Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast Freedom of Movement once on yourself without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
Trickster’s Escape: Flight to Live Another Day
Review by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
I get the premise of Freedom of Movement: you can go where you please, difficult terrain and grapples be damned. Here’s my issue: it's a 4th level spell. A 4th level spell has to do more than make your mundane movement unstoppable. If it were an at will invocation, I’d be a bit more interested; you’d have the fantasy of being uncatchable easily delivered on that way. With it being a free cast once a long rest, I’m just luke warm on it.
Freedom of Movement isn’t a spell that’s often getting cast, especially given that so much of what it does can be done better with basic teleportation effects like Misty Step for a 2nd level slot instead of a 4th. If you’re going to go for the trickster fantasy, Misty Visions, Mask of Many Faces, and One with Shadows will help you feel that way. The Archfey patron gives you Misty Escape, a once a short rest damage reaction 60 ft. teleport that also makes you invisible, which is definitely better than this.
Still, an invocation giving you a 4th level spell and spell slot, even when it isn’t amazing, can open up some paths to exploration otherwise closed off. Freedom of Movement does assist in a wide variety of environments for a long while with no concentration. If you want to be the slipperiest little warlock there ever was, Trickster’s Escape can be a part of that fantasy. I think there are better ways to get there, but Freedom of Movement does do what it says on the tin and won’t feel as bad as normal when you’re getting a special spell slot just for it instead of needing it to compete with other 4th level options.
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