Bard College of Mischief

Bards of the College of Mischief are masters of trickery, deceit, and all forms of malicious shenanigans. They prefer to take their ill-fated marks unawares, off balance, and off guard. College of Mischief bard’s will not fight fairly if they have a choice. They believe anyone who purposefully avoids or removes an advantage in any contest for the sake of fairness is a fool and the true contest is to try and out-wit your opponent and get away with it. These bards often come from a criminal or charlatan background but some do not and instead turn to devious methods to serve a higher purpose such as operating as an undercover agent in the service of a government or kingdom or as saboteurs hiding in plain sight and working to overthrow a corrupt monarch or political establishment. often their careers as musicians, magicians, storytellers, or entertainers are secondary to or even cover for more ambitious goals. They make great thieves, assassins, and tricksters.

Trickster’s Guile

Your aptitude for sabotage, subterfuge, and subversion knows no bounds. You have the skills necessary to pick locks, pick pockets, and, arm and disarm traps, even from a distance; and you learn 2 new skills of your choice.

Starting at 3rd level you learn the Mage Hand cantrip and it does not count against your cantrips known. You can make the spectral hand invisible, and you can perform the following additional tasks with it:

• You can stow one object the hand is holding in a container worn or carried by another creature.

• You can retrieve an object in a container worn or carried by another creature.

• You can use thieves' tools to pick locks and disarm traps at range.

You can perform one of these tasks without being noticed by a creature if you succeed on a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the creature's Wisdom (Perception) check.

When you reach 3rd level in the College of Mischief You also gain proficiency with thieves tools, and the sleight of hand and stealth skills.

 

Psychic Blades

When you join the College of Mischief at 3rd level, you know how to burrow your way into the psyche of your foes and rend the minds as well as the flesh of your foes.

When you make a weapon attack against a creature and the attack succeeds you can expend one use of your bardic inspiration dice to channel magical energy through your weapon and deal an additional 2d6 psychic damage to that target. You can do so only once per round on your turn.

The extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 10th level, and 8d6 at 15th level. 

On a success, the target creature must make a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become frightened of you for one minute. If the creature ends its turn where it cannot see you it can repeat the saving throw to end the frightened condition.

Arcanist’s Strike

At 6th level, you have mastered integrating weapon attacks with magic casting. When you use your action to cast a spell, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Illusory Decoy

Beginning at 14th level, you can create an illusory duplicate of yourself and disappear as an instant, almost instinctual reaction to danger.

When a creature would hit you with an attack, you can use your reaction to instead interpose a perfect illusory double between you and the attacker and you become invisible. The attack hits the duplicate and the illusion dissipates. The invisibility ends at the end of your next turn or when you attack or cast a spell. Once you use this feature, you can use this feature your proficiency bonus number of times per day and get back expended uses on a long rest.