College of Necrodancey

A college created to give you the fun loving spirit (haha) of being a Necrodancer, while also allowing a little bit more of active and satisfying play even at earlier levels. Enjoy! :D

A bard of the College of Necrodancey has dabbled into the deeper, darker arts of Necromancy, though the realm of the undead would be the last place they truly choose to seek commune with. The Mist. A spacious, inky black land of fog, deadly wraiths, and hideous beings bound by necrotic magic to seek out forces of light, and extinguish them into obscurity.

The archetypal Necrodancer, known as Mist Walkers in the Mist, encourage communing with such beings, imploying their dedication to the land of the Mist in convincing fashion to encourage these creatures to do their bidding. Their body as their vessel, they dance and waltz in ways the creatures of the Mist can interperate as commands and orders, following them to the best of their abilities. A Mist Walkers body is far more than a temple. It is a language, a force of reckoning, and a powerful weapon far greater than any blade or arrow.

Was your body tainted in the Mists, through which you use these dark unnatural forces to search for redemption? Or have you taken on the life of a necrotic being to enforce your own agenda, making the Mist merely your rise to power? Whatever your reasons, the Mist is in your blood. Your body is its vessel, and there is no cure. Whatever your choice, use it wisely.

 

Prowess of the Mist

When you join the College of the Mist Walker at 3rd level, your body becomes a temple to the Mist, allowing it to fluctuate through you, and release through your bounds and epic movements.

You gain the following benefits and proficiencies: You have Advantage on rolls against Disease and resistance to Necrotic Damage. You are proficient in the Performance skill if you are not already. The following are all spells for you, but may only be learned at the appropriate level: Misty Step, Animate Dead, Create Undead, Inflict Wounds, Raise Dead, Speak with Dead, and Toll the Dead.

Waltzers Entourage

When you join the College of the Mist Walker at 3rd level, you can invoke the aid of Mist Wraiths to do your bidding through dance and performance. Be it a simple two-step, the tango, or even an interperative dance, the creatures of the Mist follow your somantic commands willingly.

Waltzers Entourage: As an Action, you may expend 1 use of Bardic Inspiration to perform a dance to summon a Mist Wraith in an unoccupied space within 15 feet. You have access to three different creatures of the Mist at 3rd Level, and each creature shares the same stats, but can perform different Actions. You may summon one of the following three: Mist Waltzer, Mist Jitterbug, Mist Spirit Claw

On each of your turns, you can use a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with Waltzers Entourage if the creature is within 60 feet of you. If you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one. You decide what Action the creature will take. You may command it to Move, Perform an Action, Attack, or Perform a Simple Task that requires 1 Action in time. If you issue no command, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.

The creature is under your control for 4 hours, until it's HP becomes 0, or until you dismiss your control over it. After 4 hours, if the creature still has hit points, it is banished back to the Mist. Creatures created by this feature cannot be healed by spells. You may only control a number of Mist Wraiths equal to your Charisma Modifier.

Mist Wraith

Medium, Undead, True Neutral

• Claw Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (1d6 + 2) Slashing Damage
• Necro Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (1d6 + 2) Piercing Damage
• Globular Blast. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 30/60ft., One Target. Hit: (1d8 + 2) Necrotic Damage

• Claw Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (1d6 + 2) Slashing Damage
• Black Shield. The Mist Jitterbug makes a Constitution Check with DC14. On a success, the Jitterbug grants 1 ally that is within 10 feet an inky black, golbular shield. The shield grants advantage against the next nondamaging spell casted against it, and disappears at the end of the ally's next turn.
• Black Parry. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (1d4 + 2) Necrotic Damage. If the Mist Jitterbug was struck by an attack before it's next turn, damage for this attack becomes (1d12 + 4) Necrotic Damage.

• Claw Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (1d4 + 2) Slashing Damage
• Misted Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: (1d8 + 2) Necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or it becomes Grappled. A creature that takes damage from Misted Drain while Grappled heals Mist Spirit Claw for half the damage dealt. The grappled creature may attempt a CON Saving Throw with a DC of 14 to removed the Spirit Claw.
• Misty Decay. Melee Weapon Attack:  Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (1d4) Additional Necrotic Damage Every Turn the a creature is Grappled.

The On Hit Die for each Mist Wraiths attack Increases to 2 at 5th Level, 3 at 10th Level, 4 at 15th Level, and 5 at 20th Level. 

Delectable Danseur

At 6th Level, the very mystique of your presence baffles and beguiles others. Your time spent with the Mist allows you distort, contort, and flex you body in ways others likely never imagined.

You gain the following benefits and proficiencies: You gain Experitise in Acrobatics. Your Ability Modifier for Acrobatics Checks becomes Charisma.

Blighted Burlesque

At 6th Level, the very sway of your hips can condemn even the mightest creature of the Mist to their knees. You learn the art of Mist Burlesque, performing dances so tempting creatures much stronger than your usual consortship eagerly await to serve. 

Blighted Burlesque: As an Action, you may expend 2 uses of Bardic Inspiration to perform a dance to summon a higher level Enhanced Mist Wraith in an unoccupied space within 15 feet. You have access to two new creatures of the Mist at 6th Level, and each creature shares the same stats, but can perform different Actions. You may summon one of the following two: Mist Foxtrotter, Mist Bossa Nova

On each of your turns, you can use a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with Blighted Burlesque if the creature is within 60 feet of you. If you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one. You decide what Action the creature will take. You may command it to Move, Perform an Action, Attack, or Perform a Simple Task that requires 1 Action in time. If you issue no command, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.

The creature is under your control for 4 hours, until it's HP becomes 0, or until you dismiss your control over it. After 4 hours, if the creature still has hit points, it is banished back to the Mist. Creatures created by this feature cannot be healed by spells. You may only control a number of Mist Wraiths equal to your Charisma Modifier.

Enhanced Mist Wraith

Medium, Undead, True Neutral

• Claw Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (2d6 + 3) Slashing Damage
• Necro Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (2d6 + 3) Piercing Damage
• Multi-Attack. The Mist Foxtrotter can make two attacks per Action, only one of which can be Necro Bite.
• Foxtrot. The Mist Foxtrotter gains 10 ft. of additional Movement.

• Claw Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (2d8 + 3) Slashing Damage
• Black Parry. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (2d6 + 3) Necrotic Damage. If the Mist Bossa Nova was struck by an attack before it's next turn, damage for this attack becomes (2d12 + 6) Necrotic Damage.
• Misted Burst. When struck by an attack that deals Piercing, Slashing, or Bludgeoning Damage, the Mist Bossa Nova makes a Constitution Check with DC14. On a failed save, the Mist Bossa Nova's HP immediately drops to 0, exploding and dealing damage in a 15 foot radius. Hit: (2d8 + 3) Force Damage. On a successful save, Misted Burst can no longer be used, and the Mist Bossa Nova does not explode.

The On Hit Die for each Enhanced Mist Wraiths attack Increases to 3 at 10th Level, 4 at 15th Level, and 5 at 20th Level. 

Realm-Shattering Performer

At 14th Level, the pure magic you can generate from your dances alone can split open a hole right in the material plane. The Mist has granted you capabilites that protect you from the very foundation that builds its land and air.

You gain the following benefits and proficiencies: You have Immunity against Disease and Immunity to Necrotic Damage. You gain Experitise in Perfomance. 

Ecdysiast Harbringer

At 14th Level, the performances you put on are heard of far and wide among the mentally elite in the Mist. Not all creatures who come from the Mist are Wraiths, and those of higher power bring with them a devilish wave of doom and gloom in your name. All it takes is a little skin, a little ankle, and a twirl or two.

Ecdysiast Harbringer: As an Action, you may expend 3 uses of Bardic Inspiration to perform a dance to summon a high level Elite Mist Concubus in an unoccupied space within 15 feet. You have access to two Mist Concubi of the Mist at 14th Level, and each creature shares the same stats, but can perform different Actions. You may summon one of the following two: Elite Mist Calypso, Elite Mist Flamenco

On each of your turns, you can use a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with Ecdysiast Harbringer if the creature is within 60 feet of you. If you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one. You decide what Action the creature will take. You may command it to Move, Perform an Action, Attack, or Perform a Simple Task that requires 1 Action in time. If you issue no command, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.

The creature is under your control for 4 hours, until it's HP becomes 0, or until you dismiss your control over it. After 4 hours, if the creature still has hit points, it is banished back to the Mist. Creatures created by this feature cannot be healed by spells. You may only control a number of Mist Wraiths equal to your Charisma Modifier. You may only control 1 Elite Mist Concubus at a time.

Elite Mist Concubus

Large, Undead, True Neutral

• Fan Finger Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to Hit, Reach 10ft., One Target. Hit: (4d6 + 4) Slashing Damage
• Necrotic Slash Wave. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to Hit, Reach 30/60ft., One Target. Hit: (3d8 + 4) Slashing Damage
• Multi-Attack. The Elite Mist Flamenco can make two attacks per Action, only one of which can be Necrotic Slash Wave.
• Misty Parry. The Elite Mist Flamenco adds 2 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the Elite Mist Flamenco must see the attacker.
• Misty Step. Briefly surrounded by black mist, the creature is teleported up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that it can see.

• Globular Bludgeon. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (3d8 + 4) Bludgeoning Damage
• Shadows Force. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to Hit, Reach 5ft., One Target. Hit: (4d8 + 4) Bludgeoning Damage. On a successful hit, the target is knocked back 15 ft.
• Horrifying Visage. Each non-undead creature within 60 feet of the Elite Mist Calypso that can see them must succeed on a DC 15 WIS Saving Throw or be Frightened for 1 minute. A Frightened target can repeat the Saving Throw at the end of each of its turns, with Disadvantage if the Elite Mist Calypso is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a target's Saving Throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is Immune to the Elite Mist Calypso Horrifying Visage for the next 24 hours.
• Defiant Wail (1/day). The Elite Mist Calypso releases a Mist fueled wail, provided that they are not in sunlight. This wail has no effect on the summoner, constructs and undead. All other creatures within 30 feet of them that can hear must make a DC 15 CON Saving Throw. On a failure, a creature takes (4d10) Necrotic Damage. On a success, 

The On Hit Die for each Elite Mist Concubus attack Increases by 1 additional die at 15th Level, and at 20th Level.