Alternate Bard Class - Alpha Version (Patreon)
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I've been plugging away at the Alternate Bard between other projects, and I've finally got a "full" version of the class to show you all! Included here is the Alpha version with levels 1-20, three Traditions, the Bard spell list, and a few spells!
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Bardic Inspiration is meant to be the primary resource of this class, offering powerful subclass features that help you lean into your subclass theme.
Like the Artificer, the subclasses of the Alternate Bard will greatly determine how your Alternate Bard will play in combat.
Fools (p. College of Fools) are all about slippery movement and soft taunting with vicious mockery. They also make great infiltrators.
Loremasters (p. College of Lore) I view this subclass as the Bard. They get buffs to Bardic Inspiration, and really lean into their Magical Secrets spells.
Skalds (p. College of Valor) are the frontline Bards. Not sure if heavy armor is too much for this subclass, but I figured you would need to survive on the front lines somehow. Their features are mostly about buffing your allies. An eventual College of Swords analog would be a self-buffing martial Bard (...Exploits???).
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Anyway... This is an Alpha version so I'm very interested to hear what you have to say in terms of feedback (just be nice).
~laserllama