Role: Gifted · Resource: Spotlight
Performers who invoke magic through song, dance and verse. A versatile Charisma caster with lots of buffs and support options, expert at inspiring allies and disheartening foes. Their buffs also debuff. Signature ideas: Inspiration and Encore (an Encore that refreshes each scene).
- Primary abilities: Charisma, Dexterity
- Class dice: d8
Proficiencies
- Ability proficiency level increase (choose two): Dexterity, Charisma, Resolve
- Skills: Choose any two
- Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, shortbows, shortswords, rapiers
- Tools: Three musical instruments of your choice
- Armor: Light armor
Class features
Bardic Inspiration [1AP]. Choose a creature other than yourself within 60 feet who can hear you. It gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6. Once within the next 10 minutes, it can roll the die and add it to one roll, check or action die. Once rolled, the die is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
Spellcasting. Not written yet. See Spellcasting.
Tier abilities are still the blank Class Template.
Bard ideas from the Additional Info notes
Staccato and Pentameter (ability or subclass names, not written yet).
Subclasses (Concert of ___)
| Chapter 4 | Class roles |
|---|---|
| Lore | Lore |
| Blades | Blades |
| Eloquence | Eloquence |
| the Jester | the Maestro |
| the Satire |
Expansion subclasses
Lore · Valor & Swords / Dervish · Eloquence (Whispers & Satire) · the Maestro · the Jester · the Dancer · Glamour / Opulence · Theatrics / Performance · the Warchanter · the Dragonsong Lyrist · Heroism · the Playwright · the Songseeker:
- Song of Arcane Power: spend 2 AP on a Perform check for a bonus to spell power on your next spell.
- Song of Timelessness: a Perform check to suspend a character in timelessness.
- Song of Cosmic Fire: not written yet.
“The Show Must Go On” is a final (capstone) ability. Maybe make one subclass like Medabots.