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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dualazi" data-source="post: 7063156" data-attributes="member: 6855537">Some thoughts:Defensive coordinator needs some work. For one, there's nothing stopping you from giving an ally Bardic Inspiration, then popping your reaction use of it to double down on the effect. At high levels this more or less guarantees a save regardless of DC. Likewise, the temp HP this can give gets ridiculous. Even at low levels, with a CHA of 20 you'd be looking at effectively 10d6 temp HP, scaling up to 10d12 at endgame. Furthermore, the ability to add your die to AC is probably out of line. This basically gives you 3-5 on-demand shield spells that you can use on behalf of others, potentially in conjunction with the actual shield spells for untouchable AC.Shield Blast also needs to have some things addressed. For one, negatives like you describe are very rare in 5e, and usually are presented as disadvantage. On this note, either option is insanely powerful, with spammable semi-reliable save penalties that you can also benefit from (since it lasts until the end of your next turn) being very dangerous. While the AoE is small, you can still catch multiple enemies with this, which only adds to the absurdity. The damage progression on the ability is largely meaningless, however, as you're only going up by 1 point of damage on average at each stage. Lastly, you describe it as a distraction but then say it's a dex save, which makes no sense. If it's a mental compulsion it should be a mental save, and ostensibly be listed as a charm effect.Aura of Security: Again, raw numeric bumps, especially to AC, are very rare in this edition and for good reason. If your group has found any AC increasing items this feature can push character's AC into the stratosphere. It's also kind of weird that you designed this feature to be counter-intuitive with the rest of the subclass, since you're heavily encouraging the player to treat this as a melee bard, which would shut down this ability quite often.</blockquote>

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