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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7517404" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Just spitballing here, how about an alternate proposal: Instead of spending Invocations to improve cantrips, you can spend Invocations to get other spells at-will.</p><p></p><p><strong>Dark Talent</strong></p><p>Prerequisite: 5th level</p><p>Pick a 1st level spell you know from your Warlock spell list. For you this becomes a cantrip and becomes an extra cantrip known. It is cast using two levels behind your normal Warlock spell slots. (This frees up a spell known.)</p><p></p><p><strong>Dark Secrets</strong></p><p>Prerequisite: 9th level</p><p>Pick a 1st or 2nd level spell you know from your Warlock spell list. For you this becomes a cantrip and becomes an extra cantrip known. It is cast using two levels behind your normal Warlock spell slots. (This frees up a spell known.)</p><p></p><p>This encourages staying in Warlock class because both the prerequisite and the spell slot level are based on it. It scales (like cantrips) but a bit behind so as not to give your actual slots a run for the money. Topping at 2nd it could give you cantrip Invisibility or (multitarget) Hold Person at 9th, but not spells that would be game-changers if you had an unlimited number of them like counterspell or hypnotic pattern or higher level spells.</p><p></p><p>Also, limited to Warlock only spells so you can't do something like Shield for effectively a +4 permanent boost to AC at the cost of your reaction.</p><p></p><p>The only problem is that there's aren't a lot of damaging choices at 1st ont eh Warlock list, perhaps not seen as needed because they had EB.</p><p></p><p>Heck, you could leave this in with the normal EB boosters - there's only a limited number of invocations know, if they want to go both routes and ignore all the other cool things that's a valid opportunity cost. And it leave you the possibility of THIS warlock is an EB one, while THAT warlock is a Dark talent one, providing more varied build trees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7517404, member: 20564"] Just spitballing here, how about an alternate proposal: Instead of spending Invocations to improve cantrips, you can spend Invocations to get other spells at-will. [B]Dark Talent[/B] Prerequisite: 5th level Pick a 1st level spell you know from your Warlock spell list. For you this becomes a cantrip and becomes an extra cantrip known. It is cast using two levels behind your normal Warlock spell slots. (This frees up a spell known.) [B]Dark Secrets[/B] Prerequisite: 9th level Pick a 1st or 2nd level spell you know from your Warlock spell list. For you this becomes a cantrip and becomes an extra cantrip known. It is cast using two levels behind your normal Warlock spell slots. (This frees up a spell known.) This encourages staying in Warlock class because both the prerequisite and the spell slot level are based on it. It scales (like cantrips) but a bit behind so as not to give your actual slots a run for the money. Topping at 2nd it could give you cantrip Invisibility or (multitarget) Hold Person at 9th, but not spells that would be game-changers if you had an unlimited number of them like counterspell or hypnotic pattern or higher level spells. Also, limited to Warlock only spells so you can't do something like Shield for effectively a +4 permanent boost to AC at the cost of your reaction. The only problem is that there's aren't a lot of damaging choices at 1st ont eh Warlock list, perhaps not seen as needed because they had EB. Heck, you could leave this in with the normal EB boosters - there's only a limited number of invocations know, if they want to go both routes and ignore all the other cool things that's a valid opportunity cost. And it leave you the possibility of THIS warlock is an EB one, while THAT warlock is a Dark talent one, providing more varied build trees. [/QUOTE]
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