Hello, I am gonna try and publish this subclass soon but it looks like I have to learn how to do it.
I will still share it here meanwhile.
Feel free to comment. Please don't compare blade dancing to a rage, the dance aspect is flavorfull and a nerf to the subclass, it could be removed and the unarmored defense with a sword could still be there with the 3 bardic inspiration use and it would still be an all right balanced class. I would just keep the dancing them in the description and name of the college and it would still be not overpowered but too close to the college of sword. The dance is a key difference and is quite flavorfull even if a nerf overall.
Blade dancers are artist that have learned to make one with a sword while dancing and the result is that they are able to channel their spells through their swords in a way that pierce their enemies defense. Their art is both beautiful and deadly. They can be seen entertaining crowds of people, blade dancing for their Gods, selling their skills or simply helping others with their protective support. Sword dancers have embrased their swords with their inner inspiration and their prowess will mistifiate both crowds and foes.
Bonus proficiencies:
Weapons: scimitars
Bonus cantrip:
You gain the dancing lights cantrip
Partner in show:
Starting at 3 level, you can control the dancing lights to look like a medium dancing figure. When you activate the bonus action from the spell, you can also control it in a way that it is blade dancing against you.
Blade dancing:
Also, at 3rd level, you learn to dance as one with swords. You can choose to spend 5 feet of your movement to begin your sword dancing. Your sword dancing has no duration and you can stop it at any moment.
Requirements:
Wearing no armor and no shield.
Your Speed must not be 0.
Must not be dashing or hiding, else the dance stop.
Must wield at least 1 sword and you must have proficiency with any sword you wield.
While blade dancing
Your movement speed is reduced by 5 feet.
One handed swords you wield have the finesse property.
Your AC can equals 10 + Dexterity Modifer + Charisma Modifier
You can use your swords as your bardic spell focus
You got 3 different use of bardic inspiration
Evasion Form: When an attack roll is higher than your AC, you can chose to contest a (Dexterity) Performance check against it instead. Roll a bardic inpiration and add the result on your performance check.
Strike first : You can use your reaction to make an attack of opportunity with a sword when an ennemy in your reach is making an attack roll on someone other than you. Roll a bardic inspiration die and substract the result from the attacker's roll.
Delivering blade: You know a secret technique that you can unleash unto your blade through your dance and inner inspiration. As a bonus action, you can use a bardic inspiration and channel your inner magic into a blade. Until the end of your turn, as an action, you can cast and deliver a bard spell with a sword attack as long as the casting time and material components requirement is met. If you hit the creature, the spell is delivered and if there is an initial saving throw it is made with disadvantage. If the spell could have more than one target it can only have one target and if it was an AOE effect, it only affect the struck creature's space.
Sword dancer's reflex
Starting at the 6 level, whenever a creature that you can see makes an attack at you, you can use your reaction to draw one sword and begin your blade dance. Also, you can instead choose to gain advantage when you make a dexterity saving throw or when your are contesting a dexterity acrobatic check.
Perfect form
Beggining at the 14th level, you are becoming quite a formidable blade dancer and mastered your blade dance form. When you make a sword attack while blade dancing, you can choose to make a (Dexterity) Performance check and use the result as your attack roll.
As with any ability check, it cannot critical fail or hit. Any initial saving throw resulting grom that that hit is automaticly failed. You can only use this feature 3 times per long rest.
um... sorry, but a bard already gets longswords and shortswords...
On the comical side: perhaps multiclass into a martial class (any, even 1 lvl of fighter will work), then blade dance with a greatsword? (funny to think about)
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Hello, I am gonna try and publish this subclass soon but it looks like I have to learn how to do it.
I will still share it here meanwhile.
Feel free to comment. Please don't compare blade dancing to a rage, the dance aspect is flavorfull and a nerf to the subclass, it could be removed and the unarmored defense with a sword could still be there with the 3 bardic inspiration use and it would still be an all right balanced class. I would just keep the dancing them in the description and name of the college and it would still be not overpowered but too close to the college of sword. The dance is a key difference and is quite flavorfull even if a nerf overall.
Blade dancers are artist that have learned to make one with a sword while dancing and the result is that they are able to channel their spells through their swords in a way that pierce their enemies defense. Their art is both beautiful and deadly. They can be seen entertaining crowds of people, blade dancing for their Gods, selling their skills or simply helping others with their protective support. Sword dancers have embrased their swords with their inner inspiration and their prowess will mistifiate both crowds and foes.
Bonus proficiencies:
Weapons: scimitars
Bonus cantrip:
You gain the dancing lights cantrip
Partner in show:
Starting at 3 level, you can control the dancing lights to look like a medium dancing figure. When you activate the bonus action from the spell, you can also control it in a way that it is blade dancing against you.
Blade dancing:
Also, at 3rd level, you learn to dance as one with swords. You can choose to spend 5 feet of your movement to begin your sword dancing. Your sword dancing has no duration and you can stop it at any moment.
Requirements:
Wearing no armor and no shield.
Your Speed must not be 0.
Must not be dashing or hiding, else the dance stop.
Must wield at least 1 sword and you must have proficiency with any sword you wield.
While blade dancing
Your movement speed is reduced by 5 feet.
One handed swords you wield have the finesse property.
Your AC can equals 10 + Dexterity Modifer + Charisma Modifier
You can use your swords as your bardic spell focus
You got 3 different use of bardic inspiration
Evasion Form: When an attack roll is higher than your AC, you can chose to contest a (Dexterity) Performance check against it instead. Roll a bardic inpiration and add the result on your performance check.
Strike first : You can use your reaction to make an attack of opportunity with a sword when an ennemy in your reach is making an attack roll on someone other than you. Roll a bardic inspiration die and substract the result from the attacker's roll.
Delivering blade: You know a secret technique that you can unleash unto your blade through your dance and inner inspiration. As a bonus action, you can use a bardic inspiration and channel your inner magic into a blade. Until the end of your turn, as an action, you can cast and deliver a bard spell with a sword attack as long as the casting time and material components requirement is met. If you hit the creature, the spell is delivered and if there is an initial saving throw it is made with disadvantage. If the spell could have more than one target it can only have one target and if it was an AOE effect, it only affect the struck creature's space.
Sword dancer's reflex
Starting at the 6 level, whenever a creature that you can see makes an attack at you, you can use your reaction to draw one sword and begin your blade dance. Also, you can instead choose to gain advantage when you make a dexterity saving throw or when your are contesting a dexterity acrobatic check.
Perfect form
Beggining at the 14th level, you are becoming quite a formidable blade dancer and mastered your blade dance form. When you make a sword attack while blade dancing, you can choose to make a (Dexterity) Performance check and use the result as your attack roll.
As with any ability check, it cannot critical fail or hit. Any initial saving throw resulting grom that that hit is automaticly failed. You can only use this feature 3 times per long rest.
um... sorry, but a bard already gets longswords and shortswords...
On the comical side: perhaps multiclass into a martial class (any, even 1 lvl of fighter will work), then blade dance with a greatsword? (funny to think about)
Rogue Shadow, the DM (and occasional) PC with schemes of inventive thinking
You can blade dance with a greatsword it works. It just wont have finesse.
I edited the proficiency bonus, I am so used to see rapier bards all the time I forgot haha