This subclass is designed for those who want to be the skill-monkiest skill monkey of the party and would like to help teach their fellow party members how to be skill monkeys themselves. 

College of Tutelage

Bards from the College of Tutelage are focused on mastering their skills through practice and studious research. These bards usually take on the role of instructors at various bard colleges or other places of learning, as they possess a particular talent for guiding others in improving their own skills. 

Bard Level	Subclass Features
3rd	Studious Zeal, Enlightening Lecture
6th	Supportive Insight
14th	Grandmaster

 

Studious Zeal 

Starting when you choose this college at 3rd level, your bardic magic enhances your search for hidden knowledge.  Whenever you make an Intelligence check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1).

Additionally, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion. 

Enlightening Lecture

Also at 3rd level, you are able to quickly and effectively impart knowledge onto those benefiting from your Song of Rest feature. Any friendly creature who regains hit points as part of a short rest by spending one or more Hit Dice also gains proficiency in one skill or one set of tools of its choice. This proficiency lasts until the creature finishes a long rest or it gains a different proficiency from this feature.  

Supportive Insight

Starting at 6th level, when a friendly creature that can see or hear you fails an ability check, you can use your reaction to expend one of your Bardic Inspiration dice and allow the creature to roll the die and add the value to their total, potentially causing the check to succeed. 

Additionally, if you have expertise in the skill associated with the ability check made by the friendly creature, that creature can also add your proficiency bonus to the total.

Grandmaster

Starting at 14th level, you gain expertise in two more of your skill proficiencies of your choice. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

Additionally, any ability check affected by your Jack of All Trades feature gains a +4 bonus to the roll instead of half of your proficiency bonus.