Bard Subclass: College of Punk Rock

Introducing the Bard Subclass: College of Punk Rock, a brand new subclass for bards in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition! Embrace your individuality and rebel against authority with this exciting new addition to your game.

Overall, the College of Punk Rock is perfect for players who want to bring a bit of rebellion and individuality to their game. With its exciting new abilities and unique flavor, it's sure to be a hit at your table. So what are you waiting for? Grab your guitar, join the College of Punk Rock, and let the power of music guide you to victory!

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Bards of the College of Punk Rock are musical rebels who use their music to defy authority and inspire change. They embrace individuality and encourage others to do the same. They perform with a raw and energetic passion, challenging the status quo and spreading their message of rebellion through their music.

Members of this College gain proficiency in skills that help them read the emotions of others and intimidate those who stand in their way. They are also skilled in wearing medium armor, allowing them to move and perform with ease. Their music can create minor magical effects, such as causing flames to flicker or doors to creak. Additionally, they have the ability to boost the confidence of themselves and those around them, granting them advantage on saving throws against fear and charm effects.

As they grow in skill and experience, punk rock bards learn to harness the primal energy of rebellion within their music. They can unleash a burst of sound that shatters obstacles and enemies alike. Their music can deal damage to their foes, and even deafen them temporarily. They can also use their music to uplift and carry others, allowing their allies to fly above obstacles and reach new heights. With their powerful performances and unyielding spirit, members of the College of Punk Rock inspire others to join the fight against oppression and conformity.

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As a member of the College of Punk Rock, you embrace your individuality and use your music to rebel against authority. With your raw and energetic passion, you challenge the status quo and inspire change through your music. As you grow in skill and experience, you learn to harness the primal energy of rebellion within your music, using it to break down barriers and uplift those around you.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Punk Rock at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Intimidation and Sense Motive skills, and with medium armor.

Fight the System

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to cast the Thaumaturgy cantrip. Additionally, when you or a creature within 30 feet of you makes a saving throw against a fear or charm effect, you can use your reaction to grant that creature advantage on the roll.

Power Chord

At 6th level, your music resonates with the primal energy of rebellion, which enables you to unleash a burst of sound that shatters obstacles and enemies alike. Whenever you deal damage with a spell or weapon attack, you can choose to add your Charisma modifier to the damage roll. Additionally, you can use your action to create a sonic blast that deals thunder damage to creatures and objects within a 15-foot cone. The damage equals your bard level plus your Charisma modifier, and affected creatures must make a Constitution saving throw or be deafened until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Crowd Surfing

At 14th level, your music has the power to uplift and carry others, both metaphorically and literally. Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more allies, you can choose to have the spell affect one additional ally within 30 feet of you for each spell level above 1st. Additionally, you can use your action to become weightless and hover above the ground, allowing you to move at your flying speed and pass over obstacles and creatures as if they were difficult terrain. This effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma modifier, and ends if you are hit by an attack or if you end your turn in mid-air. When you use your action to to lift a willing creature no more than one size category larger than yourself within 30 feet of you.

Once you or an ally are lifted in this way, you can’t do so again until completing a short or long rest.