Dirge

During Character Creation - When choosing your background, if the background includes a skill you already have, rather than chose another skill, you instead learn an additional Language.

You gain an additional language every 4 levels after 1st (ie 5th, 9th; 13th; 17th;)

You have learned to tangle and force the shape of the fabric of reality in discord to and in alignment to your wishes and as such spells are part of your repertoire. Its magic is something that you can use to co-opt and corrupt the efforts of others in situations. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting and below for the dirge spell list.

You discourage others through biting words, rebukes, and statistical probabilities of their failure and eventual death at a loved one's hands.

To do so, you use a reaction to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear YOU. That creature rolls your Enervation die, a 1d6 at 1st level, and ''subtracts'' the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll or ability check succeeds or fails, or before the creature does damage. If the creature can't hear, or doesn't speak your language the enervation fails. Creatures that are immune to Charm, or are Constructs are immune.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Your Enervation die changes when you reach certain levels in this class; at 5th level (d8), at 10th level (d10), and finally at 15th level (2d6).

Choose three of your skills proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that the chosen proficiencies. HOWEVER; After a long rest you temporarily lose any proficiency bonus in one skill you have (had) expertise until your next long rest (determined randomly).

You gain half of your proficiency bonus (or Your Intelligence Ability Modifier - whichever is greater) on all Tools, Kits, and Charisma-based checks with which you are non-proficient.

At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies to gain this benefit.

At 2nd level you will acquire a familiar/animal companion.

This isn't a magical familiar, if lost/killed it cannot be resummoned. It gains +2 HP with each level the Dirge obtains while with that familar. If the familiar dies unlike a Ranger animal companions or wizard/warlock familars, you don't resummon it during a ritual long rest. No, you have to go find another one. You must buy/steal or coax it into your service if you need to replace it. Once the type of creature is chosen it is the one type that grants you those benefits alone. If you have a goat and then after its tragic (but expected) death, you cannot switch to a cat. You are stuck with a goat (or whatever).

Your familiar gains HP are also

You may add your Intelligence Modifier to any Psychic damage source you deal.

Starting at 4th level, you unlock similar powers similar to Warlock's Invocations called Mehs these are abilities, powers, or enhancements .

You may additionally choose from the following invocations from Warlocks: Bewitching Whispers, Chains of Carceri, Dreadful Word, Eyes of the Run Keeper, Fiendish Vigor, Mask of Many Faces, Mire the Mind, Misty Visions, Witch Sight.

At 3rd level, you use a bonus action to use your biting tongue to compel a target creature within 60 ft. to redouble their efforts and do better. It is not nice, and its very pointed, but the target receives an enervation die or your Charisma Modifier to enhance an Attack roll To Hit, for Damage, Saves, Ability and Skill checks.

The Target Takes an enervation die of Psychic Damage to their Max HP until the die is used (after which the damage may be healed normally). Once given the recipient has 1 minute to use this die before or after they make a roll, but always before the DM determines whether the attack roll or ability is successful.

At 3rd level, You really receive nothing from this.

But that's reality. However, at this seemingly arbitrary point in your development, you must choose a path of philosophy and develop toward such. You don't gain anything, but later on, you'll have to keep to your decision you make today...

At 3rd Level you gain the ability as an full round to use a placebo. Taking Water or wine, or whatever - you roll a performance check (action)

Upon administering the Placebo to a single creature (bonus action), the creature(s) makes a Wisdom save with disadvantage against your performance roll as the DC, if they fail they get better (2d4 temporary hit points), and 1 real hp. The creature and you must be able to understand each other for this to happen.

You may do this any number of times, sadly until a creature successfully saves against your Placebo.

Once a creature saves, That creature cannot benefit from your placebo, ever, and you may not use another placebo until a day has passed.

When you reach 4th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

At 5th level, you gain the ability to use your Enervation to disrupt a single spell or mind-influencing effect. As an action, you can start a {skill performance} that lasts up to a minute. During that time, you and any allied creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed. And nonfriendly creatures are at disadvantage for such.

A creature must share a language and be able to hear you to be affected. The performance ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required). Hostile Creatures attempting to maintain concentration must make a save each against your spell DC. If their concentration is broken, they take d6 psychic damage as a backlash.

Your Enervation die changes to (d8).

At 6th level, you gain the ability to channel so called divine energy directly once per every long rest from your angst over the nature and paradox of divinity, using that energy to fuel magical effects. You must then finish a long rest to use your Channel Divinity again. Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws.

When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your Dirge spell save DC.

Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level, you can use it three times between rests. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain your expended uses.

Beginning when you reach 6th level, you regain all of your expended uses of Enervation when you finish a short or long rest.

At 7th level, you gain the ability to use ''Tongues'' (as the spell - but without spell components costs) once per rest. You regain the use of this when you finish a short or long rest.

When you reach 8th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

At 9th level, your Enervation die changes to (d10).

At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies, double the proficiency bonus for these skills, however you now lose proficiency with two skills at random per long rest.

At 10th level, you gane a subclass feature from your chosen Philosophical Pact.

When you reach 12th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

At 14th level, you gane a subclass feature from your chosen Philosophical Pact.

Beginning at 10th level, your angst hones your mental fortitude. You have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, as a reaction that creature takes half that damage. Attempts to gain insight into you are at disadvantage; you turn the mind-affecting magic of your enemies against them and you are immune to being charmed. When another creature attempts to charm you, you can use your reaction to attempt to turn the charm back on that creature, in addition that creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frightened by you for 1 minute.

Starting at 14th level, you can plunge a creature into an illusory realm. As an action, choose a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. It must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by you (your choice made before their save) for 1 minute or until your concentration is broken (as if you are concentrating on a spell). This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage. Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a dark diasporic version of reality, the appearance of which you choose. The creature can see and hear only itself, you, and the illusion - the experience (if frightening) deals d8 psychic damage each round when the effect is ended they are frightened of you. If the effect was charming, they gain the belief they are healed and fully restored as if a long rest - they are not, and they'll think they are casting spells, using abilities they cannot use.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

At 15th level, your Enervation die changes to (1d12).

When you reach 16th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

At 17th level, you gain a feature granted by your Martial Archetype.

At 18th level, you can channel 3 times per long rest.

When you reach 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

at 20th level, you get...

.... a Cookie.

Congrats.

(yep, that's it. bask in the nihilism)