The Sleeper’s Options · Bard
College of Lullabies
Failed Inspiration dice come back to this bard, so the table finally stops sitting on them.
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This subclass is sold inside its pack for now.
- 4 pages
- Screen and print editions
- Plain text for VTTs
- US Letter
- The 2024 rules for fifth edition
The cover. The rest is in the PDF.
Bard College for 5e
A lot of tables have a little pile of Bardic Inspiration dice that never gets rolled, because everyone is saving theirs for a better moment. College of Lullabies is built to get that pile moving. Its engine is Refrain, which hands failed Inspiration dice back, and once a failed die comes back, holding on to it stops making much sense.
The songs themselves are cradle songs, sung on a battlefield. One action shields your side and slows theirs down. At 14th level the First Cradle changes the question a fight is asking, and it becomes a matter of who sleeps and who is made whole.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- One full subclass on the 2024 rules, with features at levels 3, 6, and 14.
- Balanced against the strongest official 2024 subclasses.
- A play note and a d6 flavor table.
- A conversion sidebar for the 2014 rules.
- A screen edition and a plain-white print edition, both US Letter, plus the full text as a plain text file for VTT import.
- The PDF is bookmarked, with no password or lock on it.
Compatible with the 2024 rules for fifth edition. Includes material from the SRD 5.2 by Wizards of the Coast LLC under CC-BY-4.0. Full license statement in the PDF. Unaffiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Lullaby & Larceny (Options No. 2, $5.95) has all four dream subclasses in one book. If you want the barbarian who walks the same dream, that one is in Options No. 1, Dream & Ruin.
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No. 1
Dream & Ruin
A barbarian who teleports through a Rage and a druid whose wall fights back, both built to keep working through level 20.
No. 2
Lullaby & Larceny
A lullaby bard, a sleepwalking monk, a dream-stealing rogue and a warlock who answers to a court, all four for 5e.
No. 3
Ruin & Remnant
What's left of a fortress, an oath, a spell and a temple, in four subclasses for 5e.
No. 4
Keep the Vigil
The night shift, split four ways between a ranger, a sorcerer, a monk and a paladin, all for 5e.
No. 5
Hearth & Home
Home, and four people who keep it safe: a barbarian in the doorway, a bard in the common room, a cleric at the fire and a druid at the hedge.
No. 6
On the Hunt
The Chase, a one-page pursuit procedure any table can run, plus a ranger, a fighter, a rogue and a warlock to run it with.
