The College of Duets

"The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself." -Linda Ronstadt

An old dwarf carefully tunes his weathered lute, his squat fingers lovingly stroking the strings. He picks out a little tune; from the darkness, an answering melody sounds.

A half elf dances gracefully across the battlefield, laughing as she dodges between combatants. As a spear plunges toward her back, a shadowy version of herself reaches out and twirls her out of the way.

As smoke swirls around an old halfling, she strums on her psaltery, inspiring her companions to fight on against the ogres. The tribe's shaman cast's a deadly hex at her; before the words leave his lips, however, the halfling's shadow plays out an arcane tune, and the magic reflects onto the shaman himself.

Musical Duality

The College of Duets allows bards to create a misty copy to aid them in their journeys, to provide musical accompaniment, and to prove that you can never have too many bards.

Harmonics

When joining this college at third level, a bard learns to alter the realities of sound to produce a more impressive performance. You gain proficiency in the performance and acrobatics skills; if already proficient in performance, you gain double proficiency.

In addition, you gain a misty twin of yourself. The twin remains within 30 ft. of you, can be visible or invisible as you desir, and remains until you are knocked unconscious or incacpacitated. It can be resummoned by an action after such an event.

Your twin does not count as an ally for purposes of sneak attacks; however, it seeks to protect you as best as it can, giving all attacks of opportunity disadvantage against you. The twin cannot interact within any other material item, but is able to speak, and responds as if it were you.

Backup Group

You are able to produce additional copies of yourself for short periods of time. Once per short rest, you gain the benefits of Mirror Image, as the spell.

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Hum A Few Bars

Your duplicate gains the ability to further assist you in your spells and music. Once per long rest, your twin is able to assume concentration of a spell for you for a number of rounds equal to your charisma modifier. If you are not concentrating on any spell after that period of time, you may resume concentration; otherwise, the spell ends.

In addition, once per short rest, your twin can spend a round to provide a performance, giving you and any allies within 30 feet of you the benefit of your Countercharm ability. The twin cannot concentrate on a spell for you at the same time it provides this performance.