Bard Competencies

Your character starts with the following competencies:
 Violence: Daggers and rapiers
 Trickery: Deception or persuasion
 Trade: Calligraphy and three performance skills of your choice
 Languages: A dead language of your choice

Bard Traits

Your character starts with the following traits:
 Resilience. Your Reflex and Will increase by 1.
 Inspiration. A number of times per day equal to half your Trickery die, as a bonus action you can grant a creature who can hear you a d6 inspiration die that lasts ten minutes. A creature can only have one inspiration die at a time. Until it expires, that creature can add the d6 to one check they make.

Bard Abilities

Your character starts with the following abilities:
MOCKING MELODY
ARCANE, ENCHANTMENT, POWER 0
As an action, you play music or sing a song targeting a creature that can here you who you know the location of and have seen before. The creature takes 1d4+Trickery psychic damage. If you wound it with this ability, it has disadvantage the next check it makes before the end of its next turn.

ANTHEM
ARCANE, ENCHANTMENT, POWER 1
As an action, you use a performance skill to further a cause. State a goal or intention. Any creatures who can perceive the performance have advantage on checks that further your cause, and disadvantage on checks that oppose it as long as you continue taking actions to perform.