Base Class: Warlock
Sailors of all races and creeds seldom breach a topic widely regarded as taboo. This one unmentionable is known to both salty seadogs and green sailors as the mighty Kraken, the terror of the deep. The notion of a beast so mighty that it can simply drag entire vessels to the briney deep is enough to convince whole crews to stay ashore, so merely mentioning the titan would bring the ire of sailors of all types upon you. That said, there are those who have faced such a beast and lived to tell the tale, if they are to be believed. While most such claims are tall tales, there are those who bargain their souls for their survival in an encounter with a Kraken. They live, and the leviathan grants them power to exact its will upon the shores.
Expanded Spell List
The Kraken 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.
Kraken Expanded Spells
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Ocean's Embrace
Starting at 1st level, your Patron has given you a measure of its aquatic prowess. You gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and can hold your breath up to one hour. You can also cast spells with verbal components and gain darkvision while underwater. You may also apply your charisma bonus instead of your strength bonus to grapple checks. If you choose the * Gifts of the Depths * Eldritch Invocation from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, your swimming speed becomes equal to double your walking speed instead.
Spawn of the Kraken
Note: This ability only exist if you have chosen the "Pact of the Chain", otherwise this ability will not be available.
If you selected the Pact of the Chain, you have the opinion to have a Giant Octopus as your familiar. The only alternation to it is replacing the "Water Breathing" and "Hold Breath" traits with "Amphibious", and it gains a flying speed equal to its swimming speed and treats the air as if it were underwater for all its traits and features to be used either in the ocean or land. When your octopus uses its ink cloud ability, the ink doesn't obscure your vision.
Grip of the Master
Starting at 6th level, your Patron bestows on you two ten-foot long tentacles that adorn your shoulders. Simply used your bonus action to summon the tentacles and later banish away. You are considered proficient with unarmed strikes using your tentacles and may attack with them once per turn as either a standard or bonus action for bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 per tentacle you have + your charisma modifier. Your tentacles have reach over ten feet's long and are able to grapple a enemy if hit, but only either Small or Medium sizes. They deal double damage against objects and structures. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, provided that you are not wearing medium or heavy armor. You can’t manifest your tentacles while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your tentacles might be destroyed when you manifest them. As an action, you can throw a Medium-size or smaller opponent that you grapple with your tentacles. They can throw them a number of feet up to 10 times your charisma modifier, to a minimum of 10 feet. They must make a dexterity check with a DC equal to your spell save DC or take 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every ten feet they were flung and become prone.
At 10th level, you gain three tentacles instead of just two, and then four tentacles at level 14, to which you get advantage on all grapple checks while using your Charisma Modifier instead of the Strength Modifier.
Scourge of the Depths
Beginning at 10th level, your patron accepts you into its inner court of servitors. You gain the following two abilities listed below from being with your Patron:
-Overcharge: When you cast a spell or use an ability that results in lightning damage, you may ignore resistance to lightning damage and deal half damage to foes with immunity to lightning damage. Your lightning-base attacks also gained an added damage of 1d6 + your Charisma modifier.
-Flesh of the Devilfish: You whole body has been imbue with the Kraken own tissue as a form of insulator against lightning, thus granting you the immunity to lightning damage.
Primordial Storm
At 14th level, you gain the ability to call upon your patron for aid. As an action, a storm cloud appears in the shape of a cylinder that is 15 feet tall with a 90-foot radius, centered on a point you can see 120 feet's directly above you. The spell fails if you can’t see a point of air where the cloud could appear (for example in a room that can’t accommodate the cloud).
When you cast the spell, four massive tentacles appear out from the cloud and are made of pure electricity. You can choose up to four point's you can see within range (either hitting the same spot four times or hitting three different locations). The giant bolt of lightning strike down like a real tentacle and slam hard to that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d10 lightning damage (four attacks totals to 12d10) and become stunned for a minute on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one and doesn't become stunned (if hit again by the lightning strike after it success the first attack, it become immune to being stunned for the next 24 hours, even if it fails on the next three attacks). The spell ends when all four tentacles are used up in the attacks.
Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.
Please fix the 'Ocean's Embrace' Trait there is something wrong with it. I love this homebrew but the character sheet display code for the 'Ocean's Embrace' Trait again was not written correctly and the site doesn't pick up the code.
I have a problem with the Spawn of the Kraken. We're talking about a Large creature with a fly speed of 60 feet.
I understand that familiars are not really used for combat(Edit: I was thinking about non-warlock familiars and forgot that Pact of Chains allows familiars to fight, .. so this is an even bigger problem given the Giant Octopus stats and attack actions), but there wouldn't be much issue with using a familiar as a mount if it meets qualifications. Being Large, and most player races being Small or Medium, this shouldn't be a problem. An Octopus might not be anatomically great for "riding" but with eight tentacles and fondness for grappling, I see no issue with rationalizing this as a willing mount.I don't see anything that says this has a level restriction, but is a Pact of the Chain feature when The Kraken is your patron. So this could be available at LEVEL 3??? I guess this could be more reasonable if it was available at a later level, but as it is, that's too much.
Perhaps if this was just a normal octopus, Small, swim / fly speed 30 ft. Amphibious, and it can get larger at later levels.
I really like this subclass, but I think the Primordial Storm ability is a bit too powerful.
Suggestion for primordial storm: the target can make a constitution(or wisdom, maybe) saving throw at the start of each turn to resist the effect of the stun. If the enemy is stunned for a full minute, that'll easily end the fight for the heroes.
It could be more appropriate to add the ability to breathe underwater, instead of being able to hold your breath for an hour.
Edit: I read the class description wrong, so I changed some stuff.
I'm playing one for a Pirate Themed campaign I am in. I did reflavour the patron to be Cthulhu to fit the narrative of my background and backstory, but this just might be my Go-To patron from here on out. If you really wanna make a splash with this patron though, I recommend making this patron's Eldritch Blast deal Lightning rather than Force. All in All though, it is fantastic! My DM loves it, I love it, I cannot wait to attain Call Lightning!
is this based on a ******?
Is this based off the Happy Fun Hour that Mike Mearls did? If so, you did a fantastic job transforming it into something playable!
so cool