College of the Reaper

Bards of the College of the Reaper use the power of song to assist them in helping the souls of the dead to move on. Their songs often take a unique style which involves speaking passionately and rhythmically in complex phrases known as rapping, which is often mistaken as death chants and curses. When instrumentation is included it is often simple beats of percussion instruments or light instrumentation meant to be secondary to their strange song.

From souls trapped by a necromancer that need to be freed to punishing a wicked criminal that took the life of the innocent, Reapers set out to ensure the cycle of life and death continues as it should.

Idea by SilentSoren on GMBinder.

Grim Reaper's apprentice

You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields and martial weapons.

If you’re proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

You also learn the vicious mockery cantrip and it does not count against your number of cantrips known.

Could you please RIP

As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to perform one of your deadly verses against a number of creatures equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded down within 60ft. of you that can hear you, cursing them. Until the curse ends you gain the following benefits against:

• A cursed creature has disadvantage on saving throws against your Vicious mockery cantrip.
• Whenever a cursed creature takes damage from your weapon attacks or your Vicious mockery cantrip, the damage increases by an amount equal to your Charisma modifier.

• When a cursed creature dies, you can roll your bardic inspiration die and recover hit points equal to the result.

This curse lasts for 1 minute, until you choose to end it or until you use this feature again to speak another curse.

Off with their heads

 Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Additionally whenever you take the attack action on your turn, you can exchange one of your attacks with one cast of your Vicious mockery cantrip.

Live again

When your hit points are reduced to 0 and you are not killed out right, the music of your soul rings out and fills you with life. As a reaction you can instantly recover hit points equal to half your Bard level.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.