Pact of the

Dragon God

A New Otherworldly Patron

Deadly Elemental Breath Weapons | Become a Dragon
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our patron is a dragon god. Perhaps you are the
harbinger of Tiamat, chosen to herald her
conquest over the material plane. Maybe
Bahamut has looked down upon you in favor,
selecting you to thwart his sister's vial schemes.
Will your quest for exalted power cost your
humanity? Humanity is cheap.
Your connection with a diety of dragons allows you to
assume the form of a dragon. Perhaps one day you choose to
make the transformation permanent...
Class Features
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Expanded Spell List
Your patron 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.
Dragon God Expanded Spell List
Spell Level Spells
1st Burning Hands, Identify
2nd Bark Skin, Zone of Truth
3rd Lightning Bolt, Slow
4th Dominate Beast, Stone Skin
5th Cone of Cold, Control Winds
Dragon Pact Magic
Players are encouraged to reskin the spells granted
by the expanded spell list to thematically align with
the idea that they are becoming more dragon-like
over time. Here are some examples...
Burning Hands: You breathe in deeply,
remembering that you attuned yourself to the
memory of Eldrax the Emerald this morning.
You exhale a noxious sweeping wave of poison
gas. "Armor won't save you now."
Identify: You are not sure why, but your instincts
tell you this is a treasure worth great value... "Ah
yes, what a clever magical enchantment... This
will fit nicely in my hoard, I mean collection..."
Zone of Truth: This impudent welp thinks that
they might deceive me? "You will tell me what
you know!" you roar, a frightful aura emanating
from you. You can smell their fear... "Now let's
try that again..."
Barkskin: You prepare yourself for battle. These
impudent bandits would dare invade your
stronghold? Golden scales harder than metal
grow from your skin forming a protective hide.
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Gifts of Grandeur
Starting at 1st level You can speak, read, and write Draconic.
Additionally, whenever you make a Charisma check when
interacting with dragons, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or
lower as a 10.
You learn the spell Draconic Adaptation. It counts as a
warlock spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number
of spells you know.
You can cast Draconic Adaptation once at the level of your
highest Warlock spell slot without expending a spell slot, and
you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
Draconic Prism
Beginning at 6th level, you choose acid, cold, fire, lightning,
poison, or thunder for the type of your Draconic Prism each
time you finish a long rest. You may choose to replace the
damage type of any spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning,
poison, or thunder damage with the damage type of your
draconic prism instead.
In addition, when you deal damage to a creature with a
spell that deals damage of the type of your draconic prism,
you can increase the damage by an amount equal to your
warlock level. Once you increase a spell's damage in this way,
you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Elemental Prism And Breath Weapons
Elemental Prism grants players a great deal of
versatility to emulate a dragon's breath weapon.
The most obvious use is to change the elemental
damage type of Cone of Cold and Lightning Bolt.
Melee combatants can make use of the
Prismatic Hunter eldrich invocation to emulate the
elemental damage that often accompanies a
dragon's deadly bite or claw attack.
Elemental Affinity
Starting at 10th level, when you take damage of same type as
your Draconic Prism, you may use your reaction to absorb
some incoming energy, lessening its effect on you. The
triggering damage is halved and the damage increase feature
of Draconic Prism is regained if it was expended.
Draconic Ascendant
At 14th level, as an action, you imitate the effects of casting
the Polymorph spell on yourself, transforming into a dragon
instead of a beast. The transformation does not grant you
access to Legendary Actions, Legendary Resistances, and
Lair Actions. This ability is innate and does not require
spellcasting components. This ability cannot be used again
until you finish a long rest.
Your mortal humanoid form now shows signs of hidden
draconic might. Your creature type is now also dragon.
Additionally, while your outward appearance does not
change, your body becomes significantly denser. Your weight
is now 100 times your Constitution score.
Starting at 20th level, as an action, you can use Draconic
Ascendant to cast True Polymorph on yourself, transforming
into a dragon instead of a beast. Even if your new form
becomes permanent, you retain the Draconic Ascendant
feature and may use it to return to back to your original form.
The ability may still only be used once per long rest across
forms.
Dragons in Plain Sight
It is common for dragons to shape change into
varied humanoid forms. These dragons will often
appear mortal in all ways with the exception of
their density. This strange magical property often
leads to outrageous moments of realization for
protagonists and now antagonists alike.
New Spell
Draconic Adaptation
1st-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: S
Duration: Concentration, 1 hour
You assume a different form. When you cast the spell,
choose one of the following options, the effects of which last
for the duration of the spell. While the spell lasts, you can end
one option as an action to gain the benefits of a different one.
Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic
environment. You can breathe underwater and gain a
swimming speed of 10ft.
Aerial Adaptation. You grow dragon wings. You gain a
flying speed of 10ft.
Natural Weapons. You grow claws, fangs, spines, horns,
or a different natural weapon of your choice. Your unarmed
strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage,
as appropriate to the natural weapon you chose, and you are
proficient with your unarmed strikes. Finally, the natural
weapon is magic and you have a +1 bonus to the attack and
damage rolls you make using it.
At Higher Levels. Whenever this spell would grant you a
movement speed, the speed increases by 10ft for each slot
level above 1st.
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 New Eldritch Invocations
Prismatic Blast
Prerequisite: eldrich blast cantrip
Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder for the
type of your Prismatic Blast each time you finish a short or
long rest. When you cast eldrich blast you may deal the
chosen damage type instead.
Prismatic Hunter
Prerequisite: 5th level
Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder for the
type of your Prismatic Hunter ability each time you finish a
short or long rest. When you hit with a melee attack, you add
1d4 of the chosen damage type of damage.
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Credits
Pact of the Dragon God is designed by Raymond O'Connor
We used Homebrewery the layout of Pact Of The Dragon
God.
The cover art is by Refluo and the canyon image is by
Metehan Bahadir
A special thank you to Lucritius, whose critical eye and sense
for design greatly increased the readability and clarity of Pact
of the Dragon God.
Respectful mention to the other authors on the DM's Guild
who thought making a dragon-themed warlock patron was a
worthwhile endeavor.
Fin J., Timothy Gonzalez, Matt Newman, Royal City
Society, Pedro Filippo, Zachary Tounzen, Dylan Lundquist,
Wyatt Trull, Dani Sankovich, Thieves' Cant Games, and Evan
Jackson
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