Level Up (A5E) Can I take an eldritch invocation twice?

[Verall]

I currently have the invocation “Courts of the outer realms”, I have selected “Fiends” and the Arcana skill.
Could I select it again for different choices? Specifically i would like to select Fey and Culture.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

generally you can only take selectable features like invocations multiple times if the feature says you can. court of the outer realms makes no such specification, so unless your dm says you can, you can't. you CAN, however, change what options you picked (or swap the invocation out entirely) during downtime using the train activity.

 

[Verall]

generally you can only take selectable features like invocations multiple times if the feature says you can. court of the outer realms makes no such specification, so unless your dm says you can, you can't. you CAN, however, change what options you picked (or swap the invocation out entirely) during downtime using the train activity.

Disappointing but what I had expected

 

[Micah Sweet]

Disappointing but what I had expected

I really don't see a problem with it. Do you think your DM is a stickler for the rules?

 

[Verall]

I really don't see a problem with it. Do you think your DM is a stickler for the rules?

The short answer is yes

 

[someguy42]

Id say you can definitely take it more than once. Every thing else with that restriction literally says you can only take once unless otherwise stated.
So if your DM is a RAW guy/girl then you should be able to take it more than once. I would direct them to the berserker's furious critical where it say "Each Furious Critical can only be taken once" seeing as that wording isnt used in invocations that shouldn't be a problem. None if them seemed to be worded in a way where damage would stack.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Id say you can definitely take it more than once. Every thing else with that restriction literally says you can only take once unless otherwise stated.
So if your DM is a RAW guy/girl then you should be able to take it more than once. I would direct them to the berserker's furious critical where it say "Each Furious Critical can only be taken once" seeing as that wording isnt used in invocations that shouldn't be a problem. None if them seemed to be worded in a way where damage would stack.

i think that's more of an oversight then how it's actually supposed to work. otherwise you could, say, take agonizing blast 8 times and be dealing 1d10+40 damage per eldritch blast ray by level 20, which i think you can see the absurdity of.

 

[Verall]

i think that's more of an oversight then how it's actually supposed to work. otherwise you could, say, take agonizing blast 8 times and be dealing 1d10+40 damage per eldritch blast ray by level 20, which i think you can see the absurdity of.

I agree with you broadly, but with that example I would have thought it would work like spells where you can’t benefit from the same effect twice, for Example you can’t double stack haste.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

I agree with you broadly, but with that example I would have thought it would work like spells where you can’t benefit from the same effect twice, for Example you can’t double stack haste.

nothing in agonizing blast says it doesn't stack, so by the logic presented it would. there's a reason i don't think it's intentional.

 

[someguy42]

nothing in agonizing blast says it doesn't stack, so by the logic presented it would. there's a reason i don't think it's intentional.

Idk i would have read it as you already added the bonus effect so getting it again doesn't add the bonus. Thats why some things are worded add damage equal to your proficiency bonus instead of add your proficiency bonus to damage so it can stack with proficiency. No benefits from the same effect twice. Up for interpretation i guess.