Pact Boon

At 3rd level, a warlock gains the Pact Boon feature. Here is a new playtest option for that feature: the Pact of the Aspect.

Pact of the Aspect:

Your patron grants you the power to briefly manifest a guise that is tapped into their power. As a bonus action, you can assume an Eldritch Incarnation, donning a form that allows you to attain a greater stage of power. You can stay in this form for a number of turns equal to your Warlock Level + your Charisma Ability Score.

When in your Eldritch Incarnation, you gain the following features:

You can add your Charisma Modifier to the attack or damage rolls of spells. You must announce this before you roll your dice.

You can reduce damage you take equal to your Charisma Modifier.

Choose one Charisma Skill appropriate to your form. You gain advantage in all rolls using that skill.

Your Eldritch Incarnation ends early if you fall unconscious. You can also end your Eldritch Incarnation on your turn as a bonus action.

Eldritch Incarnation The Pact of the Aspect allows the warlock to alter their form subtly, though the severity of this change is down to the player and DM's discretion. If you're playing this type of Warlock, take a moment to describe how your Eldritch Incarnation manifests itself. For instance, it might form as a subtle, gloomy discoloration of the character's guise, or in augmenting the Warlock's form to appear more beautiful. At the same time it could take the form of a devilish visage with quasi-real horns and veins glowing with an eerie light, or a horrifying aberrant with tentacles covering the warlock's lips and a vile sheen of mucus coating their skin. These factors should be considered in a role-playing environment, as a subtler Eldritch Incarnation could be overlooked in an encounter taking place in a busy marketplace, whilst a more over Eldritch Incarnation might risk the Warlock's reputation in exchange for a more frightening visage.

Eldritch Invocations

At 2nd level, a warlock gains the Eldritch Invocations feature. Here are new playtest options for that feature.

These new invocations are tied to the Pact of the Aspect, allowing you to enhance the style of play you make with this new Pact Boon.

Arcane Armor

Prerequisite: Pact of the Aspect

When you enter your Eldritch Incarnation, you gain temporary Hit Points equal to your Warlock Level + your Charisma Ability Score. You can't gain temporary hit points from this again until after 1 minute.

Arms of the Aspect

Prerequisite: Pact of the Aspect

Your Eldritch Incarnation gains the following feature: Your range for melee attack and melee spell attack rolls becomes 10-feet.

Blood Pact

Prerequisite: Pact of the Aspect

You can treat with your Patron in an offering of your blood as life force. You can spend 1 minute and expend Hit Dice, which you can add to the turns you can use your Eldritch Incarnation.

Corporeal Manifestation

Prerequisite: 5th Level, Pact of the Aspect

You use your Charisma Ability Score in place of Constitution when determining your Warlock hit points. Your Eldritch Incarnation gains the following feature: You add your Charisma Modifier to your Constitution Saving Throws.

Dreadforce

Prerequisite: 5th Level, Pact of the Aspect

Your Eldritch Incarnation gains the following feature: You ignore a creature's damage resistances and treat their immunities as resistances instead.

Graceful Guise

Prerequisite: 7th Level, Pact of the Aspect

While you are in your Eldritch Incarnation, you can allure those captivated by your guise. As an action you can make a Charisma (Persuasion) check contested by the creature's Charisma Saving Throw. On a failed save, the creature is charmed by you while you maintain your Eldritch Incarnation. You can have only one target charmed at a time. If you charms another, the effect on the previous target ends.

Looming Presence

Prerequisite: 15th Level, Pact of the Aspect

While you are in your Eldritch Incarnation, you create an 5-foot aura around you. Allied creatures within that aura gain the benefits of your Eldritch Incarnation feature, using your Charisma Modifier.