The Dirge - A spooky Bard subclass

**> **This mod is no longer being maintained, the Dirge has now become a subclass of my Gunslinger class.I will continue to do bug fixes on this version, but no new content will be added.


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This Bard specializes in necrotic effects and influence over life and death. Using Bardic magic to pierce the veil between life and death the Dirge can harm enemies and summon undead hordes to assist them. Especially accomplished Dirge's can even focus their song and their willpower to bring an ally back from death.The Dirge travels from town to town, assisting in end of life ceremonies. The Dirge interacts often with the realms of death and carries the "scent" of those other places. As a result, undead are drawn to them. To protect themselves, they wield beautiful flintlocks* with hand carved grips etched with runes that empower their weapons to both heal their allied undead units and inflict extra damage upon enemy undead. *** Yes, you can use bows or crossbows. Flintlocks are where its at though!On the pure technical side, the Dirge shares many similarities with the Necromancer and even gets access to Necromancer subclass features at later levels.You might consider this as being kind of a Necromancy Lore Bard. Requirements

• Norbytes Script Extender
• Compatibility Framework and Community Library
• Valkrana's Spellbook - many of the Dirge's spells comes from this
• Elemental Spells - I use this for the necrotic magic missiles and plan to use it more for upcoming effects.
• Shivero's Icon Library - required by Elemental Spells
• VFX Library by Shivero - required by Elemental Spells

The following mods are not strictly required, but I designed this class around necrotic damage, gunplay, and undead control. Without these "optional" mods my mod won't play the way I intended it to. HIGHLY Recommended* Firearms - for flintlocks and muskets

• **Firearms addon for Tombstone Undead** - for compatibility with Tombstone Undead
• Tombstone Undead - Adds flintlock and musket wielding skeletons to the vanilla summon undead spell
• Animate Dead ++ - Required by Tombstone Undead. Includes a lot of QoL stuff for undead summoning.

Progression
* If I don't include a description its a spell from the basic BG3 spell lists, usually Necromancy. You can look them up on https://bg3.wiki
Level 3* Spell - False Life

• Spell - Necrotic Magic Missiles - Magic missiles, but with necrotic damage.

Level 4

• Spell - Valkrana's Corpse Grenade - Overcharge a corpse or allied undead with negative energy, causing it to explode and damage all creatures in the immediate vicinity. Deals 2d12 Necrotic + 1d12 Piercing damage, Dexterity Save for half.
• Spell - Bad Moon Rising - AoE necrotic damage that leaves behind frozen ground. Damage scales with level.
• Passive - Grim Harvest

Level 5

• Spell - Animate Dead
• Spell - Spirit Guardians Necrotic
• Spell - Valkrana's Impart Undeath - Permanently infuse an allied creature with undeath. The nature of undeath means many spells and effects interact with you differently, or not at all. You have Advantage on Death Saving Throws, are Immune to Disease and Poison, and are healed by Necrotic damage. Once per long rest, when reduced to 0HP, immediately gain 1d12 HP. May be removed with Remove Curse. Ritual.

Level 6

• Spell - Valkrana's Skeleport - Swap skeletons with target corpse or allied undead within range, even if you can't see your target. Then, swap the rest. May repeat as a bonus action for the 10-round duration.

Level 7* Passive - Undead Thralls: Better Summons

• Passive - Undead Thralls: Additional Undead

Level 8* Ranged - Destroy Undead - A ranged attack that Turns undead and does bonus damage if the target doesn't save.

• Ranged - Undead Healing Shot - This ranged shot heals up to two undead allies for 25% of their max HP.

Level 10* Ranged - Rise! - You channel your song and your willpower into a powerful shot that heals a companion for 33% of their max HP, this will even bring a dead companion back to life. (usable once per long rest)

Level 11

• Passive - Inured to Undeath
• Spell - Dethrone

Level 12

• Spell - Create Undead

Future Plans
There will always be bugs to fix and power imbalances to adjust.
Additional shots that will do different effects depending on if the target is dead or alive.
Probably add in some more Valkrana spells.
Replacement ability icons.
13-20 dummy progression is in place. I may or may not extend the progression beyond level 12 for real.

** PLEASE DO REPORT ANY POTENTIAL BUGS OR BALANCE ISSUES YOU FIND DURING GAME PLAY **

Huge thanks to the modders who make this possible!!

AnxietyTheOrk - for the Firearms mod. This is probably my most favorite mod. I have used it in every playthrough and I have also leveraged it in two of my own subclass mods.
actualsailorcat - for Valkrana's spellbook. My mod wouldn't be complete without it.
StarEMC2 - for Tombstone undead. LOVE IT!!
Shivero - for the awesome elemental Magic MIssiles and the wonderful VFX which I also use A LOT.

Check out my other mods:

Paladin - Oath of the Gunslinger
**Bard Subclass - Skald**
Ozric's Song of Travel
Ozric's Dirge of Dissonance
Anthem de Arms
Dual Flameblades