THE VOID

A new Otherworldly Patron

and Pact Boon for warlocks

The Void is a new Otherworldly Patron for warlocks. It also includes a new Pact
Boon: Entropy Shard. These character options are inspired by the Entropomancer
prestige class, but they are not a direct conversion.
This document includes suggested characteristics to roleplay a Void warlock and a
variant using Madness.

by Stefano Dore

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 The Void
Absolute Nothingness, the Space-In-Between, Black
Hole, Great Nothing, the pure and total absence of
matter, a tear in reality... The Void has many names
and infinite ways of defining what it isn’t. At its core
though, the Void is the simple paradox of something
that exists and at the same time is nothing. Still, some
people are drawn to it like moths to a flame, these
fools lose their minds trying to gaze into the Void,
searching for answers. But the Void has no voice,
no thought, no will of its own. Or at least, this is the
conclusion scholars throughout the multiverse have
reached after centuries of studies. And yet, sometimes
the Void stares back. No one knows how and why
the Void bestows its gifts, but it does. The warlocks
chosen by the Void are usually outcasts, unbalanced
or straight up mad for even thinking about making
a pact with nothing. They can be complete nihilists,
unrepentant atheists, or zealots with an appetite for
annihilation, yearning to see something destroyed to
the point that not even the memory remains.
The Void is the ultimate mystery of the multiverse,
and its warlocks are its enigmatic heralds.
Expanded spell list
The Void 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.
Spell slot Spells
1st detect magic, shield
2nd blur, phantasmal force
3rd nondetection, protection from energy
4th Evard’s black tentacles, phantasmal
killer
5th passwall, wall of force
Entropic Field
Starting at 1st level, you can use your bonus
action to slightly tear the fabric of reality in a cube
of 20 feet centered around you. When the Entropic
Field is active, you can use your reaction to prevent
a creature inside the field to cast any spell or use
any supernatural or magical ability that allows to
disguise or conceal its appearance, such as alter self,
disguise self, invisibility, or a doppelganger’s ability
to shapeshift. You can also try to end such an effect
if it’s already active when the creature enters the
Entropic Field. To be able to do so you have to succeed
on a spellcasting ability check (DC 12 + the spell’s
level or the creature’s hit dices).
The Entropic Field lasts a number of rounds equal to
3 + your spellcasting ability bonus.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again
until you finish a short or long rest.
Pact Boon: Entropy Shard
At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift
upon you for your loyal service.
As an action, you can conjure a 2-inches shard of
utter darkness in a square up to 30 feet from you.
It lasts until you keep your concentration, than it
vanishes. Every creature that stands in or passes
through the square the shard is in has to succeed
on a Constitution saving throw or suffer 1d10 force
damage (there’s no way to avoid touching it, since the
shard constantly floats, jumps and bounces in the
square).
With a bonus action, you can use your mind to
dismiss or move the shard 5 feet in any direction.
You can also use a bonus action to make the shard
implode collapsing onto itself and thus exerting
a gravitational pull on every creature not bigger
than Large in a 10 feet cube centered on the shard.
Treat this as a shove (see page 195 of the Player’s
Handbook) with the shard having Strength (Athletics)

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+5 and advantage on the check. Every creature that
fails the check is pulled 5 feet towards the shard
(they can avoid the pull by falling prone in the square
they’re in). The shard vanishes afterwards, but does
inflict damages one last time if a creature is pulled in
the same square.
The shard also implodes automatically as soon as it
is farther than 60 feet from its caster.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again
until you finish a short or long rest.
In addiction, you have advantage on every check
made to control a sphere of annihilation.
Touched by the Void
Starting at 6th you gain immunity to force damage.
Planar Disruption
Starting at 10th, when the Entropic Field is active,
you can use your reaction to prevent a creature inside
the field to cast any spell or use any magical ability
that allows planar movement or teleportation such as
misty step, dimension door, planar shift, teleport or the
blink dog’s magical ability to teleport. To be able to do
so you have to succeed on a spellcasting ability check
(DC 12 + the spell’s level or the creature’s hit dices).
The Entropic Field expands to 40 feet and you can
use it twice between rests. When you finish a short or
long rest, you regain your expended uses.
One with The Void
Starting at 14th, when the Entropic Field is
active, you have advantage on saving throws against
enchantment and mind-affecting spells.
USING MADNESS
Void warlocks range from the simply eccentric
wanderer to the total lunatic and from the
catatonic to the foaming mad man. Forging a
pact with Nothing is definitely crazy, but having
Nothing reach back? That can affect even the most
rational brain in the multiverse. It goes without
saying that these individuals are not the most
stable adventurers out there, especially because
using The Void’s gifts takes a toll on reality itself.
If you’re using Madness in your campaign (see
page 258 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) you can
decide that the character has to succeed on a
Wisdom or Intelligence saving throw every time
she uses the Entropic Field ability. If the check
fails, the character has to roll on the short-term
madness table or the DM can arbitrarly decide
which kind of madness the characters receives.
On a roll of 1, the character receives a form of
long-term madness instead.
Suggested characteristics
The Void is pure, absolute. The Void is also... silent.
Thus, its warlocks are a little crazy and out of touch
with reality. But, even thought its defined by absence,
the Void exists: its gifts are real.
d8 Personality
1 I’m cold and distant like outer space
2 I look for every wrinkle in reality, the
imperfections, the out of the ordinary
3 I think religions are false, clerics
delusional and the gods misleading
4 There’s a bunch of voices in my head
5 Life has no inner meaning
6 I despise magic and strive to destroy it
7 What’s in my path has to be obliterated
8 I try to appear crazier than I actually am
d6 Ideal
1 Nihilism. We’re just particles flowing
into space (Neutral)
2 Pragmatism. I focus on what I can see,
knowing the Void is out there (Any)
3 Fatalism. Everything will crumble
back into dust eventually (Neutral)
4 Sacrifice. I must channel this all-
consuming force for good deeds (Good)
5 Destruction. The Void will swallow the
whole multiverse (Evil)
6 Madness. Step into utter blackness
and get lost forever (Chaotic)
d6 Bond
1 I have a mantra that keeps me sane
2 I feel the urge to destroy things
3 The mad are sacred
4 I only wear black clothes
5 The Void’s voice is out there, I have to
find it and be the first to hear it
6 There’s only one person that believes
I’m sane he is my north star
d6 Flaw
1 I freeze in a catatonic state for brief
periods of time
2 I don’t value anything in life
3 I’m incapable of showing my emotions
4 My mood shifts constantly
5 I’m reluctant to trust other people
6 Sometimes I’m not sure what’s real
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