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Sorcerer King Patron Warlock in the new DnD Unearthed Arcana! Your boss might be an absolute monster, but your features are pretty great!
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Unearthed Darkana apocalyptic subclasses
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brings us the sorcerer king patron for
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the warlock. So we got the defiled
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sorcerer subclass. So like those are the
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sorcerers that become the sorcerer
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kings. This is a warlock who serves a
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sorcerer king and gets their magical
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powers from them. And it is about being
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tyrannical and commanding and oppressive
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like th this feels very evil at the very
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least like you are serving a massively
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evil and self-serving entity of some
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kind. Uh the spells and the features let
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you command other creatures and frighten
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them and dominate their actions. So like
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it it's very much a like evil offensive
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focused subclass. Very cool. Um, you get
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the ability to cast command for free a
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few times per day equal to your charisma
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modifier. And then the capstone feature
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on the subclass is just absolutely
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perfect. On top of the subclass
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features, you can when you cast command,
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you can target an additional creature,
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which is already great because like you
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get the free castings per day, but those
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are always at the lowest spell level,
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which means one target. So now those are
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two targets. And in addition to that,
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creatures that are frightened by you
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automatically fail their saving throw
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against you casting command. You have a
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bunch of options to make creatures
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scared, including the fear spell. You
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get a subclass feature when you cast a
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spell with a pack magic slot. Creatures
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in in an aura around you, you can choose
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either make them frightened or give them
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advantage on attack. So like buff your
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allies, debuff your enemies. So you do
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that and then you hit them with command
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and they auto fail the saving throw.
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like command them to drop their weapons,
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command them to run away, whatever you
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like. But like whole subclass just feels
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like it works super well together. All
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of the subclass features complement each
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other very nicely. The theme is
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fantastic. And this really does feel
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like a a lieutenant or an ambitious
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servant to a powerful evil king who's
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like leeching off of whatever scraps of
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power the sorcerer king is willing to
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give them. Like I think they pretty much
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nailed this one. My one gripe, the 10th
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level feature, vindictive rebuke. Um, as
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a reaction, an attack that hits you, you
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can force it to roll and if they fail
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because of the reroll, they take some
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psychic damage. It makes sense
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mechanically, like standing on its own,
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it's a great feature. I love it, but it
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it just doesn't feel like it fits as
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well with the rest of the subclass for
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some reason. everything else seems so
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like tightly intertwined and builds upon
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itself. And this one feels like you
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could pull it out of the subclass and
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lose almost nothing. So, they probably
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just need to give that one another like
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conceptual look and figure out how to
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tie it into the rest of the subclass
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features and then I would be absolutely
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thrilled. Like this is a really really
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cool subclass. Great theme, great
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mechanics, awesome. I'm absolutely
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thrilled. Uh I'd love to hear your
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thoughts. So, let me know in the
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comments.
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