🦸♀️(Legacy) 5e - College of Tragedy🦸♀️
Not all grand stories conclude in triumphant victory. Many tales end with death and despair, and bards of the College of Tragedy know that sorrow and pathos are emotions just as potent as joy and delight. These bards specialize in the power of tragic storytelling, weaving words and spells together to dramatic and devastating effect.
Level 3: Poetry in Misery
You learn to harness the beauty in failure, finding inspiration in even the direst twists of fate. Whenever you or an ally within 30 feet of you rolls a 1 on the d20 for a D20 Test, you can use your Reaction to soliloquize and regain one expended use of your Bardic Inspiration feature.
Level 3: Sorrowful Fate
You exploit a foe’s peril to instill deep feelings of sorrow and doom. When you or an ally you can see forces a creature to make a saving throw, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to change the type of saving throw to a CHA Save instead.
If the target fails this save, roll a Bardic Inspiration die. The target takes psychic damage equal to the result, and is plagued with regret for 1 minute. If the target is reduced to 0 hit points during this time and can speak, they are magically compelled to utter darkly poetic final words before succumbing to their injuries.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Level 6: Impending Misfortune
Your words can twist the power of fate to create triumph from the promise of future despair. When you make an attack roll or a saving throw, you can gain a +10 bonus to the roll, but the next attack roll or saving throw you make takes a -10 penalty. If not used, this penalty disappears when you finish a short or long rest.
You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest, or until you are reduced to 0 hit points.
Level 9: Tale of Hubris
You learn to weave a magical narrative that draws out the fatal arrogance of your foes. When a creature scores a 🎲Critical Hit against you or an ally within 60 feet of you that you can see, you can use your Reaction to target the attacking creature and evoke the story of their downfall. For 1 minute or until the target suffers a critical hit, any attack against the target scores a critical hit on a roll of 17–20.
Level 13: Mask of Tragedy
You can bargain with the gods of death itself for more time. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can expend a use of Bardic Inspiration die to immediately make a Performance check. If the result of your check is a 20 or greater, you fall to 1 hit point instead of 0.
Level 17: Nimbus of Pathos
You can touch a willing creature as an action and empower it with tragic heroism. For 1 minute, the creature is surrounded by mournful music and ghostly singing, granting it the following benefits and drawbacks:
- The creature has a +8 bonus to AC.
- It has ADV on attack rolls and saving throws.
- When the creature hits a target with a weapon attack or spell attack, that target takes an extra 3d10 radiant damage.
When this effect ends, the creature immediately drops to 0 hit points and is dying. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.