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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3224840" data-attributes="member: 29746">Color of Outer Space is not a name I would choose for that Invocation- I mean, space itself has no color (unless it's black), and if I were to base an Invocation on the HPL story "the Colour Out of Space" I'd make it more like your Light From Beyond. In other words, a light that's wholly otherworldly, and damages those that see it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I think a better name for the Hypnotic Pattern one would be Higher Geometry or something like that, the idea being that it creates an extradimensional pattern so complex that when a viewer's eye starts to follow it, they just can't stop- and thus stand there and do nothing while they take in the whole picture.Light From Beyond is too cool to criticize though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Very flavorful and perfectly in line with Far Realm lore.Entangling Octo-Phasm at first made me wonder whether you had noticed the Entangling Blast Invocation at the Least level, which causes targets to be Entangled for 1 minute if they fail the save. But then it occurred to me that your Invocation is listed as a Blast Shape specifically- so does that mean your intent was to turn the Eldritch Blast into a sort of Eldritch Tentacles effect? Like an Evard's Black Tentacles that somehow involves the Eldritch Blast? That's a very cool and unique idea- though a bit hard to wrap my mind around how it should work mechanically. Also- with this, Chilling Tentacles seems to become obsolete, so perhaps the Alienoid should just have this replace that.Viscous Walls makes me a bit leery because it can produce multiple effects. No other Warlock "Wall" Invocation can do that.If this Invocation represents actually dragging the Far Realm into conjunction with the Material Plane, it should probably have some cool effects other than just damage- Insanity is obvious, but it's probably too obvious- and anyway has been done. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Forcing creatures caught within to swim in order to make their way out might be a good start- perhaps this Far-Realmy fog does something strange to gravity within its area. Another possibility, given that the Far Realm usually represents a space beyond known dimensions, is that the Far Layer causes dimensional tears to form in its area- creatures inside it must save every round or be Dimension Doored, Teleported, or even Plane Shifted to random destinations. That could have most unpleasant consequences.</blockquote>

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