Warlock Subclass Controller Advanced

Great Old One Patron Warlock Guide

Your patron is a mysterious entity from the Far Realm or an elder being beyond mortal understanding. Such beings include Great Cthulhu, Tharizdun, and other alien intelligences. Your pact grants you strange psychic abilities that can shatter minds.

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Great Old One Patron Features

Awakened Mind

Level 3

You can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 feet. You don't need to share a language for the creature to understand your telepathic messages, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language.

Great Old One Spells

Level 3

You gain additional spells that count as warlock spells for you: Dissonant Whispers, Tasha's Hideous Laughter (level 1); Detect Thoughts, Phantasmal Force (level 3); Clairvoyance, Hunger of Hadar (level 5); Dominate Beast, Evard's Black Tentacles (level 7); Dominate Person, Telekinesis (level 9).

Psychic Spells

Level 3

You learn additional psionic spells that count as warlock spells for you. These spells allow you to invade and manipulate the minds of your enemies.

Clairvoyant Combatant

Level 6

When you deal damage to a creature, you gain advantage on attack rolls against that creature until the end of your current turn, as you peer briefly into its immediate future. Additionally, that creature can't make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of that turn.

Eldritch Hex

Level 10

When you place a curse on a creature (such as with the Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses), you can use a bonus action to give that creature disadvantage on saving throws against one ability of your choice until the curse ends.

Thought Shield

Level 10

Your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it. You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of psychic damage.

Create Thrall

Level 14

You can use your action to touch an incapacitated humanoid. That creature is then charmed by you until a Remove Curse spell is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed from it, or you use this feature again. You can communicate telepathically with the charmed creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence.

Is Great Old One Patron Right for You?

Pick the Great Old One Patron if you want a Warlock focused on controlling the battlefield and locking down enemies. Compare it with the other Warlock subclasses to make sure it fits your party, then build the Tiefling version for the strongest start.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the best race for a Great Old One Patron Warlock?
Tiefling rates highest (8/10) for the Great Old One Patron Warlock. Tiefling fire resistance and innate spellcasting complement the Warlock's magical abilities. Dragonborn (7/10) and Halfling (6/10) are also strong picks.
What does the Great Old One Patron specialize in?
The Great Old One Patron fills the Controller role — controlling the battlefield and locking down enemies. Its features unlock at levels 3, 6, 10, 14.

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