This spell absorbs a dead body to heal the caster. Choose a corpse within range. Your spell decimates the corpse and imbues the caster with the foul mimicry of life. this spell scales if there are multiple dead bodies around. You can choose 1 or many dead bodies to decimate and gain HP.
This spell cannot be used on an already decimated corpse
This spell heals the caster for 1d4 + constitution modifier per dead body, any HP over the casters maximum is added as temporary hit points to a maximum of 20.
Upon an unsuccessful save undead enemies will take the above as damage and the user will be healed for that amount.
At Higher Levels. This spell gains power as you level up, you can add an additional 1d4 per level above 3. eg. at level 4 2d4 + constitution modifier per dead body. The maximum number of temporary hit points you can gain increases by 10 each level above 3rd as well.
* - (a dead body)
Very flavourful and interesting idea, especially for a warlock. But absorbing multiple bodies and for this casting time feels overpowered for a cantrip.
I will change it for couple of minutes per body in touch range.
Yeah, I ended up nurfing it as well. Was contemplating making it once per short rest or maybe long rest, or giving it a recharge time, and making it a limited number of bodies, or perhaps only 1 body at a time. Just can't update the published version, have made edits in my non published version. It's a fun spell for warlocks, I think a healing cantrip for warlocks is sorely missing in DnD. I use this in my campaign, one of my players has it and loves using it, however he has several times accidentally used it before looting and decimated the bodies and all the loot 🤣
This spell is written as if it is a 1st or second level spell. Also this spell is overpowered, cantrips shouldn't be able to recover hp to easily. The spell should only work on dead bodies that died recently such as "bodies of creatures that have been dead no longer than 1 hour" or something like that.
"I think a healing cantrip for warlocks is sorely missing in DnD. I use this in my campaign."
*sighs*
I agree that it should be recently dead bodies, in my most recent version which I haven't published, because you can't edit once it's published, I have made it only able to be used on recently dead bodies, I've also given it some downsides and made a limit on the number of bodies and how often it can be used. I also made it scale with level at certain levels as per most other cantrips
Healing cantrip for warlock. Love it