This subclass was based around time and themes from order like clockwork soul. Comments and concerns are welcome I think it might be a tad too powerful and front loaded  The wording might be a bit clunky as well sorry about that not too great a writing clear rules 

A timeless force that governs causality and balance. Whether a divine judge, a sentient paradox, or a cosmic algorithm, your patron grants you power to redistribute harm and manipulate time itself — not for chaos, but for perfect equilibrium.

You intercept harm and store it for future use.

• Chronal Buffer: When a creature within 30 feet takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by 1d10 + your Warlock level + your Charisma modifier. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

• Temporal Reservoir: When you reduce damage with Chronal Buffer, you may store the amount reduced as a Chronal Charge. You can hold up to a number of charges equal to your Charisma modifier. Charges fade after a long rest.

You can redirect stored damage into attacks or spells.

• Expend Charges: You may expend Chronal Charges in two ways:

  • Reinforce Shielding: Spend 3 charges to use Chronal Buffer again, even if you've used all your reactions for the day.

  • Echo Strike: When you hit with an attack or deal damage with a spell, you may expend 1 Chronal Chargeto deal bonus damage equal to your Warlock level + your Charisma modifier. This damage bypasses temporary hit points. You may only apply one charge per target per turn.

Level 6: Temporal Equilibrium

You manipulate outcomes to restore balance.

• Chronal Reversal: When a creature within 30 feet makes an attack roll or saving throw, you can use your reaction to force them to reroll it. You must choose to use this feature before knowing the result of the reroll. You can use this feature once per rest.

You fracture time to act in multiple moments.

• Split Second: When you cast a spell, you may use a bonus action to delay its effect by 1 round. The spell still consumes your action on the current turn, but its effects activate at the start of your next turn. This allows you to cast a second spell normally on the next turn. You can use this feature once per rest

Your mastery of temporal balance deepens.

• Double Reversal: You may now use Chronal Reversal up to twice per long rest.

Is this 2014 rules? 2024 Warlocks don't get their subclass until level 3, just making sure.

A few notes:

Chronal Buffer: You shouldn't include the Charisma Bonus in the damage reduction. Also, as a general rule, the protective/reaction abilities are 6th-level, but I see that it's fueling other abilities. Also, and more importantly, this is it? Your first ability for the class is a minor damage reduction reaction? And you've built a LOT of the rest of the class around this? Let's press on...

Temporal Reservoir: I see what you're doing here, but there's no benefit to having a temporal reservoir until level six. Throw a bonus of some sort in here. You gain a +1 to something for each charge, maybe? AC? Saving Throws? I don't know. Also, if the triggering effect is Chronal Buffer, and the max we can have is our Charisma modifier in charges, we're going to run into a problem very soon.

Expend Charges: And this is where we're going to get into trouble. First off, a standard array player is going to get three charges - MAYBE four - by the time they get this ability, and five max at any given time. That means that "reinforce shielding" is gonna cost MOST of your daily resources - assuming you can even accrue them - in one burst. Also, the second ability (which should augment damage by ONLY your level OR your Charisma, not both) is... I dunno, fine, I guess. Not terribly exciting.

Chronal Reversal: A little bleh. Also, I'd say you can recharge it by spending a Pact Magic slot. I dunno, I don't hate it, but it's not much of an ability for a whole subclass level.

Split Second: I don't know 100% what this achieves. I guess being able to get two spells off in one round is interesting, but it's not actually any more powerful than casting two spells on two turns unless you're doing some pretty heavy battlefield manipulation in-between turns.

Double Reversal: You have made the capstone ability the ability to do the least interesting thing more than once. Fiendlocks are sending their enemies somersaulting through Acheron, and you're forcing a reroll on a saving throw an additional time.

I think there's some good ideas here, and I think there's a little cruft, I think, with some reshuffling, and a little innovation, you can make this really neat.

Level 3: I'd give two abilities. I'd give a spell list of always-prepared spells (Misty Step, Haste and Vortex Warp feel like must-haves), and I'd give Chronal Reversal, but I'd change the uses to "a number of times per Long Rest equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1)" and I'd consider adding "you may recharge your uses of this ability by spending a Pact Magic slot (no action required)."

Level 6: This is where I'd add Chronal Buffer and Echo Strike, but I'd make them feed off each other. Something like:
   Temporal Shielding: You warp the fabric of space and time to delay an attack, providing equal parts offense and defense. After taking damage, you may spend a reaction to reduce the incoming damage by 1d10 plus your Charisma Modifier (minimum 1). On your next turn, you may release the stored up energy, increasing the damage of your next spell or attack by your Charisma Modifier (minimum 1). You may use this ability [insert amount of times you want this to be able to go off] times.

Level 10: I'd change Split Second into something more like a Haste-enhancing ability. Something like, "You may cast Haste once per Long Rest without expending a Pact Magic slot, and when you cast it in this way you do not need to maintain concentration on the spell." 

Level 14: I'd implement some battlefield control. Maybe create an effect like the Scatter spell, where you can move people around the battlefield. Instead of picking five creatures, you could affect a 20-foot radius sphere or something. Be a fun way to create some havoc in a way that also feels wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. We are playing 14 rules just to clarify. I wanted to build this around as a tankier warlock. The first level features I liked as the idea of reducing damage and then then sending the force absorbed by time back. Basically abusing your patrons power. The thing about storing charges is so that I can use them later e.g during a boss fight and I know the 6th and 10th level features aren’t great I was trying to make up for some pretty powerful 1stlevel features(or so I thought they were). I’m making adjustments based on your feedback will post a finished form in a couple of days

completely forgot about extra spells have you got any more idea(sorry I’m just always bad at the spells part) :/

When it comes to extra spells, look into ones that feel time-and-space related. I think teleportation-style spells are always good, but you don't want to have the entire spell list be Misty Step and Dimension Door. I'd work in a couple damaging spells and the like. Worth noting that, unlike 2024 subclasses, that grant the spells in the subclass spell list as "known" spells, the 2014 Warlock subclasses usually just add them to your list of "knowable" spells. So you'll want to look outside of traditional Warlock spells.

I see your vision with the charges. My criticism is that it largely creates a lot of complexity and tracking for the player, in exchange for a mixed bag of returns. If you want it to be a thing, make it the thing, and build the rest of the class around it. At first level, you can absorb attacks, store charges, and use the stored charges to augment damage. At sixth level, you can use stored charges to reroll saving throws and attack rolls. At tenth level, you can spend charges to create a haste-like effect, and at 14, you can spend all your charges to do something really dramatic. Maybe somewhere in there, you add an ability where you start combat with one charge if you don't already have one or something like that.

Great ideas about using charges for everything. How about at 14 you have double the amount of charges maximum and regain half on a short rest?

I think it's important to consider the player's experience at 14th level. Again, their Fiend counterparts are hurling their opponents through hell. Their Celestial counterpart is burning the death out of someone with radiant fury. Their Great Old One counterpart is summoning a maddening horror from the depths of the earth. You want to match that energy. I wouldn't obsess over the number of uses of a thing - Warlocks are used to working with short-term economy regardless. Make the 14th-level ability something really impressive. This is the last time you get a specific power granted by your specific patron. Make it pop. Something like:

Level 14: Spacetime Mastery
You can choose to expend all your charges, creating a cataclysmic burst of temporal energy that rearranges the field of battle. Every other creature in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on you must make a Constitution saving throw. If they fail, they take 2d6 Force damage for every expended charge, and you may move them to any other location within the radius of the sphere. If they succeed, they take half as much damage and are not moved. You may choose a number of creatures up to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1) to be immune to the damage from this effect.

If you want to do anything with charges, I'd say you could add a little post-script here that says something like "Whenever you roll for Initiative, if you do not have any charges stored, you gain one charge."

Very true. How about his?. You have gained complete control of passing time and can use it to your allies benefit or your enemies destruction. You can target a creature within 60ft of you. You can then choose to inflict 8d8 damage and they are under the slow spell for the duration. Alternatively you can heal 8d8 damage from one creature and they gain the benefits of haste for the duration. While either haste or slow is cast in this way do not expend a spell slot and it does not need concentration. You can use this feature once per long rest

Good! Don't forget to require a saving throw for half damage only, and you need to specify the type of damage, but that's a decent ability. I would recommend you also workshop the damage and make sure it's appropriate. Hurl Through Hell is a good baseline for comparison, and it basically just creates a one-turn Banishment and does 8d10 Psychic damage. If you're replicating a no-concentration Haste or Slow effect, you probably want to bring the damage down a bit, but otherwise, seems good.

Thanks was thinking either force(pure energy) or necrotic (life force fading away) and 8d8 plus free spell seems ok compared to 8d10npsychicn

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Is this 2014 rules? 2024 Warlocks don't get their subclass until level 3, just making sure.

A few notes:

Chronal Buffer: You shouldn't include the Charisma Bonus in the damage reduction. Also, as a general rule, the protective/reaction abilities are 6th-level, but I see that it's fueling other abilities. Also, and more importantly, this is it? Your first ability for the class is a minor damage reduction reaction? And you've built a LOT of the rest of the class around this? Let's press on...

Temporal Reservoir: I see what you're doing here, but there's no benefit to having a temporal reservoir until level six. Throw a bonus of some sort in here. You gain a +1 to something for each charge, maybe? AC? Saving Throws? I don't know. Also, if the triggering effect is Chronal Buffer, and the max we can have is our Charisma modifier in charges, we're going to run into a problem very soon.

Expend Charges: And this is where we're going to get into trouble. First off, a standard array player is going to get three charges - MAYBE four - by the time they get this ability, and five max at any given time. That means that "reinforce shielding" is gonna cost MOST of your daily resources - assuming you can even accrue them - in one burst. Also, the second ability (which should augment damage by ONLY your level OR your Charisma, not both) is... I dunno, fine, I guess. Not terribly exciting.

Chronal Reversal: A little bleh. Also, I'd say you can recharge it by spending a Pact Magic slot. I dunno, I don't hate it, but it's not much of an ability for a whole subclass level.

Split Second: I don't know 100% what this achieves. I guess being able to get two spells off in one round is interesting, but it's not actually any more powerful than casting two spells on two turns unless you're doing some pretty heavy battlefield manipulation in-between turns.

Double Reversal: You have made the capstone ability the ability to do the least interesting thing more than once. Fiendlocks are sending their enemies somersaulting through Acheron, and you're forcing a reroll on a saving throw an additional time.

I think there's some good ideas here, and I think there's a little cruft, I think, with some reshuffling, and a little innovation, you can make this really neat.

Level 3: I'd give two abilities. I'd give a spell list of always-prepared spells (Misty Step, Haste and Vortex Warp feel like must-haves), and I'd give Chronal Reversal, but I'd change the uses to "a number of times per Long Rest equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1)" and I'd consider adding "you may recharge your uses of this ability by spending a Pact Magic slot (no action required)."

Level 6: This is where I'd add Chronal Buffer and Echo Strike, but I'd make them feed off each other. Something like:
   Temporal Shielding: You warp the fabric of space and time to delay an attack, providing equal parts offense and defense. After taking damage, you may spend a reaction to reduce the incoming damage by 1d10 plus your Charisma Modifier (minimum 1). On your next turn, you may release the stored up energy, increasing the damage of your next spell or attack by your Charisma Modifier (minimum 1). You may use this ability [insert amount of times you want this to be able to go off] times.

Level 10: I'd change Split Second into something more like a Haste-enhancing ability. Something like, "You may cast Haste once per Long Rest without expending a Pact Magic slot, and when you cast it in this way you do not need to maintain concentration on the spell." 

Level 14: I'd implement some battlefield control. Maybe create an effect like the Scatter spell, where you can move people around the battlefield. Instead of picking five creatures, you could affect a 20-foot radius sphere or something. Be a fun way to create some havoc in a way that also feels wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

 tasha's subclasses can be unlocked at lvl one

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 tasha's subclasses can be unlocked at lvl one

 Tasha's subclass abilities begin at level one, but if you're playing a 2024 Warlock, then you don't get access to your subclass and subclass abilities until level three. So you would still not have those subclass abilities until level 3. EagerestSnow did point out that they're playing 2014 rules, so it doesn't really matter in this instance.

Snow, I'm prepared to fight you about the healing/damage amount. Both Haste and Slow are powerful 3rd-level spells, and making them no-concentration on top of that is a huge boon, especially for Haste, which has such a tremendous drawback if you lose concentration. 8d10 damage averages to ~44 damage, and 8d8 averages to ~36, so you're basically saying that a no-concentration version of two of the most powerful 3rd-level spells in the game is worth the equivalent of 9 single-target damage. I'd consider significantly lowering the damage or healing. Like, HALVING it.

wait so if I had a 2024 warlock of the genie, I would only get the benefits of my level one genie traits once I reached level three? that seems the slightest bit counterintuitive if you ask me. like, "here's some level one traits just for you! but you can't have them until level three, sorry mate. maybe you shoulda taken a pact with Asmodeus if you don't like it."

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wait so if I had a 2024 warlock of the genie, I would only get the benefits of my level one genie traits once I reached level three? that seems the slightest bit counterintuitive if you ask me. like, "here's some level one traits just for you! but you can't have them until level three, sorry mate. maybe you shoulda taken a pact with Asmodeus if you don't like it."

Is the Warlock of the genie in a 2024 book or in an older 2014 book?  This issue is the problem with trying to be compatible.   I believe the 2024 PHB came out ~8/24.   So if the date of the book you are using is after that date, you should probably not have any issues using level 1 traits at level 1.   If the Warlock of the genie was published prior to the summer of 2024 , then you need to reconsider how you use and/or mix and match.

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wait so if I had a 2024 warlock of the genie, I would only get the benefits of my level one genie traits once I reached level three? that seems the slightest bit counterintuitive if you ask me. like, "here's some level one traits just for you! but you can't have them until level three, sorry mate. maybe you shoulda taken a pact with Asmodeus if you don't like it."

If you're using a subclass designed for the 2014 rules with a class designed for the 2024 rules, you're going to run into minor issues like that; the rules for how to resolve them are pretty straightforward. In this case, if you're using a 2024 class with an old-style subclass that has level 1 or level 2 features, you get those features when you choose your subclass at level 3.

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wait so if I had a 2024 warlock of the genie, I would only get the benefits of my level one genie traits once I reached level three? that seems the slightest bit counterintuitive if you ask me. like, "here's some level one traits just for you! but you can't have them until level three, sorry mate. maybe you shoulda taken a pact with Asmodeus if you don't like it."

 

Is the Warlock of the genie in a 2024 book or in an older 2014 book?  This issue is the problem with trying to be compatible.   I believe the 2024 PHB came out ~8/24.   So if the date of the book you are using is after that date, you should probably not have any issues using level 1 traits at level 1.   If the Warlock of the genie was published prior to the summer of 2024 , then you need to reconsider how you use and/or mix and match.

The Genie subclass is from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.

Regardless of publication date, there are not (and never will be without some big rule changes) any subclasses intended for the 2024 rules that provide any features at level 1, because 2024 characters don't get a subclass at all until level 3.

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 tasha's subclasses can be unlocked at lvl one

 Tasha's subclass abilities begin at level one, but if you're playing a 2024 Warlock, then you don't get access to your subclass and subclass abilities until level three. So you would still not have those subclass abilities until level 3. EagerestSnow did point out that they're playing 2014 rules, so it doesn't really matter in this instance.

Snow, I'm prepared to fight you about the healing/damage amount. Both Haste and Slow are powerful 3rd-level spells, and making them no-concentration on top of that is a huge boon, especially for Haste, which has such a tremendous drawback if you lose concentration. 8d10 damage averages to ~44 damage, and 8d8 averages to ~36, so you're basically saying that a no-concentration version of two of the most powerful 3rd-level spells in the game is worth the equivalent of 9 single-target damage. I'd consider significantly lowering the damage or healing. Like, HALVING it.

 Sooty been away for a while. I can see what you mean about the damage but I think 5d8 sounds fair