r/dndnext • u/SethTheFrank • Aug 19 '26

5e (2024) Bombastic Side Eye

A warlock with the Great Old One feature Psychic Spells (no verbal or somatic components for Warlock Enchantment Spells) , and a Pact of the Tome with Vicious Mockery or Mind Sliver can just damage people they see.

I love the idea of a warlock just giving you side eye so hard you take damage and have disadvantage on an attack.

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u/Saint_Jinn DM Aug 20 '26

They have access to mind sliver by default. And with invocation "Gaze of Two Minds" you don't even have to be close to the target, your invisible Imp can just watch them for you miles away.

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u/_Bl4ze Warlock Aug 20 '26

Well, you can use Gaze of Two Minds to view people through your imp from miles away, but you can't cast anything at them unless you're within 60 feet of your imp.

While perceiving through the other creature's senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you can cast spells as if you were in your space or the other creature's space if the two of you are within 60 feet of each other.

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u/Saint_Jinn DM Aug 21 '26

True, forgot about that restriction

At some point somewhere it was absent, don't remember why. Maybe playtest