You can counter and disrupt hostile performances, charm effects, and fear with music and presence. As an action, you and allies within 30 feet have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed for 1 minute.

You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Spend Moxie to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

You can inspire others through stirring words or music. As a bonus action, choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet that can hear you. It gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d12, which it can add to an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw within 10 minutes. You have 5 uses, and you regain all uses on a long rest.

Your years of fighting in back alleys and taverns have given you mastery over combat styles that use unarmed strikes and pugilist weapons. While unarmed or wielding only pugilist weapons and wearing light or no armor and not using a shield, you can make a bonus action unarmed strike, your unarmed strikes and pugilist weapons use a Fisticuffs die, and improvised weapons count as having the Sap mastery property for you.

As a bonus action, you can dig deep. For 10 minutes, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage and ignore exhaustion levels below 6. After using this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest unless you gain 1 exhaustion level to restore it.

When you take damage, you can use your reaction to regain all expended Moxie Points. If you are bloodied when you do so, you also gain temporary hit points equal to four times your pugilist level. This can be used once per short or long rest.

A burst of glamour that lets allies surge forward together while you command the scene.

A stage-perfect performance that can charm humanoid onlookers after a full performance.

An aura of impossible confidence that punishes attackers and can charm them when they strike you.

Provoke a nearby enemy into losing composure with a venomous insult and psychic sting.

Spend Moxie to strike and either Dash or Disengage.

You know two bard cantrips and 15 bard spells of 1st level or higher, with 5th-level spell slots and spell levels up to 7th. Charisma is your spellcasting ability.

Choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

You can use a musical performance or speech to help keep wounded allies on their feet. During a short rest, each friendly creature who can hear you regains extra hit points equal to one Bardic Inspiration die plus your Charisma modifier.

You can grant inspiration more easily. You regain all expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when you finish a short or long rest.

At 10th level, you learn two spells of your choice from any class. They count as bard spells for you.

You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.

At 14th level, you learn two more spells from any class. They count as bard spells for you.

When you make an ability check and fail, you can use Bardic Inspiration to add the die to the roll after seeing the d20, potentially turning failure into success.

You regain one use of Bardic Inspiration when you roll initiative and have no uses left.

While you are wearing light or no armor and not wielding a shield, your Armor Class equals 12 plus your Constitution modifier.

You have Moxie Points equal to your pugilist level, which you can spend on Brace Up, One-Two Punch, and Stick and Move. You regain expended Moxie Points on a short or long rest.

When you fail a Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, or Charisma check, you can expend 1 Moxie Point to add your Fisticuffs die to the roll. If it still fails, you regain the point and cannot use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

You gain proficiency in Intimidation. You also add your Strength modifier, minimum 1, as a bonus to Intimidation checks.

When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can also use the Grapple or Shove option as part of that hit.

You gain a Pugilist subclass. Your heel persona weaponizes insults, dirty fighting, and the art of making enemies chase you.

You gain an ability score improvement or feat.

When you make an attack with an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon, you can expend 1 Moxie Point to deal maximum damage on a hit and regain the point.

Your unarmed strikes and improvised weapon attacks can deal force damage instead of their normal damage type.

When you deal damage with an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon, you can use one Dirty Trick each turn. Heelstomper can reduce the target's speed to 0 on a failed Dexterity save. Low Blow can grant advantage on attacks against the target on a failed Strength save. Pocket Sand can blind a creature within 10 feet on a failed Constitution save.

You can usually secure free lodging, food, and assistance from your old audience base, admirers, and anyone eager to host a performance.