Help with 8 CHA Greatweapon Half-Orc Bard

[MinmaxFor20Bucks]

A half-orc who's utterly at playing the flute and singing, but with bash your skull in with a maul.

Stats would go 17/14/16/8/10/8, take Great Weapon Master, go +1/+1 on STR and CON, take Resilient CON then max out STR and CON.

Obviously my picks should be spells like Sleep, Haste, Greater Invisibility, Foresight etc.

Unfortunately 22 spells plus 6 leaves me with a lot of space to get more spells and it's rather overwhelming.

Advice on spells, specifically level 1 spells after Sleep loses relevancy and Magical Secrets would be appriciated.

 

[Grue AC]

Bless is a good one to grab since your GWM.

 

[mellored]

Cloud of Daggers, firewall, wall of stone, half damage fireballs are still enough to kill a kobold. Raise dead, and some other healing spells. Fly, misty step, dimension door, leomund's tiny hut, comprehend languages.

Don’t remember if those are all bard spells or not.

 

[MinmaxFor20Bucks]

For magical secrets I'm thinking Haste, Wall of Force, Contingency, Heal, Maze and Wish

 

[Zaruthustran]

Remember that Sleep can be cast with higher-level slots; it actually scales pretty well.

 

[Cael Immortalis]

Stealing the hard work of others, I ran across this earlier which might be useful to you:
All level 1 bard spells with no attribute dependency:

Level 1 Spells:
Comprehend Languages [Divination] (V,S,M; Ritual) (casting time: 1 action)
Detect Magic [Divination] (V,S; Concentration, Ritual) (casting time: 1 action)
Feather Fall [Transmutation] (V,M) (casting time: 1 reaction)
Heroism [Enchantment] (V,S; Concentration) (casting time: 1 action)
Identify [Divination] (V,S,M; Ritual, Expensive Components) (casting time: 1 minute)
Illusory Script [Illusion] (S,M; Ritual, Expensive Components) (casting time: 1 minute)
Longstrider [Transmutation] (V,S,M) (casting time: 1 action)
Sleep [Enchantment] (V,S,M) (casting time: 1 action)
Speak with Animals [Divination] (V,S; Ritual) (casting time: 1 action)
Unseen Servant [Conjuration] (V,S,M; Ritual) (casting time: 1 action)

I'm just copy-pasting. There's a list of all spells which are not attribute dependent, or have low attribute dependancy as part of this thread here:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...ilation-of-Useful-Spell-Lists-(Leugren)/page2

Credit to it's original creator (Leugren) and transcriber (clockwerk66)

In terms of recommendations, Sleep, Longstrider, Speak with Animals, Heroism, Comphrend Languages and Unseen Servant all have their uses