Michael7123
2015-11-16, 03:31 PM
Dirgesinger
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
-Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare,
While many bards tend to be optimistic with songs and tales about life and love, the College of Dirgesingers devotes itself to the darker aspects of song. With tales of fallen heroes, lost battles, and tragedies, they travel the land spreading misery wherever they go. While not all dirgesingers are evil, the dark nature of their knowledge often gives them a somewhat twisted, or at least solemn, view of life.
Many dirgesingers have rolls as musicians at funerals, although they are more than capable of preforming in any role any other bard could fill. Occasionally, the serve as heralds in noble courts of death obsessed cultures. They might also feel obligated to record the time and place of death of individuals in a certain area, passively watching the world sink into decay.
Expanded Spell List
Starting at third level, you may add the following spells to your bard class spell list:
Spell Level
Spells
1st
Inflict Wounds
2nd
Ray of Enfeeblement
3rd
Animate Dead
4th
Death Ward
5th
Contagion
Song of Sorrow
Also at level 3, you gain the ability to dishearten your enemies with your music, turning what would normally be inspiration into despair. Whenever an enemy makes a saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature's roll. You can choose this feature before the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the saving throw succeeds or fails. The creature is immune to being charmed is immune to this effect.
Undying Requiem:
At 6th level, you gain the ability to increase the fighting abilities of undead friendly to you with your music. As an action, you can cause all undead either controlled by you or one of your allies to gain temporary hit points equal to your charisma modifier and deal extra damage equal to your proficiency modifier on all of their attacks. This effect lasts for 1 minute, and you must make a concentration check whenever you take damage to continue creating this effect. However, you may concentrate on a spell while maintaining this effect and make a concentration check for both effects with the same roll. The final round this ability is in effect, all undead affected by it gain advantage on all attack rolls for that round.
Melancholic Melody:
At 14th level, you gain the power to flood the emotions of your enemies with overwhelming regret, causing them to turn against everything they stand for and everyone they've stood with. With an action, your can force one creature that you can see within 60 feet of you to make a wisdom saving throw. On a failure, they are charmed by you for 1 minute, and attempt to to undo everything they've worked for, which will usually manifest in the form of attacking their allies. Your DM has final say on the actions they take. If they managed to kill any of their former colleagues or cause significant damage to their cause or beliefs, they will become horrified at their own actions, and become easily persuadable as they loose their sense of self. All creatures have advantage on any charisma checks against them while they remain in this state, which lasts for 24 hours. A creature immune to being charmed cannot be affected by this ability. A creature with an intelligence less than 6 is immune to this ability.
Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you complete a long rest
http://i.imgur.com/wXHpqb1.jpg?1
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
-Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare,
While many bards tend to be optimistic with songs and tales about life and love, the College of Dirgesingers devotes itself to the darker aspects of song. With tales of fallen heroes, lost battles, and tragedies, they travel the land spreading misery wherever they go. While not all dirgesingers are evil, the dark nature of their knowledge often gives them a somewhat twisted, or at least solemn, view of life.
Many dirgesingers have rolls as musicians at funerals, although they are more than capable of preforming in any role any other bard could fill. Occasionally, the serve as heralds in noble courts of death obsessed cultures. They might also feel obligated to record the time and place of death of individuals in a certain area, passively watching the world sink into decay.
Expanded Spell List
Starting at third level, you may add the following spells to your bard class spell list:
Spell Level
Spells
1st
Inflict Wounds
2nd
Ray of Enfeeblement
3rd
Animate Dead
4th
Death Ward
5th
Contagion
Song of Sorrow
Also at level 3, you gain the ability to dishearten your enemies with your music, turning what would normally be inspiration into despair. Whenever an enemy makes a saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature's roll. You can choose this feature before the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the saving throw succeeds or fails. The creature is immune to being charmed is immune to this effect.
Undying Requiem:
At 6th level, you gain the ability to increase the fighting abilities of undead friendly to you with your music. As an action, you can cause all undead either controlled by you or one of your allies to gain temporary hit points equal to your charisma modifier and deal extra damage equal to your proficiency modifier on all of their attacks. This effect lasts for 1 minute, and you must make a concentration check whenever you take damage to continue creating this effect. However, you may concentrate on a spell while maintaining this effect and make a concentration check for both effects with the same roll. The final round this ability is in effect, all undead affected by it gain advantage on all attack rolls for that round.
Melancholic Melody:
At 14th level, you gain the power to flood the emotions of your enemies with overwhelming regret, causing them to turn against everything they stand for and everyone they've stood with. With an action, your can force one creature that you can see within 60 feet of you to make a wisdom saving throw. On a failure, they are charmed by you for 1 minute, and attempt to to undo everything they've worked for, which will usually manifest in the form of attacking their allies. Your DM has final say on the actions they take. If they managed to kill any of their former colleagues or cause significant damage to their cause or beliefs, they will become horrified at their own actions, and become easily persuadable as they loose their sense of self. All creatures have advantage on any charisma checks against them while they remain in this state, which lasts for 24 hours. A creature immune to being charmed cannot be affected by this ability. A creature with an intelligence less than 6 is immune to this ability.
Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you complete a long rest