The Murderous Patron

You have formed a pact with a patron of murder, death and deceit. Whether willingly or coerced, your presence is forever tainted as their mastery over death pushes you and your allies forward.

This being’s motivations are often difficult to justify; driven by their thirst for blood and chaos. Sometimes their plans are more sinister, requiring the death of a particular individual, group or to bring a reign of terror and fear. Beings that would grant such powers include Death Domain gods such as Bhaal, Shar and Myrkul.

Expanded Spell List

The Murderous Patron lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Murderous Patron Expanded Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	false life, disguise self
2nd	blindness/deafness, silence
3rd	speak with dead, bestow curse
4th	locate creature, phantasmal killer
5th	mislead, hallow

Embalming Presence

At 1st level, you gain the ability to call upon the villainous energy of your patron to push yourself and ignore whatever pain comes your way. You have a pool of D4 dice that you spend to ignore pain. The number of dice in the pool equals half your warlock level rounded down.

As a reaction, whenever you receive damage, you can spend a number of D4 dice from your pool to ignore that much damage. The maximum number of dice you can spend at once is equal to your warlock class level divided by 4 and rounded up. Roll the dice you spend, add them together, and reduce the amount of damage received by this total.

Your pool regains all expended dice at dawn each day.

Sacrificial Virtue

Starting at 1st level, your patron requires that you make a ritualistic sacrifice at least once every 10 days. Each ritual takes three hours to complete and requires an alive medium to small humanoid (any good to neutral alignment) and a blade. Each ritual must be dedicated to your patron and requires you to kill the sacrifice, each participant must actively participate in the sacrificial kill. 

By making a sacrifice to your patron, you are able to bolster your abilities. You and any allies that participated in the sacrifice gain a D10 inspiration die, an additional D8 necrotic damage die to a number of attacks and cannot suffer from Fear. These effects last for 24 hours from the moment you complete the sacrifice. The number of attacks to add the additional D8 damage to is a third of your warlock level rounded down (minimum of 1).

Dark One’s Own Luck

Starting at 6th level, you can call on your patron to alter fate in your favor. When you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use this feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll’s effects occur.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Impelling Shroud

Starting at 10th Level, whenever you are reduced to 0 hit points or receive a critical hit, on a constitution saving throw, the damage is ignored and instead a random creature you can see within 100 feet receives the damage. If this would reduce them to 0 hit points, you gain a D10 inspiration die and recover health equal to 2D4 plus your charisma modifier.

This effect is not triggered if there are no creatures that you can see within 100 feet of you.

Deaths Inevitable Embrace

Starting at 14th level, you are able to channel the bloodthirsty spirit of your patron to bolster your attacks. As a bonus action, you can grant yourself Deaths Inevitable Embrace.

While under the effect of Deaths Inevitable Embrace, if after dealing damage to a creature a single target has 1 or more hitpoints but the same or fewer hit points then the total damage dealt, that creature makes a constitution saving throw against your spell DC. If that creature fails, the effects of Deaths Inevitable Embrace are triggered and they take the same damage again, if this would reduce them to 0 hit points any enemy creatures within 15 feet take 3D6 Psychic Damage. The effect ends when Deaths Inevitable Embrace is triggered or after a minute.

You can only use this feature two times each day.

As your patron prepares to accept another offering, your eyes shine brightly as you will the creature to death. If the creature wavers in its' resolve, the image of your patron surrounds the target. As it twists the blades of death further, the visage unleashes a torrent of horrific screams which visibly pulse to nearby enemies.