The Sleeper’s Options · Bard
College of the Common Room
The bard at the corner table, with small dice for everyone and the town's news before the travelers bring it.
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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
Picture the inn on a busy night. There's a bard on the little stage, and then there's this one, at a corner table, keeping an eye on which table is about to start a fight and knowing the one song the whole province half-knows.
In a fight, one use of Bardic Inspiration starts a Chorus. That's small dice in a lot of hands, and each one is a separate chance to flip a miss, a save, or a check that mattered. A third verse waits for when the room has spent itself. Away from the fighting, an hour with the regulars works through a short menu of questions. It can turn up what the town is afraid of or whose tab has run a week deep, and the party hears the news before travelers carry it in.
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.
All four hearth subclasses come together in Hearth & Home (Options No. 5, $5.95). For the rest of the line, look to No. 4 for the night watch, Nos. 1 and 2 for the dream half, and No. 3 for the ruin half.
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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.
