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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

College of Glamour

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.

College of Dance

Classes 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.

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.

Bard

Classes Player’s Handbook

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

;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

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

97–00 97–00 Void Each card’s effect is described below. Balance. You can increase one of your ability scores by 2, to a maximum of 22, provided you also decrease another

one of your ability scores by 2. You can’t decrease an ability that has a score of 5 or lower. Alternatively, you can choose not to adjust your ability scores, in which case this card has no

Ochre Jelly Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

equal to half the original jelly's, rounded down. New jellies are one size smaller than the original jelly.An ochre jelly is a yellowish ooze that can slide under doors and through narrow cracks in pursuit of creatures to devour.Lightning, SlashingAcid

Amorphous. The jelly can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Spider Climb. The jelly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to

Reduced-threat Ochre Jelly

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Amorphous. The jelly can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Spider Climb. The jelly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to

into two new jellies if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new jelly has hit points equal to half the original jelly's, rounded down. New jellies are one size smaller than the original jelly.Lightning, SlashingAcid

College of Glamour Legacy

Classes 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

Sentient Ochre Jelly

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

equal to half the original jelly's, rounded down. New jellies are one size smaller than the original jelly.An ochre jelly is a yellowish ooze that can slide under doors and through narrow cracks in pursuit of creatures to devour.Lightning, SlashingAcid

Amorphous. The jelly can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Spider Climb. The jelly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to

Black Pudding Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of

or wood that hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round. Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces

Devotee's Censer

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

The rounded head of this flail is perforated with tiny holes, arranged in symbols and patterns. The flail counts as a holy symbol for you. When you hit with an attack using this magic flail, the

target takes an extra 1d8 radiant damage. As a bonus action, you can speak the command word to cause the flail to emanate a thin cloud of incense out to 10 feet for 1 minute. At the start of each of your

Cloaker Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Damage Transfer. While attached to a creature, the cloaker takes only half the damage dealt to it (rounded down), and that creature takes the other half. False Appearance. While the cloaker remains

is attached. While attached, the cloaker can make this attack only against the target and has advantage on the attack roll. The cloaker can detach itself by spending 5 feet of its movement. A

Shield Guardian Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Bound. The shield guardian is magically bound to an amulet. As long as the guardian and its amulet are on the same plane of existence, the amulet's wearer can telepathically call the guardian to

travel to it, and the guardian knows the distance and direction to the amulet. If the guardian is within 60 feet of the amulet's wearer, half of any damage the wearer takes (rounded up) is transferred to

Regenerating Black Pudding

Monsters Out of the Abyss

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of

hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round. Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including

College of Creation (TCoE)

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

Bards believe the cosmos is a work of art—the creation of the first dragons and gods. That creative work included harmonies that continue to resound through existence today, a power known as

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

Decaton Modron

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

sprout out from their rounded frames in all directions. Their heads contain ten eyes to readily observe the operations of surrounding base modrons. In emergencies, a decaton can discharge a bolt of

Axiomatic Mind. The decaton can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions. Combat Ready. The decaton has advantage on initiative rolls. Disintegration. If

Dream Eater

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

Movement. The dream eater can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Incorporeal

dream eater lies not in brute force but in the ability to pierce its illusions and wrest others from its terrors. As such, bards and other persuasive adventurers find themselves uniquely poised to

Lich Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation

succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.The lich can take

Intelligent Black Pudding

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of

hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round. Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including

Princess Ebonmire

Monsters Out of the Abyss

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of

hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round. Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including

Reduced-threat Black Pudding

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of

hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round. Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including

Elder Black Pudding

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of

hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round. Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including

College of Creation

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

Bards believe the cosmos is a work of art—the creation of the first dragons and gods. That creative work included harmonies that continue to resound through existence today, a power known as

Screaming Devilkin

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

feet of one or more screaming devilkins and can hear it must make a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure the creature is incapacitated until the start of its next turn. On a success, the creature

denizens of the Feywild. Sages believe that their appearance derives from the primal fear inspired by fiendish creatures, while bards assert that panic, being such a repulsive emotion, is embodied by an

Instrument of the Bards Legacy

Magic Items 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

succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 2d4 psychic damage. You can use an action to play the instrument and cast one of its spells. Once the instrument has been used to cast a spell, it can

College of Lore Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. Whether singing folk ballads in taverns or

elaborate compositions in royal courts, these bards use their gifts to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members might find themselves questioning everything they held

Viari

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

thinking of his older brother as the successful one.) But he can be quick to show self-consciousness when talking of where he came from, and he never speaks of the name he bore in that former life. After

adventurer was nearly cut short during a battle of which the bards still sing. Unleashing a devastating attack with the aptly named Apocalypse Dagger, the rogue destroyed a giant single-handedly — and lost

Slithering Tracker

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

slithering tracker can grapple only one target at a time. While grappling the target, the slithering tracker takes only half any damage dealt to it (rounded down), and the target takes the other

act, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the slithering tracker isn’t a puddle. Liquid Form. The slithering tracker can enter an enemy

Mage Hunter

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Magic Sense. The hunter knows the location of every spellcaster, active spell, and magic item within 120 feet of itself. Spider Climb (Hunter Form Only). The hunter can climb difficult surfaces

", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tail", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the hunter can

Shield Guardian Detention Drone

Monsters The Book of Many Things

Bound. The drone is magically bound to an amulet. As long as the drone and its amulet are on the same plane of existence, the drone’s wearer can telepathically call the drone to travel to it

, and the drone knows the distance and direction to the amulet. If the drone is within 60 feet of the drone’s wearer, half of any damage the wearer takes (rounded up) is transferred to the drone

Ritual Caster (Warlock) Legacy

Feats Player’s Handbook (2014)

. The spell must be on the spell list for the class you chose, the spell’s level can be no higher than half your level (rounded up), and it must have the ritual tag. The process of copying the

You have learned a number of spells that you can cast as rituals. These spells are written in a ritual book, which you must have in hand while casting one of them. When you choose this feat, you

Ritual Caster (Druid) Legacy

Feats Player’s Handbook (2014)

. The spell must be on the spell list for the class you chose, the spell’s level can be no higher than half your level (rounded up), and it must have the ritual tag. The process of copying the

You have learned a number of spells that you can cast as rituals. These spells are written in a ritual book, which you must have in hand while casting one of them. When you choose this feat, you

Korolnor Scepter

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

their materials and properties vary. The Korolnor Scepter is a tapered mithral rod as thick and long as a dwarf’s forearm, with a small platinum knob at the bottom and a rounded disk adorned

with a ring of seven tiny blue gems at the top. You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this scepter, which can be wielded as a magic club. You can use the properties of the Wyrmskull

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