Davvy's D&D 5e Bard Guide
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- The intro is a dick joke.
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0:43 - General
3:02 - College of Valor
3:32- College of Lore
4:04 - College of Glamour
4:49 - College of Whispers
5:25 - College of Swords
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Song: Kingdom of Bards - Adrian Von Ziegler
Ahhh, the bard. The Sword and Shield of DnD classes.
Is that a freaking JoCat reference?
As in they serve no purpose other than meat shields?
@@BoredTAK5000 no they are good at doing everything and everyone
... And its libido
@Milan Marković
"Buff enemies
Hurt allies
Buff enemies
Hurt allies"
Was that intentional or were you having a stroke?
Vicious Mockery is one of my favorite spells in the game. It debuffs AND does damage. Your words are so hurtful that they cause physical pain to the enemy
no... they cause emotional pain... hence the Psychic damage...
Words sharper than the razor that one emo kid at school keeps fawning over...
When you insult someone to death
I made fun of a goblin so much it killed itself. It was a good night
@@colinjackson9720 it's actually happened in one of my latest runs
While bards in general might not have a strategic role, Scanlan definitely does.
He is the MVP.
Marcus Alm just like Nott is the MVP in the second campaign.
I guess you could just call Sam the MVP.
True but its also annyoing cause he set the bar so damn high that my party expects me to sing and and be awesome too, but Im playing a bard college of whispers since we were lacking a rogue at the time.
@@JasperForge Fuck the thought that someone in another game played a class better than you. If you're a whispers bard, you might try to perform a ballad of honor as a way of disguising yourself as a bard from a different college. But if that's not your style then perform haikus or tell people riddles as a way of inspiration. Sam played his character great, but that doesn't mean you can't rock your own character and have it be wonderful.
I currently have a gnome bard of level 4 he just learned the cantrip mage hand. On the first quest since learning this the party sees a figure jumping from rooftop to rooftop so I figure it's an enemy so I use mage hand to grab their leg to disrupt their momentum.
It worked and they fell 30 feet
It was the quest giver.
*LOL*
We have a tabaxi bard who specced into college of satire, and he can run at 40 mph to dropkick people by stacking his movement abilities
Austin Setser which book is that college in?
@@tea-sus8722 - none, its unearthed arcana
I find the idea of something like the Cat in the Hat charging head-on only to trip and body slam someone hilarious.
@@neog8029 the cat in the hat came one day to punt up you into space and say "lol you gay"
@@gamecavalier3230 what about oil per cubiccentimeter?
One of my favorite Bards was a Lore Bard who was a travelling Magician that did card tricks and threw exploding cards at people (Firebolt/Fireball)
Why hello musical Gambit!
Daniel Payne Had two razor cards with Dagger stats that he used if he was forced to fight in the melee
I, as a bard, accidentally started a religion about sandwiches, which gives me some nice buffs. Like the more my religion spreads, the more I can cash out on personal biases for persuasion checks.
HOW
Teach us your ways, Great Guardian of the Sandwich
Blade Ward is a trap option just like Truestrike. 9/10 times simply taking the Dodge action is just as good if not better than Blade Ward, and anybody can do it.
A fair point!
It's really dope with armor of agathys for getting a lot of damage off.
No, being an elf is a trap choice lennyface
Concentration is the reason why blade ward sucks. It's never worth breaking concentration on a better spell to save a little bit of damage
@@trequor blade ward is NOT a concentration spell and lasts until the end of your next turn. People often forget that last part.
Me: Hey, [forge cleric], can you make me a 18 stringed lute?
Cleric: Build you a what? And I’d need materials to do so.
Me: (drops multiple spoils of lute strings and a few pounds of wood)
FC: Where did you ge-
Me: Make me a mufukken lute
FC: ...Say no more...
And now I have a djent bard
Too bad he'll probably just make off with your gold and supplies.
It kinda exists, irl, too. Theorbo is a 14 stringed lute lol. You can do djent on it, according to this one youtube video I saw by Rob Scallon lol.
18 Fucking strings and you only use one. You're not Djent if you don't do that
Ah, yes. The famous "College of Berkley", where 18 stringed lute players learn to confuse and/or charm their opponents with a Cacophony of polymetric and polyrhythmic tonal violence to ensure to make their enemies Bleed.
(PS: Yes, I know, Cacophony was not a Djent band. Duh.)
I am using a Whisper Bard as a villain in a game I am running. I can't wait to start letting him come out of the shadows and mess with the paladins. :)
you sir are a truly evil and twisted DM
keep it up
I haven't gotten to introduce the bard yet it will be awhile I think, a few more sessions to lay the ground work but, I think it'll be fun as they try to uncover the truth while the whisper bard plots against them, using many bardic shenanigans and natural charm and cunning to foil them in what I hope are subtle ways as both try to gain the upper hand over their currently unknown foe's.
@@onemisterfranko 2 years have passed how did it went
@@onemisterfranko please tell us!
@@onemisterfranko TELL US!
Let me tell you about our lord and savior Hexblade Warlock + College of Whispers Bard.
MotherNature eeeeevvvvviiiilllllllllll
Damn Sister! :O
You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. In what mysterious ways does our lord and savior move exactly?
@Mär same
MotherNature Dimension 20 Fantasy high has this exact build (focusing on Bard) with their Tiefling Bard Fig.
So this is something hilarious that I realized not to long ago about my character that I am currently playing in my campaign. So I'm playing as a College of Whispers Bard who has expertise in both insight and deception and I was reading about the Mantle of Whispers and it turns out that you get a +5 bonus when someone tries to see through the disguise. So on top of my stupidly high deception, I get a +5 bonus. And I pointed this out to my DM, and she just goes; 'Oh, so someone can try to see through the disguise, but it's going to be really fucking difficult.'
'Yep'
XD Also she was the one who said 'Those of you that have expertise, fuck you.'
I think bards might be my calling. When i first checked them out i was unimpressed with their kit, but both of the bards I've ever rolled had disgustingly good stats and i immediately fell in love with the character concepts i built around them
Bard is probably the best class in 5e. They get an awesome assortment of skills and abilities in addition to being full casters. There are also just so many ways to flavour them (jester, musician, magician, pro-wrestler, writer, painter...)
Multiclass to warlock: devil went down to georgia.
College of swords: kubo from kubo and the two strings.
Casts spell with sword while stabbing someone while playing bagpipes and healing... seems balanced
Just make a college of valor bard and put 2 levels into fighter for action surge and see how much shit you get done in one turn
One of my favourite characters I've ever played is a swords bard/ancients paladin (I reflavoured the plant themes) because the tenets of the ancients paladin fit really well with what the bard is, and it was just really fun to play this extravagant, flamboyant defender of the people who put as much value on joy as safety
You can put all the greatest action heroes together on a team, but the moment a Bard shows up, it's Justin Bieber and his bodyguards
This, this I don't like, this killed me a little by making me laugh
Imagine Justin Bieber walking around in a D&D campaign with his bodyguards 😶 Is it bad that I would be okay with being one of those bodyguards?
Truly enjoy your commentary. I am an old school player from the early 80's.
You deserve more views
Thanks!
100% agree and just subscribed. Great video. I’ll add that as I write this comment the sub count is 1,200 ish, so I can say I was around before you were a famous internet sensation 👍
Pyxas Too late, already am
Davvy Chappy see that attitude right there is the reason I am subscribed
I love playing Glamour bards because it means I can kick ass as BAVID DOWIE, THE KOBOLD KING.
To me David Bowie is an Archfey Patron. He's that awesome.
Totally gonna use the line "stick 'em with the pointy end', cracked me up
XibaYodaZuluXXI 'S1lv3rGun Reinhardt' That’s actually a reference to Arya Stark from Game of Thrones! :p
Davvy Chappy I've recently picked up the game for the first time, and I'm not looking back! In the campaign I'm in I'm a Halfling Bard with a Lute, a Dagger and a Rapier, so quoting that line as a 3ft tall entertainer is gonna be fun
Also note to self: watch GoT...
XibaYodaZuluXXI 'S1lv3rGun Reinhardt' That’s a good note. Game of Thrones is pretty ballin’z
In my dnd game I started playing as a college of lore changeling. He is the best character I ever dun made.
I'm playing a Glamorous Bard with Diplomat feat from Unearthed Arcana. Literally everybody does what I say. Who really needs a sword when you have a bunch of bodyguards and a dragon as a pet? ;)
What the fuck, how in the hell is that possible
Dragon must have owned you a great deal if he became your pet, for real, dragons are proud creatures, I doubt that even 40+ charisma would make him your pet without doing something meaningful to him beforehand
@@xRedivivus I say this as a joke, put possibly a bj?
@@xRedivivus I have "visited" a dragons nest on one occasion and "burrowed" an egg. True, dragons are born proud, but so are cats, insert how to train your dragon montage.
Although, I had to roll charisma every time I called him because DM decided that I was training Ashes Charzard and he might attack, he might sleep, or he might bite me... Just like my real cat)
@@demonheart13 if you have a dragon from the very moment of its birth, then I would totally understand. It would still be kind of hard, they are magical creatures and their characters are strongly influenced by their color, but not impossible
I have two bard ideas
1) An orc bard, who instead of playing an instrument, just raps like crazy.
2) A dragonborn bard, who can clone himself and constantly plays song of the dragonborn from Skyrim with his mini orchestra
College of Glamour: Razzle dazzle 'em, and they'll beg you for more.
A valor bard/ ancestral guardian barbarian mountain dwarf, wielding an axe in one hand and a bagpipe in the other is the greatest thing.
Theatre club kids and glee club kids, this is the class for us.
College graduate who did theater here, and yes. All of that ^ Give this man a drink of the gods!
Tip: due to the fact that your words are so bad that they hurt, rename "Vicious Mockery" to "Dad Joke".
"You're so ugly, you entered an ugly contest and they said 'no professionals'!"
XDDDD IM SO USING THAT AAAAAA XDD
Wow, Davvy can actually sing, I'm actually suprised.
Btw I main AND THE WIZARD
I LOVE vicious mockery! I use it to weaken an enemy’s mind and then use my charisma to persuade them to help us. Works *most* of the time.
I'm playing a tank Valor bard.
Yes, dead serious. A tank bard. Granted everybody *else* in the party is ALSO a bard, but hey. She stood right in front of a treant after having her max HP reduced by spectres, so I think she does it juuuuust fine.
I'd like to say thanks for this video. My first campaign in years was as a bard, that was also a noble dragonborn. It was fun and I have Davvy to thank for this video. Cheers
Has anyone ever heard the tale of Mad Jack? The man who fought with a longbow and sword in WWII? He also played bagpipes?
I once played a high elf princess who ran away from home to be a musician (bard). I made her parents and her sorcerers so she had 1lvl of sorcerer. This made it way easier in combats because she had damage type cantrips and made up for the crapy bard 20lvl ability.(I'll take 4 cantrips and 2 sorcerer spells over 1 bardic inspiration any day)
the bard of Orkney; all of them seem like me in some way but of course i am the greatest bard of them all with my magical summons well got a run got both a horde of women AND Undead after me
Here's to the bard and his knob of a head
Tfw you make a wholesome bard so you can't take the only damaging cantrip
All these videos are very well put together, fun, and educational. Thanks for being great! Always brightens up my day.
I once clicked off this video at 00:18 by accident. Since then, youtube has insisted on always starting the video at Davvy singing "VERY HARD."
My current favorite character build is the College of Swords/Swashbuckler combo. The two level three passives essentially give you a free disengage every time you attack, defensive flourish mixed with getting defensive duelist and a shield means that you can sometimes get an effective AC of 30, there are plenty of options for adding extra dice to attacks, and you become the king of skill proficiencies thanks to double helpings of expertise.
True strike is good for Eldritch knights and eldritch knights only, because you can cast it and attack in the same turn...in other words it's just the help action and you can only use it on yourself.
Just have a mastermind in the party.
No cuz they get familiars or teammates to do the help action or simply toss a firebolt
Informative, Short and funny - a bard made into a video. Good job Sir!
So the College of Whispers has a front door that's half-black half-white, and they serve a faceless God.
i neeeds more bard´s videos please
Agustin oliva I agree
The Bard is probably my favorite class, its it's in an tie with the cleric and all of its unGODLY archetypes.
I'm working on a college of whispers bard who's a comedian rather than a musician. Gonna roast and heckle everything to death with some killer puns
Have you ever thought of doing a review of the Matt Mercer classes, such as the maestro bard or the gunslinger fighter?
Don't forget Blood Hunter
And now the Cobalt Soul Monk
these videos are making me realize most of my favorite subclasses are unearthed arcana and idk if that says something about me or not
Why does Vicious Mocery remind me of the 2e D&D's Bard kit Jester?
I personally love the college of swords bard. The blade flourishes are so much fun.
I'm playing as a warlock/bard multiclass (I'm a half elf with stupid high charisma), and we were dungeon crawling once and we encountered some zombies. After vaporizing the first one with Witch bolt I turned to one of the others and used Viscious Mockery "you're such a failure. You couldnt even die right. Try again, let's see if you can actually do something right for a change" and got the zombie to kill itself
What is a really good way of using College of Lore is grabbing Swift Quiver from Ranger at level 10 and become a bow master.
Also grab the Druid's Healing Spirit spell for massive healing.
College of lore - wizard wannabe
College of glamour - warlock/illusionist wannabe
College of whispers - assassin wannabe
College of Valor - Paladin wannabe
College of swords - fighter wannabe
College of Dirge Singer - bardiest bard.
The Dirgesinger is the purest bard. All of its abilities are designed to improve what the bard is already good at.
Dragonborn bard has an excuse to sing dovakin
This video is a blessing
True strike has a range letting you use it on others. It's good for support. Imagine a mastermind rogue/bard. You are the most helpful person ever
Bard and wizard combo. The wizard is a rapper, learning from the rap god himself, this makes firing off spells way faster.
My first time playing D&D I picked the Bard class and love it so much ^^ getting closer and closer to level 10. Since my character has a +13 persuasion and is the "mom"/leader of the group I do a LOT of roleplaying. College of Lore for me and thankfully we got a Cleric so I didn't HAVE to get revivify. I am loving my new spell Seeming, to anyone who may be in a play where your group is gonna have to be sneaky. The Seeming is spell is AMAZING. It's a level 5 spell and you can cast it on up to I believe 8-10 people where they are all disguised up to 8 hours or till you dispell and the best thing about it is that requires NO concentration.
Davvy didnt lie about college of glamour was his famous bard subclass huh
my favourite idea i have right now for a character is a half-orc valor bard that is constantly playing a war drum in combat with one hand, and is swinging an axe with the other
My first ever bard, I went with College of Lore. Let me tell you, Additional Magic Secrets at level 6 can be terrifying. I think I scared half our party the first session we were level 6, when I had this sweet, innocent, 16-year-old noble girl with her silver flute suddenly tossing out fireballs.
Up until then she was pretty much the combat medic with Healing Word.
If you use a banjo for your bard, get a resonator banjo. Better to hit people with.
We only have been playing DnD till recently but all our bards somehow always do the most damage out of all by just thunderclapping the enemies into the next plane
Working on a Lore Bard who multiclasses into Hexblade...
The "Lore Bard" is a character who is a Devout follower of Mystra, Goddess of Magic & Mystery. Her whole guiding story is that she might become Mystra's Chosen at some point...
...but the "Hexblade" part is that she receives whispers from Larloch, the Shadow King, whose inscrutable desires makes her wonder if the "magical secrets" she is receiving are coming from her goddess, or this ancient lich.
for any FF fan going into DnD
meet the red mage
I dual cast flare!
A jack of all trades, is a master of none.
hey would it make sense if i made a serrated kazoo for my bard?
Ok, am I the only Minotaur Bard here? Because if so, y'all need some more cowbell!!
I really like the Bard and the Monk. For some strange reason this video gave me the idea to make a multi-class Bard/Monk. Now all I need to know is which D&D religion comes closest to Hari Krishna? Because hilarious!
Came here for the inspirational art depicting varied bards. Pleased.
Of had an idea for a bard for a while now that I don't think anyone's tried before. The idea is to use skills like performance, and persuation, along with spells like glibness, and probably the collage of glamour to start a large following that you use to gain political power. Just think of how many people throughout history gained power through sheer charisma, Napoleon, Lenin, Hitler etc.
The only thing about the bard I don’t like is you don’t get fireball and can’t through any of the feats unless you multi class.
But if you have a wizard with Wish that’s not much of a problem anymore
4:22 Alliteration from certain voices makes my choke-slamming hand itchy.
Vicious mockery is also available for feral teifling
I want to play a campaign that is just bards and follows a group of traveling musicians.
I played a changeling collage of whispers bard. I was never the same person with any woman or man I slept with. As an added bonus I caused a lot of mischief by sleeping with people in the form of another person, essentially framing them and ruining their lives. It was fun to be evil while it lasted.
I love that you use the art from “Yisan, the wanderer bard” but the creature type on the card is actually rogue. Also his card’s ability summons animals, so he’s probably actually a Druid.
Rogue and druid. That's definitely a ranger, duh
Well, there's my answer, college of swords for my soon to be sword swallowing bard! Thanks, Davvy!
I just stumbled upon your video and ... this is great ! Subbed !
Changeling character as a Whispers Bard... ultimate infiltrator
multiclassing sword bard with arcane trickster rogue is insane
ngl, the ontro is best i've ever seen on this channel! love it haha
I'm just enjoying my assassin bard mystic
ok, im new to d&d, looking to play a bard. came across this little gem of a video and the whole time i'm watching this i'm laughing and smiling. I had to sub and click the bell. You really made this class look fun. Im still not sure if i want to go Lore or Whispers. i wanna be a stealthy bardy girl, not boy. :)
I'm planning to play a kenku glamour bard soon. He's basically a feywild DJ of sorts, charming his friends and his foes alike with magical dickery.
I one made a college of Whispers bard who was a mime.
He was mute and drained the color from all of his gear, save for his instruments.
Idea: A Variant Human Bard (Whispers or Lore) who takes the Magic Initiate feat for Warlock and takes Eldritch Blast. He sings the end of "My shot" to cast it and when he points his finger upwards the beam comes out at targets.
Oh welle everyone's heard about the bard, oh welle bard, bard, bard bard is the word.
The bard, aka the crouching moron hidden badass.
Anyone notice that one of his lore bard pictures is just mideval Norman reeds?
Good guide, but needed more focus on how each subclass makes different use of the *Bardic Inspiration* mechanic.
Here's a funny thing: Symphogear is basically an anime where everyone plays a bard, since they have to literally sing when they fight. Like, that's their requirement for using their weapon. Even in space, they have to sing to use moon-blasting cannons and big-fuckoff swords.
it may be just a tip, but IF YOUR BARD DOESN'T HAVE VICIOUS MOCKERY YOU AREN'T PLAYING A BARD. no exceptions.
I'd rather give bards a more broader term: bards seem to supposidely be a sort of civilian+, the cooler average guy which specialty isn't something that directly aids the quest but balance out in keeping spirits high by being artists (from painting to athletics), finance and resource management being merchants, being capable diplomats with possible noble ties or just a good smile and smooth tongue and scholars of the non-wizard fashion (ex. an archeologist or your math teacher).
voice of a fu king angel
Ok so I want to poll the community for my Lore Bard’s soon-to-come lv6 Magical Secrets options:
We’re a small martial heavy party, so I’m completely taking Counterspell. The party comp is:
Conquest Paladin
Magical Trickster Rogue (she likes to play more as a fighter tho? Really strange)
Circle of Stars Druid (she and I are the two primary buffers/casters)
Our Druid is pretty heavy up on the healing and buffing side of things, so I’ve been sneaking around and debuffing my little Bugbard heart out, but I feel like if I don’t get pretty blasty soon we won’t have any AoE options. Being said, my two leads are Fireball and Spirit Guardians. I am also thinking of Pulse Wave possibly if the DM will let me? Gimme yall’s thoughts!
this made me realize for some reason that Bard who cast spell who takes opportunity attack does not get to make the attack with weapon. There fore it is Strength bonus as Unarmed strike :^) 1+-1 becaue 8 Strength is 0dmg opportunity attack :D . . . I have seen this mistaken been made as I now realize it is possibility and some rules lawyer might actually point this out.
I have seen bard cast Fireball and take 1d8 opportunity attack.
Oh I also saw Collage of Sword "If you’re proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells." who casted heat metal and hold person while wielding sword and shield which is impossible. Because you still need to perform Somatic components which can be removed with War Caster feat which would allow you to cast Hold Person while wielding sword and shield and take opportunity attacks with the weapon . . .
9 out of 10 times I think people go with rule I cast spell I still wield weapon and shield (or dual-wield weapons)
0:52 was that a mariachi bard? I love it!
what?!?!?! The opening is a dick joke?!?!?!?! WOOOOOOO
the video opening with that wild cringe singing was like someone twisting my spine