Your patron is an ancient spellcasting dragon, either a chromatic dragon (black, blue, green, red, or white) or a metallic dragon (brass, bronze, copper, gold, or silver). Dragons vary from lawful good to chaotic evil and often have far-reaching, inscrutable goals on account of their extremely long lifespans and great power. Some merely desire agents to help them locate and obtain treasures for their hoard, but most do so for reasons that may only come up once every few decades. Such long periods of inaction are trifling to a dragon. Many ancient dragons have acquired enough magical skill to share their power in a pact. Some aspiring warlocks even make pacts with the dragon goddess Tiamat, making a bargain with one of her five heads in particular and drawing on her power as a dragon rather than as a fiend or goddess.

You choose the scales of your dragon, or determine it randomly, using the Dragon Kind table. Each dragon is associated with a damage type and a breath weapon, as shown on the table. The damage type and type of breath weapon used by your patron is referenced by some of the features of this subclass.

Dragon Kind

d10	Dragon Patron	Damage Type	Breath Weapon
1	Black	Acid	5 by 30 ft. line
2	Blue	Lightning	5 by 30 ft. line
3	Brass	Fire	5 by 30 ft. line
4	Bronze	Lightning	5 by 30 ft. line
5	Copper	Acid	5 by 30 ft. line
6	Gold	Fire	15 ft. cone
7	Green	Poison	15 ft. cone
8	Red	Fire	15 ft. cone
9	Silver	Cold	15 ft. cone
10	White	Cold	15 ft. cone

Expanded Spell List

The Dragon lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The Dragon Expanded Spells table shows the dragon spells that are added to the warlock spell list for you, along with the spells associated in the table with your dragon’s kind.

Dragon Expanded Spells

Spell Level	Dragon Spells	Black Spells	Blue Spells	Green Spells	Red Spells	White Spells
1st	chromatic orb	tasha's caustic brew	radic's sudden spark (new)	ray of sickness	burning hands	fog cloud
2nd	dragon's breath	melf's acid arrow	dust devil	protection from poison	flaming sphere	ice sculpture (new)
3rd	protection from energy	acid cloud (new)	lightning bolt	toxic breath (new)	fireball	cold snap (new)
4th	stoneskin (as scales)	glistening acid slick (new)	storm sphere	envenomed weapon (new)	fire shield	ice storm
5th	bigby's hand (as a claw)	maelstrom	fingers of lightning (new)	cloudkill	immolation	cone of cold
9th	shapechange (dragons only)

 

Spell Level	Brass Spells	Bronze Spells	Copper Spells	Gold Spells	Silver Spells
1st	burning hands	thunderwave	tasha's caustic brew	burning hands	fog cloud
2nd	scorching ray	drown (new)	melf's acid arrow	heat metal	gust of wind
3rd	fireball	lightning bolt	acid cloud (new)	fireball	cold snap (new)
4th	fire shield	storm sphere	glistening acid slick (new)	fire shield	ice storm
5th	immolation	fingers of lightning (new)	sinking maw (new)	immolation	cone of cold

Expanded Spell List (Black)

You have a Black dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Blue)

You have a Blue dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Brass)

You have a Brass dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Bronze)

You have a Bronze dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Copper)

You have a Copper dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Gold)

You have a Gold dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Green)

You have a Green dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Red)

You have a Red dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (Silver)

You have a Silver dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Expanded Spell List (White)

You have a White dragon patron, granting you the ability to learn certain spells.

Armor of the Wyrm

At 1st level, you gain a gift of draconic scales from your patron. Parts of your skin are covered by a thin sheen of dragon-like scales. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

Breath of the Wyrm

Also starting at 1st level, you can borrow your patron's breath weapon. You have a pool of d6s that you spend to exhale the breath weapon. The number of dice in the pool equals 1 + half your warlock level.

As a bonus action, you can exhale this breath weapon in an area, spending dice from the pool to do so. The maximum number of dice you can spend at once equals (your proficiency bonus + 1) / 2. Roll the dice you spend, add them together, and deal that much damage to each creature in the area. The area and the type of damage are determined by your dragon's entry on the Dragon Kind table.

Your pool regains all expended dice when you finish a long rest. At 6th level, the area of cone weapons increase by 5 feet and the length of line weapons increase by 10 feet. They increase again this way at 10th and 14th levels.

Draconic Essence

Starting at 6th level, your bond with your patron imbues you with a piece of their magical draconic essence. You have resistance to the damage type dealt by your Breath of the Wyrm feature, and when one of your spells or class features deals damage of that type to a creature, you can subject that creature to your patron's terrifying draconic presence. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, it becomes frightened for 1 minute. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

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

Acid Resistance

Your dragon patron is Black or Copper. You have resistance to acid damage.

Cold Resistance

Your dragon patron is White or Silver. You have resistance to cold damage.

Fire Resistance

Your dragon patron is Red, Brass, or Gold. You have resistance to fire damage.

Lightning Resistance

Your dragon patron is Blue or Bronze. You have resistance to lightning damage.

Poison Resistance

Your dragon patron is Green. You have resistance to poison damage.

Everlasting Scales

At 10th level, your patron grants you the ability to draw on the true might of its scales. Before you take damage, you can use your reaction to harden your scales for a brief moment. Until the end of your next turn, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, and immunity to the damage type dealt by your Breath of the Wyrm feature.

Once you use your reaction in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Wings of Terror

Starting at 14th level, you can use an action to manifest spectral dragon wings as a symbol of your patron's raw power and magic. The wings are made of your patron's breath weapon energy, such as fire, frost, or lightning. When they appear, you can choose to beat the wings in a wing attack, knocking each creature within 10 feet of you prone and dealing each of them damage of the type dealt by your Breath of the Wyrm feature equal to 2d6 + your Charisma modifier (minimum +1), and flying up to half your speed to an unoccupied space.

Then, whether you performed a wing attack or not, the wings' appearance casts a frightening presence over the battlefield. Each creature of your choice within 60 feet of you that is aware of you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, a creature becomes frightened for 1minute. It repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

The wings remain for 1 minute, granting you a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

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

New Eldritch Invocations

These new eldritch invocations are available for warlocks of the Dragon Patron.

Metallic Breath

Prerequisite: 9th level, Dragon Patron (Any Metallic)

Tiamat's Bargain

Prerequisite: 9th level, Dragon Patron (Any Chromatic)