I am trying to come up with a bard subclass and I have some ideas but am getting stuck on it.
The current idea is a bard college of chronicles.
Their thing is using the legends and tales of the past to aid there party in the now and also to record the parties current adventures for their own legends.
Like the themes are there some minor effects like having access to augury are there but am having a hurdle what should be the big "thing" to design it around.
Was wondering if anyone had ideas that came to mind seeing the above, I may be missing?
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Loex - A Lizardfolk Lvl 4/7/4 Hexblade Profane Blood Hunter/ Battlesmith Artificer/ Cleric of the Forge Arborea - A Warforged Lvl 5 Hexblade Warlock Archive - A Autognome Lvl 3 Old One Warlock ER15 - A Autognome Lvl 7 Binder Warlock
Well, the problem is that both the College of Lore and the College of Spirits both kinda already fill that niche. They are both all about using legends and lore from the past to influence the present in different ways. Lord bards do it through additional Magical Secrets, Spirit bards do it by conjuring spirits from the past. So, what makes your subclass different from those two subclasses? Answer that question and you’ll know what their “thing” should be.
If the idea is that the Bard would want to witness and document incredible adventures, what if they could make rolls come out more dramatically. Maybe an ability could work with the bards inspiration? Basically an ability that will either make successes more awesome, or failures more dramatic. My rough idea would be that when you use your inspiration, you roll it twice for a significantly larger number (an incentive to use the feature), but if the d20 roll is below 10, it's applied as a negative. It would need some tweaking to get it working well, but it could be fun.
I am trying to come up with a bard subclass and I have some ideas but am getting stuck on it.
The current idea is a bard college of chronicles.
Their thing is using the legends and tales of the past to aid there party in the now and also to record the parties current adventures for their own legends.
Like the themes are there some minor effects like having access to augury are there but am having a hurdle what should be the big "thing" to design it around.
Was wondering if anyone had ideas that came to mind seeing the above, I may be missing?
Loex - A Lizardfolk Lvl 4/7/4 Hexblade Profane Blood Hunter/ Battlesmith Artificer/ Cleric of the Forge
Arborea - A Warforged Lvl 5 Hexblade Warlock
Archive - A Autognome Lvl 3 Old One Warlock
ER15 - A Autognome Lvl 7 Binder Warlock
DM - "Malign Intelligence"
Well, the problem is that both the College of Lore and the College of Spirits both kinda already fill that niche. They are both all about using legends and lore from the past to influence the present in different ways. Lord bards do it through additional Magical Secrets, Spirit bards do it by conjuring spirits from the past. So, what makes your subclass different from those two subclasses? Answer that question and you’ll know what their “thing” should be.
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If the idea is that the Bard would want to witness and document incredible adventures, what if they could make rolls come out more dramatically. Maybe an ability could work with the bards inspiration? Basically an ability that will either make successes more awesome, or failures more dramatic. My rough idea would be that when you use your inspiration, you roll it twice for a significantly larger number (an incentive to use the feature), but if the d20 roll is below 10, it's applied as a negative. It would need some tweaking to get it working well, but it could be fun.
Alternate themes:
Surrealist - they are all about strange ways of perceiving the world, illusions, and extra-planar stuff.
Dancer/physical performer - they get movement bonuses, stuff involving forced movement, and athletics / acrobatics
Propagandist - flavoured around manipulation, insight, deception, and money.