D&D (2024) Hex fix

[kilpatds]

Eh, when you can cast it once a day it’s pretty good. Depends on what you adventuring days look like.

And not use any concentration spells for the rest of the day?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

And not use any concentration spells for the rest of the day?

I’ve played a warlock that had no other concentration spells. Hex was his only combat spell, not counting at-will mage armor and cantrips.

 

[mellored]

Hex is not terrible. It is exactly the same spell, with the limit of the extra damage applying once per turn. This was an essential fix, because of the multiple beams of Eldritch Blast. The correction was long overdue. Adding the extra damage to one of those beams makes sense. Adding it to all of them was broken.

I have it as just once, not every beam.
Also now it auto-scales by warlock level. So you can't dip and get it for scorching ray.

Just make hex concentration free Warlock only spell.

And not use any concentration spells for the rest of the day?

Yea. I made it concentration free, and at-will.

Also, now it can do something fun with your sub-class.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

Yea. I made it concentration free, and at-will.

Also, now it can do something fun with your sub-cla

that is 4e curse right...

 

[mellored]

that is 4e curse right...

Yup.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

Yup.

I liked it. I like it more when it has non combat uses like current hex giving disadvantage to a stat check though.

 

[mellored]

I liked it. I like it more when it has non combat uses like current hex giving disadvantage to a stat check though.

I kept that part.
Scaling to give someone a permanent curse.

And possibly invocations to make it worse.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I kept that part.
Scaling to give someone a permanent curse.

And possibly invocations to make it worse.

I was going to make my variant warlock revolve around a curse mechanic, and that’s basically what I’d do.

Ended up going that direction with my Witch instead, but yeah if I were to make a Variant Warlock as such I’d base it on hex and making it worse

 

[lvl20dm]

I do like the idea of subclasses altering Hex (I liked this in 4e with Curse as well).

 

[Shardstone]

I think it needs concentration to work as a cantrip otherwise it kind of cheapens disadvantage a lot. Otherwise, I like hex cantrip! Making it a subclass thing to edit would be fun too, or making invocations for it.