Warlock as Feats

[Yunru]

Preface: This is written soley as part of a fanfiction crossover with Worm, I'm just sharing it because it seems balanced enough I might allow it in my campaigns.

Eldritch Contract:
Requirements - 13 Cha, Spellcasting, Not a Warlock
You gain Pact Magic in place of your level 1 through 5 spells slots, with your Caster Level as your Warlock level. Choose a Patron, you gain access to their expanded spell list and 1st level features.

Pact Affirmation:
Requirements - Eldritch Contract
Choose on of the Warlock Pacts. You gain access to it's features. You also gain one Warlock Invocation for which you qualify.

Patron's Boon:
Requirements - Pact Affirmation
You gain access to your Patron's level 6 features. Additionally you gain two more Invocations for which you qualify.

 

[Satyrn]

It is an intriguing idea, and I think I will wind up stealing Eldritch Contract, but not the others.

Maybe an alternative set of feats called [Patron]'s Boon that grants specific invocations, with [Patron] being an individual, named being in the setting . . . and I will have to think on it a bit more but I might just have these feats instead of Eldritch Contract, even.

You've given me a cool idea. Thank you!

 

[Yunru]

You're more than welcome!

 

[Leatherhead]

An Invocation by itself is feat-worthy.

 

[Satyrn]

An Invocation by itself is feat-worthy.

Aye, I noticed that right away once I reviewed the pacts.

And the Pact Affirmation feat - "Choose on of the Warlock Pacts. You gain access to it's features. You also gain one Warlock Invocation for which you qualify" - immediately shows itself as worth 2 feats. By taking the Tome pact and the ritual casting invocation you gain the equivalent of Magic Initiate and Ritual Caster.

But I like the idea and I know I can make it work for the setting/megadungeon I'm building up.

 

[Yunru]

But at that point you *have* taken two feats?

 

[Satyrn]

But at that point you *have* taken two feats?

Aye, but then there's also the benefit of the first feat taken on top of that.

Or am I reading these wrong? Let's say I pick a Great Old One and Tome pact, I read these feats as saying:

With Eldritch Contract, my spellcasting turns into Pact Magic, and I get some telepathy (Awakened Mind) and a few spells addex to my spell list. This look like a decently balanced feat.

With Pact Affirmation, I get three cantrips (which is nearly equivalent to Magic Initiate) and still get to choose an invocation. Book of Ancient Secrets is pretty much identical to the Ritual Caster feat.

I'm getting the benefit of 3 feats after having taken 2.

 

[Yunru]

No you're not wrong. Personally, I'm valueing feats higher up a chain as worth more, because you have to have taken both feats in order to get the benrfit.

I also don't value 1 Invocation as a feat. Maybe a half feat?