistically energies. Like Fire vs cold or necrotic vs radiant. That's kind of what my new subclass is about. 

 

 

 Nice. Though I think the damage dealt for Essence Reflection should be slightly buffed, since the damage is more niche than Absorb Elements, plus most creatures that deal damage of a valid type will likely resist or be immune to it.

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Okay you should probably specify, attacked as in making an attack roll only? Because that would allow other spells like Fireball and Banishment to be used without consequences with seems ridiculous.

Yang Soul Drain - Force is by far the best, no competition. Okay there’s a VERY good reason why no cantrip can heal people, this could literally be used on random animals in order to heal the person using it until they are full with no consequences, that with a 1d8 makes it very strong.

Ying Soul Drain - I’m not sure what’s with the damage types, they seem kinda random. This one's a bit more balanced since it uses only TEMP hp, but it’s much weaker compared to its Yang counterpart. In general, the two Soul Drains punch above their weight class, both deal cantrip level damage, with half damage even on a success. This means that the player could do anything they want with their action if it’s not an attack and still deal a respectable damage, although this is mitigated with how important Shield and Counterspell is.

Essence Reflection - This is just Yang Soul Drain.

 Okay, here is what it is for Essence Reflection

 

 

 

Level

1st

Casting Time

1 Reaction *

Range/Area

Self

Components

S

Duration

Instantaneous 1 Round

School

Abjuration

Attack/Save

None

Damage/Effect

 Poison (...)

 

The spell reflects some of the incoming essence, lessening its effect on you and immediately deflecting the essence toward the nearest foe. You have resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn. The creature that attacked you is hit by their own attack, taking 1d6 of the triggering damage type. 

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

* - which you take when you take poison, force, psychic, necrotic, or radiant damage.

 

And did have both be temp HP but I was not sure how good that was since warlock already has a way to gain temp HP via Dark ones blessings. If anything, I may cut the damage to 1d6 or even 1d4. then either keep half damage on failed save or remove it all together and have it stay at 1d8 damage. And for the Hp gain, i will make both of them temp HP but have it limited to having a cap on temp HP from this ability like "You can only have Temp gain Temp Hp up to half the max damage of this spell."

 

 

And damage types are actually split between the two spells as diametrically or dualistically energies. Like Fire vs cold or necrotic vs radiant. That's kind of what my new subclass is about. 

 

 

 Nice. Though I think the damage dealt for Essence Reflection should be slightly buffed, since the damage is more niche than Absorb Elements, plus most creatures that deal damage of a valid type will likely resist or be immune to it.

Okay, thanks for the advice. I will make changes to those spells asap.