You can use a bonus action to heal yourself and allies during a short rest, gaining extra healing from spending Hit Dice.

If a creature that has your Bardic Inspiration die rolls it, the result can manifest as a mote of potential that enhances healing, damage, or checks.

Create a temporary nonmagical object or structure from nothing by channeling performance and imagination.

Animate a Large or smaller object to fight or assist for a time.

You can cast bard spells using Charisma as your spellcasting ability. You also maintain a repertoire of spells known rather than preparing spells.

You can inspire others with words or music, granting a Bardic Inspiration die. At 20th level, the die is a d12.

Choose any three skills. You add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that uses a skill you are not proficient in.

Choose three skills to become proficient in, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for those skills.

You gain features from the College of Creation, including the ability to inspire with the essence of creation itself.

Your creations become even more potent, allowing your animated object to defend and assist more effectively, and your creation magic to feel more commanding and lasting.

You can learn additional spells from any class, greatly expanding your versatility.

Your uses of Bardic Inspiration return whenever you finish a short or long rest.

You can use music or words to disrupt fear and charm effects in nearby allies.

You can add a second wave of magical creation, allowing larger or more complex temporary creations and stronger battlefield utility.

You learn two spells of your choice from any class, expanding your magical repertoire beyond bard magic.

Your object animation and creation magic improve further, enabling you to influence the field through animated constructs and greater utility.

You can create a Large object, or a 10-foot cube of items, when using Performance of Creation, and your animated performance becomes more formidable.

You learn two more spells of your choice from any class.

Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12.

You learn two final spells of your choice from any class.

If you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left, you regain one use.

If you do not know a piece of lore, you often know where and from whom you can learn it. You can usually locate a scholar, library, or archive that can help answer your question.