Jack-o-lantern and Vampire Bat | Two Halloween Pact Familiars

Happy Halloween! If I'm not mistaken, this is my first intentionally holiday-themed homebrew! I have once done an Oath of Betrothal rerelease on Valentine's Day, but that wasn't the original inspiration for the sacred oath. For these two, however, Halloween has all the credit for the idea!

The jack-o-lantern and vampire bat are new options for warlocks to choose as their Pact of the Chain familiars. There are already some spooky options in the official content, like the quasit and imp, so I decided to lean less spooky and more "monstrous fun."

Children of Gorkhon | A Player Character species supplement based on the world of Pathologic, and on adapting content from other mediums

For the last five months, I have been Dungeon Master for a game that isn't Dungeons & Dragons (which technically means I've been a Game Master, but Jeremy Crawford will have to come tell me himself before I retire the Dungeon Master title). This exploration of a system outside Dungeons & Dragons has been a lot of fun for both myself and my players; we've learned more about Fifth Edition's strengths, and about its weaknesses; its features and its lacks.

And so of course I decided to make some Fifth Edition homebrew inspired by our game anyway.