College of Sails

Very rarely, a captain of a ship is a bard. Rarer still is that those bards are from the College of Sails. These bards collect bits of knowledge from stories about legendary ancient and terrifying sea monsters and pirate captains who went down in history and write songs, called sea shanties, about them. They might also steal some sea shanties from other sources. 

 

Bonus Proficiencies

At 3rd level, you have been on a pirate ship for so long that you've gained proficiency in Navigators tools. Starting at 6th level, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any insight check involving sea and air vessels, and you gain proficiency in sea and air vessels.

Master of Singing Ships

You have become a master of manipulating the way sea and air vessels behave. at 6th level, when you target someone with Bardic Inspiration on a sea or air vessel, you can instead target everyone on the vessel up to the vessel's carrying capacity, and if you do, the vessel's speed doubles.

Sea Shanty

You learn more ways to use your Bardic Inspiration. Starting at 3rd level, when you target a creature with your Bardic Insparation, you can bestow an additional effect on it, which lasts until the die is expended or lost. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses whenever you finish a long rest:

Captain’s Call

The spirits you sing about in your sea shanties help those you designate for protection. When you target someone with bardic inspiration, they gain the effects of the Spirit Guardians spell for the duration, as spectral pirates begin to form in the radius of the spell. you also gain the Spirit Guardians spell if you don't already know it, and can cast it once per day without a spell slot.

Ignore the Sirens

Whenever a creature is subjugated to the Charmed effect, you can bestow this Sea Shanty on them, ending the effect on it.

Repel the Kraken

When a creature with a Bardic Inspiration die and targets a Large or larger monster, that creature takes additional damage equal to the highest number on the die as if they rolled that number.

Steady as She Goes

When you bestow this Sea Shanty upon a creature, that creature ignores difficult terrain for the duration.

Song of the Sea

When you reach 14th level,  you can control the seas and sky with your songs. You gain the control winds, control water, and summon beast (sea and air beasts only) spells without using material components, but you must be holding a musical instrument to cast these spells.