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Player’s Handbook
Move in Harmony with the Cosmos
Bards of the College of Dance know that the Words of Creation can’t be contained within speech or song; the words are uttered by the movements of celestial
bodies and flow through the motions of the smallest creatures. These Bards practice a way of being in harmony with the whirling cosmos that emphasizes agility, speed, and grace.
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
Spells
Player’s Handbook
One creature that you can see within range must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the target dances comically until the end of its next turn, during which it must spend all its
movement to dance in place.
On a failed save, the target has the Charmed condition for the duration. While Charmed, the target dances comically, must use all its movement to dance in place, and has
Spells
Player’s Handbook
when moving closer to you.
The gust disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes candles and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to dance
wildly and has a 50 percent chance to extinguish them.
As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can change the direction in which the Line blasts from you.
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Weave Beguiling Fey Magic
The College of Glamour traces its origins to the beguiling magic of the Feywild. Bards who study this magic weave threads of beauty and terror into their songs and stories
, and the mightiest among them can cloak themselves in otherworldly majesty. Their performances stir up wistful longing for forgotten innocence, evoke unconscious memories of long-held fears, and tug at the emotions of even the most hard-hearted listeners.
Classes
Player’s Handbook
;Daggers, Musical Instrument of your choice, Entertainer's Pack, and 19 GP; or (B) 90 GP
Invoking magic through music, dance, and verse, Bards are expert at inspiring others, soothing hurts
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
Feats
Player’s Handbook
Performance. When you finish a Short or Long Rest, you can give an inspiring performance: a speech, song, or dance. When you do so, choose up to six allies (which can include yourself) within 30 feet
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.
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
there harvest crops until sunset.” Or you could say, “Now is not the time for violence. Drop your weapons, and dance! Stop in an hour.”
Each target must succeed on a Wisdom saving
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
it longs to be more than mere reference material.
Abyssal Lore. You can reference the Demonomicon whenever you make an Intelligence check to discern information about demons or a Wisdom (Survival
) check related to the Abyss. When you do so, you gain Advantage on the check.
Containment. The first ten pages of the Demonomicon are blank. As a Magic action while holding the book, you can target a
Classes
Player’s Handbook
the influence of these beings can be felt. In no time, each Warlock is drawn into a binding pact with a powerful patron. Drawing on the ancient knowledge of beings such as angels, archfey, demons
them.
Once a pact is made, a Warlock’s thirst for knowledge and power can’t be slaked with mere study. Most Warlocks spend their days pursuing greater power and deeper knowledge, which
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
always have the Otto's Irresistible Dance spell prepared. You can cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it that way when you finish a Long Rest. You can also cast the
. While a creature that failed its saving throw against your Otto's Irresistible Dance has the Charmed condition from that spell, it can’t cast spells with Verbal components, and it sings delightful nonsense if it can sing.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Water Walking. The professor can walk across water and other liquids as if they were solid ground.Multiattack. The professor makes three Tidal Strike attacks.
Tidal Strike. Melee or Ranged Spell
with precise, forceful physical motion. Their sweeping gestures and dance-like steps gather the power of crashing waves, conjure the protection of unyielding stone, and shape great structures of ice
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
too can teach the mountains to sing and dance.”
Dwarves and gnomes often encourage their bards to become students of the Song of Creation. And among dragonborn, the Song of Creation is revered
the Song of Creation. The bards of the College of Creation draw on that primeval song through dance, music, and poetry, and their teachers share this lesson: “Before the sun and the moon, there
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
too can teach the mountains to sing and dance.”
Dwarves and gnomes often encourage their bards to become students of the Song of Creation. And among dragonborn, the Song of Creation is revered
the Song of Creation. The bards of the College of Creation draw on that primeval song through dance, music, and poetry, and their teachers share this lesson: “Before the sun and the moon, there
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
magical effects.Multiattack. The quori makes two Soul Binding attacks. Alternatively, it can make four attacks with Arcane Blast.
Arcane Blast. Ranged Spell Attack: +13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13
All-Around Vision. The quori can't be surprised while it isn't incapacitated.
Incorporeal Movement. The quori can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes
Otto's Irresistible Dance
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Choose one creature that you can see within range. The target begins a comic dance in place: shuffling, tapping its feet, and capering for the duration. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to
this spell.
A dancing creature must use all its movement to dance without leaving its space and has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws and attack rolls. While the target is affected by this
College of Glamour
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Xanathar's Guide to Everything
beasts can also bend minds. Villainous bards of this college can leech off a community for weeks, misusing their magic to turn their hosts into thralls. Heroic bards of this college instead use this
The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered their craft in the vibrant realm of the Feywild or under the tutelage of someone who dwelled there. Tutored by satyrs, eladrin, and other fey
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
While holding this concertina, you gain a +2 bonus to the saving throw DC of your bard spells.
As an action, you can use the concertina to cast Otto's irresistible dance from the item. This property of the concertina can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
damage, and lightning jumps from the target to one creature of the fluxcharger's choice that it can see within 30 feet of the target. That second creature must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving
tried binding elemental lightning, fire, and smoke into a framework made of the magical alloy mizzium. The experiment was partly successful: the resulting weird, a fluxcharger, doesn't explode like
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the anarch can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature it can see.
Siege Monster. The anarch deals double damage to objects and structures.Spiked Club. Melee
, from the hide armor they wear to the weapons they wield. As they pick through the refuse of the rubblebelts, they sometimes come across magic items and other valuable treasures.
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Immutable Form. The kolyarut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the kolyarut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
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;2: Disarm. The target drops one item it is holding of the kolyarut’s choice.
3–4: Imbalance. The target can’t take reactions until the start of the kolyarut’s next turn.
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Dance spell (save DC 14). The wand can be used to cast the spell as many times as you like each day, however, once a creature fails its saving throw against the spell cast by this wand, the wand cannot be used to cast the spell again until dawn the next day.
Light glistens across this shiny, black wand; the ribbons that flow from its tip twinkle and sparkle in rhythmic patterns.
You can spin and twirl holding this wand to cast the Otto's Irresistible
Spring Eladrin
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Fey Step (Recharge 4 – 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Fey Step"}. As a bonus action, the eladrin can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Innate
Spellcasting. The eladrin’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: charm person, Tasha's
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
5 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Shocking Grasp","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage, and the target can’t take reactions
until the start of its next turn.
Lightning Eruption (3/Day). The sage creates an eruption of magical lightning centered on a point it can see within 150 feet of it. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as their “host” moves (often at high speed), the scavvers keep pace. The lesser varieties
-like scavengers that fly through space, feeding on whatever they can fit in their mouths. Scavvers are not always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
monster (save DC 17) on a fire elemental. Once you have done so, Tinderstrike can’t be used this way again until the next dawn.
Dance of the All-Consuming Fire. While inside a fire node, you can
takes an extra 2d6 fire damage.
Fire Mastery. You gain the following benefits while you hold Tinderstrike:
You can speak Ignan fluently.
You have resistance to fire damage.
You can cast dominate
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
happily sing along, each in an obnoxiously nasal falsetto, as they dance and caper around whoever is making the music.
Campestris can easily imitate lyrics and music. After a campestri has practiced
Mimicry. The campestri can mimic any voice or song it has heard, albeit in a nasal falsetto.Head Butt. Melee Weapon Attack: +0;{"diceNotation":"1d20+0","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Head Butt
spells
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
You magically empower your movement with dance-like steps, giving yourself the following benefits for the duration.
Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
You don’t provoke opportunity
attacks.
You can move through the space of another creature, and it doesn’t count as difficult terrain. If you end your turn in another creature’s space, you are shunted to the last unoccupied space you occupied, and you take 1d8 force damage.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Blood Witch Dance. The witch can use a bonus action to control the movement of one creature cursed by its hex spell that it can see within 30 feet of it. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma
innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Innate Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). The witch can innately cast the
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Brave. Alagarthas has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
Fey Ancestry. Alagarthas has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put him to
bludgeoning damage.
Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, Alagarthas can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that it can see within 30 feet
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
falsetto, as they dance and caper around whoever is making the music.
Campestris can easily imitate lyrics and music. After a campestri has practiced a song or a piece of music three or four times, the
Mimicry. Each campestri in the swarm can mimic any voice or song it has heard, albeit in a nasal falsetto.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
one creature he can see within 60 feet of him. The target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Withering Gaze
Elturel. He sees his cause as a noble one — fighting the demons whose chaos marks the end of all things. But his mind is broken and filled with hatred for those who refuse to follow his commands.Necrotic, PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksRadiant
Bard
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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
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as their “host” moves (often at high speed), the scavvers keep pace. The lesser varieties—brown and gray&mdash
space, feeding on whatever they can fit in their mouths. Scavvers are not always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded