College of the Satire

College of Satire

Bards of the College of Satire are called jesters. While jesters are masters of puns, jokes, and verbal barbs, they are much more than just comic relief. Among bards, jesters are unmatched acrobats, and their ability to tumble, dodge, leap, and climb makes them slippery opponents in battle.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Satire at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with playing cards and thieves tools. You also gain proficiency in Sleight of Hand, Tumble, and one additional skill of your choice. If you are already proficient with thieves tools or in Sleight of Hand, choose another skill proficiency for each proficiency you already have.

Tumbling Fool

At 3rd level, you master an acrobatic technique known as tumbling that allows you to evade danger. When you tumble you move a number of feet up to half your walking speed without provoking opportunity attacks. You can tumble as a bonus action. Starting at 6th level you can also tumble as a reaction when you are attacked, imposing disadvantage on the triggering attack.

In addition, after tumbling until the start of your next turn you gain a climbing speed equal to half your walking speed and you take half damage from falling. Tumbling does not cost you any feet of movement.

Insult to Injury

At 6th level, your wit has become as sharp as a rapier, and twice as quick. You learn the vicious mockery cantrip. If you already know it, you learn one other bard cantrip of your choice.

When you use your action to make an attack on your turn, you can use the vicious mockery cantrip as a bonus action.

If a creature fails the saving throw against your vicious mockery, you can expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the target’s Charisma, Intelligence, and Wisdom rolls until the end of its next turn. The creature also immediately suffers an embarrassing social gaffe. It might loudly pass gas, unleash a thunderous burp, trip and fall, or be compelled to tell a tasteless joke.

One for the Crowd

At 14th level you learn tasha’s hideous laughter as a bard spell. If you already know it, you learn one other 1st level bard spell of your choice.

When you fail a saving throw or miss an attack roll, you may use your reaction to cast tasha’s hideous laughter on a creature you can see without expending a spell slot or requiring material components. You may cast it this way a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.