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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->Player’s Handbook
Find the Path Level 6 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a set of divination tools—such as cards or runes—worth 100+ GP)
Duration
: Concentration, up to 1 day
You magically sense the most direct physical route to a location you name. You must be familiar with the location, and the spell fails if you name a destination on another plane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Find the Path Level 6 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a set of divination tools—such as cards or runes—worth 100+ GP)
Duration
: Concentration, up to 1 day
You magically sense the most direct physical route to a location you name. You must be familiar with the location, and the spell fails if you name a destination on another plane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Locate Creature Level 4 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (fur from a bloodhound)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1
spell can’t locate a creature if any thickness of lead blocks a direct path between you and the creature.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Locate Creature Level 4 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (fur from a bloodhound)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1
spell can’t locate a creature if any thickness of lead blocks a direct path between you and the creature.
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
direct route, ending its turn if it moves within 5 feet of you.
Drop. The target drops whatever it is holding and then ends its turn.
Flee. The target spends its turn moving away from you by the
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
direct route, ending its turn if it moves within 5 feet of you.
Drop. The target drops whatever it is holding and then ends its turn.
Flee. The target spends its turn moving away from you by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Locate Object Level 2 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a forked twig)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
, such as a certain kind of apparel, jewelry, furniture, tool, or weapon. This spell can’t locate an object if any thickness of lead blocks a direct path between you and the object.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Locate Object Level 2 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a forked twig)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
, such as a certain kind of apparel, jewelry, furniture, tool, or weapon. This spell can’t locate an object if any thickness of lead blocks a direct path between you and the object.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Bard: College of Spirits Bards of the College of Spirits seek tales with inherent power—be they legends, histories, or fictions—and bring their subjects to life. Using occult trappings, these bards
conjure spiritual embodiments of powerful forces to change the world once more. Such spirits are capricious, though, and what a bard summons isn’t always entirely under their control. Guiding Whispers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
The Direct Approach Although he doesn’t like unexpected guests, Sythian has enough grace to briefly entertain visitors who arrive at the conservatory without an appointment. Characters who knock on
Students?” A character who is a bard (or pretends to be one) can petition Sythian to become a student at Skalderang Conservatory. The character must first prove they can afford Sythian’s tutelage (by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the others might be neutral or good; conflicts with those rivals might be social or political, rather than manifesting as direct attacks. The best rivals have a connection with their adversaries on a
solve 3 High priest who worries the characters are diminishing the temple’s prestige 4 Wizard who blames the characters for some recent troubles 5 Rival adventuring party 6 Bard who loves a scandal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
me push beyond my limitations. 6 My anger needed to be channeled into battle, or I risked becoming an indiscriminate killer. Bard d6 I became a bard because … 1 I awakened my latent bardic
abilities through trial and error. 2 I was a gifted performer and attracted the attention of a master bard who schooled me in the old techniques. 3 I joined a loose society of scholars and orators to learn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
table to guide where you place your highest and lowest scores. Standard Array by Class Class Str. Dex. Con. Int. Wis. Cha. Barbarian 15 13 14 10 12 8 Bard 8 14 12 13 10 15 Cleric 14 8 13 10 15 12
Weak 2 Sinewy Slight 3 Protective Self-conscious 4 Direct Indirect
Dexterity 1d4 High Dexterity Low Dexterity 1 Lithe Jittery 2 Dynamic Clumsy 3 Fidgety Hesitant 4 Poised Unsteady
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
this table to guide where you place your highest and lowest scores. Standard Array by Class Class Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma Barbarian 15 13 14 10 12 8 Bard 8 14
Strength 1 Muscular Weak 2 Sinewy Slight 3 Protective Self-conscious 4 Direct Indirect Dexterity 1d4 High Dexterity Low Dexterity 1 Lithe Jittery 2 Dynamic Clumsy 3 Fidgety Hesitant 4 Poised
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
ignored as he attacks them. Garret Levistusson CN male tiefling bard/rogue The Cartophile’s first choice to join the characters’ expedition, Garret is an untrustworthy bon vivant and magpie. His mapmaking
the merrenoloth (area C3). Secret Agendas. Mary’s biggest secret is that she is actually her cat familiar, polymorphed from human form, and using magic to create and direct the human simulacrum of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, who was part of the group that ambushed him. Hekaton rises to his full height and begins lashing out against small folk indiscriminately, shouting, “Lords’ Alliance indeed! I’ll see your alliance
, Rool articulately spells out why he would like to kill Captain Daggerdark and take command. The writing reveals that the captain claims to have a direct line of communication to the kraken
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
have an action readied, you can make an opportunity attack, which causes you to stop readying. Can a bonus action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a bard use a bonus action to grant
a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast healing word? No. Actions and bonus actions aren’t interchangeable. In the example, the bard could use Bardic Inspiration or healing word on a turn, not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
adventures or hear about how the characters plan to free Vallaki from the burgomaster’s madness. Rictavio. The lone guest of the Blue Water Inn at present is a colorfully dressed half-elf bard who goes
he asserts they are true indeed. Rictavio claims to be a carnival ringmaster from a distant land. He’s been staying at the inn for almost a month, taking advantage of Urwin Martikov’s generosity and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
prevented from doing so and are faced by an obviously superior enemy, the bugbears feign surrender and direct the characters’ attention to the fourth cell (see below), where—so they say—treasure is to
instructed to keep three “magical skeletons” in one of the cells safe from would-be thieves. To back up their tale, they point out—quite truthfully—that they have no key to this cell. Indeed, there are three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
master’s final judgment. The lich attacks immediately. His guards emerge from various positions to screen him from direct attack. Tarul Var can cast any of his spells from one of the dread warriors
). Transmutation magic on the bars renders them unbreakable, so a demon can’t escape the cell and, indeed, can’t pass any part of its body between the bars. Further, no sound can pass out of a cell into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
servers work shifts at the Helm; most nights, two cover the ground floor and one waits on guests on the upper floor. The staff at the Helm don’t gossip, but they direct anyone who questions them to
highly indeed. The clothing, boots, and accessories are all fine, warm, and sturdy, even though few Red Larchers can afford to buy them for everyday wear. The Tarnlars live in a comfortable apartment






