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Lute of Thunderous Thumping

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This reinforced lute can be wielded as a magic Club that deals an extra 2d8 Thunder damage on a hit. Sing and Swing. If you’re a Bard, you can use your Charisma modifier instead of your

Instrument of Illusions

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

While you are playing this musical instrument, you can take a Magic action to create harmless, illusory visual effects within a 5-foot Emanation originating from the instrument. If you are a Bard

Instrument of Scribing

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

nonmagical object or surface that you can see within 30 feet of yourself. The message can be up to six words long and is written in a language you know. If you are a Bard, you can scribe an additional seven

This musical instrument has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While you are playing it, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge and write a magical message on a

Bard

Classes Player’s Handbook

Core Bard Traits Primary Ability Charisma Hit Point Die D8 per Bard level Saving Throw Proficiencies Dexterity and Charisma Skill Proficiencies Choose any 3 skills

magic attempts to harness those words, which transcend any language. Anything can inspire a new song or tale, so Bards are fascinated by almost everything. They become masters of many things

College of Lore

Classes Player’s Handbook

Plumb the Depths of Magical Knowledge Bards of the College of Lore collect spells and secrets from diverse sources, such as scholarly tomes, mystical rites, and peasant tales. The college’s

members gather in libraries and universities to share their lore with one another. They also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at self-important figures of authority.

Suggestion

Spells Player’s Handbook

until you or your allies deal damage to the target. The Charmed target pursues the suggestion to the best of its ability. The suggested activity can continue for the entire duration, but if the suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, the spell ends for the target upon completing it.

You suggest a course of activity—described in no more than 25 words—to one creature you can see within range that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound achievable and not

Instrument of the Bards

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

An Instrument of the Bards is superior to an ordinary instrument in every way. Seven types of these instruments exist, each named after a bard college. The Instruments of the Bards table lists the

saving throw or take 2d4 Psychic damage. You can play the instrument to cast one of its spells. Once the instrument has been used to cast a spell, it can’t be used to cast that spell again until

Dominate Person

Spells Player’s Handbook

One Humanoid you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The target has Advantage on the save if you or your allies are fighting it

existence. On your turn, you can use this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object

Dominate Monster

Spells Player’s Handbook

One creature you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The target has Advantage on the save if you or your allies are fighting it

existence. On your turn, you can use this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object

Unseen Servant

Spells Player’s Handbook

ground within range. It has AC 10, 1 Hit Point, and a Strength of 2, and it can’t attack. If it drops to 0 Hit Points, the spell ends. Once on each of your turns as a Bonus Action, you can

mentally command the servant to move up to 15 feet and interact with an object. The servant can perform simple tasks that a human could do, such as fetching things, cleaning, mending, folding clothes

Mass Suggestion

Spells Player’s Handbook

You suggest a course of activity—described in no more than 25 words—to twelve or fewer creatures you can see within range that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound

throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration or until you or your allies deal damage to the target. Each Charmed target pursues the suggestion to the best of its ability. The suggested activity

Dominate Beast

Spells Player’s Handbook

.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself. You can

One Beast you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The target has Advantage on the save if you or your allies are fighting it

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

cases, made notations and additions to existing text. There are places where pages are missing, torn, or covered so completely with ink, blood, and scratches that the original text can’t be

divined. Nature can’t abide the book’s presence. Ordinary plants wither in its presence, common animals are unwilling to approach it, and the book gradually destroys whatever it touches. Even

Cleric

Classes Player’s Handbook

, a Cleric can reach out to the divine magic of the Outer Planes—where gods dwell—and channel it to bolster people and battle foes. Because their power is a divine gift, Clerics typically

prayers and rites that help them draw on power from the Outer Planes. Not every member of a temple or shrine is a Cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word? No. Actions and Bonus Actions

aren’t interchangeable. In the example, the Bard could use Bardic Inspiration or Healing Word on a turn, not both.

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word? No. Actions and Bonus Actions

aren’t interchangeable. In the example, the Bard could use Bardic Inspiration or Healing Word on a turn, not both.

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word? No. Actions and Bonus Actions

aren’t interchangeable. In the example, the Bard could use Bardic Inspiration or Healing Word on a turn, not both.

Lorwyn Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

their homeland in search of wondrous things or simply a place to rest. They are deeply in tune with nature but care little for the smaller denizens around them. At best, this makes a giant aloof and

the archways in hopes of finding the place abandoned but still stocked with a giant’s valuable relics. Such treasure hunters do well to tread carefully, for when angered, these giants can unleash

Queen Forfallen

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Inspiring Presence. Creatures of Forfallen’s choice (excluding herself) in a 30-foot Emanation originating from her have Advantage on attack rolls. She can’t use this trait if she has the

plies the seas in the largest and best-defended ship in the Moonshaes, the prize of her armada, which she’s strengthened with rusty metal plates and filled with a crew of bloodthirsty Rusted

Beast of Malar

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Divine Immortality"} days, reviving with all its Hit Points in a place of Malar’s choosing. Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the beast fails a saving throw, it can

: the beast of Malar. The beast of Malar can take three types of forms—a land form, a sea form, and a sky form—to pursue prey across land, seas, and skies. In each form, its short fur is

Shadowmoor Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

takes great slumbers bordering on hibernation. These giants sleep for so long that they fuse with the surrounding earth, imbuing them with the land’s ambient wild magic. The giants can mold and

rest. They are deeply in tune with nature but care little for the smaller denizens around them. At best, this makes a giant aloof and disinterested in the squabbles of boggarts, kithkin, elves, and

Bard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Multiattack. The bard makes two Shortsword or Shortbow attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting. Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit

6 Drum 7 Fute 8 Puppetry 9 Mime 10 Acting Taunt (2/Day). The bard targets one creature within 30 feet of it. If the target can hear the bard, the target must succeed

Bard Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

(3 slots): invisibility, shatter Song of Rest. The bard can perform a song while taking a short rest. Any ally who hears the song regains an extra 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll

","rollAction":"Song of Rest"} hit points if it spends any Hit Dice to regain hit points at the end of that rest. The bard can confer this benefit on itself as well. Taunt (2/Day). The bard can use a bonus action

Lyre Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Shawm Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Dulcimer Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Windharrow

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

Fey Ancestry. Windharrow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put him to sleep. Spellcasting. Windharrow is an 8th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability

is Charisma (spell save DC 13, +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). Windharrow knows the following bard spells: Cantrips (at will

Bagpipes Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use bagpipes as a spellcasting focus.

Flute Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Horn Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Viol Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Drum Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Lute Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Pan Flute Legacy

Equipment

If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus.

Bard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent

, decipher old tomes, travel to strange places, or encounter exotic creatures. Bards love to accompany heroes to witness their deeds firsthand. A bard who can tell an awe-inspiring story from personal

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