The college of doctrine bard is one who studied the hymns, stories and art of a particular religion. The lines between College of Doctrine and Cleric are blurred as those who go with these teachings are often as devout as any cleric.

Each College of Doctrine bard are not as varied as full cleric domain, as the Bard will often follow more closely with specific artistic tropes.

Level 3: Hymn of Faith

Your bardic inspiration can be used to enhance healing received to the target of it. Whenever a target of your bardic inspiration receives healing of any kind, they can roll your bardic inspiration die to heal by the rolled amount in addition to what they already received. If this would heal them past their hit point maximum, they gain that much in temporary Hit points up to a maximum of your bardic inspiration die (6 temp hit points from a d6 for example)

Additionally, if the target of your bardic inspiration hits with an attack, they can roll your bardic inspiration die to deal additional radiant or necrotic damage to the target.

Level 3: Student of Theology

Your studies of different faiths song, plays and poetry has made you very knowledgeable in such topics. As part of your faith, you gain proficiency in the religion skill if you didn’t have it already (or any other skill if you did) and then you gain expertise in religion skill checks. Additionally, if you are to make a performance check, you may chose to make a religion check instead if the subject of the performance is religious in nature.

Level 6: Divine Inspiration

You always have Bless prepared.

As a Bonus Action, you can cast bless without expending a spell slot, targeting yourself and up to 3 others (as if cast at 2nd level, but you must be one of the targets). While inspired this way, you need not concentrate on the spell, but cannot cast bane or another instance of bless during this duration without ending this one. You can do this once per day, or again by spending a 3rd level spell slot.

Level 6: Poetic Judgment

You always have the Bane spell prepared.

Once per Short Rest, whenever you cast the Bless spell, you may target 1 additional creature within range to suffer the effects of the Bane spell, they get to save against this as if you cast Bane like normal. This is tied to your concentration of the Bless spell. If you cast Bless as part of your Divine Inspiration feature, don’t count that use against your limited uses of this ability.

Level 14: Deus Machina

Your ability to Bless those around is is simply unrivaled. Whenever you use your Divine inspiration feature, increase the 1d4 to be the size of your bardic inspiration die. This includes the target of your poetic judgement feature.