Bard

Bard: Bardic College: College of Valour

Bards of the College of Valor are daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the past to inspire a new generation of heroes. These bards gather in mead halls or around great bonfires to sing the deeds of the mighty, both past and present.

College of Valour Features

Valour Proficiencies

When you join the College of Valor at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium armour, shields, and martial weapons.

Armoured Casting

You ignore spell failure from armour when you cast bard spells wearing medium armour.

Combat Inspiration

Also at 3rd level, you learn to inspire others in battle. A creature inspired by your ‘bardic performance’ can expend the dice for these additional benefits:

•          If the creature hits another creature with a weapon, it can expend the dice to add the number rolled to the weapon’s damage roll.

•          When hit by an attack, the creature can roll the bardic performance dice as a reaction and add the number rolled to its AC against the attack, potentially changing a hit into a miss.

If an inspired creature uses its bardic performance die in these way, the effect also ends the ‘bardic performance’ for that creature.

War Chants

Starting at 6th level, while you are concentrating on a spell or an effect that requires you to maintain concentration, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn. You do not gain this benefit if you already have the extra attack class feature.

Also, you can also add your proficiency bonus to saving throws to maintain concentration on spells and abilities if you are not already proficient in Constitution saving throws.

Battle Magic

At 18th level, you have mastered the art of weaving spellcasting and weapon use into a single harmonious act. When you use your action or bonus action to cast a spell or expend one of your bardic performance dice, you can make one weapon attack immediately after that action or bonus action.