College of News

Throughout the history of fantasy fiction, bards have served many roles. Often they are portrayed as those that record the most important events in the history of your fantasy world. However, many bards have the job of relaying that information to the common folk of your fantasy setting. These are the bards of the college of news. They travel from town to town, relaying the most important information to the most important people. These bards use their knowledge of the world and ability to peer into its current goings-on to help inform those around them. Bards of the college of news live to seek out the most important knowledge of the world's events.

Newsie Skills

3rd-level College of News feature

Your years describing world events to people has given you enhanced skills of the newsie trade. You learn two more languages of your choice and you gain proficiency in your choice of either History, Investigation, or Perception. In addition, you can also use a bonus action to cause your voice to become up to three times louder for 1-minute as in the spell thaumaturgy.

Reporter's Focus

3rd-level College of News feature

You employ tools that allow you to more easily communicate the news to people. You can use the following objects as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells: a megaphone, parchment pen and ink, or a scroll.

Starting at 6th level, when you cast a divination spell through the Spiritual Focus you can choose one ally within 30 ft. of you and give them advantage on their next attack roll or ability check.

Arcane Reporter

3rd-level College of News feature

You can summon a familiar that helps you to investigate what's happening in the world. As an action, you can cast the spell Arcane Eye without using a spell slot. This version of the spell can also sense sound as well as sight. In addition, the spell is not invisible and can be destroyed. Your familiar has 1d4 hit points per bard level.

You can summon this familiar up to 3/long rest.

Back to You

6th-level College of News feature

You utter a phrase of power that fills those around you with vigor and allows them to perform feats beyond their normal capabilities. As an action, you utter a phrase of power to one creature that you can see within 60 ft. of you, other than yourself. That creature immediately begins another turn as if it were the next round. In addition, that creature also gains advantage during this turn. After their turn ends, order goes back as if you had just ended your turn.

This action can be taken a number of times equal to your CHA modifier and recharges on a long rest.

Breaking News

14th-level College of News feature

You have peered deeply into the world around you to see the events that unfold within it. Now you can foretell events in far off places, as they happen.

If you have your arcane reporter summoned, you can immediately cast the spell Scrying through it using no material components or spell slots. In addition, this version of the spell can see into other planes of existence with a +5 for the saving throw. This destroys your arcane reporter.

As an action, you can open your mind to the world around you. For 1 hour, you gain 60 ft. of blindsight as well as advantage to all intelligence skill checks. This can be used once per long rest.