College of Discord

College of Discord

The bard college of discord is something of a curiosity. Musicians and entertainers, doubling as assassins, exploit their access to powerful nobility to glean secrets for employers who are nameless, even to the bard. The nobles welcome such entertainers, seeking thrills and excitement. Unfortunately, when they finally realized the bards charade, it's too late. College of Discord bards use music and skills to soothe hearts and cloud minds. In combat, their abilities to excite and thrill those watching is anything short of legendary. College of Discord bards use knives, throwing cards, any sort of sharp or blunt objects around as improvised weapons to assassinate targets.

Dazzling Draw

When you join the College of Discord at 3rd level, you gain the expertise to handle sharp objects and other improvised weapons with an impressive display of martial prowess.

You can add the thrown property to improvised weapons and ammunition. Whenever you make an attack with a thrown weapon, you can immediately draw another object nearby you or on your person (within 5 feet) that isn't being carried, worn, or held by someone.

Damage rolls made with weapons that have the thrown property equal your bardic inspiration die + your dexterity modifier. You are considered proficient.

 

Massacres in Motley

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to quickly stow, draw, and throw items in rapid succession. When you hit a creature with a weapon with the thrown property, you can expend one use of your bardic inspiration to hit with additional weapons with the thrown property, each dealing piercing damage equal to one roll of your bardic inspiration die. You can only use this ability once per round on your turn.

The amount of weapons thrown starts at one, and increases when you reach certain levels in this class. The amount of extra weapons thrown increases to 2 weapons at level 7, 3 weapons at level 11, and 4 weapons at level 15.

Inspiring attacks

Starting at level 6, you can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the attack action on your turn. In addition, whenever you score a critical against a creature using a thrown weapon, you regain one use of your bardic inspiration die.

Flourishing Dissonance

Starting at level 14, your performance in battle becomes legendary.

Whenever you use your massacre in motley ability, you can use your reaction to flourish your knives or weapons for your allies and foes, to give one creature that can see you within 60ft a bardic inspiration die without expending one of its uses.

In addition, one creature of your choice that can see you within 60ft must make a wisdom saving throw against your spell DC, and on failure drops whatever it is holding and becomes frightened for one minute.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Weaving Discord

Starting at level 3, your studies and use of arcane expand to further perfect your craft. You learn additional spells as shown in the table below. They are always prepared, and do not count towards your total spells known.

 

Command	3
Hunter's Mark	3
Suggestion	5
Invisibility	5
Fear	7
Slow	7
Phantasmal Killer	11
Mislead	11