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Bard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received. Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds

, create illusions, and even heal wounds. Music and Magic In the worlds of D&D, words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master

Dragonmarked Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

player in the shadow war. Bard Entertainer. You’re a rising star. Your performances have already earned you a name across the Five Nations, and your fame will surely only increase as you develop your

talents. The house has helped with your career, and they’ve dropped hints to see if you want to get involved in the other side of the house, but at the moment you’re just in this for the music.

Things to Do in Northedge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

are many eccentric nobles in Upper Northedge. A patron of the arts could take an interest in the career of a bard or entertainer. A collector might keep capable adventurers on retainer with the

Learning from Experience

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Learning from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires

beyond the horizon — makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic

Embarrassment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Embarrassment Almost every bard has suffered at least one bad experience in front of an audience, and chances are you’re no exception. No one becomes famous right away, after all; perhaps you had a

few small difficulties early in your career, or maybe it took you a while to restore your reputation after one agonizing night when the fates conspired to bring about your theatrical ruin. The ways

Learning from Experience

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Learning from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires

beyond the horizon — makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic

Power Word Heal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Power Word Heal Level 9 Enchantment (Bard, Cleric) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Component: V Duration: Instantaneous A wave of healing energy washes over one creature you can see

within range. The target regains all its Hit Points. If the creature has the Charmed, Frightened, Paralyzed, Poisoned, or Stunned condition, the condition ends. If the creature has the Prone condition, it can use its Reaction to stand up.

Power Word Heal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Power Word Heal Level 9 Enchantment (Bard, Cleric) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Component: V Duration: Instantaneous A wave of healing energy washes over one creature you can see

within range. The target regains all its Hit Points. If the creature has the Charmed, Frightened, Paralyzed, Poisoned, or Stunned condition, the condition ends. If the creature has the Prone condition, it can use its Reaction to stand up.

Bard Class Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Bard levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass’s features that are of your Bard level or lower. Level 4

Bard Class Features As a Bard, you gain the following class features when you reach the specified Bard levels. These features are listed in the Bard Features table. Bard Features ——Spell Slots

Bard Class Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Bard levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass’s features that are of your Bard level or lower. Level 4: Ability Score Improvement You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat

, you can take a Reaction to cause the save to be rerolled, and the new roll has Advantage. Level 10: Magical Secrets You’ve learned secrets from various magical traditions. Whenever you reach a Bard

Feather Fall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn

Feather Fall Level 1 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you or a creature you can see within 60 feet of you falls Range: 60 feet Components: V, M

Dissonant Whispers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Dissonant Whispers Level 1 Enchantment (Bard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V Duration: Instantaneous One creature of your choice that you can see within range hears a

discordant melody in its mind. The target makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 3d6 Psychic damage and must immediately use its Reaction, if available, to move as far away from you as it

Dissonant Whispers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Dissonant Whispers Level 1 Enchantment (Bard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V Duration: Instantaneous One creature of your choice that you can see within range hears a

discordant melody in its mind. The target makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 3d6 Psychic damage and must immediately use its Reaction, if available, to move as far away from you as it

Feather Fall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Feather Fall Level 1 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you or a creature you can see within 60 feet of you falls Range: 60 feet Components: V, M

Lyre of Building

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Lyre of Building Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a bard) While holding this lyre, you can cast mending as an action. You can also play the lyre as a reaction when an object or a structure

Feather Fall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Feather Fall Level 1 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you or a creature you can see within 60 feet of you falls Range: 60 feet Components: V, M

Dominate Monster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Dominate Monster Level 8 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour One creature you can see

completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself. You can command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction

Things to Do in Northedge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

raising the dead. Find a patron. Many eccentric nobles make their homes in Upper Northedge. A patron of the arts could take an interest in the career of a bard or an entertainer. A collector might

Fount of Moonlight

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Fount of Moonlight Level 4 Evocation (Bard, Druid) Casting Time: Action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes A cool light wreathes your body for the duration

damage on a hit. In addition, immediately after you take damage from a creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself, you can take a Reaction to force the creature to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature has the Blinded condition until the end of your next turn.

Dominate Person

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Dominate Person Level 5 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute One Humanoid you can see within range

order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself. You can command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction to do so

Dominate Monster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Dominate Monster Level 8 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour One creature you can see

completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself. You can command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction

Dominate Person

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Dominate Person Level 5 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute One Humanoid you can see within range

order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself. You can command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction to do so

A Bard's Muse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

A Bard’s Muse Naturally, every bard has a repertoire of songs and stories. Some bards are generalists who can draw from a wide range of topics for each performance, and who take pride in their

versatility. Others adopt a more personal approach to their art, driven by their attachment to a muse — a particular concept that inspires much of what those bards do in front of an audience. A bard who

Bard Subclass

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Bard Subclass A Bard subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Bard levels, as specified in the subclass. Bards form loose associations, which they call colleges, to preserve

makes a damage roll or succeeds on an ability check or attack roll, you can take a Reaction to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration; roll your Bardic Inspiration die, and subtract the number rolled

College of Lore

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

monarch or following the tenets of a deity. A noble who keeps such a bard as a herald or advisor knows that the bard would rather be honest than politic. The college’s members gather in libraries and

roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the

College of Lore

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

monarch or following the tenets of a deity. A noble who keeps such a bard as a herald or advisor knows that the bard would rather be honest than politic. The college’s members gather in libraries and

roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the

Bard Subclasses

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Bard Subclasses A Bard subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Bard levels, as specified in the subclass. Bards form loose associations, which they call colleges, to preserve

. Your base Armor Class equals 10 plus your Dexterity and Charisma modifiers. Agile Strikes. When you expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration as part of an action, a Bonus Action, or a Reaction, you can

Bard: College of Spirits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Bard: College of Spirits Bards of the College of Spirits seek tales with inherent power—be they legends, histories, or fictions—and bring their subjects to life. Using occult trappings, these bards

conjure spiritual embodiments of powerful forces to change the world once more. Such spirits are capricious, though, and what a bard summons isn’t always entirely under their control. Guiding Whispers

Staff of Charming

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Staff of Charming Staff, Rare (Requires Attunement by a Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard) This staff has 10 charges. While holding the staff, you can use any of its properties: Cast

Enchantment spell that targets only you, you can take a Reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell. Resist Enchantment. If you fail

Staff of Charming

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Staff of Charming Staff, rare (requires attunement by a bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard) While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its 10 charges to cast charm

spell that targets only you, with or without the staff’s intervention, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell

Feat Descriptions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Choose two from light, sacred flame, and thaumaturgy. Choose one 1st-level cleric or wizard spell. Prismari Choose two from fire bolt, prestidigitation, and ray of frost. Choose one 1st-level bard or

. Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric spell. Witherbloom Choose two from chill touch, druidcraft, and spare the dying. Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell. Strixhaven Mascot Prerequisite: 4th Level

Staff of Charming

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Staff of Charming Staff, Rare (Requires Attunement by a Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard) This staff has 10 charges. While holding the staff, you can use any of its properties: Cast

Enchantment spell that targets only you, you can take a Reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell. Resist Enchantment. If you fail

Bard: College of Eloquence

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Bard: College of Eloquence Adherents of the College of Eloquence master the art of oratory. Persuasion is regarded as a high art, and a well-reasoned, well-spoken argument often proves more

use your reaction to encourage a different creature (other than yourself) that can hear you within 60 feet of you, giving it a Bardic Inspiration die without expending any of your Bardic Inspiration

Staff of Charming

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Staff of Charming Staff, rare (requires attunement by a bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard) While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its 10 charges to cast charm

enchantment spell that targets only you, with or without the staff’s intervention, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell

Occultant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

reaction, you can target one creature you can see that is about to attempt an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, either granting advantage or imposing disadvantage on the roll. The bead crumbles

is about to make an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw with disadvantage. When such a roll is made, you can use a reaction to grant a d10 to a different creature you can see. That creature

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