College of Fear

Members of the College of Fear learn all the secrets of the True Fear, and know how to frighten others by telling horror stories or exploiting their worst phobias. It is said that gazing directly at the eyes of one of them is enough to cause you nightmares for the rest of your life...

Horror Stories

Starting at 3rd level, when a creature benefits from your song of rest, you can choose to tell it an horror story. When you do so, if the creature can hear and understand you, it becomes paranoid for the next hour. While paranoid, it adds half your charisma modifier (rounded up) to its passive perception and to its initiative rolls. A creature immuned to being frighten can't benefit from this feature.

 

d8	Phobia	Sources of the phobia	Additional Effect
1	Creepy Crawlers	insects, rodents and snakes	Once per round, when the target takes damage from an insect, a rodent, a snake or by the Infestation, or Insect Plague spells, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
2	Darkness	areas of darkness larger than a 5-foot cube	Once per round, when the target takes damage from a creature that is in darkness or in dim light, or by the Arms of Hadar, Evard Black Tentacles, or Dark Star spells, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
3	Great Heights	spaces at least 10 feet lower than the current position	Once per turn, when the target takes fall damage, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
4	Death	undeads	Once per round, when the target takes damage from an undead creature or by the Chill Touch spell, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
5	Confined Spaces	corners and spaces of 10 feet or less between 2 walls	Once per round, when the target takes damage, if its speed is 0, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
6	Needles	everything that can deal piercing damage	Once per round, when the target takes piercing damage, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
7	Thunder	everything that can deal thunder damage	Once per round, when the target takes thunder damage, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.
8	Fire	everything that can deal fire damage	Once per round, when the target takes fire damage, it takes an extra psychic damage equal to your bardic inspiration die + your charisma modifier.

Inspire Fear

Beginning at 3rd level, you can expend one of your inspiration dice as a bonus action to inspire fear to a creature within 30 feet that can see or hear you. When you do so, the target must succeed a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frighten by you until the start of your next round.

Awakened Phobia

Starting at 6th level, when you use your Inspire Fear feature on a creature, you can also choose to awake an unbearable phobia in its heart (creatures immuned to being frighten aren't affected). When you do so, roll on the Phobia Table to know what phobia is awaken for that target. The phobia lasts for 1 hour, and a creature can only be affected by one phobia at a time. If you awake a second phobia on a creature, the phobia stays the same but its duration is refreshed.

Terror

Starting at 14th level, you awake a phobia in every creature you frighten (not only with your Inspire Fear feature, but also with any other spell or feature). When you awake a phobia for more than one creature at a time (with a spell that target multiple creatures for instance), you only roll once on the phobias table, and each creature affected gets the same phobia.