Few other classes display such an inborn adaptability as the bard does. Skalds, orators, jesters, poets… all of them are bards, from a D&Desque point of view.
And the bard, you should know, is one of my favorite D&D classes. Despite all my propensity, however, I never published before any bard subclass: for the Player’s Handbook’s colleges seemed broad enough to encompass many different bard archetypes. The Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, however, introduced us to a different set of colleges, whose niches are less wide but offer more distinctive features. Why be a simple member of the College of Lore when you could enter a different path that works out better for the character you had In mind?
And so came a few interesting ideas, and rules to back them.
- from the publisher's blurb