WHAT IF Warlock has more Flexible Slots? 🤔
Channel: Funky Dungeon Master
Date: 2022-04-14

Warlock has many great low-level spells without scaling at higher slot: Misty Step, Darkness, Hunger of Hadar, Hypnotic Pattern, Enemies Abound, Protection from Evil and Good, Faerie Fire*, Sanctuary*, Shield*, Tasha’s Hideous Laughter*, Blur*, Detect Thoughts*, Lesser Restoration*, Phantasmal Force*... (options with an asterisk* requires a certain Warlock subclass)

Sometimes you have to Misty Step, and using a 4th-level slot to do so doesn’t feel so good. Thus, I introduce a simple homebrew for a spellcasting focused Warlock, making their spell slots more flexible:

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**Voodoo Reservoir**
(Eldritch Invocation)
Prerequisite: 3rd level
As either an action or a bonus action, you can expend one Warlock spell slot to gain a number of lower level spell slots. These new spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than the level of the expended spell slot. These new spell slots disappear at the end of a short or long rest.
For example, if you expend a 5th-level spell slot, you can gain either five 1st-level slots, or gain three 1st-level slots and one 2nd-level slot, or gain one 2nd-level slot and one 3rd-level slot.
You can use this feature once and cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.
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