College of Skalds

Bards of the College of Skalds are historians, lore keepers, and poets alike. Skalds serve as great leaders, able to bolster the resolve of their allies as well as capable combatants, well-versed in martial training. Some refer to Skalds as savages for their ferocity comparable to the stoic and heroic people of the stories they pass along.

Skaldic Spirit

When you join the College of Skalds at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and medium armor. Additionally, you can use any weapon you are proficient with as a spellcasting focus and can use your Charisma modifier for attack and damage rolls instead of Strength or Dexterity.

Ravenous Inspiration

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to lace your inspiration with ferocity, inciting strength into your allies. Your Bardic Inspiration can be used to do one of the following instead of its usual effects:

• When your or a creature with Bardic Inspiration from you deal damage to another creature, the attacker can expend Bardic Inspiration to deal additional force damage to the creature equal to twice the result of the Bardic Inspiration die.
• You or a creature with Bardic Inspiration from you can expend it to gain temporary hit points equal to two times the result of the Bardic Inspiration die.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks. The cantrip must have a casting time of 1 action.

Violent Inspiration

Starting at 14th level, your Bardic Inspiration becomes more lethal in the hands of you and your allies. You gain the following benefits:

• When you or an ally deals damage with your Bardic Inspiration, the target must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or they are knocked back 10 feet.
• When the temporary hit points from a use of your Bardic Inspiration are depleted by another creature, that creature takes an amount of force damage equal to your Charisma modifier.
• When a creature uses your Bardic Inspiration, they gain resistance to magical and non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage until the start of their next turn.