#homebrew bard

[teal-pen]

Photo dump of Isadore! My manead inspired dhamphir bard for curse of strahd! Poor boy is sick of the gray of Barovia and missing his god husband

[levelofexhaustion]

As the two-headed ettin charges towards the halfling's party, she quickly orients her hand mirror to reflect the sun's rays, and a scorching burst of rainbow magic leaves the giant smoldering in its tracks. She smiles, and makes sure her makeup isn't out of place before tucking the Prismatic Focus back into her bag, and continuing on her journey.

I recently went through and counted how many subclasses I had made for each class, and realized that prior to this I had only made a single Bard College. I really wanted to hit an artistic niche that I feel has been left out, and colors and light is something that no current Bard College feels like it fully embraces. I hope this does the trick for all of you looking for something similar! The PDF of the images can be found here, and the Homebrewery link that will continue to be updated with any changes is here. Leave your feedback and thoughts below (be kind!) and I hope you all enjoy.

[eerivee]

A portrait of my drow bard Ariste featuring his new favourite spell, Crown of Stars!

[cocoshomebrew]

PDF available to free members on my Patreon

[brewerssupplies]

Let's fucking rock!

Here's a cantrip for bard, cleric, and warlock. Hope you enjoy!

[david-goldrock]

Is this balanced? A bard wanted to use this homebrew spell... I think it's a little bit too much damage, but I need help rebalancing

[kellymdoodles]

Harpy OC Sketches

Idk her name yet but I’m open for suggestions 💕

[nite0304]

Day 11! Maneuvers!

This does not overlap with swords or Valor, right? Right???

Also, it feels like bard needs a subclass feature on 10th level

[jhamkul]

Harlequin’s Switchblade (dagger/longsword), Very Rare (requires attunement)

Day 18: Jester / Prompt list by @faith_schaffer

✨Art provided by @rishi0490✨

Although this dagger may seem silly at first, I'm sure you won't be laughing so much when you get struck by a longsword with a simple switch… This weapon, with a jet black steel blade and a blue and pink guard resembling a jester’s hat—its four pointy ends adorned with tinkling bells and a smiling face at the hilt’s center—was designed by a master blacksmith. The blade’s ability to transform from a dagger to a longsword, as well as the disorienting and confusing enchantments imbued into it, was specially designed to complement Arleth’s dynamic performances and fluid combat style.

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Thank you very much for checking out this new creation! If you want to see more of my content, feel free to visit my Instagram, where I ask for advice, post teasers, and you can vote for my future posts.

[coffingeist]

Made this funny gal a while back and finished all the colors yesterday :3

Her name is Vivienne Patches and she's a warforged bard.

[vulturereyy]

THE FACE SMASHERZ!!!!!

Our party lineup is finally complete thanks to the amazing work of @olibheare and the generosity of @eatingrich (Ragnyr and Adelle's player) !!! These commissions came out SO good and capture each of our characters beyond well, I cannot recommend Oli's commissions enough.

I've been playing Sorbet with this party for almost three years now, and I couldn't ask for a better D&D gang to roll with :) Here's to more intense sessions and shenanigans as we finally wrap up this behemoth of a campaign, and smash every face along the way!!!

[homebrew-a-la-traumaverse]

Subclasseptember Day 12: Order Subclasseptember Day 13: Chaos

Ever notice how bard have no exclusive 9th-level spells? Even Power Word Heal got shared with Cleric as of Tasha's.

I mean, I guess it fits considering they can steal everyone else's, but it's a shame that none of them really embody the ideals of being a bard.

Actually, most spells don't really make sense for your traditional music-playing bard. Even Bardic Inspiration. Like, when you're playing a song, you're not playing it directly at one person, everyone around you hears it. And sure, you can make the argument that you're tailoring it for their experience specifically, but... we're getting off topic.

Perfect Harmony and Total Pandemonium. You can either force the stars to align, or embrace the chaos.

As per usual, both the M components are references.

[foundry-fabrications]

Finally, was starting to think I'd never get anything released! Y'all ready to ROCK?!

Now, just to get this out of the way, I was really hoping to have something else done for y'all by now, that thing being the update to Flesh and Bone I mentioned in my last update post. Mechanically, it's done and has been for a while, and I'm VERY pleased with how it's coming along. However, it's proving to be a frustrating challenge to get it formatted with artwork that doesn't look awful. So, I took a much-needed break to work on something else and it's going on the back burner. It'll be out when it's out.

So what's this new thing I bring before you this day? With my main D&D campaign wrapping up, I've been working on a absolute TON of custom stuff for a new character, so that's taken up a lot of my creative energy. Now that we've had our first session and my work is done, I can pretty it up for y'all!

As one may surmise, I'm playing a heavy metal bard, so I put this together based on a combination of an existing college of metal I found on D&Dwiki and Matt Mercer's college of the maestro. The metalheads among you may have also noticed that yes, each feature and solo are named after metal songs, a lot of bangers too. Having run a combat with it, I'm already really happy with it mechanically and since it's my newest character it will be getting LOTS of playtesting. 

Another thing to mention is the little sidebar at the end. For this campaign I'm playing the 2024 playtest version of the new bard so that's what this was originally built for.  However, since most won't be playing it, I reworked it for the existing bard and added a way to "update" it for the new one for those who want it. For future content I would like to do something similar depending on how extensive the changes are, but we'll see how things shake out.

Anyway, I'm really pleased with how it turned out. A little sparse in the art department, but I think the theme I picked does a lot to carry it. Plus, I genuinely couldn't come up with anything that looked better, so hey, I'm not gonna let perfect be the enemy of done.

Anyway, that's all I got for now. So glad to actually be working on stuff again. Stay safe, don't forget to love each other, and I'll see you again soon.

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[water-wren]

College of Cards - (v0.1)

v0.1 / v0.2

My personal take on a bard subclass about deception and cunning, while still being (slightly more) damage oriented then other subclasses.

I put the Artist Links here since you can't click the link on the image Original Art Link (third image): https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/106937324

Artists Twitter Handle: https://x.com/Sukuroneko

[cocoshomebrew]

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[brewerssupplies]

Here’s a subclass all about being funny little fella. Just a goofy little dude. Hope you enjoy!

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