Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
That's a fair question. Lore bards have some nice features all around - cutting words is good all game long - though what with expertise and skills and bardic inspiration: maybe they also need to be the party face...which a Lore Bard fits nicely. (I'll be interested to see the OPs answer to this).
I love lore bards. Favorite subclass/class at a 5E table. If you have to do skills and party face stuff and utility casting, lore bard is the answer. I feel like in that case you wouldn't necessarily want a bunch of damage options too, though. I'm just wondering if what the OP wants is something that can be accomplished better as a celestial tomelock or a divine soul or shadow sorcerer or even a divination wizard.