D&D General Describe your eldritch blast to me

[humble minion]

Warlocks. The class you play when you want to do the same thing and cast the same cantrip every round.* But if you're going to be the same as every else, you might as well do it differently, right? What visuals, fluff, descriptions, etc have you come up with to describe your warlock's eldritch blast and make it a little unique, interesting, and patron-appropriate? Or do you just decide you're firing fairly generic energy bolts from your fingers and get on with the real business of rolling dice?

A player in my Dragonlance campaign is a fiend pact warlock. Her eldritch blast is a wisp of smoky shadow that floats lazily about her normally but then streaks out to constrict and crush when she uses the cantrip. My dao genie pact warlock has an eldritch blast that is transmitted through the ground, you can see the dust etc it kicks up along its path, and feel the tremor in your feet as it passes. She's only just hit 5th level so hasn't fought any flying enemies yet, I'm going to do some thinking before that happens.

* Yes, we all know about hexblades. We just don't talk about those weirdoes in polite society

 

[aco175]

I always pictured it looking like black darts of lightning. Although most of the time a player just says they cast it and it is not described.

 

[MarkB]

For my genie-patron air genasi warlock (backstory is he used to be human but after doing the Aladdin thing of freeing a genie with his last wish he's been cursed to replace him and is slowly transforming into a genie) all of his spells tend to be manifestations of violet smoke or light.

His eldritch blast with Repelling Blast consists of him punching out with his fist as the somatic component. A streak of wispy violet light blasts ahead of his hand, its head coalescing into a violet fist as it reaches its target. If firing at multiple targets he appears to throw multiple punches in such quick succession that they blur together.

 

[Savage Wombat]

One of my players has a warlock whose patron is basically the Phantom of the Opera. Her eldritch blasts - and chromatic orbs - look like musical notes and such, like in that one fight scene in Dr. Strange 2.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

These days, I essentially only play Celestial Warlock if I play Warlock at all--I just like its thematics and mechanics too much.

So, for me, they look like golden shooting stars, or possibly golden blades. I imagine the character gesturing with their hand, more or less like how Iron Man does in the films with his repulsor thingy, and then the golden bolt/blade shoots out from a glyph that appears in front of the character's outstretched fingers. And if I've picked up Repelling Blast, well, the repulsor analogy fits all the better, right?

 

[W'rkncacnter]

These days, I essentially only play Celestial Warlock if I play Warlock at all--I just like its thematics and mechanics too much.

So, for me, they look like golden shooting stars, or possibly golden blades. I imagine the character gesturing with their hand, more or less like how Iron Man does in the films with his repulsor thingy, and then the golden bolt/blade shoots out from a glyph that appears in front of the character's outstretched fingers. And if I've picked up Repelling Blast, well, the repulsor analogy fits all the better, right?

this made me think of moon knight's moon blades...which made me think of his moon plane, because i saw a video narrating a moon knight comic earlier where he described moon knight calling his ship to hit a running criminal as moon knight "throwing a blade at him", which i found really funny at the time.

...the point is i wonder how feasible it'd be to build moon knight in dnd...but that's another topic entirely.