College of the Brewmeister

Your time growing up in a bar or tavern has proved to be more valuable than any college could have. You not only learned numerous skills from patrons that came from all walks of life, but also gained immense knowledge of different beverages and how to make them. This is a bard ‘college’ geared towards those who want to provide entertainment but also a warmth and inspiring aspect to their party.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you take this ‘college’ at 3rd level, you have mastered a set of skills from your time in a bar or tavern. Choose 2 skills from the following options below:

• Perception
• Sleight of hand 
• Performance
• Persuasion 
• Insight

Bardic Brew

At 3rd level, with all of your background and experience with alcohol you have naturally built up a rather high tolerance. Luckily you have really honed your craft and created a truly remarkable beer. Your bardic inspiration now comes from your Bardic brew. A Bardic Brew can be handed to any creature which may sip the drink as a free action to gain a bardic inspiration. Any creature can instead use a bonus action to drink the entire brew and enter a Drunken Focus. 

• As a bonus action you can imbue an alcoholic drink you touch with your bardic magic.
• You can only provide enough bardic brew to fill a number of mugs equal to your charisma modifier per long rest. 
• If you give someone the bardic brew it will lose its effectiveness after 10 minutes.

** Bardic inspiration and drunken focus conditions cannot stack and only provide the conditions once per brew.

Drunken Focus

At 3rd level you can now enter a drunken focus when consuming a bardic brew. When you enter a drunken focus all other background noise is lost and you are able to concentrate on current tasks at hand with extra precision.

• When a creature has entered a drunken focus, they receive +2 bonus to AC, ability checks, and saving throws.
• These benefits only effect the creature for for (1 + CON) minutes.
• After the benefits wear off you must roll a CON saving throw to see how intoxicated you have become from the bardic brew.

CON save after 1 Bardic Brew/Hour

• DC18: creature becomes Buzzed
• DC12: creature becomes Drunk
• NAT1: creature Blacks Out

CON save after 2 Bardic Brews/Hour -  creature automatically Buzzed

• DC18: creature becomes Drunk
• DC12: creature Blacks Out

Automatic Black Out after drinking a third Bardic Brew/Hour

Conditions Table
Buzzed	Take Disadvantage on all Dexterity based checks and saving throws. Gain Advantage on all Strength based checks and saving throws.
Drunk	Gain the Inebriated condition.   **After a creature is no longer under the negative effects of the bardic brew they must make a DC10 INT check to see if they remember the events after it wears off.
Black Out	Creature will fall unconscious and stay unconscious for the length of a long rest or unless woken up. If the creature is woken up before completing a long rest they will be buzzed if an hour has passed, otherwise they will remain drunk.  **After a creature is no longer under the negative effects of the bardic brew they must make a DC15 INT check to see if they remember the events after it wears off.
Inebriated	Creature has disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks but believes they have advantage
Hangover	A creature with the hangover condition wakes up taking 1d6 poison damage and has 1 point of exhaustion

Magnificent Mead

At 6th level you have really become in tune with your brewing and magical capabilities. When using your brewer's supplies to create a drink, on a DC15 roll you create something exceptional whose elements have come together in an enchanted way. 

• Any drinks poured from this batch of Magnificent Mead can be imbued with the Bardic Brew for 1 hour instead of 10 minutes.
• Any humanoid creature that has ingested your Magnificent Mead becomes more susceptible to your arcane abilities. You are able to cast one of the following spells below per short rest.
  • Bewitch the Buzzed
  • Pacifying the Plastered
  • Drunken Thoughts

Master Brewer

At 14th level your brewing talents have become something of perfection. Your Bardic Brew is a drink that really inspires greatness within those that drink it. The bonus received for Drunken Focus has now increased to +4 for AC and all ability checks. Additionally with all your experience working and consuming these beverages, your constitution has become something of legend. You can now pull yourself out of a hangover by consuming another Bardic Brew. After the effects have worn off you must make another DC15 CON save and on a failure take 1d6 poison damage and receive the Black Out condition.