Bard

B
oth literally and figuratively enchanting, bards
drew upon, more than perhaps any other
Psychic Blades
When you join the College of Whispers at 3rd level, you gain the
profession, the works of all who'd come before
ability to make your weapon attacks magically toxic to a creature's
them. Storytellers, musicians, enchanters, dancers,
mind. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can
and lorekeepers, bards were prone to wanderlust,
expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal an additional 2d6
traveling from one place to another in search of
psychic damage to that target. You can do so only once per round
new lore or perhaps in the hopes of spreading what
on your turn.
they already knew.
The psychic damage increases when you reach certain levels in
Some came into the services of others as ambassadors or spies,
this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 10th level, and 8d6
but most bards preferred the freedom of mobility and living by
at 15th level.
one's whims, though this was not without exception and most bards
acquired their skills as a result of training under previous bards,
drawing upon ancient traditions of lore and arcane magic. ~

Project Sneak Attack (Optional)

This project’s goals were to make an update to help low ranked
This feature replaces Psychic Blades
subclasses to be closer to the middle or high ranked subclasses of
At 3rd level, you know how and where to strike.
the same class. Rather than focus only on game mechanics or This attack must use a finesse or ranged weapon.
personal views of a subclass, the goal was to keep the subclass While you do not have disadvantage on the attack
balanced within the designer’s intent and to the creator’s original roll, your target must have another enemy that isn’t
concept. Lore, story, previous editions, characters, etc. were incapacitated within 5 feet of it or you must have
included if that was the focus of the creator or if there was a lack of advantage on the attack roll, then once per turn, you
enough information to fill in the required comparisons. can deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target you hit.
The amount of the extra damage increases as you
gain levels in this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th
Comment: level, 5d6 at 9th level, and 7d6 at 15th level.
This subclass was not made toward combat, even
though it has Psychic Blades.
Psychic Blades is a flair toward extra damage
and was intentionally focused as poisoned
weapons over other systems.
After using Psychic Blades, many liked it, Psychic Charge (Optional)
however, some really disliked parts of it. So, two This feature replaces Psychic Blades
alternatives are listed to replace Psychic Blades. At 3rd level, you make your weapon attacks
Scaling was edited and short-tested based on new mentally toxic. On your turn, once per round, when
cost. you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can deal
an additional 2d6 psychic damage to that target. You
can do so a number of times equal to your
College of Whispers Proficiency Bonus. You regain all uses on a short or
long rest.
From Xanathar's Guide to Everything The psychic damage increases when you reach
Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of certain levels in this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th
the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to level, 5d6 at 10th level, and 7d6 at 15th level.
be like any other bard, sharing news, singing songs, and telling
tales to the audiences they gather. In truth, the College of Whispers
teaches its students that they are wolves among sheep. These bards
use their knowledge and magic to uncover secrets and turn them
against others through extortion and threats.
Many other bards hate the College of Whispers, viewing it as a
parasite that uses the bards’ reputation to acquire wealth and power.
For this reason, these bards rarely reveal their true nature unless
they must. They typically claim to follow some other college, or
keep their true nature secret in order to better infiltrate and exploit
royal courts and other settings of power.

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 Words of Terror
At 3rd level, you learn to infuse innocent-seeming words with an
insidious magic that can inspire terror.
Personal Rulings on Mantle:
1. If they succeed on the check, they still see the
If you speak to a humanoid alone for at least 1 minute, you can
disguise, but are fully aware that you are not that
attempt to seed paranoia and fear into its mind. At the end of the
person.
conversation, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw
2. If the taken persona has daily mannerisms,
against your spell save DC or be frightened of you or another behavior patterns, or a primary language (or a
creature of your choice. The target is frightened in this way for 1 language they use daily) that you don’t know, you
hour. If the target is attacked or damaged, or it witnesses its allies will know them while in that form. Languages
being attacked or damaged, it must make another Wisdom saving gained this way are limited to basic or daily
throw against your spell save DC. conversions.
If the target succeeds on its saving throw, the target has no hint
that you tried to frighten it. Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a short rest or long rest.

Cloak of Whispers (Optional)

Using your Mantle of Whispers, within a minute of a
Note: humanoid becoming unconscious, you can touch
Mantle of Whispers functions like a Changeling’s them as an Action and copy their shadow. You
Shapechanger. immediately take on their form and voice for 1 hour,
Your voice and appearance are altered. but you do not have their memories and if anyone
This feature is not an illusion. sees through your disguise, this effect will end. The
There is no magical aura. person you are disguised as will be in a magical
It cannot be dispelled. sleep while you use their form. If they are magically
You can cast concentration spells while in awakened, the effect will end.
another form.

Mantle of Whispers
At 6th level, you gain the ability to adopt a humanoid's persona.
When a humanoid dies within 30 feet of you, you can magically
capture its shadow using your reaction. You retain this shadow until
you use it, or 24 hours have passed.
You can use the shadow as an Action. When you do so, it
vanishes, magically transforming into a disguise that appears on
you. You now look like the dead person, but healthy and alive. This
disguise lasts for 1 hour or until you end it as a bonus action.
While you're in the disguise, you gain access to all information
that the humanoid would freely share with a casual acquaintance.
Such information includes general details on its background and
personal life, but doesn't include secrets. The information is enough
that you can pass yourself off as the person by drawing on its
memories.
Another creature can see through this disguise by succeeding on
a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by your Charisma (Deception)
check. You gain a +5 bonus to your check.
Once you capture a shadow with this feature, you can't capture
another one with it until you finish a short or long rest.
Bottle of Whispers (Optional)
When using your Mantle of Whispers, you can
perform a sealing on the taken shadow. You must
have the shadow, be within 30 feet of the body, and
spend 10 minutes bounding it to a small bottle. A
shadow bound this way will not fade away and after
the disguise ends the shadow will return to the
bottle. You can have a number of bottles with bound
shadows in them equal to your Charisma modifier.
The shadows are unbound and will fade if you
die, are on a separate plane of exists from them,
away from the bottle for more than 24 hours, if the
bottle breaks, or if you release them. Only you can
use this shadow and you are haunted by cacophony
of soft whispers while you keep them.

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Shadow Lore
At 14th level, you gain the ability to weave dark magic into your
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words and tap into a creature’s deepest fears.
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As an Action, you magically whisper a phrase that only one
creature of your choice within 30 feet of you can hear. The target
must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. It
automatically succeeds if it doesn’t share a language with you or if
it can’t hear you. On a successful saving throw, your whisper
sounds like unintelligible mumbling and has no effect.
If the target fails its saving throw, it is charmed by you for the
next 8 hours or until you or your allies attack or damage it. It
interprets the whispers as a description of its most mortifying
secret.
While you gain no knowledge of this secret, the target is
convinced you know it. While charmed in this way, the creature
obeys your commands for fear that you will reveal its secret. It
won’t risk its life for you or fight for you, unless it was already
inclined to do so. It grants you favors and gifts it would offer to a
close friend.
When the effect ends, the creature has no understanding of why
it held you in such fear.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish
a long rest.

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