<style> .phb:after { content: "Bard - College of Serpents"; } </style> <img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/yjx9rvz.png' style='position:absolute;bottom:00px;left:300px;height:100%' /> <img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/pEJl0m5.png' style='position:absolute; top:-400px; left:-500px; width:1270px; transform: scalex(.6); scaley(.8); filter: opacity(100%) grayscale(00%) brightness(97%) ' /> ## <font color="#2A4345">College of Serpents</font> <p> Trained in the art of poisoning, bards of the College of Serpents make for efficient mercenaries, assassins, and spies. The College of Serpents has an infamous reputation due to the grim nature of its work, its members often feared as murderers or usurpers by common folk. Equipped with a silver tongue and a venomous touch, they excel at infiltrating societies and organizations to get closer to their mark. Disciples of this college are taught to ensure that their final blow to their unfortunate victims is cruel and internal, unseen by any onlookers. When a noble drops dead in broad daylight, unable to breathe and drowning in his own saliva, it's not uncommon to spot an inconspicuous snake charmer nearby, distracting the crowd as he performs for mere coppers. ### <font color="#2A4345">Kiss of the Cobra</font> When you join the College of Serpents at 3rd level, your touch is infused with the vile poison of a serpent. Whenever you make a weapon attack or cast a damaging spell, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal extra poison damage equal to the number you roll on your Bardic Inspiration Die. The target must then succeed a Constitution saving throw against your Spell Save DC or be poisoned for 1 minute. The target can repeat this save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. Additionally, you gain proficiency with a poisoner's kit, or expertise if you're already proficient. Due to your serpentine mutations, you are always equipped with a poisoner's kit. You can also expend one Bardic Inspiration die to create a flavorless venom that applies this feature to any creature that ingests it. The extracted venom expires after 24 hours. ### <font color="#2A4345">Viper's Vision</font> Also at 3rd level, your sight becomes as sharp as viper fangs. At will, you can choose to enter a trance that expands your perceptive senses beyond light, sharpening your pupils to become thin, snake-like slits. While you're in this trance, you gain immunity to the blinded condition and can see dim light and darkness within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light. Within this range, you're able to see through solid objects and instead of color, you perceive everything by its temperature. The hotter something is, the warmer its color, and the colder something is, the cooler its color. If you already have darkvision, the range of this feature extends to 120 feet. ### <font color="#2A4345">Mamba's Malignancy</font> Starting at 6th level, the toxins you produce boil blood and fester with vicious efficiency. You gain immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition. Poison damage you deal ignores resistances and you can add your Charisma modifier to any poison damage you deal once per round. When you use the Kiss of the Cobra feature, you can choose to treat all damage dealt by the accompanying weapon attack or spell as poison damage. Additionally, whenever you poison a creature, it takes poison damage equal to your Bardic Inspiration die at the start of each of its turns. \pagebreak <img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/cY0PmoO.png' style='position:absolute;bottom:00px;left:-135px;height:100%' /> <img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/pEJl0m5.png' style='position:absolute; top:-200px; left:-0px; width:1270px; transform: scalex(.5); scaley(.8); filter: opacity(100%) grayscale(00%) brightness(97%) ' /> \columnbreak ### <font color="#2A4345">Heart of Virulence</font> At 14th level, your veins run thick with noxious ichor instead of mortal blood. Whenever you are targeted by poison damage, you instead heal for an amount equal to the damage or your Charisma modifier, whichever is lower. Poison damage you deal treats immunity as resistance, and you can poison creatures with immunity to the poisoned condition, giving them advantage on the Constitution saving throw instead. Additionally, you master forbidden secrets on formulating the perfect poison. When you hit a poisoned creature with an attack or spell, you can alter the poison within them to transform into a ravenous virus that converts blood into poison. Once you plan this mutation within them, it remains dormant until you use an action to awaken it. When you use this action, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. It loses all immunities, resistances, and saving throw proficiencies, becomes poisoned, and takes a number of d10 equal to your bard level in poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature cannot regain hit points while it has the dormant virus. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest. --- >## <font color="#2A4345">Credits</font> >Homebrew Designer - [Piggby](https://www.reddit.com/user/piggby) Editor - Roxo >#### <font color="#2A4345">Art Credits</font> >Icon - Unknown Artist from GWENT >King Cobra - [Katarzyna Ulvar Bekus](https://www.deviantart.com/littleulvar) >Just Summoning Some Magical Snakes - [Michał Sztuka](https://www.deviantart.com/pusiaty)