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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9375754" data-attributes="member: 20564">Glamour is among my top Bard subclasses.  Having also experienced Twilight Cleric, Order Cleric, and a few others, I don't say that it's above everything else; it's quite good but not "it's a whole new game" like some of the others.We play with point buy with most campaigns going 1-11ish.  So it's not per short rest until a chunk of the way into the campaign, still does need to compete with regular bardic inspiration uses which is one of the very few non-Concentration buffs to hand out, and even then is 4/short rest and doesn't cover the whole party until 8th which is like 2/3 of the way though our adventuring career.Mantle of Majesty I find underwhelming in combat.  It takes Concentration, which means it blocks my most useful spells.  It takes a Bonus Action each time, which blocks my Mantle of Inspiration and Healing Word - there's a lot of utility as a secondary healer to bring someone up before their initiative passes so they don't miss their action, or to stand a primary healer back up.And we never get up to Unbreakable Majesty considering that our campaigns simply don't get to 14th.I love Mantle of Inspiration, it's great.  It does make it one of the few best bard subclasses, and bard is already a solid chassis -- IF you have your Concentration available, because they are full casters and all their best spells need it.</blockquote>