Bard

Bard: Bardic College: College of Swords

Bards of the College of Swords are known as dashing swordsmen or daring fencers. They entertain through daring feats of weapon prowess. While they use their weapon skills to entertain, they are also highly trained and skilled warriors in their own right.

College of Swords Features

Fencer’s Proficiencies

When you join the College of Swords at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with all finesse weapons.

Spellcasting Focus

If you’re proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon you are wielding, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

Dashing Flourish

At 3rd level, you learn to conduct dashing displays of martial prowess and speed using charm and wit to catch your enemies off guard. This feature grants you two abilities: defensive flourish and blade flourish.

Defensive Flourish

When you use a reaction to parry with a finesse weapon, can expend a bardic performance die. If you do so, you add your Charisma modifier to your armour class when you use the parry weapon property instead of the property’s normal bonus and the triggering creature takes damage equal to the number you roll on the bardic performance dice.

Blade Flourish

Whenever you attack a creature, you can expend a bardic performance dice to gain the following benefits until the end of your turn:

•          Your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

•          You can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for melee attacks and damage rolls with finesse weapons.

One weapon attack you make before the end of your turn also gains one of the following benefits:

•          Slashing Flourish. The weapon deals extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you. The damage equals the number you roll on the bardic performance dice.

•          Mobile Flourish. The weapon to deals extra damage to the target you hit. The damage equals the number you roll on the bardic performance dice. You can also push the target up to 10 feet away from you. You can then immediately move up to your walking speed to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target.

Swift Flourish

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you use you blade flourish ability as part of your attack action.

Master's Flourish

Starting at 18th level, whenever you use your blade flourish ability, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a bardic performance dice. You can also add either ‘slashing flourish’ or ‘mobile flourish’ too all attacks you make on a turn.