Always on

• Bardic InspirationLevel 1

  When Bonus action

  Spend a Bardic Inspiration die to lend a creature creative momentum, granting it a die to add to an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw.

• Spellcasting

  When Action or bonus action, depending on spell

  Use a spell slot to unleash a powerful illusion of sound, image, or force through your voice and imagination.

• Performance of CreationLevel 3

  When Action

  Create a temporary nonmagical object from pure inspiration, useful for improvising tools, props, or distractions.

• Bardic TrainingLevel 1

  You gain proficiency with light armor, a long list of weapons, three skills of your choice, and one musical instrument. This character follows the no weapons and no instruments preference in play, but still retains the class proficiencies ruleswise.

• Song of RestLevel 2

  Starting at 1st level, you can use a musical ability to help your allies recover. During a short rest, any friendly creature who can hear your performance regains additional hit points equal to your Bard level plus your Charisma modifier.

• CountercharmLevel 2

  At 2nd level, you can spend a Bardic Inspiration die to cause one creature, other than yourself, to gain advantage on the next saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn.

• College of CreationLevel 3

  You choose a Bard College at 3rd level. College of Creation lets you animate ideas into reality, turning inspiration into tangible force and useful objects.

• Mote of PotentialLevel 3

  When you give a creature a Bardic Inspiration die, the creature can also roll a d8 and gain temporary hit points or use the die on another effect depending on the roll. This feature represents that your inspiration carries tangible creative potential.

• Animating PerformanceLevel 6

  Beginning at 6th level, you can animate one Large or smaller nonmagical object you can see within 60 feet. It becomes a creature that obeys your verbal commands, using the bard's statistics for an animated object.

• ExpertiseLevel 10

  At 10th level, you gain Expertise in two of your skill proficiencies, and at later levels you gain additional expertise selections. Your doubled proficiency reflects extraordinary mastery in chosen fields.

• Magical SecretsLevel 10

  At 10th level, you can learn two additional spells from any class's spell list. These spells count as bard spells for you and can be of any level you can cast.

• Font of InspirationLevel 10

  Your Bardic Inspiration dice become d10s at 10th level, d12s at 15th level, and at 20th level you regain one use whenever you roll initiative and have no uses remaining.

• Creative CrescendoLevel 14

  At 14th level, whenever you create a nonmagical item with Performance of Creation, the item's size and usefulness improve dramatically, and animated objects gain stronger creative impact.

• Magical SecretsLevel 14

  At 14th level, you learn two more spells from any class's spell list.

• Magical SecretsLevel 18

  At 18th level, you learn two final spells from any class's spell list.

• Superior InspirationLevel 20

  At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration remaining, you regain one use. Your creative voice never truly runs dry.

• TraitElfDarkvision
• TraitElfFey Ancestry
• TraitElfTrance
• TraitElfKeen Senses
• TraitElfHigh Elf Cantrip
• TraitElfElf Weapon Training
• TraitElfExtra Language
• ResearcherSage

  If you do not know a piece of lore, you often know where and from whom you can obtain it. You are adept at finding hidden records, obscure texts, and the people who preserve them.