Bard

Source: Nightfell © Angelo Peluso & Mana Project Studio 2021.

Convulsive Rhapsody

At 3rd level, you can force your opponents to dance, often frantically, following the rhythm of your music. When a hostile creature begins its turn within 30 feet of you, you can use your Reaction and spend a Bardic Inspiration die to use this feature and perform a bizarre melody. The target creature will have its speed halved and Disadvantage on Dexterity Saving Throws and Disadvantage on the first attack of each turn, for as long as the effect lasts. The Convulsive Rhapsody continues for a number of rounds equal to the result of the Bardic Inspiration dice spent.

Notes of Ancient Traditions

At 3rd level, you can use your music to support the exorcism of dark forces and to pass on religious dogmas and otherwise forgotten folk traditions. As an action you must continuously play your instrument for no less than 10 minutes to perform this ancient tune. Up to four targets who can hear this melody, full of memories of the land and of the ancestors, will have Advantage on Intelligence (Religion) checks for 8 hours. This feature can be used once, then you regain its use after you complete a long rest.

Irrepressible Dance

At 6th level, your coordination of movements and sense of rhythm improve significantly, allowing the following maneuvers to be carried out:

• Moving, during your turn, by at least 20 feet but finishing the movement no more than 10 feet from the starting point, you can use a bonus action to force a target that you can see within 10 feet to make a successful Wisdom Saving Throw (the DC is the same as your spells’) or instinctively emulate your convulsive movements: you can move the target 10 feet in any direction; this movement causes Opportunity Attacks.
• When you use your action to perform a Dodge and you move at least 20 feet during your turn but finishing the movement no more than 10 feet from the starting point, the bard can make a melee weapon attack as a bonus action; you may spend a Bardic Inspiration dice and add it to the damage of this attack.
• When you take the Disengage action, your speed increases by 10 feet.

Dance of Swords

At 14th level, your dance becomes indistinguishable from a fencing exercise. During your turn, you can spend a Bardic Inspiration die to increase your speed by 20 feet until the end of your turn. If you perform an attack action on this turn, you can make a single melee weapon attack against each target that is within the reach of your weapon at any point during your movement for the turn. Each attack made in this way has a damage bonus equal to your Charisma modifier. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity from targets hit by your attack.

Source: The Warriors Codex

Flawless

When you join the College of Passion at 3rd level, your skill and grace make you difficult to strike. When you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield, your Armor Class equals13 + your Charisma modifier.

Lovestruck

Also at 3rd level, you choose one style of combat that exploitsattraction and desire. Regardless of style, you can use theweapons required to use your feature as a spellcasting focus. Cupid. You gain proficiency in greatbows, longbows, and recurve bows. When you damage a creature with one of those weapons (or a shortbow), you can expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration and force the target to make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the target is charmed by one creature of your choice (other than you) that both you and it can see for 1minute, or until it takes damage. While charmed in this way, the target is also paralyzed. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Pole Dancer. You gain proficiency in glaives, guisarmes, halberds, lances, lucernes, pikes, pollaxes, ranseurs, and spears. If you grant a Bardic Inspiration die to a creature while wielding one of those weapons (or a boar spear or quarterstaff), the target gains temporary hit points equal to twice your Charisma modifier + your bard level. Seven Veils. You gain proficiency in scimitars. When wielding a melee weapon in each hand, you can use an action and expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to dazzle a hostile creature that can see you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC. On a failed save, the target is charmed by you for 1 minute, or until you damage it. Whether the target succeeds or fails on the save, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack against it. In addition, when you hit a creature that you have charmed with an attack, the hit is a critical hit. Regardless of your choice, you can use a clothing accessory on your person such as a ribbon, veil, or scarf as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

Extra Attack

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

Killing With Kindness

At 14th level, you gain a new feature based on your choice at3rd level. You must be wielding a weapon listed in your choiceof Lovestruck to use these features. Cupid: Love’s Wings. You can use a bonus action and expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to sprout massive feathered wings from your shoulders, granting you a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute. Pole Dancer: Reinvigoration. You can use your action and expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to perform a dance weaved with magic that reinvigorates one friendly creature of your choice within 5 feet of you. That creature can use its reaction at the end of your turn to take the Dodge, Attack, Cast a Spell, or Use an Object actions. Seven Veils: Gossamer Kiss. You can use an an action and a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to pull illusion magic around yourself. You teleport to any point within 60 feet and make two weapon attacks, with advantage, against a creature of your choice within your reach after you teleport.

Source: Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Guiding Whispers

At 3rd level, you can reach out to spirits to guide you and others. You learn the Guidance cantrip, which doesn’t count against the number of bard cantrips you know. For you, it has a range of 60 feet when you cast it.

Spiritual Focus

At 3rd level, you employ tools that aid you in channeling spirits, be they historical figures or fictional archetypes. You can use the following objects as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells: a candle, crystal ball, skull, spirit board, or tarokka deck. Starting at 6th level, when you cast a bard spell that deals damage or restores hit points through the Spiritual Focus, roll a d6, and you gain a bonus to one damage or healing roll of the spell equal to the number rolled.

Tales from Beyond

At 3rd level, you reach out to spirits who tell their tales through you. While you are holding your Spiritual Focus, you can use a bonus action to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration and roll on the Spirit Tales table using your Bardic Inspiration die to determine the tale the spirits direct you to tell. You retain the tale in mind until you bestow the tale’s effect or you finish a short or long rest. You can use an action to choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you (this can be you) to be the target of the tale’s effect. Once you do so, you can’t bestow the tale’s effect again until you roll it again. You can retain only one of these tales in mind at a time, and rolling on the Spirit Tales table immediately ends the effect of the previous tale. If the tale requires a saving throw, the DC equals your spell save DC.

Bardic Insp. Die	Tale Told Through You
1	Tale of the Clever Animal. For the next 10 minutes, whenever the target makes an Intelligence, a Wisdom, or a Charisma check, the target can roll an extra die immediately after rolling the d20 and add the extra die’s number to the check. The extra die is the same type as your Bardic Inspiration die.
2	Tale of the Renowned Duelist. You make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes force damage equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier.
3	Tale of the Beloved Friends. The target and another creature of its choice it can see within 5 feet of it gains temporary hit points equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier
4	Tale of the Runaway. The target can immediately use its reaction to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. When the target teleports, it can choose a number of creatures it can see within 30 feet of it up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0) to immediately use the same reaction.
5	Tale of the Avenger. For 1 minute, any creature that hits the target with a melee attack takes force damage equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die.
6	Tale of the Traveler. The target gains temporary hit points equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die + your bard level. While it has these temporary hit points, the target’s walking speed increases by 10 feet and it gains a +1 bonus to its AC.
7	Tale of the Beguiler. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take psychic damage equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die, and the target is incapacitated until the end of its next turn.
8	Tale of the Phantom. The target becomes invisible until the end of its next turn or until it hits a creature with an attack. If it hits a creature with an attack during this invisibility, the creature it hits takes necrotic damage equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die and is frightened of the target until the end of the frightened creature’s next turn.
9	Tale of the Brute. Each creature of the target’s choice it can see within 30 feet of it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes thunder damage equal to three rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die and is knocked prone. A creature that succeeds on its saving throw takes half as much damage and isn’t knocked prone.
10	Tale of the Dragon. The target spews fire from the mouth in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking fire damage equal to four rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
11	Tale of the Angel. The target regains hit points equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier, and you end one condition from the following list affecting the target: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, petrified, or poisoned.
12	Tale of the Mind-Bender You envoke an incomprehensible fable from an otherworldly being. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or take psychic damage equal to three rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die and be stunned until the end of its next turn.

Spirit Session

At 6th level, spirits provide you with supernatural insights. You can conduct an hour-long ritual channeling spirits (which can be done during a short or long rest) using your Spiritual Focus. You can conduct the ritual with a number of willing creatures equal to your proficiency bonus (including yourself). At the end of the ritual, you temporarily learn one spell of your choice from any class. The spell you choose must be of a level equal to the number of creatures that conducted the ritual or less, the spell must of a level you can cast, and it must be in the school of Divination or Necromancy. The chosen spell counts as a bard spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of bard spells you know. Once you perform the ritual, you can’t do so again until you start a long rest, and you know the chosen spell until you start a long rest.

Mystical Connection

At 14th level, you now have the ability to nudge the spirits of Tales from Beyond toward certain tales. Whenever you roll on the Spirit Tales table, you can roll the die twice and choose which of the two effects to bestow. If you roll the same number on both dice, you can ignore the number and choose any effect on the table.

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Swords at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium armor and the scimitar. If you’re proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

Fighting Style

At 3rd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

• Dueling. When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
• Two-Weapon Fighting. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Extra Attack

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

Blade Flourish

At 3rd level, you learn to conduct impressive displays of martial prowess and speed. Whenever you take the Attack action on your turn, your walking speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the turn, and if a weapon attack that you make as part of this action hits a creature, you can use one of the following Blade Flourish options of your choice. You can use only one Blade Flourish option per turn. Defensive Flourish. You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die. You also add the number rolled to your AC until the start of your next turn. Slashing Flourish. You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die. Mobile Flourish. You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die. You can also push the target up to 5 feet away from you, plus a number of feet equal to the number you roll on that die. You can then immediately use your reaction to move up to your walking speed to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target.

Extra Attack

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

Extra Attack

Starting at 14th level, whenever you use a Blade Flourish option, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a Bardic Inspiration die.

Source: Player’s Handbook

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Valor at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.

Combat Inspiration

Also at 3rd level, you learn to inspire others in battle. 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. Alternatively, when an attack roll is made against the creature, it can use its reaction to roll the Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to its AC against that attack, after seeing the roll but before knowing whether it hits or misses.

Extra Attack

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

Battle Magic

At 14th level, you have mastered the art of weaving spellcasting and weapon use into a single harmonious act. When you use your action to cast a bard spell, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Source: The Warriors Codex

Shouts

When you join the College of the Voice at 3rd level, the power of your voice adds new spells to your arsenal and alters your existing ones. The spells on the shouts table are added to the bard spell list for you. When you attempt to cast a spell on the shouts table, you can expend a Bardic Inspiration die instead of a spell slot. Roll the die. If the result is equal to or exceeds the level of the spell, you cast it as a shout. Otherwise, the spell fails. When cast in this way, a shout does not require material or somatic components, and has a verbal component added if it does not already have one. Because your voice booms like thunder when casting a shout, all creatures within 300 feet hear the echoes of the incantation used to cast the spell.

Shouts Table

Spells marked with a * on the table are already on the bard spell list. If a spell can be found in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, it is marked with XGE.

Bard Level	Spells
1st	animal friendship, faerie fire*
3rd	dragon’s breath(XGE), earthbind(XGE)
5th	call lightning, fear*
7th	dominate beast, stoneskin
9th	dominate person, hold monster*
11th	harm, soul cage(XGE)
13th	draconic transformation, etherealness*
15th	dominate monster*, control weather
17th	meteor swarm, time stop

Tongue of the Ancients

Starting at 3rd level, the words of an ancient language give your magic form. You learn one of the following languages of your choice: Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Deep Speech, Giant, Infernal, Modron, Primordial, Slaad, Sphinx, Sylvan, or Yeti. When you use a shout, you speak the verbal component in this language. You also know the comprehend languages spell, and can cast it at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Thundering Yell

Starting at 6th level you can project your voice as a weapon. You can use an action and expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher and force each creature in a 30-foot cone to make a Constitution saving throw against your bard spell save DC. A creature takes 2d8 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed save, the target is pushed a number of feet away from you equal to your Charisma modifier multiplied by 5 (a minimum of 5 feet), and is knocked prone. The thunder damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Legend Rend

Starting at 14th level, you learn words of power that force the mightiest creatures to comprehend their own mortality. You can use an action to scream those words to one creature within 120 feet of you. If the target can hear you, it must must make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC. On a failed save, the target temporarily loses any resistances to damage and immunities to conditions that it has, and has disadvantage on all saving throws. This effect ends after 1 minute. The affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A creature cannot use a Legendary Resistance, if it has one, to succeed on saving throws against this feature. You can use this feature once, and regain all expended uses after you finish a long rest.

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Psychic Blades

When you join the College of Whispers at 3rd level, you gain the ability to make your weapon attacks magically toxic to a creature’s mind. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal an additional 2d6 psychic damage to that target. You can do so only once per round on your turn. The psychic damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 10th level, and 8d6 at 15th level.

Words of Terror

At 3rd level, you learn to infuse innocent-seeming words with an insidious magic that can inspire terror. If you speak to a humanoid alone for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to seed paranoia and fear into its mind. At the end of the conversation, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frightened of you or another creature of your choice. The target is frightened in this way for 1 hour, until it is attacked or damaged, or until it witnesses its allies being attacked or damaged. If the target succeeds on its saving throw, the target has no hint that you tried to frighten it. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest or long rest.

Mantle of Whispers

At 6th level, you gain the ability to adopt a humanoid’s persona. When a humanoid dies within 30 feet of you, you can magically capture its shadow using your reaction. You retain this shadow until you use it or you finish a long rest. You can use the shadow as an action. When you do so, it vanishes, magically transforming into a disguise that appears on you. You now look like the dead person, but healthy and alive. This disguise lasts for 1 hour or until you end it as a bonus action. While you’re in the disguise, you gain access to all information that the humanoid would freely share with a casual acquaintance. Such information includes general details on its background and personal life, but doesn’t include secrets. The information is enough that you can pass yourself off as the person by drawing on its memories. Another creature can see through this disguise by succeeding on a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by your Charisma (Deception) check. You gain a +5 bonus to your check. Once you capture a shadow with this feature, you can’t capture another one with it until you finish a short or long rest.

Shadow Lore

At 14th level, you gain the ability to weave dark magic into your words and tap into a creature’s deepest fears. As an action, you magically whisper a phrase that only one creature of your choice within 30 feet of you can hear. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. It automatically succeeds if it doesn’t share a language with you or if it can’t hear you. On a successful saving throw, your whisper sounds like unintelligible mumbling and has no effect. If the target fails its saving throw, it is charmed by you for the next 8 hours or until you or your allies attack or damage it. It interprets the whispers as a description of its most mortifying secret. While you gain no knowledge of this secret, the target is convinced you know it. While charmed in this way, the creature obeys your commands for fear that you will reveal its secret. It won’t risk its life for you or fight for you, unless it was already inclined to do so. It grants you favors and gifts it would offer to a close friend. When the effect ends, the creature has no understanding of why it held you in such fear. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.