Prc - Warlock Ascendant

[*Nimrod25]

Was digging through my documents folder and found this. Just thought i'd share this with you all, as it was a great class to play and i dont know but some of you may find use for it in a PnP game somewhere. It's a blaster type PrC that a me and my DM at the time came up with for a PC i was playing. Hope yous like it. B)

Warlock Ascendant

Description

When a warlock delves into fiendish matters, they often call upon themselves the attention of powerful members of such races. Sometimes this can lead to a deal being struck, or often forced on the warlock. The fiend imposes its will and “favour” on the them, empowering their offensive powers at the cost of their defensive capabilities in exchange for their obedience on certain matters. The deals vary widely, but the result is always the same; the Warlock Ascendant.

Requirements

Alignment: Must be evil
Feats: Eldritch Blast 5d6, Weapon Focus (Ranged Touch Attack)
Skills: Concentration 12, Knowledge (Arcane) 12, Knowledge (Planes) 9, Spellcraft 12

Abilities

Invocations known: The Warlock Ascendant gains new invocations known each level as if they had taken a level of the chosen invoking class.

Eldritch Blast Advancement: The Warlock AscendantÂ’s Eldritch Blast ability improves by 1d6 at levels 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10; amounting to a total of 8d6 at level 10.

Fiendish Shaping: At levels 4 and 8 the Warlock Ascendant gains the benefit of the feat Extra Invocation.

Empowered Eldritch Blast: Beginning at level 5, the Warlock Ascendant may empower their Eldritch Blast ability. This ability may be used 3/day at level 5 and 5/day at level 8.

Maximise Eldritch Blast: At level 10, the Warlock Ascendant may maximise their Eldritch Blast ability. This Ability may be used 3/day.

[*Rynaga]

Just the eldritch blast progression itself is powerful, a whole 3d6 over not taking it. I do not believe maximize or empower work on Eldritch blasts, as a former rp mate tried to make it do that and couldn't manage it. May have just been his failure.

Extra Invocations could just be an extra selection at that level.

Extra 3d6 isn't that amazing, but 2 more dark invocations could be nice, and taking this and Hellfire would be.. powerful.

[*Nimrod25]

Well, the point of it was to make the character do more damage, but they take more as well, as they sacrifice cold iron damage reduction, energy resistance and fiendish resilience. Besides, considering the extra damage is only 3d6 in 10 levels, i think it shapes up pretty well to the hellfire warlock's 4d6 extra in 3 levels.

As for the empower, yes there is such a thing in pnp, it is a feat which a character can take called Empower Spell-Like Ability (Eldritch Blast), and it is useable 3/day, the idea was to use and improve on this feat.

The maximise is entirely homebrew as far as i'm aware however. Though it is based on the empower feat mentioned above.

As for combining it with hellfire warlock, that's pretty suicidal in more hack and slash campaigns, because of the 1 con damage per target hit to gain the 6d6 bonus damage.

Also worth noting is that in pnp, the nwn2 epic feat, Eldritch Master, does not exist. There is no +50% damage automatically in pnp, so in truth/summary the blaster warlock is fairly pointless in a party for anything other than a "i wanna rp with demons and devils and other nasty fiendy beasties" attitude.

EDIT: the feat Extra Invocation also exists in pnp, and it is restricted to learning invocations a a level below the highest level you can cast ie. you can never get extra dark invocations.

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Regarding the extra invocations, i'd ironically spend the extra invocations on least and lesser invocations above greater and dark anyday and any time ;)

[*Nimrod25]

yeah, some of them are really useful.