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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
spells common to all instruments, as well as the spells specific to each one and its rarity. A creature that attempts to play the instrument without being attuned to it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
dying essence. Myrkul has since returned to become one of the Dead Three, and the Crown of Horns continues to further his gruesome will by seeking out mortal agents and gradually transforming them into
Common.
Personality. The crown contains the essence of Myrkul and exists to spread that god’s will, which is to slay the living, raise the dead, and sow fear across the Material Plane. The crown
Bard
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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 hard study
, 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
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The Book of Many Things
encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
Whisperer. A purple star whose guidance and minions seem to help for a time but whose influence inevitably leads to disaster.
Hadar, the Dark Hunger. A cinder-red dying star that siphons life from its
Instrument of the Bards
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
An instrument of the bards is an exquisite example of its kind, superior to an ordinary instrument in every way. Seven types of these instruments exist, each named after a legendary bard college. The
following table lists the spells common to all instruments, as well as the spells specific to each one and its rarity. A creature that attempts to play the instrument without being attuned to it must
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
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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 sorcerer spell.
Quandrix
Choose two from
druidcraft, guidance, and mage hand.
Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell.
Silverquill
Choose two from sacred flame, thaumaturgy, and vicious mockery.
Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
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 sorcerer spell.
Quandrix
Choose two from
druidcraft, guidance, and mage hand.
Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell.
Silverquill
Choose two from sacred flame, thaumaturgy, and vicious mockery.
Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
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 sorcerer spell.
Quandrix
Choose two from
druidcraft, guidance, and mage hand.
Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell.
Silverquill
Choose two from sacred flame, thaumaturgy, and vicious mockery.
Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
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 sorcerer spell.
Quandrix
Choose two from
druidcraft, guidance, and mage hand.
Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell.
Silverquill
Choose two from sacred flame, thaumaturgy, and vicious mockery.
Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
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 sorcerer spell.
Quandrix
Choose two from
druidcraft, guidance, and mage hand.
Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell.
Silverquill
Choose two from sacred flame, thaumaturgy, and vicious mockery.
Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
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 sorcerer spell.
Quandrix
Choose two from
druidcraft, guidance, and mage hand.
Choose one 1st-level druid or wizard spell.
Silverquill
Choose two from sacred flame, thaumaturgy, and vicious mockery.
Choose one 1st-level bard or cleric
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Sylvan
Equipment: A Selesnya insignia, a healer’s kit, robes, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 5 gp (Azorius 1-zino coins)
Feature: Conclave’s Shelter
As a
always straining to peer into another reality that seems to be just beyond my senses.
5
I’m uneasy if I can’t see plants growing or feel soil beneath my feet.
6
Seeing illness
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Basic Rules (2014)
or deck of cards, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Specialty
During your time as a soldier, you had a specific role to play in your unit or army. Roll a d8 or choose
forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5
Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6
I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
existence. Or so they thought. From a place without time or reality, the Dark Powers plucked the dying elder brain and planted it upon a tormented world. Ever since, the God-Brain of Bluetspur has
for lesser beings, explorations beyond the boundaries of time, reality, immortality, and the multiverse. Many failed—at least one catastrophically so. To summarize an eon of atrocities, one elder
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Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
adventure.
The Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as you draw the card
common or uncommon magic weapon with which you are proficient, or a spell scroll featuring a spell of a level you can cast, appears in your hands. The DM chooses the weapon or spell, which you
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
gaming set, vehicles (land)
Equipment: An insignia of rank, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a set of common
the behaviors common to corrupt guards and military officers a mile away. While awareness of such corruption doesn’t equate to evidence of it, and your sense certainly isn’t foolproof, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Spellcasting You have learned to untangle and reshape the fabric of reality in harmony with your wishes and music. Your spells are part of your vast repertoire, magic that you can tune to different
situations. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the bard spell list. Cantrips You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn additional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Spellcasting You have learned to untangle and reshape the fabric of reality in harmony with your wishes and music. Your spells are part of your vast repertoire, magic that you can tune to different
situations. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the bard spell list. Cantrips You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn additional
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
-wielding police force of the City of Splendors, protecting the common folk from thieves and rowdy nobility alike. Or you might have been one of the valiant defenders of Silverymoon, a member of the
defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5
Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6
I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.
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Flaw
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
: Choose one of Elvish, Giant, or Kraul
Equipment: A Golgari insignia, a poisoner’s kit, a pet beetle or spider, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp worth of mixed
Spell Level
Spells
Cantrip
dancing lights, spare the dying
1st
entangle, ray of sickness
2nd
protection from poison, ray of enfeeblement, spider climb
3rd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Magic in the Dying Domain Magic is a source of both prestige and terror in Hazlan. Commoners fear it but know it represents a path out of desperation, while the elite equate worth and magical skill
. Adventurers in Hazlan are treated as outsiders by the elite and potential threats by the common folk. Worse, visitors who don’t understand the dangerous nature of magic in the domain might accidentally unleash magical ruin.
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
, spellbooks, and ancient lore. Hermit Warlock (Great Old One). The Mark of Making allows you to read the code of reality itself, to understand voices no one else can hear. You have no interest in the business
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Dead Gods Luca Bancone An astral dreadnought consumes a dead god in Vecna’s new reality When the characters cross the threshold in area E2c, they appear in an unreality where Vecna has usurped the
maw—gnash at the behemoth’s flanks.
The behemoth is a dying astral dreadnought that’s being preyed on by six eye mongers (see appendix A for both stat blocks). The dreadnought has only 150 hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Curious Tale of Wisteria Vale is the script of a play written in Common. It is split up into three acts, telling the story of a heroic bard before he becomes corrupted by evil. A wizard named Ryllia Liadon
bard named Arrant Quill until they could free him from the influence of an evil artifact. The book has been hidden in the Candlekeep archives for three years, but the Harpers have finally discovered a cure for Quill’s corruption, and the time has come to visit Wisteria Vale once more.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Instrument of Illusions Wondrous item, common (requires attunement) While you are playing this musical instrument, you can create harmless, illusory visual effects within a 5-foot-radius sphere
centered on the instrument. If you are a bard, the radius increases to 15 feet. Sample visual effects include luminous musical notes, a spectral dancer, butterflies, and gently falling snow. The magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. 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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
chuul room contains a rod of the pact keeper +2. Advancing to Stage 3 When the creatures in the common room and upstairs have been defeated, the characters feel the reality around them unravel as they are
Stage 2: Little Inn of Horrors The Test Market warps reality the moment any character opens a door within the Dran & Courtier. The first time this happens, all the characters find themselves back in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
. Even though most bards in the region aren’t Harpers (and many who are don’t advertise that fact), common folk in the North often behave as if all bards are legendary wandering heroes, and are as
likely to ask a bard for the solution to a problem troubling their community as they are a wandering fighter or wizard. This reputation cuts both ways, however, as some enemies of the Harpers suspiciously assume any humble minstrel might secretly be a Harper agent.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
between what characters think and how they behave. When creating adventures rooted in psychological horror, consider common fears and anxieties. These readily become metaphors for villains and monsters
. Uncertainty, paranoia, and blurred lines between reality and fiction also shape psychological horror stories. In your adventures, this might take the form of unreliable information. Characters might 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
, 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
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
, 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domains Sinister demiplanes known as domains constitute the realms of Ravenloft. These domains vary widely, but they share a number of common features: Domains Are Finite. The domains vary in size
haze. Domains share neither borders nor common geography, and you can’t peer from one domain into another. The environments, cultures, and residents of one domain don’t influence those of other domains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Speak with Plants Level 3 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Ranger) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes
You imbue plants in an immobile 30-foot Emanation with
, but they can move their branches, tendrils, and stalks for you. If a Plant creature is in the area, you can communicate with it as if you shared a common language.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Instrument of Scribing Wondrous item, common (requires attunement) This musical instrument has 3 charges. While you are playing it, you can use an action to expend 1 charge from the instrument and
write a magical message on a nonmagical object or surface that you can see within 30 feet of you. The message can be up to six words long and is written in a language you know. If you are a bard, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Speak with Plants Level 3 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Ranger) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes
You imbue plants in an immobile 30-foot Emanation with
, but they can move their branches, tendrils, and stalks for you. If a Plant creature is in the area, you can communicate with it as if you shared a common language.