The Crawling Rot (5e Subclass)
The Crawling Rot
Warlock Subclass
You have made a pact with an extraplanar entity formed of and fueled by the fears of mortals; your patron is associated with the fear of disease, insects, decay, and any sort of parasitic or unhealthy relationship. This entity is usually unable or unwilling to influence the material plane beyond granting supernatural abilities to those it believes will provide even more fear that it may feed on. If it has chosen you, it either believes you will make the fear of sickness and rot widespread, or that you yourself will develop into a source of this fear.
- Expanded Spell List
The Crawling Rot 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.
| Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st level | false life, detect poison and disease |
| 2nd | animal messenger, acid arrow |
| 3rd | stinking cloud, bestow curse |
| 4th | giant insect, black tentacles |
| 5th | insect plague, contagion |
- Rotten Skin
Starting at 1st level, you contract a seemingly benign but utterly incurable skin infection. Whenever a creature makes contact with your skin, you may use your reaction to deal 1d2 poison damage to them. This increases to 1d4 at 6th level and 1d6 at 14th. Additionally, you gain resistance to poison damage.
- Flesh Hive
Starting at 6th level, you become the home of a swarm of insects. Choose one of the variants listed under swarm of insects (you may choose to replace them with a suitable alternative, such as flies for wasps or worms for beetles); as an action, you may deal 5d4 damage to yourself to summon a friendly swarm of your chosen variant of insect with twice as many hit points as the damage used to summon it. You may only have 1 swarm created this way in existence at a time. As a bonus action, you can deal 1d4 damage to yourself and heal the swarm for twice as many hit points while it is within 10 feet of you.
- Putrid Stench
Starting at 10th level, you have begun to decompose, or at least it seems that way. As an action, you may cast the spell cloudkill centered on yourself. It takes 1 hour for enough gasses to build up to use this feature again.
- Sweet Song of Flesh
Starting at 14th level, you have become attuned to your swarm and can hear it singing to you in the back of your mind. The swarm of insects you summon using the Flesh Hive feature has 2d8 temporary hit points when summoned, and deals double damage while it has temporary hit points remaining. You may talk with the swarm in any languages you know and understand what it says back to you. Additionally, while the swarm is in the same space as you, you gain +2 AC.
Your Pact Boon
Each Pact Boon option produces a special creature or an object that reflects your patron's nature.
Pact of the Chain. The familiar given by this pact constantly looks sickly and malnourished. Its default form can be any animal associated with disease, especially a rat.
Pact of the Blade. Your pact weapon could appear corroded and dented, or may seem constantly filthy no matter how well you clean it.
Pact of the Tome. Your Book of Shadows could be a tattered book, barely held together, infested with mites and worms.
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