College of Forlorn Love

Many bards believe there is beauty to be found in love. Bards of the College of Forlorn Love believe there is even beauty to be found in love lost as well as inspiration to prevent harm from the people they hold dear. These bards love to travel from town to town, regailing the citizens of the tales of lovers past. They can often be found helping two lovers be together be it through assisting them through trials in their love life or helping someone find the courage to tell their beloved how they feel. These bards tend to find themselves loving others fairly easily be it romantically or plutonically and they are rarely unwilling to express that love.

 

Language of Love

You gain profiency in Persuasion (Charisma) and Insight (Wisdom) Skills. If you are already proficient in either of these skills then your proficiency is doubled for that skill. You also gain healing word as a prepared spell. Upon reaching level 5 you also gain mass healing word as a prepared spell. These spells count as bard spells for you and do not count against the number of spells you know.

Lover's Protection

At 3rd level you can use your action to expend a use of your inspiration die in order to heal  your allies in one of two ways.

Lover's Encouragement: You speak words of encouragement to a target that can hear you within 60 feet of you, that target regains health equal to your inspiration die plus your charisma modifier.

Lover's Embrace: You can touch a target of your choice within 5 feet of you, that target regains health equal to twice your inspiration die plus your charisma modifier.

Lover's Serenade

At 6th level you can perform a song for one minute to expend any amount of inspiration dice. Upon completion any number of targets (including yourself) up to your proficiency bonus can regain health equal to the amount of inspiration dice used plus your charisma modifier. You can double this amount if you rolled a natural 20 on your performance check, no penalty comes from a low performance check.

Lover's Sacrifice

At 14th level you can use a full round action to grieve over the harm or death of a target. Doing so causes you to take damage equal to your inspiration die. This also allows you to revive the target as if using the revivify spell as well as fully restore their health and grant them temporary hp equal to your spell modifier.

This ability can only be used once per long rest.