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Bard
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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
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted in its will to survive.
VARIANT: MADCAPS
A madcap is a redcap that soaks its hat in demon ichor instead of blood. Contact with demon ichor makes the
creature even more psychotic, causing it to brood over irrational hatreds. A group of madcaps will sometimes band together over a shared hatred of something, such as music, creatures with curly hair
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
abomination is the final stage of a grafter’s transformation—a hulking monster whose corrupted brain is ablaze with desire for treasure. Its abhorrent transformation erases the last
vestiges of its previous life. It sprouts a tail and clumsy wings and grows to enormous size, barely retaining a bipedal shape. Its stomach churns with acid, causing noxious fumes to waft from its mouth and
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
wrap around the corpse to animate it, causing it to rise and lurch about like a zombie.
Invasive Species. When a great battle is fought in a fey woodland, the plants of the wood sometimes take on the
implacable foe. Driven only by a desire to conquer and rule, it wages endless war with its army of mobile dead against all creatures it views as a threat to its domination. It might even forge treaties with
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
of his patron.
In his role as the master of the Wandering Emporium, Mahadi has received special dispensation from Asmodeus to travel freely between the Material Plane and the Nine Hells to operate
existence, catering to their every whim and desire. While he is equally cordial to all guests of the Wandering Emporium, those entering his establishment fall under a special contract and therefore
Nilbog
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
Maglubiyet, this trickster god survives in splintered form as a possessing spirit that arises when goblinoids form a host, causing disorder in the ranks unless it is appeased. Goblins have no name for
fearless of reprisal. It gives the goblin strange powers that drive others to do the opposite of what they desire. Attacking a goblin possessed by a nilbog is foolhardy, and killing the creature just
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (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.
Bard Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->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.
Bard Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Enthrall Level 2 Enchantment (Bard, Warlock) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You weave a distracting string of words, causing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Enthrall Level 2 Enchantment (Bard, Warlock) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You weave a distracting string of words, causing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Falling Star After the characters have a moment to process the memories they’ve received, they witness the foretold falling star. Read or paraphrase the following text: Your surroundings momentarily
brighten as a brilliant light streaks across the heavens and plummets to the earth. As the falling star lands in the mountains ahead, a distant rumble accompanies the impact, causing flocks of birds
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
you can see within 300 feet of you takes damage, causing it to be immune to that damage and any further damage of the same type until the start of your next turn. In addition, you can play the lyre
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
magic set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel — to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
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
magic set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel — to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Darcalus Rex During her annual midnight submergence in the deepest of Nevuchar Springs’s miraculous baths, Cardinna Artazas—the community’s thrice-reincarnated elder mystic—received an apocalyptic
manipulation, Cardinna summoned the spirit of Darcalus Rex, the tyrannical wizard-king who ruled prior to Azalin. Cardinna’s magic worked, causing a mysterious entity to inhabit her order’s sacred pools
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
. The rest of the cultists at the Wayside Inn see Backes as their leader however, to be protected and obeyed in any circumstance. The local cultists have received orders to kidnap a local bard, Tarbin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Defining Work Every successful bard is renowned for at least one piece of performance art, typically a song or a poem that is popular with everyone who hears it. These performances are spoken about
Defining Work 1 “The Three Flambinis,” a ribald song concerning mistaken identities and unfettered desire 2 “Waltz of the Myconids,” an upbeat tune that children in particular enjoy 3 “Asmodeus’s Golden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. As a campaign villain, Phenax might be driven by a desire to incite conflict against his fellow gods, usually to serve his own ends. Although Phenax doesn’t desire rulership over Nyx, he does love to
engages in a shadow war with Erebos, causing pandemonium in the Underworld. As a result, droves of Returned flood the mortal world.
2 Phenax undertakes a plot to transform Erebos into one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
urge to stand against evil. Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1. Radiant Soul. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing
this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest. Scourge Aasimar Scourge aasimar are imbued with a divine energy that blazes intensely within them. It feeds a powerful desire to destroy
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Quest: Chaos Unfurls Once Toryn learns the characters are adventurers, she tries to hire them. Read the following aloud: “I recently received a shipment of tempestuous magical scrolls. I need them
character bullies a scroll, causing it to flee into a case. Case Closed If the characters encase all the scrolls, Toryn pays them 20 GP as promised. If the scrolls knock out all the characters, Toryn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and falling as the Dark Powers desire. Tales attribute ominous powers to the Mists, from cloaking monsters to causing entire villages to vanish. The Mists are not bound to Ravenloft and slip across
undergo terrifying transformations, whole villages disappear unnoticed, and the Mists bar every method of escaping a threat. Any surreal development you desire is also the will of the Dark Powers, assuring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
a sore reminder of the animosity that has often arisen between the two peoples. Desire. Tazmikella agrees with Protanther that the metallic dragons could strike against the chromatic dragons
cautious. If the party contains any character with a personal reputation for shady dealings (particularly a rogue or bard), she is unfriendly. Concession. Pick one magic item owned by a member of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
status, and they typically don’t set impossible goals — a lesser demon, for instance, might simply run amok when unleashed into the world, its only desire to spread chaos, but a marilith or other
powerful demon usually has an intent that goes beyond merely causing carnage, and a plan to achieve it. DEMONIC AMULETS: BLESSING AND CURSE
Some demon lords have a way of cheating death, but this great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Halaster’s voice, “Terrible and painful magical death! Fireballs and lightning bolts! Begone!” It speaks and understands Common, but voices nothing but empty threats and a desire to continue its “work
points or if a successful dispel magic spell (DC 15) is cast on it. Hidden inside the puppet is a flask of alchemist’s fire that shatters as the puppet falls to pieces, causing its remnants to catch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonflesh Abomination A dragonflesh abomination is the final stage of a grafter’s transformation—a hulking monster whose corrupted brain is ablaze with desire for treasure. Its abhorrent
transformation erases the last vestiges of its previous life. It sprouts a tail and clumsy wings and grows to enormous size, barely retaining a bipedal shape. Its stomach churns with acid, causing noxious fumes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Emil Toranescu In truth, Strahd locked Emil here as punishment for causing a schism in his werewolf pack (see chapter 15). Anxious to prove his worth to Strahd, Emil rewards the characters for
. Hanging Bard Pounded into the roof of this cell is a rusted iron pulley, strung through which is a rope that is tied to one of the crossbeams of the barred door. Dangling upside down from the pulley
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
a sore reminder of the animosity that has often arisen between the two peoples. Desire. Tazmikella agrees with Protanther that the metallic dragons could strike against the chromatic dragons
cautious. If the party contains any character with a personal reputation for shady dealings (particularly a rogue or bard), she is unfriendly. Concession. Pick one magic item owned by a member of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
turned up until the weapons’ former owners each received a copy of the following note: Search ye far or search ye near
You’ll find no trace of the three
Unless you follow instructions clear
For
really the magician of legend, after thirteen hundred years?), the wealthy collectors have promised to grant them whatever they desire, if it is within their power to do so.
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
Wizard spell list or any combination thereof (see a class’s section for its spell list). A spell you choose must be a cantrip or a spell for which you have spell slots, as shown in the Bard Features table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
least once every three days, the redcap vanishes as if it had never been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted in its will to survive. Redcap
Small Fey, Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 13 (natural armor
redcap that soaks its hat in demon ichor instead of blood. Contact with demon ichor makes the creature even more psychotic, causing it to brood over irrational hatreds. A group of madcaps will sometimes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
the spies’ patrons desire. They’re trained to manipulate, infiltrate, and—when necessary—escape in a hurry. Many adopt disguises, aliases, or code names to maintain anonymity. Roll on or choose a
result from the Spy Personas table to inspire a spy’s disguise.
Spy Personas 1d4 The Spy Disguises Themself As...
1 A bard or traveling performer.
2 A captive or servant of a monster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
” section in chapter 3 can issue this challenge. Why a Challenge? Choose one of the following grudges as the reason for the challenge: Dangerous. The Rival accuses the characters of causing the dangerous
to participate in this challenge, the Rival tries to compel the character to participate. This could include any of the following coercions: Offering the characters something they desire or important
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
give an initial focus to the campaign—setting a tone and giving players an initial investment in the story. The player characters may be meeting in a tavern—but it’s their favorite tavern. The bard
you’re a folk hero, did you deal with a thug causing trouble in your favorite tavern—earning you the gratitude of the owner and the enmity of the villain? This is a collaborative process and the goal is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
when a creature sits on it. Awakened Giant Goats The characters come upon three giant goats, each of which has received the benefit of an awaken spell, raising its Intelligence score to 10 and granting
refers to Endelyn’s weakness, as described in appendix B.) The second goat says, “Play to her passions. Stay on script. A cat, a horn, or a shadow ripped.” (This prophecy refers to Endelyn’s desire to






