My character in DnD Beyond is a 5th Level Bard, and I am missing a spell slot. Does anyone else have this issue?

As a 5th Level, my character should know:

3 Cantrips; 4 1st level; 3 2nd level; and 2 3rd level spells. 3+4+3+2=12. Yet, the Beyond app says that I can only know 11 spells. I have the spell cards and a Spell app on my phone that allows me to do this correctly, but the DnD character sheet is wrong, because I have to have one missing from the page of spells.

Has anyone else had this problem, or is it just me?

Also, is there a way to add spell slots beyond the class allowance? The app has done good in adding my other 3 spells for my race, and not counting those against me. 

I am just really nit picky, and this is not a complaint, just wanted to know if anyone else had this issue?

Valakos Fortune; 5th Level Bard; Glasya Tiefling

Are you taking about spells known or spell slots as you use both terms, but they are different.

As a 5th level bard you should "know" 8 spells plus 3 cantrips. But you have 4 1st level spell slots, 3 2nd level spell slots, and 2 3rd level spell slots. You don't get spell slots for cantrips as they are cast at will and so not use slots.

Edit: so if you always learned the highest level spell available at level up you should have as known spells: 5 1st level spells known, 2 2nd level spells known, and 1 3rd level spell known.

Hi,

You are confusing “spell slots” and “spells known.” Your character’s spell slots have absolutely nothing to do with the number of spells you know. Spell slots indicate how many spells of each level you can cast in any given day. Your number of spells known indicates how many spells your character knows regardless of level. As a 5th level bard you know 8 spells. They could all be 1st-level spells if you want them to be.

Spell Slots

The Bard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your bard spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell cure wounds and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast cure wounds using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the bard spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Bard table shows when you learn more bard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the table. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the bard spells you know and replace it with another spell from the bard spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Regards

Ah. That is where I made my mistake then. New to being a spellcaster. I have always been a rogue-ish gamer, so magic is new to me.

So spells known is how many spells my character knows at a time, and spell slots is how many times between rests that I can cast spells? That makes sense.

I apologize for for newbish question here. I will have to be more selective for my spell slots then.

Absolutely correct. I was confusing which was which.

Now that I know, I will have to look at my spells again and see which one I can do without for this level.

I appreciate the clarification.

No need to apologize. You were polite and asked a valid question.

Spellcasting classes can be confusing at first. Classes like Bard and Sorcerer have a limited number of Known spells to cast. Classes like Cleric and Druid know all the spells on their spell list, but can only prepare a certain number of spells to cast each day. And wizards have their spellbook where they could conceivably learn all the spells on their list by finding them and copying them in their spellbook, but like Clerics and Druids, can only prepare a certain number of spells to cast each day.

But one thing they have in common are the spell slots which work pretty much the same across all the spellcasting classes.

Good luck and have fun.

Spell slots have to work identical across all spell-casting classes (except for Warlock), in order to allow multi-classing.   They had to create special rules for warlock multi-classers, and if any other class worked differently, it would have been a lot more complicated.

For example, if Druids worked differently than warlocks and the other casters, they would need;

1. Normal rules for most casters
2. Special rules for Warlock + most
3. Special rules for Druid + most
4. Special rules for Druid + Warlock

And it would only get worse with more special cases.