Bard

He roared with glee. For a moment, the heart of the arena pulsed in time with his, and the excitement of the assembled masses was clutched in his triumphant hand.

This fight is about to explode!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for!

He roared with glee. For a moment, the heart of the arena pulsed in time with his, and the excitement of the assembled masses was clutched in his triumphant hand.

This fight is about to explode!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for!

Graceful, exotic, and lethal, the rare bards who commit to learning battledancing are nimble combatants, revered in legend. Their motions appear to be as random as they are agile, but those are the steps of a lethal dance played out according to their own rhythm. It is a beautiful dance of predator and prey, of whirling blades and hapless victim.

At 6th level, when another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one Bardic Inspiration die to reduce the damage by the number you roll on your Bardic Inspiration die + your Dexterity modifier.

At 14th level, as an action while you are Dervish Dancing, you can attack a single creature numerous times in a flash of blades. You suffer a -1 penalty on your attack for each time you successfully hit. You may continue to attack until you miss, to a maximum of 6 attacks. After using this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before using it again.

Bards from the College of Adventurers learn from heroes of old and stories of legend. Bards are jacks of all trades, and for the College of Adventurers this statement rings ever true. They combine all the useful skills of their companions into one, allowing them to be versatile and supportive. While not having a direct goal, many adventurer-studying bards live to tell tales of other heroes or seek to create their own. Stories of heroic deeds, tales of cunning, magical anomalies, or godly might fuel the life-blood of these bards.

At 6th level, choose one skill, tool, and language. You gain proficiency in the chosen skill and with the chosen tool, and you can speak, read, and write the chosen language.

Starting at 14th level, when you finish a long rest, you can choose one adventurer's talent you know and replace it with one you don't.

Bards of this college see alchemy as a dance between the elements of the world. Its not bound by the rules of chemistry, and while it can be learned through dedication and study, it can also be felt and intuited by those with a knack for it. Some of these bards go so far as to sing to their alchemical projects, convincing the elements within to simply become something else of their own volition. While most of the College of Alchemy are alchemists by trade, many others are brewers, cooks, or pharmacists. Regardless of their trades, these unusual alchemical savants bend music, magic, and the elements to their will to convert one to another in seamless harmony.

At 6th level, you can use an action to create a magical potion by casting a spell into a vial or similar container. The container is magically filled with a potion recreating the spell. A creature can drink the potion using an action, causing it to be affected by the spell as if you had cast it. Alternatively, if the target is within the potion holders reach, that creature can use an action to pour the potion over it, affecting the target with the spell as normal.

To be eligible for a spell potion, a spell must be one of your bard spells of 6th level or lower and have a casting time of 1 action. The spell also can not require concentration or be an evocation or conjuration spell. If the spell requires you to decide an appearance, effect, or message when you cast it, you make that decision when the spell potion is created.

You can have one spell potion at a time. An unused potion vanishes from its container when you finish a long rest or when you use this feature again.

Starting at 14th level, you have become a master of mixing potions and bardic fires. You can have up to two spell potions at a time. If you create a second spell potion while you still have one, the first potion does not vanish from its container, but it does if you create a third. When you use an action to drink or administer a potion, you can use a bonus action to throw a bardic fire.

In addition, you can change the element of your bardic fires. When a bardic fire hits a target, choose either air, earth, fire, or water; its effects and impact damage type depend on the chosen element. The effects for air, earth, and water replace the normal bardic fires burning effect and do not deal fire damage at the start of each of your turns for the duration.

A target can be affected by multiple bardic fires at the same time, but only if each one is a different element. If a creature succeeds on the ability check to end the effects of a bardic fire affecting it or another creature, any other bardic fires affecting the target also end.

The College of Anarchy is less a place and more a state of mind. It is a rejection of oppressive governments, of soulless megacorporations, and of any shithead that wants to tell you what to do. It is a statement of revolution against 'The Man', and all it represents.

The bards of this college tend to be loud, in both voice and appearance. The image of the punk rocker with a colorful mohawk and glowing LED tattoos is iconic, but the seed of rebellion can take root in even the most forgettable of office workers.

At 6th level, you can speak up when you see someone being oppressed and harden their resolve. As a reaction, when a creature within 30 feet of you makes a saving throw against being frightened or charmed, you can start a performance per the Countercharm feature. The creature gains advantage on the saving throw as part of the performance.

Starting at 14th level, the power of your voice is magnified to establishment-shattering levels. When you use your Rebellious Shout, you can also target creatures of your choice within 10 feet of your original target, and they are affected by your Rebellious Shout option.

Additionally, when you roll a Bardic Inspiration die as part of your Rebellious Shout, you can roll an additional Bardic Inspiration die and add it to the result.

Bards who belong to the College of Apparitions invoke apparitions with the magic of their performance. The appearance of the phantoms answering the bard's call reflect the performer's nature. Those with ties to the land might call forth spirits of nature manifesting as ethereal animals floating serenely nearby. Others summon ghostly warrior ancestors ready for combat. Those who carry a taint of darkness may sing haunting dirges invoking the reluctant spirits of the damned.

When you join the College of Apparitions at 3rd level, you learn one additional cantrip chosen from dancing lights, mage hand, or minor illusion.

You also learn the spells find familiar and unseen servant. These spells count as bard spells for you but don't count against the number of bard spells you know.

Also at 3rd level, you can call upon the spirits to distract your enemies. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration to cause the attack to be at disadvantage. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll hits.

At 6th level, your affinity with the spirits allows you to call them to invoke magical effects that defy gravity. You learn the spells feather fall, levitate, and fly. These spells count as bard spells for you but don't count against the number of bard spells you know. Additionally, you may cast one of these spells without expending a spell slot, but you can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, as a bonus action, you sing a haunting melody calling forth spirits of the land to create a swirling aura of spiritual protection that lasts until the end of your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use a bonus action to continue your melody and extend its duration for an additional turn. The spiritual aura extends out from you to a distance of 15 feet.

While the aura exists, creatures you designate as allies have advantage on all saving throws, gain half cover from attacks originating within the aura, and have three-quarters cover on attacks from outside the aura. Creatures within the aura not designated as an ally have disadvantage on saving throws and must spend 3 feet of movement for every 1 foot they move.

You can use your action to command the spirits to grab hold of one target within the aura. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or become restrained until the start of your next turn.

Bards of the College of Asperity learn to choose words with the intention to unsettle and gnaw at the minds of their enemies. With the right insult, comment, or look, these bards are capable of bringing even mighty warriors to their knees through the burden of self-doubt.

Starting at 6th level, you learn the ray of enfeeblement spell if you don't already know it. In addition, you can cast the spell as a bonus action, without requiring verbal components or concentration. Once a creature has been hit or affected by the spell when cast in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

By 14th level, your spells and needling remarks cut more easily into your enemies. charmed, frightened, and poisoned creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against spells you cast.

In addition, whenever a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you targets you with an attack, you can use your reaction to use your Countercharm feature. When you do, the creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature becomes either charmed by or frightened of you (your choice) until the start of your next turn. If the target becomes charmed, it must choose a new target or lose the triggering attack; if the target becomes frightened, it makes the triggering attack roll with disadvantage. Once a creature succeeds on this saving throw, it's immune to this effect for 24 hours.

In the court of kings none where more capable of silently disposing of their monarchs enemies than the bards of College of Assassination. Masters of both killing and espionage these minstrels of murder are the unseen hand that are more than capable to slipping into their targets home, being welcomed for dinner, and leaving in plane sight as the only one left alive with none the wiser.

At 6th level, when you have made your mark you need to be able to quickly and quietly slip into obscurity. When you make a Dexterity (stealth) ability check you gain a bonus to your roll equal to the number of non-hostile creatures within 30 feet of you up to a maximum bonus equal to your Charisma modifier.

At 6th level, you have trained to strike out like a viper when your opponent least expects it. When you you hit a creature with a weapon attack that you had advantage with you deal additional damage equal to 2 rolls of your Bardic Inspiration Die.

At 14th level, you learn disguise self and it counts as a bard spell for you and it doesn't count against your number of spells known. When you cast it, any illusory changes you make become real for the duration, and doesn't reveal themselves as illusory upon touch.

Additionally, when you successfully hide on your turn you become invisible until the end of your next turn, you can make a weapon attack or cast a spell without breaking invisibility.

Far from a traditional college, bards of the College of Beasts have a powerful, inherent bond to the natural world. Through song or personality, you befriend and charm all kinds of animals, easily making lifelong companions amongst the wild lands of the world.

Many bards discover on their own that they have a natural aptitude for these abilities, though sometimes the arts employed by this college are formally taught. Wood elves, forest gnomes, and circles of druids are especially keen to pass on knowledge of the College of Beasts, as such bards make stalwart allies in defending the natural order.

Starting at 6th level, wild creatures know you as a friend, and will jump to your aid. You learn the conjure animals and summon beast spells, which count as bard spells for you and don't count against the number of spells you know. You can also cast either spell once with this feature without expending a spell slot or requiring material components, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest^'24.

Also starting at 6th level, if your familiar has perished or is simply elsewhere, you can instantly call it to your side. As an action, you can expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause your familiar to appear in your space as though you had cast find familiar as a ritual.

Starting at 14th level, when you cast find familiar as a ritual, you can communicate telepathically with the familiar and perceive through its senses (as described in the spell) as long as it is on the same plane as you, instead of only when it is within 100 feet of you. The conjured familiar also gains the following traits:

Bards of the College of Benevolence honed their craft in the upper planes, or at least through the tutelage of a creature native to the upper planes. These bards often learn their magic from celestial creatures, such as lesser angels, couatls, ki-rin, and unicorns. Others might be tutored by humanoids that have visited or taken residence in the upper planes, and gained enough knowledge of the celestial workings of the world to pass on that knowledge to others.

Regardless of their tutor, these bards learn to be master physicians and therapists, adept at healing both magically and nonmagically, and capable of putting others at ease with just a few choice words or a calming melody. While bards of this college aren't usually true pacifists, they typically seek out non-violent solutions whenever they can. They often attempt to persuade or reason with their foes, and can also use a variety of powerful magics to end conflicts before they start.

Bards of this college often travel through the lands and planes of the world, acting as both traveling doctors and traveling musicians. They heal the sick and injured, resolve conflicts, and bring joy and merriment to all settlements they pass through.

At 6th level, you learn the sanctuary spell. This spell counts as a bard spell for you, but doesn't count against the number of bard spells you know.

Also, the celestial magic within you alerts you to danger, and protects your allies from harm. You can't be surprised, have advantage on initiative rolls, and any creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that is surprised gains the effect of the sanctuary spell. This effect ends at the start of the creature's next turn after it recovers from surprised.

Starting at 14th level, your magical presence can cause hostilities to cease before they even begin.

When you roll initiative, you can use your reaction to immediately cast calm emotions, without expending a spell slot. When you cast calm emotions in this way, you can choose to target any number of creatures that you can see within 120 feet of you, rather than just targeting a 20-foot sphere, and the creatures you target don't need to be humanoid. Additionally, creatures make their save against this spell with disadvantage.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

In the darkest depths of these twisted lands, few things are as welcomed as a good laugh, a merry sond and a razor sharp blade. Bards of the College of Blood masquerade as Jesters and bring all of these in spades. Armed with a scickle and lute, these maniacal minstrels are as versatile as they are deadly.

When you join the College of Blood at 3rd level, you learn to use your weapons with a very twisted technique. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot to cause the target creature to Bleed. You apply 1 application of bleeding for a 1st spell slot, plus 1 additional application of bleeding for each spell level higher than 1st.

A bleeding target takes damage equal to 1 hit die at the beginning of the target creature's turn, until the bleeding stops. The damage increases by 1 hit die for every bleeding application on the target creature.

At the end of each of it's turns, the target creature can make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, the bleeding ends.

Look at this fool, this imbecile! Playing the hero, are you?! Ha-HAA.

At 3rd level, mocking and humiliating your enemy comes as natural as breathing. As a bonus action, you can expend an use of your Bardic Inspiration to being relentlessly mocking a target creature. If the target creature can hear you (though it needs not to understand you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws until the end of its next turn.

Pride's like a knife, it can cut deep inside... Words are like weapons, they can wound sometimes.

At 6th level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, the creature gets 1 application of bleeding.

Combat is a power ballad - a slow build up, and a grand finale!

At 14th level, as an action, you can expend 1 use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal damage equal to your Bardic Inspiration Die for each application of bleeding on a target creature, consuming every instance of bleeding the creature has at the moment.

Most bards are content to amuse and entertain, but those in the College of Canticles lend their musical talents to the worship of the gods. These bards spread divinely inspired dogma and lead hymns, borrowing a measure of their god's power to bolster their allies. While clerics may be the face of religious institutions, rarely are they as successful at winning converts as bards of this college.

Starting at 6th level, choose one of the cleric class' divine domains. You gain the 2nd level Channel Divinity option of that divine domain. Your bard level counts as your cleric level for the purpose of your domain's Channel Divinity.

Additionally, you learn the domain spells of your chosen divine domain when you reach certain bard levels. When you gain this feature, you learn each of the spells a cleric of your chosen divine domain would gain at 1st, 3rd, and 5th level. Once you reach 7th and 9th level in this class, you learn the spells a cleric of the same divine domain would gain at that level. Each of the domain spells counts as a bard spell for you and doesn't count against the number of bard spells you know.

Starting at 14th level, when you use the Celestial Song option when using your Channel Divinity, friendly creatures within 30 feet who can hear you can use their reaction to join in. For each creature that joins in, roll an additional 1d6 for the healing and damage caused by the song, to a maximum of 3d6 additional dice.

While your Celestial Song persists, each time you use a bonus action to repeat the healing and radiant damage, friendly creatures within 30 feet who can hear you can use their reaction to join in.

The cantors are a group of bards who lead the faithful through the praise and worship of the gods. Their music is directed towards the heavens, with their instruments usually relating in some way to the god that they worship. Cantors are well loved within their respective communities, and it is hard to find a talented cantor who will stay in one place for long, as the demand for their soothing hymns is widespread.

Starting at 6th level, your heavenly music empowers those who join in its chorus. You can create the following additional effects when using the thaumaturgy cantrip:

Starting at 14th level, you can use your Healing Hymn ability without expending uses of your Bardic Inspiration.

While most bards use their skill with words to entertain and support, some choose to spread confusion, misinformation, and distrust. Though they reject the idea of leaders, some discordant bards join the College of Chaos, a leaderless association of misanthropes that study discordant magics.

Beginning at 6th level, your Countercharm exudes chaotic magic. When you use your Countercharm, you can force a creature within the effect to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, roll a d10. The target suffers the effect from the Pandemonium table until the end of your Countercharm.

A creature suffering from this effect can make a Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. Once a creature succeeds on their saving throw they are immune to this feature for the next 24 hours.

You have mastered the chaotic magic that is the source of your power. At 14th level you learn the confusion spell, but it doesn't count against your total number of Spells Known. If you already know confusion, you learn another enchantment spell of your choice from the bard spell list.

As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend a bardic inspiration to cast confusion with the following changes:

While most bards use their skill with words to entertain and support, some choose to spread confusion, misinformation, and distrust. Though they reject the idea of leaders, some discordant bards join the College of Chaos, a leaderless association of misanthropes that study discordant magics.

Beginning at 6th level, your Countercharm exudes chaotic magic. When you use your Countercharm, you can force a creature within the effect to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, roll a d10. The target suffers the effect from the Pandemonium table until the end of your Countercharm.

A creature suffering from this effect can make a Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. Once a creature succeeds on their saving throw they are immune to this feature for the next 24 hours.

You have mastered the chaotic magic that is the source of your power. At 14th level you learn the confusion spell, but it doesn't count against your total number of Spells Known. If you already know confusion, you learn another enchantment spell of your choice from the link bard spell list.

As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend a bardic inspiration to cast confusion with the following changes:

The College of Climates shows refuge to those who devote themselves to the beauty of the world, along with the harsh love it shows back. Bards of this college often will show the magic gifted to them by the power of nature from the place they are from, but some bards may come across a land they love, and pray for the power of. The wrath of nature flows strongly through these bards, but they also show the compassion of the world to those who need it.

At 6th level, the powers of nature don't just imbue you but those around you. As a reaction when an ally within 60 feet of you that you can see is targeted with an attack, you can cause an effect to happen to protect your ally. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. All saving throws use your Bard Spell Save DC.

At 14th level, you can call the wilds to aid you and spread to the battlefield. As an action, you choose a point within 60 feet of you that you can see. You create a 30 foot radius circle on the ground, extending 60 feet up into the air. This area and the effects are exclusive to non-allied creatures unless specified otherwise. These effects change based on what biome you chose. This effect lasts for 1 minute, and requires concentration. You can use this feature once per long rest. All saving throws use your Bard Spell Save DC.

Where other bards channel their creativity through an instrument, some choose to express themselves through painting. They attune to the colors of the world, becoming able to shape reality in ways few would think possible. Bards of College of Color also gain different abilities depending on which colors they favor, so they are as varied as a painter's palette.

At 6th level, your paintings become almost perfect copies of reality. You can cast alter self without expending a spell slot or providing material components. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), regaining expended uses on a short or long rest. Furthermore, as part of your action when you cast a spell of the Illusion school, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration. The DC of the check to detect it as an illusion is increased by the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.

Starting at 14th level, as an action you can paint an ever shifting cascade of color in the air. All creatures of your choice within 30 feet that can see the shifting colored shapes must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, a creature becomes stunned for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma modifier. At the beginning of each of their subsequent turns, creatures stunned by this feature can attempt to make the save again, ending the effect on a success. Once you have used this feature you cannot use it again until you have finished a short or long rest.

Performance is not limited solely to the creation of music, but also the display of art and visual beauty. Bards that adhere to the college of Colours can capture those that witness them in a dazzling whirlwind of beauty. These bards are able to weave magic into colours and pigments, provoking a severe emotional reaction in any who witness them. This can be both inspiring and debilitating, and those that underestimate the bard trained in such arts may find themselves lost in horrifying hues, or entranced by shifting patterns.

The images created by the bard of the College of Colours blur the lines between real and unreal.

At 6th level, as an action, you can create a shape or item using your paints. You can create a shape, like a cube, a square, or staircase in a 10ft cube within a space you can see within 30 ft. of you. This shape can either be opaque or transparent.

This Hard Paint Creation can be interacted with, and has 10 hit points and an AC of 10. These items are static, have no weight, and cannot be moved, but can be destroyed. If it is reduced to 0 hit points it disappears. This creation lasts until the end of your next turn.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier. You regain all expended uses after a long rest.

At level 14, your Hard Paint Creations have 20 hit points and can fill a space in a 15 ft. cube.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to alter your appearance as an action, as if you cast the Disguise Self spell. To use this ability you must have your painter's supplies in hand. You can use this ability a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus. This visual change lasts indefinitely until you end it as a free action.

At 14th level, your Imbued Images become more powerful. As an action, you can expend a bardic inspiration die to cause an imbued image to perform one of the following actions:

Bards of the College of Comedy know the true power of a well-crafted joke. Clowns, jesters, and comedians all follow the teachings of this college, wielding the power of laughter to captivate audiences, invigorate allies, and make fools of their enemies.

Your experience in making people laugh has made you an expert in reading people. You gain proficiency in the Insight skill if you don't already have it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses this skill.

You can harness your jovial wit to help creatures recover from their injuries. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The creature regains hit points equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die plus your Charisma modifier (minimum of 3 hit points).

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

You can deliver a devastatingly funny punchline, leaving others howling with laughter. As an action, choose any number of creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you that can hear you. Each creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes the psychic damage dealt by your Butt of the Joke feature, and it falls prone and is incapacitated until the end of your next turn as it laughs uncontrollably. On a successful save, a creature takes half damage, doesn't fall prone,and is only incapacitated until the start of its next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Bards who join the College of Command learn to draw upon their strong personality and confidence to inspire others to feats of heroism in battle. Rather than use their abilities to empower themselves, they bring out the best in their allies.

For some Commander bards, their days of gallant heroism are long behind them and it is time to pass the torch the next generation. For others, they lead their soldiers from the front lines, issuing orders and drawing swords alongside them.

You can seamlessly fight and issue Orders. Starting at 6th level, when you use your action to issue an Order, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action on that turn.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws to resist the charmed and frightened conditions.

Your confident Orders embolden your allies. Starting at 14th level, whenever you issue a Command, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a bardic inspiration die.

Bards who join the College of Command learn to draw upon their strong personality and confidence to inspire others to feats of heroism in battle. Rather than use their abilities to empower themselves, they bring out the best in their allies.

For some Commander bards, their days of gallant heroism are long behind them and it is time to pass the torch the next generation. For others, they lead their soldiers from the front lines, issuing orders and drawing swords alongside them.

You can seamlessly fight and issue Orders. Starting at 6th level, when you use your action to issue an Order, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action on that turn.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws to resist the charmed and frightened conditions.

Your confident Orders embolden your allies. Starting at 14th level, whenever you issue a Command, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a bardic inspiration die.

Bards believe the cosmos is a work of art-the creation of the first dragons and gods. That creative work included harmonies that continue to resound through existence today, a power known as the Song of Creation. The bards of the College of Creation draw on that primeval song through dance, music, and poetry, and their teachers share this lesson:

"Before the sun and the moon, there was the Song, and its music awoke the first dawn. Its melodies so delighted the stones and trees that some of them gained a voice of their own. And now they sing too. Learn the Song, students, and you too can teach the mountains to sing and dance."

Dwarves and gnomes often encourage their bards to become students of the Song of Creation. And among dragonborn, the Song of Creation is revered, for legends portray Bahamut and Tiamat-the greatest of dragons-as two of the song's first singers.

6th-level College of Creation feature

As an action, you can animate one Large or smaller nonmagical item within 30 feet of you that isn't being worn or carried. The animate item uses the Dancing Item stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB). The item is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. It lives for 1 hour, until it is reduced to 0 hit points, or until you die.

In combat, the item shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the item can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

When you use your Bardic Inspiration feature, you can command the item as part of the same bonus action you use for Bardic Inspiration.

Once you animate an item with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to use this feature again. You can have only one item animated by this feature at a time; if you use this action and already have a dancing item from this feature, the first one immediately becomes inanimate.

14th-level College of Creation feature

When you use your Performance of Creation feature, you can create more than one item at once. The number of items equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of two items). If you create an item that would exceed that number, you choose which of the previously created items disappears. Only one of these items can be of the maximum size you can create; the rest must be Small or Tiny.

You are no longer limited by gp value when creating items with Performance of Creation.

Food: it fuels thought, builds bones, and delights the senses. But more than that, breaking bread with a foe can be the beginning of a lasting peace, sculptures of sugar glass can inspire architects to design soaring cities, and the fusion of disparate culinary traditions can tie cultures together. Though we see food every day, it is truly the epitome of inspiration.

Bards from the College of Cuisine are as prized in the kitchens of nobles as in the mess halls of the rank and file. While peace treaties might be signed over hoisin-glazed duck with sides of spiced jackfruit and crispy shallots, it is the well-fed army that will win the war on a hearty oat and raisin porridge. Such bards never struggle to find employment; they travel where their work is appreciated, be their diners highborn or down-to-earth.

You pursue a particular style of cuisine, choosing from the list below and gaining its feature.

Your confidence and authority in the kitchen translates to battlefield command. When a creature that can hear you rolls one of your Bardic Inspiration dice or eats one of your Petit Fours, you can shout authoritative, verbal encouragement (no action required). The creature can immediately use its reaction to either make one weapon attack or move up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks. A creature that eats a Petit Fours can attack or move as described as part of the same action or reaction used to eat the Petit Fours.

Bards of the College of Dance tell stories and perform music without making a sound, choosing to instead move with feylike grace and magic to evade harm and inspire others. These dances originate from the Festerwood, whose radiant spores and light made for miraculous performances and deadly hazards. These bards can be found anywhere from the local tavern to the highest levels of theater moving crowds to tears as quickly as rebellion. At every turn, they inspire others to be brave, move, and join in.

At 6th level, your movements become so graceful that even the most cold-hearted enemies are filled with remorse for having stopped your dance. Whenever a creature hits you with an opportunity attack, that creature takes psychic damage equal to your Charisma modifier + half your bard level.

In addition, you can use your dance to cast the charm person spell, without expending a spell slot. When cast in this way, the target doesn't have advantage on the saving throw if you're currently fighting it. When you reach 14th level in this class, you can cast the irresistible dance spell in this way as well. A spell cast with this feature requires only somatic components. After you cast a spell in this way, you can't use this feature to cast it again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, your dance has become so invigorating that it can inspire an ally to attack. A creature that gains temporary hit points from your Inspirational Dance can choose to use its reaction to make one weapon attack.

In addition, your endless dancing allows you to more easily avoid being hit. You can use a bonus action to take the Dodge action, and whenever you use a bonus action to expend a Bardic Inspiration die, you can take the Dodge action as part of that bonus action.

Bards of the College of Dance feel the rhythm of music course through their being and cannot help but dance to the beat of magical energy around them. Weaving exotic and expressive movements, they try to bring joy and spectacle even to the fiercest situation. Most are found in travelling troupes or surrounded by adoring crowds, they do their best to dazzle all who see them.

At 6th level, you can focus your attention on a single opponent, drawing them into battle. You learn the compelled duel spell. It counts as a bard spell for you but doesn't count against the number of bard spells you know. You may cast compelled duel once without expending a spell slot, and you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Whenever you cast compelled duel, you can use your bonus action to strike the target of the spell a second time with your Aggressive Choreography feature. You may only do so for the duration of the spell.

By 14th level, your movements become more fluid and elusive. You gain the following benefits:

The self-taught bards of the College of Deceit are sinister and selfish manipulators who use well-crafted half-truths to serve their own ends. At first, they appear charming, charismatic, and even friendly, but they reveal their true nature as they peel away their victims' emotional defenses.

Many of these bards operate in royal courts, where they use words as lethal weapons. They direct sovereigns to disastrous decisions, poison alliances with hearsay and speculation, and manipulate the flow of information between authority and its subjects. Others take a more personal approach and relish the thrill of gaslighting their loved ones into corrupted, imbalanced relationships.

When you join the College of Deceit at 3rd level, your endorsement of others' lies allows you to cheat even the most insightful victims. When another creature adds your Bardic Inspiration die to a Charisma (Deception) check, it uses the highest possible result on the die instead of rolling. A target can't benefit from this feature more than once per long rest.

Additionally, when you would make a Charisma (Persuasion) check, you can make a Charisma (Deception) check instead, and you gain proficiency in your choice of disguise kits, forgery kits, or torturer's implements.

Also at 3rd level, you can expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration when you cast an enchantment or illusion spell. Roll the die. If the result is equal to or greater than the spell's level, you alter the target's understanding of reality so it remains unaware of being affected by the spell, even if the spell's effects say otherwise. The target also does not realize the spell's components as normal.

You can use this feature whether the target succeeds or fails on its saving throw against the spell (if it has one). Each die expended affects one creature, even if the spell targeted multiple creatures. You can expend any number of additional dice to affect more targets, rolling the die separately for each target, provided you can see each chosen target.

Beginning at 6th level, the lingering effects of your influence weigh on the minds of your foes. A creature charmed or frightened by you, or a creature against whom you have used Bardic Inspiration, has disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma checks targeting any illusion or enchantment you cast or effects you create until the spell ends.

Starting at 14th level, you lie with such conviction that others doubt their memories. You learn the modify memory spell, which doesn't count against the number of bard spells you know, and if you spend an hour in conversation with the target prior to casting it, it requires no components and doesn't expend a spell slot.

Also at 14th level, you can use your reaction when a creature succeeds on a saving throw against one of your spells to become invisible. This invisibility lasts until you make an attack, cast a spell that affects a hostile creature, deal damage, or your next turn ends. You can become invisible a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and you regain all uses on a long rest.

The college of dirge singers was formed from the ancient funeral singers of the Inevitable, the god of Death. These pious servants of the clergy of death were able to project the feelings associated with their chosen faith through songs and poems so powerfully that they could influence the emotions of others and even kill them. The followers of the Inevitable still imitate the secret songs and poems of the original dirge singers, but only the most skilled singers can invoke their true magical powers.

Starting at 6th level, you can recite a poem about death and passing that causes creatures to lose their motivation. As an action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration on your turn to choose a number of creatures that you can see within 60 feet equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). Those creatures must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell DC or become charmed. While charmed, the creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws for one minute but can make a Charisma saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end the effect.

Starting at 14th level, you can sing a song of death that creates harmful necrotic energies. As an action, you can target a creature that you can see within 60 feet. That creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell DC. On a failed save, the creature takes 49 (14d6) necrotic damage, or half as much damage on a successful one. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Bards of the College of Discord yearn to take the performances to the next level. While some artists feel the need to prepare or learn progressions within a harmonic framework, the extemporaneous nature of the bard's study encourages inventing variations in their musical repertoire mid performance. This practice usually bleeds into their outlook on life and, whether with accompaniment or solo, these bards are excited to delve into the unknown, no matter the vibe.

At 6th level, every success fuels your performance. When you succeed on a Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution saving throw in combat, you gain advantage on your next skill check, saving throw, or attack roll until the end of your next turn.

Additionally, your attacks with your musical instruments count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

At 14th level, you learn to provoke those the area around you by amplifying the clash of arms and flailing bodies, trumpeting your allies to hasten attack while sending your enemies into dysphonic chaos that is audible with 300 feet of you. As an action, you create a hyper-sonic field that reverberates out from you in a 15-foot radius for 1 minute, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell).

For the duration, friendly creatures within the field experience a haste-like effect and gain a +2 bonus to AC, have advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and gain an additional action on each turn. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. A creature can only benefit from one such effect at a time. While you concentrate on this effect, your speed is 0, and you can only make melee attacks against creatures within 5 feet of you. If you have a fly speed, or are held in place my magical means, you can hover in place.

Additionally, when a hostile creature starts its turn within the field, or moves there for the first time, it must make a Wisdom saving throw or be affected for the duration. An affected creature's speed is halved, it takes a–2 penalty to AC and Dexterity saving throws, and can't use reactions. On an affected creature's turn, it can use either an action or a bonus action, not both. Regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn.

If the creature attempts to cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, the spell doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn, and the creature must use its action on that turn to complete the spell. If it can't, the spell is wasted. If an affected creature exits the field, the effect ends for it at the start of its next turn.

When you stop concentrating on this effect, you can't move or take actions until after your next turn, as a wave of exhaustion sweeps over you. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

A bard of the College of Discord is something of a curiosity. Musicians and entertainers, doubling as assassins, exploit their access to powerful nobility to glean secrets for employers who are usually nameless even to the bard.

When you join the College of Discord at 3rd level, you learn to use your weapons with an impressive display of martial prowess, speed and accuracy. Damage rolls made with weapons that have the thrown property equals your Bardic Inspiration Die + Dexterity Modifier

In addition, you can add the Thrown property to Improvised Weapons and Ammunition.

At 3rd level, you learn how to find and exploit a target's weakest points.

As a bonus action, you can expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration to mark a target creature with your Inspired Eye for 1 minute. Your weapon attacks against a marked creature score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

At 15th level, your weapons attacks against a marked creature score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20.

To strike a target requires speed ant accuracy. With your magic, you have learned to temporarily empower both of these traits in an impressive flurry of blades.

Starting at 6th level, as an bonus action, you can make a special attack with your ranged weapons, you may expend one spell slot to make a ranged weapon attack dealing damage equal to your Bardic Inspiration Die + your Dexterity Modifier. The damage roll for this attack increases by 1 Bardic Inspiration Die for each spell level higher than 1st. Each additional Bardic Inspiration Die counts as a separate weapon being thrown.

Starting at 14th level, your weapon attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

In addition, you can use Blade Flurry as a 3rd level spell without expending a spell slot.

Bards of this college revel in the fear and despair of others. They have foreseen the end of times, and use their gifts of prophecy to instill terror in those who hear their words. These bards command an audience like any other, but their craft is that of a mad prophet, and their poems and songs echo dissonant rattlings of hopelessness and suffering. Those who hear the mad ramblings are stricken with fear, lose their wills, and fall into madness.

You can behold glimpses of the most disastrous outcome for every possible action. When a creature you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you use your reaction and attempt to make these visions come true. The triggering creature must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, the triggering attack roll misses or the triggering ability check or saving throw fails. On a successful saving throw, the creature makes the attack roll, ability check, or saving throw normally, and you do not expend your use of this ability. You can use this feature a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down). You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration and choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target takes psychic damage equal to the roll of your Bardic inspiration die and must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, the target becomes frightened of you until the start of your next turn.

A creature frightened of you has disadvantage on all saving throws it makes while it can see you.

When you roll initiative, you may choose a target within 60 feet of you that you can see. You foretell that creature's immediate demise. During the first round of combat, any attacks against that creature have advantage.

Long have the performing arts been a favorite pastime for people of all walks of life. Performers and thespians use the stage to tell stories that while fictional, can reveal great truths about life, death, and the struggles in between. The Muse, the ancient spirit of inspiration, moves the hearts of these actors, both great and small, to give their all in every performance.

Your ability to deliver impassioned performances empowers your Countercharm. Starting at 6th level, your Countercharm gains additional effects, based on the mask you are wearing:

The Muse grants you the ability to enthrall death itself, if only for a short while. Upon reaching 14th level, your masks gain the following features while you are wearing them:

Bards of the College of Drama, usually referred to as actors, dedicate their lives to the stage, whether that stage be within a grand palace or on a wooden box on the side of a dirt road. They train to portray any character through deft costuming and impeccable impressions. They don't just tell tales, but delight audiences by performing them as one-man shows or as an ensemble with other bards of the college. These actors develop special techniques for drawing crowds and feeding off their audience's energy, becoming popular attractions in nearly any settlement they visit.

While near universally beloved by the common folk and community leaders, actors are regarded with some contempt by bards of other colleges, who see actors as attention-seeking narcissists who are either unwilling or unable to share the stage. An actor who arrives in a town where another bard is performing is often in for some not-so-good-natured competition.

Starting at 6th level, you learn special techniques that allow you to draw the attention of others:

Starting at 14th level, you can bask in the adoration of your fans and allies. When a friendly creature sees you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points or cast a spell of 6th level or higher, you can use your bonus action this turn to take a bow. When you do, you regain one expended use of your Bardic Inspiration.

Long have the performing arts been a favorite pastime for people of all walks of life. Performers and thespians use the stage to tell stories that while fictional, can reveal great truths about life, death, and the struggles in between. The Muse, the ancient spirit of inspiration, moves the hearts of these actors, both great and small, to give their all in every performance.

Your ability to deliver impassioned performances empowers your Countercharm. Starting at 6th level, your Countercharm gains additional effects, based on the mask you are wearing:

The Muse grants you the ability to enthrall death itself, if only for a short while. Upon reaching 14th level, your masks gain the following features while you are wearing them:

In the caverns beneath the surface of the world, sound works differently. Your exposure to echoes has taught you about how sound changes as it moves and encounters obstacles. Inspired by the effect caves and tunnels have on sounds, you have learned to manipulate sound with your magic, curving it and altering it as it moves. You can silence the most violent explosions, you can make whispers seem to reverberate forever, and you can even change the sounds of music and words as they are created.

Starting at 6th level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapons attack, you can expend one spell slot to deal thunder damage to the target, in addition to the weapon's damage. The extra damage is 1d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d6 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 6d6. The damage increases by 1d6 if the target is made of inorganic material such as stone, crystal, or metal.

At 14th level, your Bardic Inspiration infuses your allies' weapon attacks with sonic power. A creature that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you can roll that die and add the number rolled to a weapon damage roll it just made, and all of the damage from that attack becomes thunder damage. The target of the attack must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be knocked prone.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to puzzle out, but an echo to listen to.

Bards who join the College of Echoes study the sonorous acoustic properties of the Underdark gaining an intimate understanding of the diverse sounds and culture of its inhabitants. These bards develop a supernatural ability to project their performance at great volumes across vast distances but are most famous for enchanting their audience by augmenting their performances with glorious and mysterious echoes. Simply put, they are able to make the endless impassive stone of the 'World Below' sing.

Only the most dedicated artists come to the Underdark as the scarcity of friendly taverns and warm hearths deter all but the most devoted to their craft. Many bards of this college are drawn to the Underdark through the legend of Kel Faldir. This mythical duergar auditorium is famous for the magical amplified properties of its stage, its audience of dwarven ghosts, but mostly for its endless supply of ancient duergar stout. Often these bards begin by searching for this fantastical theatre and wind up making legends of their own.

When bards who manage to survive long enough in the Underdark finally return to civilization they astound their audiences using the power of echoing sound to miraculously accompany themselves. Whether it is a soaring instrumental passage which gracefully bounces from wall to wall, immersive sound effects used to punctuate a story or poem or a complex dance based on the sacrificial ceremony of the Kuo-toa, bards of this college create resonant and powerful art from the unrelenting hostility of the Underdark.

6th-level College of Echoes feature

As a bonus action you conjure a floating translucent mannequin at an unoccupied location that you can see within 60 feet of you. The mannequin looks like a puppet version of yourself. You can speak and cast spells through this mannequin.

While conjured, the mannequin can hear and see, and it has darkvision with a range of 60 feet. It can also telepathically share with you what it sees and hears (no action required). The mannequin floats in place, making gestures and mouth movements appropriate to what is being said through it. As a bonus action, you can cause it to move up to 30 feet in any direction. After 1 minute, the mannequin vanishes.

As an action, while the mannequin is conjured, you can force creatures of your choice within 30 feet of the mannequin to make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. Any creature that fails its saving throw is deafened and silenced as the mannequin absorbs all of the sound around the creature. At the end of each of its turns, an affected creature can make another Charisma saving throw. On a success, it is no longer deafened or silenced.

Once you use this feature to conjure the mannequin, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

14th-level College of Echoes feature

After rolling a d20 as part of an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to save that die result for 1 minute. You can then replace a later d20 roll you make during that minute with the saved die result.

Adherents of the College of Eloquence master the art of oratory. Persuasion is regarded as a high art, and a well-reasoned, well-spoken argument often proves more persuasive than facts. These bards wield a blend of logic and theatrical wordplay, winning over skeptics and detractors with logical arguments and plucking at heartstrings to appeal to the emotions of audiences.

6th-level College of Eloquence feature

Your inspiring words are so persuasive that others feel driven to succeed. When a creature adds one of your Bardic Inspiration dice to its ability check, attack roll, or saving throw and the roll fails, the creature can keep the Bardic Inspiration die.

6th-level College of Eloquence feature

You have gained the ability to make your speech intelligible to any creature. As an action, choose one or more creatures within 60 feet of you, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). The chosen creatures can magically understand you, regardless of the language you speak, for 1 hour.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot to use it again.

14th-level College of Eloquence feature

When you successfully inspire someone, the power of your eloquence can now spread to someone else. When a creature within 60 feet of you adds one of your Bardic Inspiration dice to its ability check, attack roll, or saving throw and the roll succeeds, you can use your reaction to encourage a different creature (other than yourself) that can hear you within 60 feet of you, giving it a Bardic Inspiration die without expending any of your Bardic Inspiration uses.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

The sinister singers of the College of Enticement use their voices to captivate and terrify their spellbound audiences. They learn the haunting fundamentals of their music from carnivorous sirens, watchful banshees, and the frigid yuki-onna, and adopt the same goals as their malicious tutors—to lure victims to their doom.

At 3rd level, you learn to charm away wits with a haunting song. You can use an action to expend a use of your bardic inspiration to begin a song audible within a number of feet of you equal to 10 × your bard level, which requires concentration and lasts for 1 minute. Choose up to three creatures that can hear you, which must make Wisdom saves against your bard spell save DC.

On a failed save, a target is charmed by you until the song ends. While charmed, it must move up to its speed straight toward you on each of its turns, taking actions of its choice. It moves around obstacles that prevent it from getting closer to you, such as walls or pits, but moves through fires, shallow pools of acid, and other harmful areas of effect.

If fewer than the maximum number of targets are charmed at the start of your turn, you can attempt to charm additional creatures up to the maximum. For example, if you charmed one target, you can attempt to charm two more. The maximum number of creatures you can charm increases to four at 5th level, five at 10th level, and six at 15th level in this class.

When a target takes damage or ends its turn, it can repeat its saving throw. On a success, it is no longer charmed by you.

Also at 3rd level, you can use your voice as a spellcasting focus and learn the thaumaturgy cantrip, which counts as a bard cantrip for you but doesn't count against your number of cantrips known.

Starting at 6th level, creatures you choose under the effects of your Alluring Voice or a bard spell you are concentrating on are deafened, but can still hear your song and other sounds that you permit. The first attack roll made against a creature deafened in this way is made with advantage.

Starting at 14th level, your voice marks your victims for death. The first time a creature takes damage after you charm it by any means, the damage is doubled. A creature cannot take this doubled damage more than once per day.

Your Alluring Voice also ignores immunity to the charmed condition, though creatures immune to being charmed have advantage on the saving throw.

Bards of the College of Entropy are itinerate gamblers and daring thrill seekers whose actions are supremely unpredictable.

At 6th level, when you cast a chaos spell, you cause a chaos magic surge and regain one use of your Bardic Inspiration. You regain the use of infusion of fortune after a short or long rest.

Everything desires to be something else. Starting at 14th level, as an action, the luck stealer can change one known spell to another spell of the same or lower level on the bard spell list. At the end of the bard's next turn, his or her list of known spells returns to normal. Using this ability causes a chaos magic surge.

Bards who study the College of Epic Poetry are devoted to the creation of a singular masterpiece in the tradition of the epic poets. All the greatest stories in history were originally captured and recreated for audiences as masterful works of poetry. These stories were passed down for centuries in an oral tradition, and eventually, they were recorded on papyrus scrolls and stored in great libraries.

Those who wish to record their own epic poems spend their early years studying philosophy, aesthetics, and music, so that they have the necessary language to capture the splendor of great deeds. However, an epic poet cannot spend all their life in the Academy. Eventually, they must seek out great conflicts, for great conflicts produce great heroes, and great heroes produce great deeds.

As such, you have prepared yourself for a life of turmoil, chasing after warriors who brave impossible odds. You have learned to transcribe events faithfully, even in the chaos of battle. You know that if your quill slips at a pivotal moment, the beauty of that instant may be forever lost to history.

Starting at 6th level, you gain proficiency with medium armor, so that you can get close to the fighting while composing your poem. Additionally, if you are within 5 feet of an ally when you compose an epic verse about them, then you regain one expended Bardic Inspiration die.

Starting at 14th level, the lyrical epithets that you've selected for your allies take on magical properties, protecting them from death. Whenever a character with your Bardic Inspiration die would be reduced to 0 hit points, they may choose to roll their Bardic Inspiration die and be reduced to that number of hit points instead. The Bardic Inspiration die is then lost.

Bards who study the College of Epic Poetry are devoted to the creation of a singular masterpiece in the tradition of the epic poets. All the greatest stories in history were originally captured and recreated for audiences as masterful works of poetry. These stories were passed down for centuries in an oral tradition, and eventually, they were recorded on papyrus scrolls and stored in great libraries.

Those who wish to record their own epic poems spend their early years studying philosophy, aesthetics, and music, so that they have the necessary language to capture the splendor of great deeds. However, an epic poet cannot spend all their life in the Academy. Eventually, they must seek out great conflicts, for great conflicts produce great heroes, and great heroes produce great deeds.

As such, you have prepared yourself for a life of turmoil, chasing after warriors who brave impossible odds. You have learned to transcribe events faithfully, even in the chaos of battle. You know that if your quill slips at a pivotal moment, the beauty of that instant may be forever lost to history.

Starting at 6th level, you gain proficiency with medium armor, so that you can get close to the fighting while composing your poem. Additionally, if you are within 5 feet of an ally when you compose an epic verse about them, then you regain one expended Bardic Inspiration die.

Starting at 14th level, the lyrical epithets that you've selected for your allies take on magical properties, protecting them from death. Whenever a character with your Bardic Inspiration die would be reduced to 0 hit points, they may choose to roll their Bardic Inspiration die and be reduced to that number of hit points instead. The Bardic Inspiration die is then lost.

Bards are masters of eliciting all types of emotion. They use their musical magic to make audiences feel longing for places they have never been and love for people long dead. Those who join College of Eulogies have a fondness for the more negative emotions; grief, sorrow, and horror. They take their name from the speeches typically delivered in memory of the deceased, for they see themselves as bringers of death.

Combined with a talent for necromancy magic, Eulogy bards wield the power of fear and despair to fill their foe's hearts with horror and bind restless spirits to their will.

At 6th level, you can summon and bind the Restless Spirits of those who died with unfinished business. At the end of a long rest, you can perform a short ritual that summons such a spirit. A Spirit bound in this way is friendly to you, obeys your commands, and uses the Restless Spirit stat block. The stat block uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the Spirit acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you used a bonus action on your turn to command it to take an action from its stat block, or another action. If you are incapacitated, it takes any action it chooses.

If your Spirit was destroyed within the last hour, you can expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher. After 1 minute, it returns from beyond the veil with all its hit points restored.

The sadness and despair that you inflict upon your enemies cloys to them until it exacts its toll. Beginning at 14th level, when you use your Bardic Dirge reaction on a creature, and that creature succeeds on its roll despite the disadvantage, they have disadvantage on the next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw they make as well.

Regardless of the outcome of the second roll, this feature ends after their next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.

Bards are masters of eliciting all types of emotion. They use their musical magic to make audiences feel longing for places they have never been and love for people long dead. Those who join the College of Eulogies have a fondness for the more negative emotions; grief, sorrow, and horror. They take their name from the speeches typically delivered in memory of the deceased, for they see themselves as bringers of death.

Combined with a talent for necromancy magic, Eulogy bards wield the power of fear and despair to fill their foe's hearts with horror and bind restless spirits to their will.

At 6th level, you can summon and bind the Restless Spirits of those who died with unfinished business. At the end of a long rest, you can perform a short ritual that summons such a spirit. A Spirit bound in this way is friendly to you, obeys your commands, and uses the Restless Spirit stat block. The stat block uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the Spirit acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you used a bonus action on your turn to command it to take an action from its stat block, or another action. If you are incapacitated, it takes any action it chooses.

If your Spirit was destroyed within the last hour, you can expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher. After 1 minute, it returns from beyond the veil with all its hit points restored.

The sadness and despair that you inflict upon your enemies cloys to them until it exacts its toll. Beginning at 14th level, when you use your Bardic Dirge reaction on a creature, and that creature succeeds on its roll despite the disadvantage, they have disadvantage on the next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw they make as well.

Regardless of the outcome of the second roll, this feature ends after their next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.

Bards of the College of Fame are in the public's eye by day, while working for an agency or organization by night. These bards might simply be famous because who they are, or they may have earned their status because what they've done.

At 6th level, as a bonus action, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration. If you do so, for the next minute you can cast the command spell at 1st level as a bonus action on each of your turns without using a spell slot a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier.

Additionally, whenever any of your spells ends while using this feature, the creature or creatures affected don't realize they were charmed by you unless you want to.

Starting at 14th level, when you make a Charisma-based ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration. Roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add twice the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to do so after you roll the die for the ability check, but before the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail.

Additionally, when a creature uses one of your Bardic Inspiration dice to improve some Charisma-based ability check, it also adds twice the number rolled to its ability check.

Everyone has the right to live and die by the sword. But death by poison? That's reserved for nobles.

The College of Fangs train spectacular minstrels and entertainers, but above all, cunning noble household advisors. Often praised as elite soldiers, they strike in the most opportune moments, deceiving and slaying their enemies with their cunning silver tongue, social skills, and music. They would rather enchant, poison, blackmail, or assassinate than fight a fair fight.

6th-level College of Fangs feature

You learn the prestidigitation cantrip. If you already know that cantrip, you learn another cantrip from the Bard spell list.

When you cast prestidigitation, its range is increased to 60 feet and it requires verbal components to cast. You can make a Dexterity (Slight of Hand) check with advantage to conceal the somatic component of the spell.

Additional magical effects are also added to the list of available effects for the spell:

14th-level College of Fangs feature

As a reaction, when you fail an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, you can reroll, potentially turning a failure into a success. If you make a saving throw, whether the reroll succeeds or fails, you can convince hostile creatures that you failed until the start of your next turn.

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

Bards that study within the College of Feathers learn to draw upon the magical properties of goose feathers to channel their magic, imbuing the feathers with fragments of their own magic to bolster themselves and their allies. Feather Bards, as they are commonly known, enjoy the simple life, emulating a lifestyle of comfort, love, mischief, and fierce protection also found in many avian species—particularly the infamous gander.

Your attunement to the natural cautious and curious nature of birds gives you insight into the intentions and weaknesses of your enemies. Whenever you make a Wisdom (Insight) check to determine a creature's intentions, or make a Wisdom (Perception) check to seek out hidden objects or traps, you have advantage on the roll if a bird is within 30 feet of your target.

You learn the following powers for you Avian Infusion:

You can use your special feathers to create an aura of confusion and misdirection around you. As an action, you can infuse five of your mundane feathers with a concoction of magical effects and toss them into the air to create a swirling aura of color in a 30-foot radius sphere centered on yourself, which lasts for 1 minute. The aura moves with you, and it can't pass through solid objects. While this aura is active, you must concentrate on it as if concentrating on a spell. If you stop concentrating, the aura vanishes immediately. Creatures of your choice that begin their turn in the aura's radius or enter it for the first time on their turn must make a Wisdom saving throw versus your bard spell save DC or suffer the effects of the confusion spell. The effects remain for 1 minute, or until the confused creature leaves the aura's radius, or the aura ends. When the aura ends, the feathers return to you and become mundane again. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

If leather is a material, then why not skin itself? Students of the College of Fleshweaving make works of art out of weeping wounds, transform disfigurement into displays of transcendent beauty, and mould flesh into innovative adaptations inspired by the flora and fauna around them. A fleshweaver bard down on their luck might find employment as a battlefield surgeon, while the epitome of a fleshweaver's career is to be the chief facemaker to royalty, altering their visage and physiology through biomantic rituals and deft needlework.

You learn different ways to use your spiritual weapon. You gain the Unspool benefit below.

Over the course of 10 minutes, you can perform a surgical ritual on creatures that you can see within 60 feet of you (including yourself), up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). The creatures gain one of the following adaptations for the next hour. You choose one adaptation to affect all creatures:

After you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to use this feature again.

You learn different ways to use this spiritual weapon. You gain the Acupuncture benefit below.

When a creature uses one of your Bardic Inspiration dice, or fails a saving throw against your Suturer feature's Unspool or Acupuncture effect, it becomes 'soulsewn' to you for the next minute. While soulsewn, an ethereal thread connects you to this creature via a straight line that only you and creatures with truesight can see. This thread breaks if the creature is ever more than 100 feet away from you.

Bards who join College of Fools use crude stories, daring acrobatics, and cutting jokes to entertain audiences, ranging from the crowds in a tavern to the nobles of a royal court. Where other bards seek out forgotten lore or tales of epic bravery, Fools ferret out embarrassing and hilarious stories of all kinds. Whether telling the tale of a stable hand's affair with a duchess or a mocking satire of a paladin's innocence, a Fool never lets social decorum get in the way of truth.

Fools adventure to undermine the plans of the powerful and arrogant. Among bards, Fools are unmatched acrobats, and their ability to tumble, dodge, leap, and climb makes them slippery opponents in battle.

At 6th level you learn the vicious mockery cantrip, but it doesn't count against your total number of Cantrips Known. If you already know vicious mockery you learn an another bard cantrip of your choice. When you damage a creature with vicious mockery, you gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1).

Starting at 6th level, when a creature that you can see targets you with a weapon or spell attack, you can use your reaction to cast vicious mockery targeting the attacker. If the attacker fails their saving throw, they must choose another target within range of their attack. If there are no other creatures in range then their weapon or spell attack misses.

You can cast vicious mockery as a reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You have reached the pinnacle of the satirical performing arts. Upon reaching 14th level, you can combine your bardic magic with foolish antics to manipulate luck. When you make an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw with advantage, you can choose to automatically fail in comical fashion.

Once you've used this ability to purposefully fail, you gain 1 point of Fools Luck. You can have a number of points of Fools Luck equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). Any unused Fools Luck fades at the end of your next long rest.

When a creature within 30 feet that can hear you, makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend a charge of Fools Luck and impose advantage or disadvantage (your choice) on the roll.

The College of Fools is a motley lot, varying from bumbling beggars to the eyesores of a noble court, decked out in the finest eye-bleeding frippery. One can tell at a glance they are not to be taken seriously, but beneath the facade there is... well, usually, a fool, but also a sharp mind, quick hands, and an uncanny understanding of how to manipulate any situation. The College of Fools is tolerated much like an assassin's guild might be: a useful menace to society. Hiding in the brilliant outfits in plain sight more surely than darkened leather could hide them in the shadows, they gather information, poke and prod their enemies, and—just occasionally—toss a knife in the air and forget to catch it before it hits someone.

Starting at 6th level, your acrobatic mastery gives you proficiency in Acrobatics (or another skill of your choice if you already proficient in it). You can use your acrobatic foolery to tumble around the most dangerous places safely. You gain the following benefits:

Additionally at 6th level, when you use your Action to make an an ability check, cast vicious mockery, or make a weapon attack with a melee weapon, you can make a single weapon attack with a light melee weapon or dart as a bonus action.

Starting at 14th level, you can build off the success of others and encourage them to greater heights. When another creature scores a critical hit while within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a single weapon attack against the same target.

When you deal a critical hit or a creature fails a saving throw against one of your spells by 5 or more, you can use your reaction to take the Help action to encourage an ally to follow up on success.

You can expend a use of Bardic Inspiration to take one of these reactions on any hit or failed save, even when the attack was not a critical hit.

Bards who join the College of Fools use crude stories, daring acrobatics, and cutting jokes to entertain audiences, ranging from the crowds in a tavern to the nobles of a royal court. Where other bards seek out forgotten lore or tales of epic bravery, Fools ferret out embarrassing and hilarious stories of all kinds. Whether telling the tale of a stable hand's affair with a duchess or a mocking satire of a paladin's innocence, a Fool never lets social decorum get in the way of truth.

Fools adventure to undermine the plans of the powerful and arrogant. Among bards, Fools are unmatched acrobats, and their ability to tumble, dodge, leap, and climb makes them slippery opponents in battle.

At 6th level you learn the vicious mockery cantrip, but it doesn't count against your total number of Cantrips Known. If you already know vicious mockery you learn an another bard cantrip of your choice. When you damage a creature with vicious mockery, you gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1).

Starting at 6th level, when a creature that you can see targets you with a weapon or spell attack, you can use your reaction to cast vicious mockery targeting the attacker. If the attacker fails their saving throw, they must choose another target within range of their attack. If there are no other creatures in range then their weapon or spell attack misses.

You can cast vicious mockery as a reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You have reached the pinnacle of the satirical performing arts. Upon reaching 14th level, you can combine your bardic magic with foolish antics to manipulate luck. When you make an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw with advantage, you can choose to automatically fail in comical fashion.

Once you've used this ability to purposefully fail, you gain 1 point of Fools Luck. You can have a number of points of Fools Luck equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). Any unused Fools Luck fades at the end of your next long rest.

When a creature within 30 feet that can hear you, makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend a charge of Fools Luck and impose advantage or disadvantage (your choice) on the roll.

Bards of the College of Fortune prefer games with high stakes to soaring songs. These bards, sometimes called card sharks or high rollers, entertain with their rarely surpassed talent for games of skill and chance. Inside the casino or out, these bards push their luck to the breaking point and then a bit further.

Bards in this college have a reputation as instigators that isn't entirely justified. High rollers don't go looking for trouble, they just have a habit of provoking fellow party members into taking long shots that don't always pan out. Despite that, no bard has a better chance of helping their companions clutch victory from the jaws of defeat than a card shark. The smart bet is always on the bard of the College of Fortune.

At 6th level, when you complete a long rest^'24, roll a die of the same type as your Bardic Inspiration die (a d8 if your Bardic Inspiration die is a d8, for example) and record the result as your pocket ace. After a creature you inspired rolls a Bardic Inspiration die, but before it chooses to use your Push Your Luck feature, you can exchange the result of its Bardic Inspiration die with your pocket ace. When you do, the Bardic Inspiration die result becomes your new pocket ace. You must choose to replace the result before the DM announces if the roll succeeds or fails.

In addition, you can expend your pocket ace at any time to add its result to one of your own attack rolls, ability checks, or saving throws.

At 14th level, when a creature with one of your Bardic Inspiration dice makes an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw and rolls a 20 on the d20, you regain one expended use of your Bardic Inspiration feature. When a creature with one of your Bardic Inspiration dice makes an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, and rolls a 1 on the d20, that creature can expend the Bardic Inspiration die to roll the d20 again and must use the new result.

Bards of the College of Four Suits see games of chance as challenging questions of fate and predetermination. These charismatic players can see the threads of fate hard at work with every roll of the dice and card draw, providing timeless material for their magic and musings. By bearing witness to this magic firsthand, bards of this college believe that the future is something that can be directed, if not controlled. As such, these magicians, tricksters, and fortune tellers play along in a never-ending game against their future selves, strategically twisting luck in their ever-growing favor to force the hand of fate itself.

Starting at 6th level, you have learned how to draw more magic from your arcane deck and influence those around you. You can use an action to play a jack, queen, or king card from your hand of fate or hole cards to cast the command spell from it at 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level, respectively, using your bard spell save DC and without expending a spell slot. Once you play a card in this way, you can not do so again with that card from any other suit until you finish a long rest.

In addition, the range of your Trick feature increases to 60 feet, instead of 30.

By 14th level, you are an expert at using cards to influence your fortune and succeed. Your feature becomes more powerful in the following ways:

Starting at 3rd level, a bard chooses their Bard College feature, shaping the way you cast spells and interact with those around you. When selecting your Bard College, you can add the following origin to your list of options.

At 6th level, As a bonus action you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to teleport up to your movement speed to an unoccupied space you can see. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

At 6th level, you can use a bonus action to apply poison to one of your weapons. Additionally, all weapon attacks with poison damage deal an additional 1d6 + Charisma modifier poison damage.

Starting at 14th level, you can use soothing music to revitalize your wounded allies. During your turn, you can use your Song of Rest as a bonus action, allowing all allies that can hear you to roll a hit die, and healing for an additional 2d8 hit points. When you start a Song of Rest performance, if any creature that gains its benefit is currently paralyzed or poisoned, it can immediately make another saving throw against the effect that imposed the condition.

In addition, when a creature that gains the benefit of your Song of Rest performance makes an ability check or saving throw, it can add a 1d4 to the number rolled to the ability check or saving throw. Once it uses this 1d4 it can't do so again unless it gain the benefits of the dance of the again.

The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered their craft in the vibrant realm of the Feywild or under the tutelage of someone who dwelled there. Tutored by satyrs, eladrin, and other fey, these bards learn to use their magic to delight and captivate others.

The bards of this college are regarded with a mixture of awe and fear. Their performances are the stuff of legend. These bards are so eloquent that a speech or song that one of them performs can cause captors to release the bard unharmed and can lull a furious dragon into complacency. The same magic that allows them to quell beasts can also bend minds. Villainous bards of this college can leech off a community for weeks, misusing their magic to turn their hosts into thralls. Heroic bards of this college instead use this power to gladden the downtrodden and undermine oppressors.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to cloak yourself in a fey magic that makes others want to serve you. As a bonus action, you cast command, without expending a spell slot, and you take on an appearance of unearthly beauty for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). During this time, you can cast command as a bonus action on each of your turns, without expending a spell slot.

Any creature charmed by you automatically fails its saving throw against the command you cast with this feature.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

At 14th level, your appearance permanently gains an otherworldly aspect that makes you look more lovely and fierce.

In addition, as a bonus action, you can assume a magically majestic presence for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated. For the duration, whenever any creature tries to attack you for the first time on a turn, the attacker must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it can't attack you on this turn, and it must choose a new target for its attack or the attack is wasted. On a successful save, it can attack you on this turn, but it has disadvantage on any saving throw it makes against your spells on your next turn.

Once you assume this majestic presence, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Bards are known for telling the tales and ballads that laud the heroic action of others. While most are satisfied with this role, others strive to be the hero themselves. Many brave bards have joined College of Glory for such a reason.

Valuing bravery and decisive action above all, members of College of Glory strive to emulate the heroes of legend. Augmented by their magic, Glory bards cultivate larger than life persona and hone their physical abilities to match.

Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

You to take up the mantle of a legendary hero. Starting at 14th level, you can use a bonus action to take on a heroic form, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

Your desire to become a true legend will never die. Beginning at 14th level, you are immune to the frightened condition, and whenever you make a death saving throw you can choose to expend a bardic inspiration and add it to your roll.

Bards are known for telling the tales and ballads that laud the heroic action of others. While most are satisfied with this role, others strive to be the hero themselves. Many brave bards have joined the College of Glory for such a reason.

Valuing bravery and decisive action above all, members of the College of Glory strive to emulate the heroes of legend. Augmented by their magic, Glory bards cultivate larger than life persona and hone their physical abilities to match.

Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

You to take up the mantle of a legendary hero. Starting at 14th level, you can use a bonus action to take on a heroic form, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

Your desire to become a true legend will never die. Beginning at 14th level, you are immune to the frightened condition, and whenever you make a death saving throw you can choose to expend a bardic inspiration and add it to your roll.

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Whenever you use your Bardic Inspiration feature and decide to roll the d20 for Highs and Lows, you may continue to expend uses of your Bardic Inspiration feature as a part of that bonus action until you roll a 12 or higher on the Highs and Lows d20 or run out of Bardic Inspiration uses.

When you deal damage you may call 'Even' or 'Odd'. Then, you expend any number of your Bardic Inspiration uses and roll that many Bardic Inspiration dice.

If the sum of the dice rolled is of the parity you called, you deal additional psychic damage equal to the amount rolled. Otherwise, you take psychic damage equal to the amount rolled.

As a bonus action on your turn you may expend seven uses of your Bardic Inspiration and roll 2d6. On a result of 7 you regain all expended uses of your Bardic Inspiration and all of your expended spell slots.

To many, the College of Graffiti is a nuisance, a band of hooligans that vandalize the city with no regard for the law. But bards who learn to tag know that graffiti is the single greatest art form. Graffiti artists use the entire city as their canvas, placing murals of inspiration where everyone can see them and personal tags where few will notice. Theirs is a bold, creative endeavor that, while illegal, breathes vibrancy into the city and emboldens those within it.

Starting at 6th level, you can paint a target on a creature's back. As a bonus action, you attempt to magically spray a signature mark directly onto a creature you can see within 5 feet of you. Make a melee spell attack roll against that creature. On a hit, the creature is marked. Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature you have marked with a melee weapon attack, you can add 1d8 to the damage roll. Additionally, when a friendly creature makes an attack against a creature you have marked, you can use your reaction to grant advantage on the attack roll.

As an action, a creature can wash itself with soap or remove its armor or outermost clothing to remove its tag.

Beginning at 14th level, as an action, you can let loose a flurry of magical paint, coating every surface. Each creature you choose in a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or be blinded until the end of its next turn. Each creature in the area is marked by you, whether or not it succeeds its saving throw.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

There are few evils so frightening as the wicked witch. Living in the woods, a swamp, or the top of a tower, she imprisons, robs, maims, or murders all who come near. Bards know the power of a good story, and those following the College of Grandmother's Tales use the horror of the wicked witch to their advantage. They draw upon the fears of growing old, mortality, the loss of agency, and the inability to trust those closest to you to terrify their foes.

When you reach 6th level, you can use your action to summon a spectral witch from a book of tales, sheet music, or another storytelling device. It uses the Ethereal Hag stat block and shares your proficiency bonus. The hag is friendly to you and your companions, seeing all of you as her grandchildren. She lives for 1 hour, until she is reduced to 0 hit points, or until you die.

In combat, the Ethereal Hag shares your initiative count, but takes her turn immediately after yours. She can move and use her reaction on her own, but the only action she takes on her turn is the Dodge action, unless you use a bonus action on your turn to command her to take another action. That action can be one in her stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, she can take any action of her choice, not just the Dodge action.

Once you summon an Ethereal Hag with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, your terrifying words sting. Your Horrifying Performance affects creatures of your choice that can hear you within 30 feet of the target.

If a creature fails its saving throw against your Horrifying Performance, you can immediately use Have a Bite against it as a reaction. The target has disadvantage on the saving throw against Have a Bite.

Bards belonging to the college of gravitas have great mastery in conveying intensity, majesty, and dignity through their performances. They sway audiences with their melodies, movements, and intonation, causing onlookers to become susceptible to their words and gravitational magic.

These bards, though often solemn in nature as their craft demands, work well with any companions they accrue. They use their allies' positions around them to act as spatial conduits for their spells, while simultaneously disabling or propelling nearby foes around them.

At 6th level, your skill in manipulating the direction of performances has been amplified by your arcane prowess. You can use a reaction when a creature starts its turn within 30 feet of you or an ally that possesses one of your Bardic Inspiration dice within 60 feet of you to shift gravity, forcing the creature to make a Strength saving throw against your bard spell save DC or move up to 20 feet either toward or away (your choice) from yourself or your ally in a straight line.

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

Upon reaching 14th level, you can use your mastery of dramatic performance to cause creatures to stand in awe at your grandeur. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration to don an aura of grave power for 1 minute. As part of this bonus action and as subsequent bonus actions while this effect is active, you can force a creature within 60 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC or have its speed become 0 and be unable to attack until the end of its next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish your next short or long rest.

Since time immemorial, the College of Hanabi has produced the finest firework artisans. From craftspeople in workshops to conductors who orchestrate thousands of explosions in an intricate performance, bards from this college are celebrated throughout the Yokai Realms. They are more than simple artificers; they imbue each spark with a story, each explosion with emotion, and create an ephemeral tapestry of light and sound whose message moulds the mind of all who witness it.

Whether or not you attended the college itself or learnt the art from a backstreet alchemist is moot—you are an entertainer who uses bright colours and loud bangs as a medium. Perhaps you travelled with a carnival, bringing joy to a new town each evening. Maybe you are a fresh college graduate, seeking to conduct performances in the courts of the high and mighty. Or perhaps you were employed in the Silk Purse's quarries but turned mundane blasting operations into fantastical varicoloured displays, much to the chagrin of your foreman. Naysayers be damned, fireworks are a feast for the eyes, and besides, the explosions aren't that loud anymore. Maybe you should get that checked out...

6th-level College of Hanabi feature

Your expertise with fireworks lets you craft moving stories capable of influencing people's emotions and outlook.

Over the course of 1 minute, you can use 10 gp of fireworks to create an enrapturing display of sporadic bright lights and noise audible for 1,000 feet. You must use your action each round to imbue the light and smoke with your bardic magic, causing an enthralling story to manifest; if you fail to do this, the display ends with no effect.

At the end of the display, you can choose a number of creatures that witnessed it equal to twice your Charisma modifier (minimum one). Each creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC or be subject to the effect of the message with which you chose to imbue the display for the next 24 hours. Creatures that do not witness the whole display or that are immune to the charmed condition automatically succeed on this saving throw. Choose one of the following messages:

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

14th-level College of Hanabi feature

Your mastery of the art of hanabi can be seen in even your merest spark. Your Firework Display feature can affect up to three times as many creatures, and your Pyrotechnics are enhanced in the following ways:

Bards of the College of Harbingers are disciples of the Storm Lord, an otherworldly entity that sails between the skies of countless worlds, consuming the souls of fallen heroes. To enter the ranks of these champions, it is typical for an applicant to anchor themselves to a high place during a storm and then throw themselves from the edge. Struck and battered against the mountain or tower, the winds and rain crash and cut at their skin for three days and nights, until finally the Lord shows its favor, strengthening body and soul. Studying the stories of the fallen champions this great beast claims, you learn to call upon the Lord's power to strike down your enemies and to free you from mortal concerns. The skies will tremble before your performance and your prowess shall become legend.

Starting at 6th level, you are wreathed in graceful winds that accentuate your movements and strike down your enemies. You gain resistance to thunder and lightning damage. You are permanently under the effects of the feather fall spell, and your jumping height increases by a number of feet equal to twice your bard level. During your turn, you can choose to make a single jump that does not provoke opportunity attacks if the destination is within 10 feet of a hostile creature. Whenever you descend more than 10 feet during your turn, the first weapon attack you make before the end of your turn deals an extra 1d10 thunder damage and pushes the target 5 feet away from you.

At 14th level, your soul has ascended to touch the paradise that lies within the eye of the Storm Lord. You gain immunity to the frightened condition. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead and gain advantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws until the end of your next turn. At the start of your next turn, allied creatures within 30 feet of you can use their reaction to join you with a defiant war cry. If they do, they also gain these advantages until the end of their next turn.

You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Bards of the College of Harmony are masters of teamwork and bringing out the best in people. Often natural leaders, bards of this college sometimes favor coordinating the efforts of the party from a ranged position, while some choose to be on the front lines to inspire and encourage their allies.

Not only do their abilities allow them to increase the effectiveness of their comrades, but these bards can bind the group together in magical harmony, allowing each of them to bestow protection on one another and to share in the beneficial effects the bard can produce.

When you cast a spell that can only target one creature, and that does not have a range of self, you can instead target two creatures if one of them has a Bardic Inspiration die from you.

You can link your allies in perfect harmony, working effortlessly as a team to bolster each other's defenses. When a creature that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you is hit by an attack, it can spend its die to magically reach out to nearby allies. Each creature within 30 feet can use its reaction to grant the target a +2 bonus to the targeted creature's AC.

This effect is cumulative. For example, if two creatures use their reactions to grant this benefit, the creature gains a +4 bonus to its AC against the triggering attack.

Traditionally, the monarch of the kingdom chooses the High Speaker of the Minaret of the Speaker for lifelong service. The High Speaker's duty is to study the ancient scripts of the minaret that define its unique magic based on inflections of voice and use this knowledge to serve the kingdom. There are always a handful of apprentices who assist the High Speaker and train in the arts of word-magic. The High Speaker and the apprentices announce important information and call the city to action if needed. In times of war, the High Speaker organizes major movements and commands the Minaret of the Speaker that serves as a magical defense for the city

Starting at 6th level, you become able to converse with anyone alive or dead. You are constantly under the effect of a tongues spell and you can cast the speak with dead, speak with animals, speak with plants spells each a number of times per day equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once) without using spell slots or material components. Your spells that require your target to hear you can affect any creature type that has an Intelligence ability score of 3 or higher even if that creature is immune to being charmed or frightened.

Starting at 14th level, you learn to voice the word that shaped the world. As a bonus action, you can cast the divine word spell without using a spell slot or material components. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Bards of College of Horror are remarkably different from all other colleges. They are not the wonderful, cheerful bards that people are used to, but rather they are somber, unsettling creatures. Their influence intimidates people rater than charming them. It's hard to describe a bard of College of Horror, but when one enters a tavern, the music stops, everyone nervously looks at the newcomer. While they enjoy collecting songs and war stories, they especially revel in the acquisition of scary tales, ghost stories and creepy ballads.

At 6th level, you learn to become the center of attention using your supernatural ability to cause fear and anguish. As an action, you can initiate a creepy performance, which can be a particularly spooky story, a disgusting display of body horror, or simply an intimidating speech, which attracts the attention of everyone around you until the end of your next turn. Any number of creature you choose within 60 feet must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become paralyzed and frightened for the duration of the display. If an affected creature takes damage before the end of the performance, it is no longer paralyzed (although it stays frightened). A creature that is already frightened has disadvantage on that save. The performance ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).

Once you've used this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Also at 6th level, you learn to use your opponent's dread. When a frightened creature within 60 feet of you makes a saving throw against a spell you cast, it must roll a d6 and subtract the number rolled from the saving throw.

Starting at 14th level, you are the embodiment of fear. As part of using your Bardic Inspiration, you can force each creature of your choice that is within 120 feet of you and aware of your presence to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become frightened of you for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to this ability for the next 24 hours. you can use this ability a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), you can't use it again until you complete a long rest.

The College of Improv trains bards to overcome hurdles and roll with twists, turning the audience and the tide of battle to their benefit with swift, assured action. Improvisational players value their personal craft as all bards do, but they are more willing than most to step aside or pivot in favor of a colleague's own spin on a situation. Play on your feet: this is their motto to live by.

Magical influence is a key prop such entertainers can use to keep the scene moving and the audience on their toes. Whether subtly changing the tempo of a situation or throwing their own voice behind the call of another, these bards add in ways large and small to every stage they step onto (and, of course, all the world is one). Their talents are adapted easily into an adventuring life, where victory can hinge on a swift reaction to an unexpected upset.

You know how to bounce off of others and encourage their displays with complementary acts of your own. When a friendly creature that you can see or hear within 60 feet of you takes an action, you can use your reaction to make a single weapon attack or cast a spell. The spell's level must be no higher than your bard level divided by 3, up to a maximum of a 5th-level spell, and must have a casting time of 1 action.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of 0 times). You regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

By shouting a magically charged command as an action, you can influence the world around you to end a scene and start something fresh. Creatures you choose within 90 feet that can see or hear you must make a new Dexterity check to determine their place in the initiative order. Friendly creatures with an original initiative of lower than your bard level can add your Charisma modifier (a minimum bonus of 1) to the new roll. The initiative order begins again, starting from the new highest initiative, immediately following your turn.

Once you have used this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

Bards pick up all sorts of information as they travel the land. Some bards focus on a certain type of information, like epic poetry, love ballads, or bawdy drinking songs. Others, however, turn to the shadowy occupation of investigating crimes. These bards use their knack for gathering information to learn about criminals and vigilantes, their tactics, and their weaknesses. Some work with agents of the law to catch criminals, but shadier members of this college use their dark knowledge to emulate the malefactors they have studied for so long.

Starting at 6th level, you can extend your knowledge of criminal behavior to your companions. When a creature that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you is damaged by a hostile creature's attack, it can use its reaction to roll that die and reduce the damage by twice the number rolled. If this reduces the damage of the attack to 0, the creature you inspired can make one melee attack against its attacker as part of the same reaction.

Starting at 14th level, when a creature fails a saving throw against one of your bard spells, you can designate it as your mark for 24 hours. You know the direction to your mark at all times unless it is within an antimagic field, it is protected by an effect that prevents scrying such as nondetection, or there is a barrier of lead at least 1 inch thick between you.

In addition, whenever your mark makes an attack roll, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to subtract the number rolled from the mark's attack roll. Alternatively, whenever you make a saving throw against a spell or magical effect from your mark, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to add the number rolled to your saving throw. You can choose to expend the Bardic Inspiration after the attack or saving throw is rolled but before the outcome is determined.

Consummate humorists, acrobats, and orators, bards of the College of Jesters can often be found in royal courts and livening up the local tavern. These bards specialize in truth through biting humor, rather than stories or sonnets, and compliment their razor wits with acrobatic stunts and other feats of showmanship. When among nobility, jesters offer off-kilter wisdom and fierce satire in equal measures. Among their peers, jesters make fine companions, as long as you can take a joke.

By 6th level, you are a renowned and daring juggler. You can use your bonus action to start juggling a number of thrown weapons up to twice your proficiency bonus. Once on each of your turns, when you take the Attack action to throw a weapon, move out of a creature's reach, or cast the vicious mockery cantrip, you can make one ranged weapon attack against a creature you can see using one of your juggled weapons.

Starting at 14th level, you can perform a climactic stunt, conclude a stirring oration, or bring a song to a close with pizzazz. When you use this feature, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action. You can't use this feature on the first round of combat. Once you use this feature, you can't take actions or bonus actions on your following turn.

Many bards learn of the arcane arts and the skills of the world from books or teachers, but some learn their way about the world by making their way about the world, embarking on journeys like the heroes they tell tales of.

Starting at 6th level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to transport yourself or one willing creature within 30 feet of you that you can see. You teleport the target up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see, and the target can use its reaction to make an opportunity attack against a creature within its reach.

Also, when a willing creature you can see within 30 feet of you is hit with a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to teleport it up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see, forcing the attacker to reroll the attack and use the new result instead.

You can only use this feature up to a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum once). You regain all expended usages when you finish a long rest.

When you reach 14th level, you learn how to dance to a magical tune that teleports you around. You can use a bonus action on your turn to activate this ability.

For 1 minute, at the beginning and end of each of your turns, you may choose to instantly teleport up to 10 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn't exceed what you can carry.

You can also bring one willing creature of your size or smaller who is carrying gear up to its carrying capacity. The creature must be within 5 feet of you when you teleport, and must also teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of your destination.

You can only use this feature up to three times. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Bards of the College of Keys believe that performance can manipulate anything, be it person, magic, or machine. Their preternatural charm allows these daring performers to delve into dungeons seething with traps, assured that they can use their words and song to protect themselves and allies. These bards often become spies and infiltrators, since no lock can stand up to their charms.

Starting at 6th level, you learn to control vocal range and resonance of your voice to offset the magic or material mechanisms within security and surveillance spells.

When you use your action to disarm or dispel a trap, or when you make a saving throw to avoid the full effects of a trap or magical ward, you can choose to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and adding the number rolled to the ability check or saving throw. You can choose to use this feature after seeing the roll but before the DM determines whether the ability check or saving throw succeeds or fails.

At 14th level, you learn how to hone pitch and rhythm to disarm all nearby mechanical impediments. You can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to disarm all traps and open all locks within 30 feet for a number of rounds equal to the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Many say that it was a warden of House Kundarak that first mastered the techniques of the College of Keys, singing a song so beautiful that the locks of Dreadhold opened and closed with harmonious rhythm. Whatever the truth, the techniques of the College of Keys are a boon to anyone who faces locks and traps on a regular basis. Many masters of this path can be found in House Kundarak, but the elves of House Phiarlan orchestrate the Timbre Illuminous, and spies and thieves alike yearn to strike the Master Keynote. It is an uncommon path, and one that is very difficult to master, but riches await those who unravel its mysteries.

Starting at 6th level, you learn to control vocal range and resonance of your voice to offset the magic or material mechanisms within security and surveillance spells.

When you use your action to disarm or dispel a trap, or when you make a saving throw to avoid the full effects of a trap or magical ward, you can choose to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and adding the number rolled to the ability check or saving throw. You can choose to use this feature after seeing the roll but before the DM determines whether the ability check or saving throw succeeds or fails.

At 14th level, you learn how to hone pitch and rhythm to disarm all nearby mechanical impediments. You can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to disarm all traps and open all locks within 30 feet for a number of rounds equal to the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Bards of the College of Legends study the great epics of the past and the legendary figures whose mighty deeds were immortalized within them. To these bards, however, the true legends are their predecessors who composed such works while living out the adventures side by side with the heroes. Members of this college look to claim their place in history by penning their own magnificent story. To this end, they seek out worthy companions to join on adventures. If they find no one they deem suitable for the part of main hero, these bards are more than willing and capable of filling that role themselves.

Starting at 6th level, you know that every character is important to your story, and they will all have their moment to shine.

As an action, you can choose one creature that is within 60 feet of you that can hear you and is not the focus of your story. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die. If you choose yourself, you gain one Enduring Inspiration die instead. The chosen creature also becomes the focus of your story until the end of your next turn, at which point you can choose to keep it as the focus of your story or return the focus to the previous creature. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

At 14th level, the magic you weave into the telling of your story is enough to help keep its heroes alive.

When a creature uses a Bardic or Enduring Inspiration die from you to modify a death saving throw it makes and succeeds, it counts as two successes. If the result of the modified roll was 20 or greater, you can treat the d20 roll as a 20. Once a creature is considered to have rolled a 20 in this way, it can't gain that benefit from this feature again until after a long rest.

Also, when the focus of your story is reduced to 0 hit points, it gains one Enduring Inspiration die, if it doesn't already have one. Once a creature gains an Enduring Inspiration die from you in this way, it can't do so again until after a long rest.

Furthermore, your Enduring Inspiration die becomes a d6.

Many bards pride themselves on peppy music that inspires dancing and singing along. Bards of the College of Lofi Beats to Relax/Study To recognize that sometimes, you need to calm it down. When one of these bards is around, you know that we're just vibin' here.

At 6th level, your enemies also begin to feel the pure chill. You can use your music to calm someone who's just going too hard. When an enemy uses their reaction, you, using your reaction, can force them to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a fail, your beats nullify their reaction and prevent it from making any reactions (including this one) due to its relaxed state of mind. It repeats this saving throw at the end of each of their turns.

If the enemy fails this saving throw by 5 or more, they must make another Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. If they fail again, they fall asleep, as if effected by sleep spell, provided they can fall asleep.

At 14th level, you've become the embodiment of relaxation. Whenever you hear a song performed, you are able to perfectly replicate it, but only as slowed down version and with heavy magical reverb.

In addition, as an action, you can perform a song that is just so relaxing that your enemies have to give in to the chill. All enemies within 60 feet that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a fail, for the next minute, they can no longer add their ability score modifier to any attack they make.

Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. Whether singing folk ballads in taverns or elaborate compositions in royal courts, these bards use their gifts to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members might find themselves questioning everything they held to be true, from their faith in the priesthood of the local temple to their loyalty to the king.

The loyalty of these bards lies in the pursuit of beauty and truth, not in fealty to a monarch or following the tenets of a deity. A noble who keeps such a bard as a herald or advisor knows that the bard would rather be honest than politic.

The college's members gather in libraries and sometimes in actual colleges, complete with classrooms and dormitories, to share their lore with one another. They also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at self-important figures of authority.

At 6th level, you learn two spells of your choice from any class. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as bard spells for you but don't count against the number of bard spells you know.

Starting at 14th level, when you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration. Roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to do so after you roll the die for the ability check, but before the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail.

Masking—the practice of using masks to play a variety of characters in a solo performance—is among the most ancient artistic traditions of the Yokai Realms. Conjuring masks to transform their persona, bards of this college bring tales of fallen heroes, nefarious villains, and epic confrontations to life. Whether on stage or in the heat of battle, such bards perform as a whirling kaleidoscope of character, emotion, and magic, shifting between personas of solitude, war, beauty, and hope.

Some bards of this college see their masks as extensions of their true self, a magnification of their power in a specific direction. Others give themselves completely to the transformation, adopting totally fresh outlooks, personas, and even voices depending on the mask they wear. In either case, each mask grants its own special magic, and with the power to switch between them at will, bards of the College of Masks have the tools and talents to seize command of any situation.

6th-level College of Masks feature

Your mastery of illusions and trickery grants you the power to move yourself and others through space. While you are on the ground or a surface that can support you, you can use a bonus action to target one creature that is no more than one size larger than you within 60 feet of you. That target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your bard spell save DC or you both teleport, swapping places. A creature can choose to fail this saving throw.

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

14th-level College of Masks feature

Your mastery of performance and magic enhances your masks with incredible power. You gain additional benefits depending on the mask you currently have conjured:

Bards in the College of Masks (the masters of masks, as they have come to be called) are virtuoso performers who practice becoming the figure they portray, rather than merely imitating them. Bards who join in this college come to believe that all life is performed, rather than lived, and that to become an actor in this Great Play requires that one merely put on the metaphorical mask of another. To engage in this great stage drama, a master of masks carries with him a number of masks, each a potent magical artifact of a specific archetypal character or creature to allow them to better enter those roles.

By 6th level, you wear the masks of others wherever you go, even when others can't see it. You can use your bonus action to cause a mask you are wearing to become invisible or return to visibility.

At 14th level, you have become a master of assuming the archetypes contained within the masks. You can wear two masks simultaneously, gaining the benefits of each.

Bards in the College of Masks, known as Masters of Masks by other bards, are virtuoso performers who practice becoming the figure they portray, rather than merely imitating them. Bards in this college believe that all life is performed, rather than lived, and that to become an actor in this Great Play requires that one merely puts on the metaphorical mask of another. Because each person wears a mask every day, a Master of Masks carries with him a number of masks, each a potent magical artifact of a specific archetypical character or creature to allow them to better enter those roles.

By 6th level you wear a mask, even when others cannot see it. You can use your bonus action to cause a mask you wear become invisible, or return an invisible mask to visibility.

At 14th level, you are a master of assuming the archetypes contained within the masks. You can wear two masks simultaneously, gaining the benefits of each.

When you choose this college at 3rd level, you learn songs that are fueled by bardic inspiration dice.

When you join the College of Masks at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Slight of Hand and Deception skills.

You learn to further enhance your masks in order to aid you, choose one mask for this level to gain its benefits

You've mastered your craft and can take a final enhancement from your craft, choose one mask for this level to gain its benefits

At level 14, . The maximum number of uses of bardic inspiration that you can regain this way is equal to your charisma modifier. You regain the use of this ability when you finish a long rest.

Bards of the College of Mercantile are well versed in the artistry of cutting deals and enemies alike in order to come out ahead. Talented merchants, smugglers, and tradesmen alike all learn from this college in some form or another, using both silvered words and sharp cunning to inspire their allies and subvert competition. These calculated risk-takers travel the world to make their mark—and their fortune—by navigating treacherous landscapes, economies, and people. With even just a copper to their name, these bards are always worth their weight in gold.

By 6th level, you've learned how to briefly enchant a coin with divination magic. You can enchant a mundane copper, silver, electrum, gold, or platinum piece that you're holding in this way using an action. A creature holding the coin that knows at least one language can understand the meaning of any word you speak, and when it speaks, you understand what it says. In addition, you have advantage on the first Charisma (Persuasion) check you make when negotiating the value of a good or service with a creature that's holding or carrying the enchanted coin.

Alternatively, you can use an action to see and hear through the enchanted coin until the start of your next turn as if you were in the coin's space. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

The coin remains enchanted for 10 minutes or until you end the effect early (no action required). You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, whenever you cast a spell that consumes a material component, drink a potion, or use a spell scroll that's worth no more than 500 gp, there is a 50|50 percent chance that the component, potion, or scroll isn't consumed. In addition, you can use a bonus action to take the Use an Object action or drink a potion.

A strange breed of Bards the members of the College of Metal are known for their love of loud music and raucous, near-violent parties which often involve a strange form of dance-combat; a style copied by their more enthusiastic fans.

Such bards are able to strike hard against their foes, be it with their weapons or their music, empower their allies and perform a variety of different styles of their signature musical genre.

Starting at 6th level your music has become amplified via arcane means to inspire your allies to the core. A creature that uses one of your bardic inspiration dice may, before rolling, choose to use your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) instead of rolling.

Starting at 14th level your grasp of metal has expanded immensely, and you can channel several different powers with your music. As an action you may begin a performance that grants one of the following effects of your choice:

Unless otherwise stated your performance and its effects last up to 1 minute, and you must use your bonus action on each turn to maintain your performance. If you take damage during your performance you must make a Constitution saving throw, as if concentrating on a spell; on a failure the performance and all of its effects end immediately. If a creature succeeds a saving throw against your performance it can't be affected by that type of performance for 24 hours. A creature that is deafened or otherwise can't hear you is unaffected by your performance.

You regain the use of this feature when you finish a long rest.

They say those who follow the College of Metal follow a dark and fiendish path. They are mistaken. For the College of Metal is one that channels the power of one's loudest emotions to their ends. With their high tempo and thunderous music they fire up their allies and devastate enemies. Through their techniques these musical warriors turn sound into their weapon.