Warlock Hex Guide!

[i3ullseye]

Just wrote this up. There is more than one way to skin a cat, but this is my way.

https://scarygoodtimes.com/warlock-h...ntasy-grounds/

[Zacchaeus]

Well done.

It's even more complex of course because you don't get hex damage for many spells so technically the effect should read IFT: CUSTOM (Hex); DMG: 1d6, necrotic, melee, ranged. However this would prevent some ranged spell attacks, for example Eldritch Blast, from getting the bonus so you may need a second effect missing out the ranged and melee and having a duration of on next roll to handle such situations. You could have both on permanently of course and just switch off the one that's not needed.

[i3ullseye]

Yeah, good catch. Is there any in system way to flag when an attack roll is made versus targeting a spell that requires a save? For example, instead of putting melee and ranged, just one word that says attack?

[Zacchaeus]

No. Attacks are divided up into melee and ranged. Spell saves are also a kind of attack and are sort of treated the same way but there's no effect that you can use to detect that.

[i3ullseye]

So a spell like Eldritch Blast, that requires a ranged spell attack roll, won't trigger as ranged for this purpose?

[Zacchaeus]

No, because it's a ranged spell attack not a ranged weapon attack. See the graphic. Bob has a +2 damage effect but you can see that he only gets the +2 on the Crossbow damage and not on the Eldritch Blast damage.

[i3ullseye]

Thanks for the follow up. So short of modifying each spell to have the IFT when applicable..... Sure, Warlocks don't get that many spells I suppose. But that just seems more trouble than it's worth hehe.