High Wisdom Bard? 5e D&D

>>52674734
Assuming you still have the chance to pick out skills and everything else, I would say to focus on making a Wis-focused Skill monkey. Take mostly supporting and buffing spells that aren't reliant on Charisma.

>>52674734
your gm is a cunt

Honestly, if I was in your shoes, I'd have complained loudly and then quit if the GM refused to allow my PC to switch back somehow (e.g. heading to a local temple to get the cleric to cast Lesser Restoration or Remove Curse). DnD 5e assumes that all the characters will have a 16 in their important scores, and it'll break pretty quickly if that assumption isn't met.

If you can't fix it, quit this campaign, your character is gimped, and your GM likely has some sort of developmental disorder.

If for some reason you don't wanna quit, just fuck around until you get a level and go into a wisdom based class and retrain your level

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>>52674734
Bard has plenty of spells that don't make an attack or require a saving throw (avoid those btw), so pick spells like sleep and healing word. Focus on using skills and utility spells out of combat and the crossbow while in it. Think of it as a more musically inclined ranger or rouge.

Its kind of an asshole move but I guess I can see why your DM is doing this: to break you out of your comfort zone and forcing you to get creative, which you may well need since you seem upset that you cant do a "bard archetype" or fill your "party role".

>>52674734
Fuck about till you build up 500 gold then go to a major city and buy the charisma equivalent of a Headband of Intellect, then never take it off.

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>>52674734
>I'm assuming just to increase CHA when I can,
I wouldn't throw bad after worse; you'll never catch up to where you need to be CHA wise, so don't.

> is there any way I can use a high Wisdom score to assist the party?
Make all the Spot checks. All of them.

>As a bard, I'm feeling a little bit more useless than I thought I would,
You're not playing a Bard anymore, that's why.

>Not sure what role I can grow into
Crossbow-and-dagger wielding hick sounds about right.

>I'm planning on playing this character throughout the whole campaign,
Until they die, at least.

Honestly disabuse yourself of the idea that you are "The Bard." You're not. You're now playing "The Adventurer." Your magical focus should be healing/ buffing/ debuffing - anything that won't key majorly off of your abysmal CHA score. Take every skill that keys off of your good stats. Keep a social skill, but again you should be focused more on your new strengths instead of shoring up your obvious weakness. Your lack of additional attacks is going to be a problem for you down the road, and it's been awhile since I played 5e so I'm sorry if I'm not remembering this correctly, but at that point you should probably switch to throwing Disadvantage around anyway.

And remember, you can always start taking Cleric levels after 3.

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>>52674734
>My DM pulled a switcheroo on all our PCs, and switched our highest chosen stats with our lowest chosen stats.

>>52674734
Get every perception related feat, get expertise in perception, be the most aware person ever.

Use your now useless bard classes to become a dragon disciple/melee buffed cleric, proceed to powergame.