Bardic College
College of Swords
Bards of the College of Swords are known as dashing swordsmen or daring fencers. They entertain through daring feats of weapon prowess. While they use their weapon skills to entertain, they are also highly trained and skilled warriors in their own right.
Fencer’s Proficiencies
When you join the College of Swords at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with all finesse weapons.
Spellcasting Focus
If you’re proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon you are wielding, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.
Dashing Flourish
At 3rd level, you learn to conduct dashing displays of martial prowess and speed using charm and wit to catch your enemies off guard. This feature grants you two abilities: defensive flourish and blade flourish.
Defensive Flourish. When you use a parry weapon, you add your Charisma modifier to your armour class when you use the parry weapon property instead of the property’s normal bonus.
Blade Flourish. Whenever you attack a creature, you can expend a bardic performance die. When you do so, your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks until the end of the turn. In addition, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for melee attacks and damage rolls until the end of the turn. When you use this ability, one weapon attack gains the benefit of one of the following blade flourish options of your choice:
Slashing Flourish. The weapon deals extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic performance die.
Mobile Flourish. The weapon to deals extra damage to the target you hit. The damage equals the number you roll on the Bardic performance die. You can also push the target up to 10 feet away from you. You can then immediately move up to your walking speed to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target.
Swift Flourish
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you use you blade flourish ability as part of your attack action.
Master's Flourish
Starting at 18th level, whenever you use your blade flourish ability, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a bardic performance die.
