Can a warlock summon undead?

Also Create Undead and Summon Undead are both on the Warlock spell list. Combine this with the animate dead through the invocation and I think you can be great as a necromancer.
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What classes can summon undead?

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  • Classes: Warlock (OCF), Wizard (OCF)
  • Subclasses: Fighter (Eldritch Knight), Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
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What is an undead warlock?

Introduced in Van Richten's Guide To Ravenloft, The Warlock of the Undead is a spell-focused warlock that relies on damage and ranged attacks while cloaking themselves in the supernatural elements of their patron.
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Can you summon undead?

A Humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a Zombie... In contrast, Summon Undead does not create an undead creature. Instead, it brings an undead spirit to you, which then manifests in a way that resembles other undead. You call forth an undead spirit.
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Can warlocks get animate dead?

Animate Dead isn't a warlock spell. You can get it as an Eldritch Invocation at level 5, and cast it once per long rest without using a spell slot. Create Undead is a 6th level spell, so warlocks can grab it as their level 11 Mystic Arcanum, and cast it once per long rest without using a spell slot.
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Opening the Iron Flask while in camp, near the Oathbreaker Knight.

Can a warlock patron be dead?

The power bestowed upon to the warlock is a pact and a pact cannot be revoked. They retain that power even if the patron dies. The warlock loses their powers and/or some other kind of detrimental effect.
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Do warlocks lose their powers if their patron dies?

Mechanically, it doesn't appear to change anything. It can be inferred that the pact is more like the patron has “given you" powers and you don't lose them just because they died, any more than you would lose a sword if the person who gave it to you passed away either.
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Can you blind undead?

Yes Undead (and Constructs) can be blinded unless specific effect or creature has immunity. Some effects that cause blindness may not work on Undead, however. Blindness/deafness spell for example, specifically affects living creatures.
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Are undead immune to charm?

Undead are immune to death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, phantasms, and patterns), paralysis, poison, sleep, stun, and any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless).
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Does undead count as dead?

The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if alive. Most commonly the term refers to corporeal forms of formerly alive humans, such as mummies, vampires, and zombies, which have been reanimated by supernatural means, technology, or disease.
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Why is warlock called warlock?

The most commonly accepted etymology derives warlock from the Old English wǣrloga, which meant "breaker of oaths" or "deceiver". The term came to apply specially to the devil around 1000.
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Why are warlocks evil?

Warlocks are evil magical beings, often seen as the evil counterparts to witches. Their main goal is killing witches and obtaining their powers to become more powerful. Warlocks are pure evil beings that possess no soul. They are closely related to witches, being described as two sides of the same coin.
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What is the strongest warlock class?

Dungeons & Dragons: All Warlock Subclasses, Ranked From Least To Most Powerful
  • 8 Undying.
  • 7 Archfey.
  • 6 Celestial.
  • 5 Great Old One.
  • 4 Undead.
  • 3 Fiend.
  • 2 Hexblade.
  • 1 Genie.
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What is the best class to play the undead?

If you're going to represent the Undead, the best picks are Warlock and Priest. Especially when soloing, the former is an incredibly powerful class - self-sufficient and deadly.
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What are undead weakness?

Fire: The Undead are vulnerable to fire, which can destroy them utterly. However, they are able to survive unless completely consumed by flames.
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What are the rules for undead in 5E?

Undead have a wide array of immunities, including being immune to: all mind-affecting effects, poison, sleep effects, paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects. They are also not subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability drain, or energy drain.
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Do healing spells hurt undead?

As a general rule, no - in 5e healing spell don't hurt undead, they simply don't work on them. Most, if not all (I haven't checked every healing spell in the rulebooks) healing spells in 5e have the following clause to them: This spell has no effect on undead or constructs. So that's it.
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Are undead immune to sleep?

The sleep spell however explicitly states that undead are immune to it, so simply by reading the whole spell you can tell that the Sleep spell absolutely has no effect on zombies at all. They don't sleep after all, being undead creatures. Student of D&D metaphysics and spell balance for 30+ years.
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Do any healing spells work on undead?

Spells like Cure Wounds and Healing Word do not work on undead but they do not damage them, either. There are no general rules for healing spells or specific creature types such as undead so this is a question that can only be answered on a case-by-case basis.
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What hurts undead?

Undead creatures are damaged by positive energy, are healed by negative energy, and don't benefit from healing effects.
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Can you revive undead?

True Resurrection and Wish are the only options. Undead is a creature type, not really a condition. When something becomes an Undead, they are an Undead until something explicitly changes that, and an Undead that has been killed (again) is still an Undead.
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Are undead weak to sunlight?

Except for vampires, undead have never been affected by sunlight. @ravery don't forget shadows. They don't take damage, but they get disadvantage on everything while in sunlight.
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What is the strongest warlock patron?

Death serves only to fuel a Hexblade Warlock's power, proving them to be the deadliest of all Warlocks. This is the patron that players should choose when they're looking for the strongest.
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Can a dragon be a warlock patron?

With a name like Dungeons and Dragons, it's no surprise that one of the most commonly desired warlock patrons is a spellcasting ancient dragon, such as a wise gold dragon or a cunning black dragon, lending its arcane power to a warlock just as a fiend, archfey, or genie might.
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Can a warlock have two patrons?

You can only have 1 patron at a time. You're selling your soul, or whatever, for the pact.
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