PhoenixPhyre
2018-10-06, 02:21 PM
I'm considering a homebrew warlock patron based around working for my setting's equivalent of Mechanus. The Great Mechanism is what keeps everything going by transferring energy around to the planes, synchronizing rotations, keeping things in orbit, keeping weather patterns going, etc. It emphasizes and desires (as much as an entity like that can desire) stability and predictability. Good/evil are alien to it, but it hates chaos. And it needs caretakers. People who can go fix aberrations that arise.
What sorts of things might fit this theme? My thoughts so far:
* Bonus spells (levels 1-5)
** Level 1: alarm, grease
** Level 2: lesser restoration
** Level 3: haste, slow
** Level 4: Freedom of Movement, fabricate(*)
** Level 5: greater restoration, animate objects
* 1st level ability -- something involving canceling advantage or disadvantage (representing making the universe work as normal)?
* 6th level ability -- Something with making ability checks more regular (maybe being able to take 10, sacrificing the upside potential for mitigating the downside risk?)
* 10th level ability -- Some sort of defensive ability?
* 14th level ability -- something construct related?
(*) too much for SR slot recovery?
What sorts of things might fit this theme? My thoughts so far:
* Bonus spells (levels 1-5)
** Level 1: alarm, grease
** Level 2: lesser restoration
** Level 3: haste, slow
** Level 4: Freedom of Movement, fabricate(*)
** Level 5: greater restoration, animate objects
* 1st level ability -- something involving canceling advantage or disadvantage (representing making the universe work as normal)?
* 6th level ability -- Something with making ability checks more regular (maybe being able to take 10, sacrificing the upside potential for mitigating the downside risk?)
* 10th level ability -- Some sort of defensive ability?
* 14th level ability -- something construct related?
(*) too much for SR slot recovery?