College of Puppetry

Bards of this college utilize their innate magic to control the creatures and world around them to best suit their needs. The performances used by the bards can range from puppetry itself or jerking or elegant music invoking the feel of movement.

Twitching Strings

Your nature for control allows you greater control over your body.

At 3rd level, you gain a bonus to your Initiative Bonus equal to your Charisma modifier.

Puppeteers Will

You learn to further manipulate enemies into falling prey to your schemes.

Also at 3rd level, you learn how to hinder those who attempt to avoid your spells, whenever you cast a spell that causes the charmed or frightened that targets at least one creature and requires a saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to impose a penalty on the saving throw the creatures make against said spell equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration dice, if the spell affects multiple creatures you can spend an additional use of Bardic Inspiration so that all of them receive this same penalty.

Protection from Control

Your ability to control others has by extension made you highly resistant to attempts to be controlled.

At 6th level, you gain immunity to the charmed and frightened conditions and you additionally gain resistance to Psychic damage.

Master Puppeteer

Your magic meld itself perfectly to you ability to manipulate causing your to have fine tuned your abilities to the point of perfection.

Additionally Starting at 14th level, when you roll the penalty for your Puppeteers Will ability you can cause it to be your Charisma modifier rather than the value rolled, furthermore it no longer requires two Bardic Inspiration die to be consumed when targeting multiple creatures.