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# Bard
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Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds, create illusions, and even heal wounds. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the magic they contain.
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*You must have a Charisma score of 15 or higher in order to multiclass in or out of this class.*

##### Bard *Spell Slots per Level*
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Cantrips Known |  1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th
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| 1st | +2 |  Spellcasting, Bardic Inspiration (d6) | 2 | 2 |—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—
| 2nd | +2 | Jack of All Trades, Song of Rest |2  |3|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—
| 3rd  | +2 |Bard College, Expertise | 2|4|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|—	
| 4th  | +2 |[Feat](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O6m5RfunFvS8J0IQejs) |3|4|3|—|—|—|—|—|—|—	
| 5th  | +3 |Bardic Inspiration (d8), Font of Inspiration |3|4|3|2|—|—|—|—|—|—
| 6th | +3 | Countercharm, Bard College feature	 |3|4|3|3|—|—|—|—|—|—
| 7th | +3 | Song of Angelic Reprieve (d6) | 3|4|3|3|1|—|—|—|—|—
| 8th | +3 | [Feat](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O6m5RfunFvS8J0IQejs) |3|4	|3|3|2|—|—|—|—|—	
| 9th | +4 | Song of Angelic Reprieve (d8) | 3|4|3|3|3|1|—|—|—|—
| 10th | +4 | Bardic Inspiration (d10), Expertise, Spell Songs |4|4|3|3|3|2|—|—|—|—
| 11th | +4 | Song of Rest (x2) | 4 |4|3|3|3|2|1|—|—|—
| 12th | +4 | [Feat](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O6m5RfunFvS8J0IQejs) |4|4|3|3|3|2|1|—|—|—
| 13th | +4 | Song of Angelic Reprieve (d10) | 4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|—|—
| 14th | +5 | Spell Songs, Bard College feature|4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|—|—
| 15th | +5 | Bardic Inspiration (d12)|4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|—
| 16th | +5 | [Feat](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O6m5RfunFvS8J0IQejs) |4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|—
| 17th | +5 | Song of Rest (x3); Song of Angelic Reprieve (d12)	|4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|1
| 18th | +6 | Spell Songs, Bard College Feature|4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|1
| 19th | +6 | [Feat](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O6m5RfunFvS8J0IQejs) |4|4|3|3|3|2|2|1|1|1
| 20th | +6 | Superior Inspiration|4|4 |3|3|3|2|2|2|1|1
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## Class Features
As a bard, you gain the following class features
#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d8 per bard level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 8 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per bard level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
- **Tools:** Three musical instruments of your choice

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- **Saving Throws:** Dexterity, Charisma
- **Skills:** Choose any three

#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- *(a)* a rapier, *(b)* a longsword, or *(c)* any simple weapon
- *(a)* a diplomat's pack or *(b)* an entertainer's pack
- *(a)* a lute or *(b)* any other musical instrument
- Leather armor and a dagger

### Spellcasting
You have learned to untangle and reshape the fabric of reality in harmony with your wishes and music. Your spells are part of your vast repertoire, magic that you can tune to different situations.
#### Cantrips
You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn additional bard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Bard table.
#### Spell Slots
The Bard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your bard spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Cure Wounds and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Cure Wounds using either slot.
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You prepare the list of bard spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the bard spell list. When you do so, choose a number of bard spells equal to your Charisma modifier + your bard level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level bard, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Charisma of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell Cure Wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.
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When you complete a long rest, you can replace one of your prepared spells for another spell on your spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

#### Spellcasting Ability
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your bard spells. Your magic comes from the heart and soul you pour into the performance of your music or oration. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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#### Ritual Casting
You can cast any bard spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.
#### Spellcasting Focus
You can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.
### Bardic Inspiration
At 1st level, you can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.
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Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
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You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.
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Your Bardic Inspiration die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.
### Jack of All Trades
Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.

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### Song of Rest
Beginning at 2nd level, you can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize your wounded allies. When you and up to five other creatures take a short rest, you can perform in this way to reduce the time it takes to complete that short rest by half.
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Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again. You can use this feature twice between long rests at 11th level, and three times between long rests at 17th level, regaining all expended uses after a long rest.
### Bard College
At 3rd level, you delve into the advanced techniques of a bard college of your choice. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th and 14th level.
### Expertise
At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies to gain this benefit.
### Feat
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you gain a [Feat](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O6m5RfunFvS8J0IQejs).
### Font of Inspiration
Beginning when you reach 5th level, you regain all of your expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when you finish a short or long rest.
### Countercharm
At 6th level, you gain the ability to use musical notes or words of power to disrupt mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start a performance that lasts for the next minute. During that time, you and any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have a bonus to saving throws against being Frightened or Charmed equal to your Charisma modifier. A creature must be able to hear you to gain this benefit.

You must concentrate on this ability as if concentrating on a spell.
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The performance ends early if you are Incapacitated, cannot speak, or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).
### Song of Angelic Reprieve
At 7th level, you perfect the tune of your Song of Rest, enriching it with healing power. When you use your Song of Rest feature, creatures affected by it regain an extra 1d6 hit points.

The extra Hit Points increase when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d8 at 9th level, to 1d10 at 13th level, and to 1d12 at 17th level.

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### Spell Songs
By 10th level, you have plundered magical knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines, which you have learned as songs or performances you can perform. Choose two spells from any classes' spell list, including this one. 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.
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You learn two additional spells from any classes at 14th level and again at 18th level.
### Superior Inspiration
At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left, you regain one use.

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# College: Bladesinging
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Bladesingers master a tradition of performance that incorporates swordplay, dance, and music. The practice was priginally created by elves, and it has been adopted by non-elf practitioners, who honor and expand on the elven ways.

Though they use their weapons to entertain, they are also highly trained and skilled warriors in their own right. In combat, a bladesinger uses a series of intricate, elegant maneuvers that fend off harm and allow the bladesinger to channel magic into devastating attacks and a cunning defense. Many who have observed a bladesinger at work remember the display as one of the more beautiful experiences in their life, a glorious dance accompanied by a singing blade.
### Training in War and Song
When you join the college of Bladesinging at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with one type of one-handed melee weapon of your choice.
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You also gain proficiency in the Performance skill if you don’t already have it.
### Bladesong
Also at 3rd level, you can invoke an elven magic called the Bladesong, provided that you aren't wearing medium or heavy armor or using a shield. It graces you with supernatural speed, agility, and focus.
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You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration as a bonus action to start the Bladesong, which lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are Incapacitated, if you don medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss the Bladesong at any time (no action required).
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While your Bladesong is active, you gain the following benefits:
- You gain a bonus to your AC equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1)
- Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
- You have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
- Your jump distance is doubled.
- You gain a bonus to any Constitution saving throw you make to maintain your concentration on a spell. The bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).
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You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

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

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### Song of Battle
Starting at 14th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage of your melee weapon attacks while your Bladesong is active. 
### Song of Defense
Beginning at 18th level, your Bladesong's magic protects you from harm. When you take damage while your Bladesong is active, you can use your reaction to expend one spell slot and reduce that damage to you by an amount equal to five times the spell slot's level.

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# College: Eloquence
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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 powerful than objective truth. 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 entire audiences.
### Bonus Proficiencies
When you join the College of Eloquence at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.  
### Cutting Words
Also at 3rd level, you learn how to use your wit to distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and competence of others. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature's roll. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll or ability check succeeds or fails, or before the creature deals its damage. The creature is immune if it can't hear you or if it's immune to being charmed.
### Universal Speech
Also at 6th level, 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.
### Infectious Inspiration
At 14th level, 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.

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### Silver Tongue
Starting at 18th level, you are a master at saying the right thing at the right time. When you make a Charisma (Persuasion) or Charisma (Deception) check, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

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# College: Glamour
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The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered their craft in the vibrant realms of the fey 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, abusing their magic to turn their hosts into thralls. Heroic bards of this college instead use this power to gladden the downtrodden and undermine oppressors.
### Mantle of Inspiration
When you join the College of Glamour at 3rd level, you gain the ability to weave a song of fey magic that imbues your allies with vigor and speed.
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As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to grant yourself a wondrous appearance. When you do so, choose a number of creatures you can see and who can see you within 60 feet of you, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). Each of them gains 5 temporary hit points. When a creature gains these temporary hit points, it can immediately use its reaction to move up to its speed, without provoking opportunity attacks.
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The number of temporary hit points increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 8 at 5th level, 11 at 10th level, and 14 at 15th level.
### Enthralling Performance
Starting at 3rd level, you can charge your performance with fey magic.
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If you perform for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to inspire wonder in your audience by singing, reciting a poem, or dancing. At the end of the performance, choose a number of Humanoids within 60 feet of you who watched and listened to all of it, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). Each target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be Charmed by you. While Charmed in this way, the target idolizes you, it speaks glowingly of you to anyone who speaks to it, and it hinders anyone who opposes you, avoiding violence unless it was already inclined to fight on your behalf. This effect ends on a target after 1 hour, if it takes any damage, if you attack it, or if it witnesses you attacking or damaging any of its allies.
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If a target succeeds on its saving throw, the target has no hint that you tried to charm it.
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Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
### Mantle of Majesty
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 the *Command* spell, 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 the *Command* spell as a bonus action on each of your turns, without expending a spell slot.
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Any creature Charmed by you automatically fails its saving throw against the *Command* spell you cast with this feature.
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Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again.
### Unbreakable Majesty
At 14th level, your appearance permanently gains an otherworldly aspect that makes you look more lovely and fierce.
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Additionally, 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.
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Once you assume this majestic presence, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
### Avatar of Glamour
At 18th level, your mastery of fey magic makes you an avatar of glamour, giving you the following traits:
- The *Command* spell is always prepared for you. It doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.
- Creatures Charmed by your Enthralling Performance gain 15 temporary hit points. Until a creature loses these hit points, it can't lose the Charmed condition from that feature as a result of taking damage, unless that damage is from you or your allies.

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# College: Portraiture
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The College of Portraiture teaches magic as a form of visual art. These bards use paintings, collages, and other forms of art to create depictions of their magics, creating inspiring pieces infused with magic. Their most unique creation is the living portrait, the manifestation of the self in painting form.
### Bonus Proficiencies
When you join the College of Portraiture at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with painter's supplies. You also gain proficiency in Performance and one additional skill of your choice. If you are already proficient with thieves’ tools or in Performance, choose another skill proficiency for each proficiency you already have.
### Living Art
Also at 3rd level, your study of magic and visual art has taught you to create living art, called your Living Portrait. As an action, you can expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration to create a Living Portrait. It's friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Living Portrait stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the portrait's appearance; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.
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In combat, the portrait 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 portrait can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
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The portrait exists for 1 hour, until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to create a portrait again, or until you die.
### Inspired Art
At 6th level, when you create your Living Portrait, you also grant it one of your Bardic Inspiration dice, without expending a use of that feature.
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Additionally, while you are Incapacitated, your Living Portrait can grant other creatures your Bardic Inspiration, expending a use of that feature as normal.

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> ## Living Portrait
>*Medium Construct, your Alignment*
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> - **Armor Class** 13 (natural armor)
> - **Hit Points** 5 + five times your bard level
> - **Speed** 30ft
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|10 (+0)|14 (+2)|14 (+2)|13 (+1)|15 (+2)|11 (+0)|
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> - **Damage Immunities** Poison
> - **Condition Immunities** Charmed, Exhaustion, Grappled, Poisoned, Restrained
> - **Senses** Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
> - **Languages** understands the languages you speak
> - **Prof Bonus** equals your bonus
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> ### Actions
> ***Paint Splash.*** The portrait fires a splash of paint in a 5 foot radius sphere centered on a point within 30 feet. Creatures within that zone must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be Blinded until the end of their next turn.
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> ***Paint Whip, your spell attack modifier to hit, 15ft reach, one target you can see.*** Hit: 1d8 + PB Bludgeoning damage.

### Painted World
At 14th level, you can create great painted landscapes of the world and its creatures around you, instead of just one portrait. When you create your Living Portrait, you can cause one of the following effects to occur:
- **Blurry Image.** Your Living Portrait gains the effects of the *Mirror Image* spell.
- **Painted Landscape.** You paint an illusion on the ground in a 15 foot radius centered on the point your portrait appears, which lasts for 1 minute. Unless it succeeds a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, creatures can't move through that zone, perceiving it as extremely dangerous terrain.

### Magical Art
By 18th level, the your magical portraits can mimic your spellcasting. When you cast a spell of 5th level or lower, you can cast that spell through your Living Portrait as if you were in its space. To be eligible, the cantrip must must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell's current level.
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Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to do so again.

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# Collge: Satire
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Bards of the College of Satire are called jesters. They use lowbrow stories, daring acrobatics, and cutting jokes to entertain audiences, ranging from the crowds in a rundown dockside pub to the nobles of a king’s royal court. Where other bards seek forgotten lore or tales of epic bravery, jesters ferret out embarrassing and hilarious stories of all kinds. Whether telling the ribald tale of a brawny stable hand’s affair with an aged duchess or a mocking satire of a paladin of Helm’s cloying innocence, a jester never lets taste, social decorum, or shame get in the way of a good laugh.

While jesters are masters of puns, jokes, and verbal barbs, they are much more than just comic relief. They are expected to mock and provoke, taking advantage of how even the most powerful folk are expected by tradition to endure a jester’s barbs with good humor. This expectation allows a jester to serve as a critic or a voice of reason when others are too intimidated to speak the truth.
### Bonus Proficiencies
When you join the College of Satire at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with thieves’ tools. You also gain proficiency in Sleight of Hand and one additional skill of your choice. If you are already proficient with thieves’ tools or in Sleight of Hand, choose another skill proficiency for each proficiency you already have.
### Tumbling Fool
At 3rd level, you master a variety of acrobatic techniques that allow you to evade danger. As a bonus action, you can tumble. When you tumble, you gain the following benefits for the rest of your turn:
- You gain the benefits of taking the Dash and Disengage actions.
- You gain a climbing speed equal to your current speed.
- You take half damage from falling.

### Fool's Insight
At 6th level, your ability to gather stories and lore gains a supernatural edge. You can cast the *Detect Thoughts* spell up to a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier without expending a spell slot. You regain any expended uses of this ability after completing a long rest.
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If a creature resists your attempt to probe deeper and succeeds at its saving throw against your *Detect Thoughts* spell, it immediately suffers an embarrassing social gaffe. It might loudly pass gas, unleash a thunderous burp, trip and fall, or be compelled to tell a tasteless joke.

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### Fool's Luck
Jesters seem to have a knack for pulling themselves out of tight situations, transforming what looks like sure failure into an embarrassing but effective success. At 14th level, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration after you fail an ability check, fail a saving throw, or miss with an attack roll. Roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to your attack, saving throw, or ability check, using the new result in place of the failed one.
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If using this ability grants you a success on the attack, saving throw, or ability check, note the number you rolled on the Bardic Inspiration die. The DM can then apply that result as a penalty to an attack or check you make, and you cannot use this ability again until you suffer this drawback. When the DM invokes this penalty, describe an embarrassing gaffe or mistake you make as part of the affected die roll.
### Jester's Escape
At 18th level, you have the uncanny ability to escape from unfavorable situations. As a reaction to being by an attack, you can choose to raise your AC by an amount equal to one roll of your Bardic Inspiration die against one attack you can see. If this causes the attack to miss, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

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# College: Valor
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Bards of the College of Valor are daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the past, and thereby inspire a new generation of heroes. These bards gather in mead halls or around great bonfires to sing the deeds of the mighty, both past and present. They travel the land to witness great events firsthand and to ensure that the memory of those events doesn't pass from the world. With their songs, they inspire others to reach the same heights of accomplishment as the heroes of old.
### Combat Inspiration
When you join the College of Valor 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. It can choose to do so after seeing the roll, but before knowing whether it hits or misses.
### Guiding Whispers
At 3rd level, you can reach out to the spirits of the figures of the tales you tell to guide yourself 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.
### Tales from Beyond
At 6th level, the tales you tell are empowered by the spirits mentioned within. As a bonus action, you can 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.
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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.
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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.
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If the tale requires a saving throw, the DC equals your spell save DC.

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### Spirit Session
At 14th 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 be 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.
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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 18th 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.

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##### Table - Spirit Tales
| Bardic Inspiration Die  | Tale Told Through You |
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|  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. |

| Bardic Inspiration Die  | Tale Told Through You |
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|  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.|