College of Misery

You study the mind and how misery affects others. You take away pain from your allies, and joyfully give it to your enemies. Your words are your weapons. It can both heal and inflict pain.

 

Bards of the college of Misery are masters of psychology. They use their words to manipulate the world around them, be it for others or their own benefit.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Misery at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.

Barbed tongue

Also at 3rd level, you learn how to use your words to make your foes lose confidence. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration to force the target to have disadvantage on that roll. You can choose this feature before the creature makes its roll. The creature is immune if it can’t hear or understand you or if it’s immune to being charmed.

Schadenfreude

You enjoy seeing the demise of those you don't care for.

Starting at level 3, you regain bardic inspiration charges whenever a creature within 40ft of you that you see dies. The target must be either hostile to you or willing to die in order to trigger schadenfreude.

Pain Drain Dance

Starting at level 6, whenever you cast a healing spell, you can use your bonus action to target an enemy you can see within 60ft of you. A target takes the amount of HP gained by a target of the healing spell as necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Sadistic song

Starting at 14th level, when you make a spell damage roll, you can expend Bardic Inspiration charges to maximize damage. The number of charges used depends on the spell slot level used for the spell.

• Cantrips-1 - 1 charge of Bardic Inspiration
• 2-3 - 2 charges of Bardic Inspiration
• 4-5 - 3 charges of Bardic Inspiration
• 6-7 - 4 charges of Bardic Inspiration
• 8-9 - 5 charges of Bardic Inspiration 

Heckler

Starting level 17, whenever an enemy you or your allies can see would roll for an ability check or saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend a use of Bardic inspiration to turn that roll into a charisma saving throw. This can be stacked with Barbed tongue, using a total of two bardic inspiration charges.