A 2-for-1 today, we’re taking a look at a pair of Warlock subclasses by Timothy McCown Reynolds, aka Midnight Moth Productions.

Disclaimer: We were provided with a free digital copy of this product.

They’re designed primarily for One DnD, as the features start at level 3, but thankfully, warlocks especially are pretty easy to switch back to 5e – just adjust the first feature to be available at level 1.

Dragon Patron

You have made a pact with a Dragon, offering your fealty and service in exchange for a taste of its awesome magical power and potency.

This is more of a “generalist” patron – it gives you some nice abilities, especially for combat, but they’re not focused on a specific playstyle besides “act like a dragon and blow stuff up” – which, admittedly, can be a very fun thing to do. You get breath weapons, you get dragonscales, you get dragon transformations – exactly what you’d want to roleplay being the servant of a powerful and mighty dragon. It’s a very good option for roleplaying as well, if you want to explore the relation with your patron – though admittedly most warlocks are pretty good options for that regardless.

Besides the Warlock features, there are also new Eldritch Invocations – 7 of them, with 4 being centred around the “Pact of the Hoard”: a pretty fun mechanic, where you get (temporary and limited) access to your patron’s vast hoard, allowing you to borrow magic items.

Oooze Patron

This is a weirder one – similar to a Great Old One, perhaps, but more… gooey. You’ve made a pact with the Eldritch Ooze, an unknowable entity ever-seeping from the dank and quaking cracks of reality.

You get access to a bunch of slimy, smelly and oozy spells, as well as various features that let you transmute your solid body into a viscous, amorphous ooze, all in accordance with your patron’s form. The most interesting feature is Oozy Split, which, just like the ooze monsters, lets you split into two smaller, semi-independent forms once your HP is reduced to half.

Again, you also get some new Eldritch Invocations, giving you more options when it comes to becoming a blob of jelly – who wouldn’t love this?

As I mentioned, it’s a weird one, both thematically and mechanically – but the weirdest options are usually the most fun, even if they aren’t mechanically powerful.

Art & Layout

Layout is a pretty standard dual-column in both supplements, but the real treat here is the art. Timothy makes his own illustrations, with a very distinct style – reminiscent of old-school fantasy images, which gives them an extra bit of personality.

Final Thoughts

Overall, the Dragon Patron and the Ooze Patron are both interesting and fun premises that most Warlock players will probably enjoy trying out.

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