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Bard: College of The

Shadow Dancer

A Bardic College Option

Description: A new Bard College option that opens up the door to a


unique way to perform. With this college a bard can perform magic
without a musical instrument. Additionally they can charm their own
shadow into coming alive and dancing with them. The shadow can be a
deadly ally on the battlefield, a near invisible scout able to sneak
through the smallest of gaps and even augment your spell casting.

by Jozef Fox

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3 Mockery, when you talk your shadow
College of the Shadow Dancer likes to make satirical gestures
A shadow is an undead monster that behind your back.
hunts down the living, particularly 4 Carnivorous, tiny bugs and uneaten
those untainted by evil, and creates scraps of meat often vanish from
around you over time.
more of themselves through the act of 5 Intimidating, animals try their
slaying those they hunt. Often such best to walk around your shadow
dark beings are the things of and small children cry when your
nightmares but sometimes an unlikely shadow falls over them.
alliance can be formed between the 6 Obscene, your shadow often makes
living and the dead. vigorous rude gestures when you
Shadows value movement above all. Not are not paying attention to it.
being able to speak it is said that
this is their form of communication
among themselves. Sometimes a mortal
can unintentionally contact a shadow
through their own movements but only
one with true grace and beauty in
their motion can enchant a shadow in
such a way that a partnership is
formed.
The College of the Shadow Dancer is
about working within this partnership.
Moving with and around your shadow,
making them a partner in your dance.
The shadow becomes an extension of
yourself, an extra hand. A true
College of the Shadow Dancer Bard can
work in perfect synchronization with
their shadow.
Even without their shadow the bard can
weave their magic through movement and
their voice alone. They need no
instrument or components to perform
their magic and even their very
movement tells grand stories.
The College itself is often mistaken
for something far darker such as
necromancers or mischievous
tricksters. It does not help that a
shadow often retains a fault from its
dark origins that can cause trouble
and superstition towards a College of
the Shadow Dancer Bard. At your
option, you can pick from or roll for
a Shadow Fault on the table below. College of the Shadow Dancer
Features
Shadow Fault Bard Level Feature
d6 Feature 3rd Bonus Proficiencies,
1 Kleptomania, stolen objects often Umbra Puppetry
find their ways into your 6th You Have No Strings,
possession. Shadow Substitution
2 Mimicry, your shadow like to adopt 14th Dusk Focus
the shape of other similar
shadows.

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Bonus Proficiencies attacks using the same modifiers and damage
When you join the College of the as you but dealing necrotic damage instead of
Shadow Dancer, you gain proficiency in their usual weapon damage type.
dancing, which can be used in place of  The Shadow is tethered to you meaning it
a bardic musical instrument for the cannot move further than 5 feet away from you
purposes of spell casting. You also and wherever you move it is dragged along with
gain proficiency with acrobatics and you.
one other skill of your choice. If you Once you use this feature, you can’t
already have proficiency with use it again until you finish a long
acrobatics you may pick a different rest.
skill.

You Have No Strings


Starting at 6th level, your shadow
gains some new abilities. They can now
untether from you allowing them to
move freely and they gain the extra
attack feature allowing them to attack
twice, instead of once, when they take
the attack action.

Shadow Substitution
Additionally at 6th level your bond
with your shadow also increases. If
you are within 60 feet of the shadow
as an action, or as a reaction to the
shadow or yourself being attacked, you
may spend a bardic inspiration die to
magically swap places with the shadow.
When you do, roll your bardic
Umbra Puppetry inspiration die and your shadow gains
At 3rd level the way you move with
those many temporary hit points.
such grace and beauty you charm your
own shadow to life. As a bonus action
you can give it physical form for a
number of hours equal to a one-third
of your level rounded down. A
telepathic bound is formed between you
and the shadow as long as you are on
the same plane of existence. It is
subservient to you and acts directly
after you in initiative.
It has the same statistics as a
shadow (The DM will have these stats
in the Monster Manual) with the
following changes:
 The health of the shadow is equal to your
charisma modifier (Minimum of 1) times your
level.
 Has your physical ability scores (Strength,
Dexterity and Constitution) in place of their own.
 The shadow’s ‘Strength Drain’ attack is replaced
by shadowy versions of your own weapon

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Dusk Focus
At 14th level your shadow grows in
strength along with your connection to
it. When summoned the shadow gains
temporary hit points equal to the
highest number on your bardic
inspiration die.
In addition when you are
concentrating on a spell you can use a
bonus action to pass off this
concentration to your shadow if it is
within 5 feet of you. When this
happens the shadow becomes tethered to
you if it was not already. The shadow
must use its action each turn to
maintain this concentration for you
and if it fails to do so or untethers
from you then it drops concentration.
If the shadow takes damage than it
must make a concentration check. The
shadow can only concentrate on one
spell at a time but you continue to
control the aspects of the spell that
the shadow is concentrating on. You
are able to start concentrating on a
new spell while the shadow
concentrates on your other spell.

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