The Barrister

The Barrister is a representative of his Patron. Those of great power and importance have little time to carry out the more mundane tasks that need doing and a Barrister takes care of these little matters. He is a hired professional rather than a servant and receives specific power from his Patron by contract and mutual consent. He typically may use his borrowed power for his own personal matters so long as he attends to the needs of his Patron first.

You "have one of those dignified corporate practices" as Tom Hagan explained in The Godfather. You service this one particular account. Mr Kobayashi is Kaiser Soze's Barrister in The Usual Suspects, he is a great example. So is a big sports agent like Jerry Maguire. You could even consider a historical figure like Torquemada a Barrister Pact Warlock if you stretch the concept a little.

 

 

*Expanded Spell List

*A BARRISTER USES INTELLIGENCE, NOT CHARISMA, FOR HIS SPELLCASTING ABILITY MODIFIER.

The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Fiend Expanded Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	sleep, detect evil and good
2nd	enhance ability, zone of truth
3rd	sending, clairvoyance
4th	conjure minor elementals, phantasmal killer
5th	planar binding, mislead

 

 

 

Profession

Infernal is the traditional language of soul binding contracts and you gain it as a bonus language. While there are no official rules for soul binding contracts you are considered to be well trained by your Patron in their creation and execution.

You gain proficiency in 2 INT or CHA based skills. 

Any attempt to discover information pertaining to your Patron or any client through you is automatically unsuccessful, as if protected by a Mind Blank.

You also know the Thaumaturgy cantrip.. to look the part.

 

 

Pact of the Barrister (Pact Boon)

A Barrister's receives this Pact Boon at 3rd level and foregoes any other pact.

He gains proficiency in INT saves, or CHA saves if he is already proficient and he gains expertise in 2 INT or CHA based skills that he is already proficient in.

He has advantage on any check to interpret his Infernal contracts in his favor, except against his Patron. He has advantage on any check to talk someone (or himself) out of being arrested, detained, charged or convicted of a crime or lesser rule infraction unless facing a similarly or better qualified Attorney or Judge.

 

 

Law Offices- 6th

Once per day you may cast a version of the Rope Trick spell to enter your very own Law Offices.

You may enter your Office with a key provided mysteriously by your Patron that opens a magical door on a vertical 3x5ft or larger surface, or failing that, as the Rope Trick spell allows.

Your Offices are the size of a small apartment and come with well-apportioned amenities like:

*A fully stocked break room and bathroom

*A small personal office with your name on the door, a desk, a Murphy Bed and an Exceptionally Secure Safe that holds 18 cubic inches of space. (1/2 meter cubed)

*A supply closet that opens into nothing and ..

*A conference room with a long, severe-looking table that ingeniously breaks down into 4 smaller work desks.

It is all well lit, tastefully furnished and comes with an *Unseen Servant to keep everything clean and stocked with supplies. You may bring other things into the Office but you cannot store Magic Items except in the Safe.

The Office can only be used for one hour, once per day. You may extend this ability for an additional hour by spending a Warlock spell slot but you can't benefit more than one short rest per day via this ability.

Your Unseen Servant is a permanent feature. You can take him in and out of your Office, he receives 1 proficiency. He also receives 1 extra HP and can stray an extra 10' from you for each character level. His default name is Intern unless you change it.

 

 

Contractor- 10th

 You may loan the ability to cast one spell of 5th level or lower.

You lose the spell slot or other discrete casting source you use to cast this spell 1 time and impart the ability to cast the spell 1 time to your client. This ability exists until you rest to recover the spell, a short rest for a Pact Magic spell slot and a long rest (typically) for an Invocation spell slot. An exchange of blood with your client is required for this ability. 

By rubbing two gold pieces together you can produce (or return) any contract, scroll or other paper(s) from your Extremely Secure Safe. No gold necessary if you are inside the office. In fact, the door to the safe has disappeared. This is the only way to operate the safe. Only you and your Patron can use the safe.

 

 

 

Office Expansion (Condo) 10th

You may spend an invocation to expand your Law Offices 

*The space where your Murphy bed was becomes a door and stairway to the 2nd floor, where you now have a small studio apartment with a king-size bed, walk-in closet and full bath.

*Add a front desk and foyer manned by your new unseen servant Receptionist. You can cast the Magic Mouth spell as a ritual to help with communication. You can set multiple versions of the spell to answer specific questions like a phone tree.

*You gain another unseen servant named Houseboy to clean up while your Intern is busy. Neither of your new servants can leave the Offices.

*Double your conference room. Conference table in one room and desks in the other. Add a small kitchen onto the break room as well.

You may enter your Law Offices once per day for up to 9 hours. You may not benefit more than one long or short rest per day via this ability. You may take and store extradimensional spaces like Bags of Holding and such in your Offices. You may choose to visit the Offices for an hour by expending a pact spell slot but you do not receive the benefits of a short rest if you do.

You may set the entry point at an existing door. If you do, you can have others enter through that door. You can hang out a shingle and open your Law Offices to the public. The dirty, random, ignorant, unwashed public. Good luck.

 

 

 

Privileged- 14th

The Mind Blank effect that applies to your Patron's information now applies to you, at all times.

You may summon or store the contents of your Unusually Secure Safe at will. 

 

 

Office Expansion (Mansion) 14th

You may exchange the previous Office Expansion invocation to expand your Law Office further.

In addition to your 2nd floor condo you may add a Magnificent Mansion, accessible from your Law Offices. You enter your Mansion with a 2nd key, usable from inside the Office.

Your supply closet is locked by a 4" thick aluminum door with recessed hinges that turns transparent with a magic word you select, you can then open the door with a touch. The door swings inward revealing a small hallway with a series of similarly locked rooms with doors that swing outward. They are:

*A Summoning room with a permanent Magic Circle on the floor.

*An Alchemical Lab

*An Incinerator 

*A magic item vault (you can keep magic items in your offices now)

*And other pimp stuff that you might want to keep away from the kids that you can talk your DM into.

Your personal office has a window you can scry though. It counts as the 1000gp silver mirror component to the Scry spell. You may use it as the spell 1/day and thereafter can activate it with a pact spell slot. You may use it at will to scry on a place you know well or a random picturesque spot as long as you do not contact anyone.

 

 

Subcontractor 14th

Through ritual and blood-bound contract you may impart the power of a first-level Warlock to an NPC with no PC class levels.

You retain this ability at the pleasure of your Patron, who may or may not approve of your choice of whom you have loaned out his fantastical power to. Either you or your Patron may decide to withdraw these powers, if your Patron does this you will know immediately and the message may not be a pleasant one.

Good choices, however, will reap rewards. You are counting on this, as you had to spend (or exchange) an invocation to get this ability. You will normally know when your Patron approves if he promotes your choice to a 2nd level Warlock.

Eventually you may be able to wield power without a Patron or even create your own Warlock followers. Maybe there's a high-level invocation or feat for that.