
RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance.

I’ve suggested fixes in the subclass features assessments which would make me comfortable using College of Tragedy at my table. Sorrowful Fate similarly allows the party to trivialize a single powerful enemy per rest, making it difficult to challenge the party in combat. Poetry in Misery is extremely abusable, allowing the Bard a functionally bottomless pool of Bardic Inspiration which they can then use to trivialize any non-combat situation and then walk into encounters with enough inspiration that their party is at a huge mathematical advantage. That said, there are some balance issues. With your reactions heavily spoken for, but your other options wide open, the rest of your build can be entirely focused on proactive solutions.

Poetry of Misery makes regaining Bardic Inspiration trivial, so you can spend your Bonus Action essentially every turn to gant Bardic Inspiration.
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While the subclass’s features almost all trigger in response to something, they don’t conflict with resources or action economy which you could use proactively, leaving the Bard’s skills and spellcasting totally free to go on the offensive. College of Tragedy seems to be an exception to that rule. Characters which can only react to circumstances typically struggle to solve problems, instead providing ways to endure those problems a bit longer. The subclass is very powerful, and requires basically no help to make it work, making it easy to hand to any player and say “here, make everyone sad.”Ĭollege of Tragedy is almost entirely reactive, which is unusual and usually a bad thing.

It’s a great theme with some interesting mechanical ideas, adding new Support options to a class that’s already famously good at supporting the party. Tal’Dorei: Campaign Setting Reborn includes the College of Tragedy subclass for the Bard.
