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to help protect the territory surrounding their lairs.
Martial Hoards
Sapphire dragons’ favorite prizes are weapons and armor, records of military history and tactics, and magic items that
caverns and complex tunnel systems. As they grow older, they continually renovate their lairs, using their tunneling abilities and command over stone.
Sapphire dragons eventually create dizzying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Command Level 1 Enchantment (Bard, Cleric, Paladin) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: Instantaneous
You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within
range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. Choose the command from these options: Approach. The target moves toward you by the shortest and most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Additional Bard Spells 1st-level bard feature The spells in the following list expand the bard spell list in the Player’s Handbook. The list is organized by spell level, not character level. If a
offers more spells. 1st Level
Color spray
Command
2nd Level
Aid
Enlarge/reduce
Mirror image
3rd Level
Intellect fortress *
Mass healing word
Slow
4th Level
Phantasmal killer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Command Level 1 Enchantment (Bard, Cleric, Paladin) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: Instantaneous
You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within
range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. Choose the command from these options: Approach. The target moves toward you by the shortest and most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
purposefully obscure command keys. Hints at command keys might be found among the records of a gorgon’s creator or in the area the gorgon protects—perhaps scrawled as a petrified trespasser’s final act. Roll
, creating a magical threat that can fill a structure and linger for years. When magic-users create gorgons, they often enchant them to ignore those who confront the creature with a specific command key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
records the command word to open the mansion’s doorway. Many researchers perused this book over the years it spent in Candlekeep, but knowledge of the command word was useless without the location of
those absences. By searching through the books Fistandia donated to the library, he found the command word to open the portal and stepped inside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Geas Level 5 Enchantment (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: 30 days
You give a verbal command to a creature that you can see
the duration. The target automatically succeeds if it can’t understand your command. While Charmed, the creature takes 5d10 Psychic damage if it acts in a manner directly counter to your command. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Geas Level 5 Enchantment (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: 30 days
You give a verbal command to a creature that you can see
the duration. The target automatically succeeds if it can’t understand your command. While Charmed, the creature takes 5d10 Psychic damage if it acts in a manner directly counter to your command. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Unseen Servant Level 1 Conjuration (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a bit of string and of wood)
Duration: 1 hour
This spell creates
an Invisible, mindless, shapeless, Medium force that performs simple tasks at your command until the spell ends. The servant springs into existence in an unoccupied space on the ground within range
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Unseen Servant Level 1 Conjuration (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a bit of string and of wood)
Duration: 1 hour
This spell creates
an Invisible, mindless, shapeless, Medium force that performs simple tasks at your command until the spell ends. The servant springs into existence in an unoccupied space on the ground within range
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Dragonmarked Characters Here are examples of characters who carry the Mark of Scribing. House Agent Bard. The Draconic Prophecy is one of the greatest mysteries of all. You’re an observer tasked to
scribe and discovered a talent for arcane magic and a love of history. You’re eager to explore ancient ruins and lost civilizations, and you’re especially interested in uncovering old records
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
living storehouses of history and folklore. Bards know a great deal, and they tend to be willing to share what they know, or at least barter for it. The arrival of a renowned bard is a special occasion
, akin to the visit of a dignitary. A bard can reasonably expect at least a hot supper and a clean place to sleep from a local landlord or inn in exchange for a few songs or stories. A noble might host a
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surrounding their lairs.
Martial Hoards
Sapphire dragons’ favorite prizes are weapons and armor, records of military history and tactics, and magic items that protect against psychic damage or mental
older, they continually renovate their lairs, using their tunneling abilities and command over stone.
Sapphire dragons eventually create dizzying honeycombs of hidden passages, deceptively thin walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Bard Spell List This section presents the Bard spell list. The spells are organized by spell level and then alphabetized, and each spell’s school of magic is listed. In the Special column, C means
the spell requires Concentration, R means it’s a Ritual, and M means it requires a specific Material component. Cantrips (Level 0 Bard Spells) Spell School Special Blade Ward Abjuration C Dancing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Bard Spell List This section presents the Bard spell list. The spells are organized by spell level and then alphabetized, and each spell’s school of magic is listed. In the Special column, C means
the spell requires Concentration, R means it’s a Ritual, and M means it requires a specific Material component. Cantrips (Level 0 Bard Spells) Spell School Special Blade Ward Abjuration C Dancing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Objects animate at your command
and your allies. In combat, it shares your Initiative count and takes its turn immediately after yours. Until the spell ends, you can take a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
DAVID AUDEN NASH A Brazier
Affected by the Spell Animate Objects Objects animate at your command. Choose a number of nonmagical objects within range that aren’t being worn or carried, aren’t fixed to a surface, and aren’t Gargantuan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Helm of telepathy Wondrous item Yes Instrument of the bards (Doss lute) Wondrous item Yes (bard) Instrument of the bards (Fochlucan bandore) Wondrous item Yes (bard) Instrument of the bards (Mac-Fuirmidh
cittern) Wondrous item Yes (bard) Javelin of lightning Weapon No Medallion of thoughts Wondrous item Yes Necklace of adaptation Wondrous item Yes Pearl of power Wondrous item Yes (spellcaster
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
library and a rookery, the command center subsumes those functions. Library records are stored in a chamber adjacent to where the war council meets, and posts for ravens are set all around the exterior of
. This configuration enables all the goblinoids to swiftly rally and exit the camp en masse to meet an approaching threat. Command Center The camp’s warlord resides in the command center, which is a large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Apprentice Silverquill Apprentice
Medium or Small Humanoid (Bard), Any Alignment
Armor Class 12 (15 with mage armor)
Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
14 (+2
(spell save DC 12):
At will: dancing lights, friends
1/day each: command, mage armor
Reactions
Rousing Verse. When a creature the apprentice can see within 30 feet of it fails a saving throw, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Leomund’s Tiny Hut Level 3 Evocation (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 Minute
Range: Self (10 ft. Sphere)
Components: V, S, M (a crystal bead)
Duration: 8 Hours
A 10-foot Emanation
, and the effects of such spells can’t extend into it. The atmosphere inside the Emanation is comfortable and dry, regardless of the weather outside. Until the spell ends, you can command the interior
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
Spell. You can expend 1 of the staff’s charges to cast Charm Person, Command, or Comprehend Languages from it using your spell save DC. Reflect Enchantment. If you succeed on a saving throw against an
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
person, command, or comprehend languages from it using your spell save DC. The staff can also be used as a magic quarterstaff. If you are holding the staff and fail a saving throw against an
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
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Leomund’s Tiny Hut Level 3 Evocation (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a crystal bead)
Duration: 8 hours
A 10-foot Emanation springs into
effects of such spells can’t extend into it. The atmosphere inside the Emanation is comfortable and dry, regardless of the weather outside. Until the spell ends, you can command the interior to have Dim
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
Spell. You can expend 1 of the staff’s charges to cast Charm Person, Command, or Comprehend Languages from it using your spell save DC. Reflect Enchantment. If you succeed on a saving throw against an
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
Inspiration die, and then each can use its Reaction to move up to its Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks. Level 6: Mantle of Majesty You always have the Command spell prepared. As a Bonus Action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Planar Binding Level 5 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a jewel worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 24
commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Planar Binding Level 5 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a jewel worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 24
commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your
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
person, command, or comprehend languages from it using your spell save DC. The staff can also be used as a magic quarterstaff. If you are holding the staff and fail a saving throw against an
Monsters
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know of places of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that create
succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by the dragon until initiative count 20 on the next round. A creature charmed in this way obeys to the best of its ability any command the dragon
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of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that create illusions
this way obeys to the best of its ability any command the dragon issues that isn’t directly harmful to the creature.
Distort Perceptions. The dragon attempts to alter the perceptions of one






