Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Tome feature
A new page appears in your Book of Shadows. With your permission, a creature can use its action to write its name on that page, which can contain a number of names equal to your proficiency bonus.
You can cast the Sending spell, targeting a creature whose name is on the page, without using a spell slot and without using material components. To do so, you must write the message on the page. The target hears the message in their mind, and if the target replies, their message appears on the page, rather than in your mind. The writing disappears after 1 minute.
As an action, you can magically erase a name on the page by touching it.
Far Scribe: Warlock Email
Review by Sam West, Twitter:@CrierKobold
A lot of the invocations I rave about give you unlimited access to one or more new spells. These tend to be critical to playing a warlock as a spellcaster; they give you reasonable tools to compete with the magical aptitude of your full-caster counterparts (at least in the early and mid tiers). Far Scribe gives you a form of unlimited casts of a spell: but it's Sending. Amazingly, I think even a spell I’m as lukewarm on as Sending becomes pretty sweet with all the new tools Far Scribe mixes into it.
Sending, despite being a 3rd level non-ritual spell, is just so hard to use well. It’s like getting access to email that’s down most of the time in D&D. Far Scribe opens that up to unlimited conversing over any distance so long as their names in the book; now, instead of Sending acting primarily as a tool for long distance, infrequent information conveying, you have a form of communication akin to telepathy that lets you near instantaneously communicate with friends you’ve been with using the book. I initially was wondering how this could be that valuable until it dawned on me just how much better than Message this is.
Far Scribe lets one player quietly sit in a corner journaling discreetly while orchestrating a large scale con. It gives communication over an entire dungeon, regardless of distance, to share information perfectly. Any heist style adventure integrates the Far Scribe as the information hub. This will feel a lot like Telepathic Bond, a 5th level ritual spell for wizards that you’re getting an equivalent version of four levels earlier.
You probably don’t ever need more than one way to communicate telepathically to others; Far Scribe has a pretty specific and engaging fantasy attached to it, though, which is a major upside over comparative options. If you just have a wizard in your group, or otherwise can get Telepathic Bond in your book of shadows with the Book of Ancient Secrets invocation, Far Scribe looks a LOT worse. If that isn’t the case, I think there’s some great utility in this. It expands out to be able to communicate with a wider and wider roster of characters, too, which means in RP heavy games involving large scale politics or intrigue, Far Scribe still might fit onto your sheet when Telepathic Bond is available so long as you have the room on the page for four or five important names (requiring a higher proficiency bonus). This isn’t a revolutionary invocation or anything, but it does offer a pretty awesome ability done with exceptional flavor. I’m a big fan.
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