Warlock Patron: Primordial Dinosaur

Primordial beasts are something to be truly feared. Their knowledge, savagery, and sheer might are enough to overwhelm all challengers. As they have achieved physical perfection, some Primordials have deigned to master magic as well. This is your patron.

As an Elder Dinosaur, most likely native to the Beastlands, might and power are their domain, conquest and savagery are their tools, and you must either keep up or become the next meal.

Your patron's intentions may seem obvious at first; they may only want domination and victory. However, once any great beast reaches a certain age, they are far wiser than their lesser kin. If you seek their power, you must rise as well.

Expanded Spell List

The Dinosaur lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Dinosaur Expanded Spells

Spell Level Spells 1st Fog Cloud, Speak with Animals 2nd Barkskin, Enhance Ability 3rd Conjure Animals, Elemental Weapon 4th Dominate Beast, Giant Insect 5th Destructive Wave, Geas

Eldritch Ferocity

Your connection to a great Dinosaur allows you to channel spells in a new way. Starting at 1st level, you are able to use a Druidic Focus as a spellcasting focus when casting spells.

Additionally, your Eldritch Blast can be shaped to more resemble the savagery of beasts, forming into claws, fangs, a bludgeoning tail, or similarly bestial natural weapons. When you cast Eldritch Blast, you may make a melee spell attack against an enemy within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the attack deals 1d10 force damage to the target. As you level up, you may make an additional melee spell attack when casting Eldritch Blast this way. You make 2 attacks at level 5, 3 at level 11, and 4 at level 17.

Primordial Hide

You have toughened your skin to rival that of a beast, granting you additional defense when wearing no armor. Starting at level 6, while you have no armor on, your Armor Class = 10 + Dexterity modifier + Charisma modifier. Choose two of the following damage types: Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing, Poison, Cold, or Fire. You gain resistance to the chosen types while wearing no armor. You may replace any damage type you are resistant to with another from this list whenever you finish a short or long rest.

At level 12, you may choose any damage type to gain resistance from. At level 18, you may choose up to 4 damage types to gain resistance from.

Wisdom of the Ancients

With age brings knowledge, most especially wisdom. You have earned the right to learn directly from your patron about all things requiring this ability.

At 10th level, you gain proficiency in two of the following: Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Perception, or Survival. You also gain Expertise in one of these skills which you already have proficiency in, meaning you add twice your proficiency modifier when making an ability check with the chosen skill.

Primal Command

The Beastlands are the source of your Patron's power, and now you too draw power from this outer plane. This direct passage grants you power over beasts, and other wild powers.

At 14th level, you learn a number of Druid Spells equal to half your Wisdom score (rounded up). Spells learned this way must be level 5 or lower. You gain 1 Warlock spell slot that can be used only to cast these spells, and another at 18th level. You may only cast spells using these spell slots at 5th level. You regain these spell slots upon completing a short or long rest. Spells learned this way count as Warlock spells for you, but do not count against the number of spells you know.

Primordial Invocations

The following Eldritch invocations can expand your options with the Primordial Dinosaur patron.

Ancient Blood

Prerequesite: Primordial Dinosaur Patron, 12th level

Your blood is suffused with that of primal beasts. You age at a remarkably slow rate, only growing one year older after ten years of life.

Beastland Companion

Prerequesite: Primordial Dinosaur patron, Pact of the Chain feature, 9th level

You may summon an Allosaurus or a Plesiosaurus as a familiar when casting the Find Familiar spell using your Pact of the Chain feature.

Shadowcarving

Prerequesite: Primordial Dinosaur patron, Pact of the Tome feature, 5th level

Like a beast carving their marking into a tree, you can carve spells into the pages of your Book of Shadows. You may tear a page of your Book of Shadows out to create a spell scroll. This scroll takes 2 hours and 50 gold per spell level to create, which cannot be done as part of a long rest. The scroll must contain a spell you know.

After ripping 5 pages from your Book of Shadows, it is ruined, and must be replaced.