Yes, now I can create a Tabaxi College of Glamour Bard, and name him Paw McCatney, and he shall be loved the world over!

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me

I can't decide between "Elvish Presley" or "Faun-Jovi"

My last game featured a Glamour Bard that my friend was playing. He was doing a David Bowie-esque thing. He had all these different characters/incarnations of himself and he explained that it was different fey spirits inhabiting him. It was actually quite fun.

You remind me of the Bard. "What Bard?" The Bard with the power. "What power?" The power of voodoo! "Who do?" You do! "What?" Remind me of the Bard.

I'm picturing David Bowie and Prince.

warforged glamour bard... Mettaton anyone?

College of Glamour would be the go to for any Half-elf!

Shadow Sorcerer + Collage of Glamour = Marilyn Manson

Who Else wants to play Freddy Mercury The Bard :D

This is my favorite Archetype. After I got turned into a Fey I went into it and protecting my allies was great.

I'm picturing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" throughout this whole thing.

Now I can finally play a bard named Dan Halen

I love college of glamour! I play a half-faerie (technically half-elf: biological father was an eladrin from the feywild): Cindy d’Arcadia. She really is our campaigns rock star (main inspirations was a mix of Courtney Love, Cyndi Lauper and Björk), but she is also a really bratty teenager. Every spell I choose from magical secrets I try to be as fae as possible; her Spirit Guardians are little faeries that are devoted ”roadies”, her Find Greater Steed is a fae Pegasus with butterfly wings. She has thousands of fans all over the continent but she still struggles with a questionable self-image, and the chaotic pull from her faerie blood is sometimes too strong leading her to do mischief and get into trouble. She kinda both acts as the groups diplomat and damsel in distress as her fabulousness draws the attention of less savoury elements. Oh, and an evil fae-prince wants to kidnapp/marry her. So she is basically a mixture of Princess Peach and Jem? I can’t wait till level 14 so she can go all out magical girl with Tensers Transformation through magical secrets! I have never ever had so much fun playing any character as I do with Cindy. I highly recommend college of glamour; your party will not have a dull moment!!

Sounds like Taako. You know, from TV?

Dibs on Jem and the Holograms, the D&D Campaign.

Starting to sound like the book should've been called Xanathar's guide to the Fey Wild.

Based on what was in the UA, my friend rightfully pointed out that by adding Battle Master Fighter, you could turn the Glamour Bard into Griffith from Berserk.

Sounds like I'm making Shakespeare.

All this class makes me think of is Ember from Danny Phantom

I hope the other Bard College that is added to this book is the College of Swords. It was a very cool idea that just needed some small tweaks to be great.

David Bowie: The Subclass

Who else when watching this thought of an evil bard from this college then immediately pictured Pink Floyd's The Wall? The rally scenes from that movie are definitely what I'm going to think about when I think evil bard from now on.

This is great. I was designing a 80s Glam Rock Bard, Bon Jovi/ Brett Michaels. This college fits perfectly!

Reminds me a little of Terry Pratchett's _Soul Music._

NOOO I want a battle rapper with a better viscous mockery that can dis his enemies to death. Curses

There should be a College Of Yells or Screams where the Bard's voice is so powerful uttering a single word via action does Thunder damage to everyone within the vicinity kind of like The Greybeards from Skyrim or Black Bolt from Marvel. It would make for great roleplaying.

Glamour with Magnificent Mansion and Animal Shapes. Hold a concert in your specialized venue, get everyone in town charmed OR plan for combat, then Animal Shapes the entire town into a stampede to wipe out the opposing army in minutes.

Great video guys well done. As you're always looking out for feedback and stuff to put out to Unearthed Arcana testing, I'd really love to here your thoughts on a solution to the 'Trickery Domain' Cleric issue. What we do is:- 1) Give the Cleric a Bonus proficiency in either SoH, Stealth or Deception 2) Allow them to add their Wisdom Bonus to their AC if they are wearing no armour (like the Barbarian and Constitution). 3) Allow blessings of the Trickster to effect any 'nefarious' skill check. The problem with the Domain has been that it's not very thematic for a Trickery Cleric to walk around in full plate, but for the Cleric to Contribute to the Group he needs to be able to get in there and take some hits, and dexterity is often the 'Dump' stat for Clerics. These changes mean while he will never be as tough as a Hill Dwarf Life Cleric (who is?), Trickster Clerics can remain thematic while still also being able to get into the front lines sometimes, and stays in flavour as enemies 'just can't seem to hit him!' These changes allow the players to finally play 'Locke Lamora'! Or maybe they want to play a Ghost wise hafling who has wandered into human lands and just causes chaos where ever he goes, or a Tiefling Gangster who wants revenge on the world for how it treats him. This also means you can run 'gangster' campaigns, players taking the role of a city thieves gang with a Cleric included who doesn't suck! Anyway just some thoughts. Would love to hear what you think as imo this really helps solve the Trickster Cleric problem without overshadowing other classes or taking the role away from other Clerics. Mny thks

We need a heavy metal fiend/shadowfell bard

I made an Aasimar bard-cleric of sune with this bard college for dragon heist. To add flavor, whenever I wanted to cast Otto's irresistible dance, my character would do the Axl Rose snake dance for the somatic part.

the idea i had that fits perfectly for this was a tiefling bard who lived in a city that was partially hidden in the feywild - went exploring and found her way to the court of an eladrin city, playing for the nobles there etc, till she was found in bed with someone she shouldnt have been and got run out of town

I am totally making the D&D version of Jim Morrison when this comes out.

I have a plan for an Oath of the Ancients Paladin/College of Glamour Bard that is A Half Elf flavored for being Half Eladrin.

I am so in love with this idea.

While listening to this I couldn't help but think of emperor Nero walking around the imperial gardens playing a lyre and all his attendants raving about amazing he is so as to not fall under his ire.

Thanks Todd, I will click that loink. In all seriousness, these are great, I love both them and the Dungeon Life page, keep doing great stuff!

This kind of sounds like how I've been playing my entertainer mystic. There should probably be a college that harkens back to first edition as having athleticism, cunning, research ability, and druidic scholarship. A scholar of the woods perhaps?

The most surprising thing about this video is hearing that they have editors. You wouldn’t know it by the errors in the books

I saw my baby, Crying hard as babe could cry~

Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

No matter how great these subclasses are, I was kinda hoping for the mystic to make an appearance in XGTE. Sadly I don’t think this is the case, huh.

makes a lot of sense for my character, since my race (Michtim) hail from the feywild. my current character is a Glamour Bard, not a musician, but a scholar of nature and fey magics. and he's unbelievably cute. (I made a good adaption of my Michtim race for 5e, you can find it on dndbeyond and drivethrurpg for free).

THIS! THIS WILL BE MY COLLEGE!

Be a Tiefling bard and hope the priests don't think "its the devil's music!"

Well, sounds pretty fun but i think so far i'm really looking forward to circle of dreams druid, cavalier and inquisitive the most. I'll admit at first i saw 25 new subclasses and UA stuff and was kinda worried but this sounds awesome ill probably preorder it as we get closer to the release date.

I really hope whisper bards in there too

Sounds like a good class for Kvothe.

Yeees I made a bard like this a while back ended up living with a bunch of goblins I charmed up lol

What I really really want is a Sha'ir!

This may be the college of choice for my seductive "anything that moves" bard who bursts out into songs at practically any occasion, and pretty much loves seducing just about any humanoid in his gaze. He's named after his inspiration, Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of Pulp.

Rock bard... I kind of want to see Paultin remade as a Glamour bard. It definitely fits his aesthetic and story.

Oh dear! Praline in D&D (Bravely Default/Bravely Second)

I'm getting a very Shiny Chariot from Little Witch Academia vibe from this!

Eladrin + College of Glamour = Profit

Ok i'm gonna do this.

Personally, I actually used the original UA version to represent someone descended from a Siren.

Is there going to be one new subclass for every class in the game in Xanathar's Guide?

Misty Moore in dimension 20 would have suited this so well if she wasn’t a lore bard

So this Bard is... A Kind of Magic?

Is the college of whispers also going to be in XGE?

wonder what would happen if you mixed the college of glamour with a ninja... multiclassing wise.

I played this bard and was not strong or tough or smart. Essentially, in combat all he did was sit back talkin shizz and getting people to fight for him. Even the feats were skill-based. He became severely OP at higher levels.... just not at combat. Extremely fun to play.

You heard it here first everybody, satyr race confirmed.

i need an Elf with rainbow hair that is a member of the college of glamour.

Mercury?Nonono, I'm playing Bard ELVIS.

Hmmmm, How did you become a Student of the College of Glamour... A Hag taught me.

Arcana archer?

David Bowie bard

Which Bard College would you use if you were playing a Royal Court Jester who has to learn how to fight as a god wants her dead?

Florence Welch tho. Amirite? We All Have A Hunger?

So would this be a good idea for a pied piper?

Loink

I have so many ideas How about a College of Requiem, College of Poetry, College of Hypnosis?

In the player's handbook you have the College of Lore and the College of Trash XD

Too much Feywild not enough Shadowfell.

The evil version of this would be a Charles Manson type

beguiling

beguile

it screams transgender bard