Bard Spells

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Level 0 Bard Spells

Level 0 bard spells are also referred to as "Cantrips".

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Dancing Lights	Illusion	Std	Creates illusory torches or other lights.
Detect Magic	Universal	Std	Detects all spells and magic items within a 60 ft cone.
Flare	Evocation	Std	Dazzles one creature.
Ghost Sound	Illusion	Std	Create figment sounds in a location.
Hand of the Magus	Transmutation	Std	You can telekinetically move and attack with a modest object.
Know Direction	Universal	Std	You discern north.
Light	Evocation	Std	Object shines like a torch.
Lullaby	Enchantment	Std	Can make one or more subjects Drowsy.
Mending	Transmutation	Std	Makes minor repairs on a non-magical object that is damaged or Broken.
Message	Enchantment	Std	Whisper conversation at distance.
Prestidigitation	Universal	Std	Performs minor tricks.
Read Magic	Universal	Std	Read scrolls and spellbooks.
Resistance	Abjuration	Immediate	Subject gains +1 bonus on saving throws.
Sift	Universal	Std	Examine an area at a distance
Spark	Abjuration	Std	Dangerous spark injures your attacker.
Summon Instrument	Conjuration	Std	Summons one musical instrument
Unwitting Ally	Enchantment	Std	Subject is considered ally for 1 round

Level 1 Bard Spells

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Adjuring Step	Abjuration	Std	You can move slowly and safely and still cast spells, until you move quickly.
Alarm	Abjuration	Std	Wards an area for the night.
Alter Musical Instrument	Illusion	Std	Treat any instrument as your bard instrument.
Animate Rope	Transmutation	Std	Makes a rope move at your command, to trip or entangle an enemy.
Anticipate Peril	Enchantment	Std	Targets gain a scaling bonus on their next initiative check.
Blurred Movement	Illusion	Std	As Blur (Bard Spell), but only while you are moving, unless you move twice in a single round.
Bungle	Enchantment	Immediate	Inflict a penalty on a target's d20 roll as an immediate action.
Cause Fear	Necromancy	Immediate	One creature gains the Cringing condition.
Charm Person	Enchantment	Std	Makes one Humanoid creature or person your friend.
Chord of Shards	Chord of Shards (Bard Spell)	Std	Chord of Shards (Bard Spell)
Cure Light Wounds	Conjuration	Std	Cures 2d8 damage + 1/lvl (max +10).
Dancing Lantern	Enchantment	Std	Animates a lantern-flame that follows you and can be used as a ray attack.
Deja Vu	Enchantment	Immediate	Make a creature realize that things aren't so bad after all.
Disguise Self	Illusion	Std	Changes your appearance.
Ear-Piercing Scream	Illusion	Std	Deal Sonic Damage to an enemy target, or deafen an ally to all but yourself.
Embrace Destiny	Universal	Std	Dice with Fate, for good or ill.
Expeditious Retreat	Enchantment	Std	Your Walk speed increases.
Feather Fall	Transmutation	Immediate	Instantly changes the rate at which the targets falls.
Feather Step	Transmutation	Std	Ignores the adverse movement effects of difficult terrain.
Fumbletongue	Enchantment	Std	Causes a creature to be unable to speak intelligibly.
Grease	Conjuration	Std	Covers a 10-ft. square or one object with a layer of slippery grease.
Hideous Laughter	Enchantment	Std	Subject becomes wobbly due to gales of forced mirth.
Horn of Pursuit	Evocation	Std	Create 3 notes that can be heard up to five miles away.
Hypnotism	Enchantment	Std	Distracts and inflicts psychic damage.
Liberating Command	Transmutation	Immediate	Restrained target may make an Escape Artist check to escape as an immediate action.
Lock Gaze	Enchantment	Std	Compel the target to look at you and only you, no matter how painful.
Magic Aura	Abjuration	Immediate	Alter your aura to grant AC.
Magic Mouth	Illusion	Std	Objects speaks once when triggered.
Memory Lapse	Enchantment	Std	Subject forgets events back to last turn.
Peacebond	Abjuration	Immediate	Locks a weapon in place on the target's body.
Poisoned Egg	Transmutation	Std	Transform the contents of a normal egg into a single dose of Simple Venom.
Read Weather	Read Weather (Bard Spell)	Std	Read Weather (Bard Spell)
Remove Fear	Abjuration	Std	Suppresses fear or gives +4 bonus on saves against fear
Restful Sleep	Restful Sleep (Bard Spell)	Std	Restful Sleep (Bard Spell)
Shillelagh	Transmutation	Std	Target's bludgeoning (physical, common) or buffeting (physical, uncommon) weapon deals damage as a larger weapon.
Silent Image	Illusion	Std	Creates a visual-based illusion of your design.
Solid Note	Conjuration	Std	Creates a tangible, immovable music note.
Summon Monster I	Universal	Std	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.
Tap Inner Beauty	Universal	Std	Gain a bonus on all Charisma-based skill checks.
Timely Inspiration	Enchantment	Immediate	Immediate spell gives an Arcane Bonus on failed skill check or attack roll.
Toilsome Chant	Toilsome Chant (Bard Spell)	Std	Toilsome Chant (Bard Spell)
Unseen Servant	Conjuration	Std	Creates an invisible, mindless, shapeless force that performs simple tasks.
Vanish	Illusion	Immediate	Immediately become Invisible for 1 round.
Ventriloquism	Illusion	Std	Make your voice seem to issue from someplace else.

Level 2 Bard Spells

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Air Step	Transmutation	Std	Tread on air, with limitations.
Allegro	Transmutation	Std	Gain Haste (Bard Spell) while maintaining Bardic Performance.
Blade Tutor's Spirit	Conjuration	Std	Attack penalties you choose to suffer are reduced.
Blindness/Deafness	Necromancy	Std	Makes subject blind to sight or sound, dazzled if they make their save, and at risk of a Synergy.
Blistering Invective	Evocation	Std	Target suffers fire damage and may become Slandered.
Blur	Illusion	Std	Subject gains partial concealment if they displace at least 15 feet from their starting space each round.
Burning Gaze	Evocation	Std	Inflict fire damage and Burned to creatures simply by looking at them.
Codespeak	Enchantment	Std	Recipients gain the ability to speak, read, and write a new, coded language.
Compassionate Ally	Enchantment	Std	Target is compelled to help injured ally or suffer the Antagonized condition.
Cure Moderate Wounds	Conjuration	Std	Cures 4d8 damage +1/lvl (max. +20).
Disguise Other	Illusion	Std	As Disguise Self (Bard Spell), but affects you or another.
Dust of Twilight	Conjuration	Std	Black particles extinguish light sources and damages creatures.
False Life	Necromancy	Std	Gain 1d10 temporary hp + 1/lvl (max +10).
Gallant Inspiration	Enchantment	Immediate	Immediate spell allows +2d4 Arcane Bonus on failed attack roll or skill check.
Gentle Repose	Necromancy	Std	Preserves one corpse.
Glitterdust	Enchantment	Std	Inflicts Light damage, blinds creatures, and outlines invisible creatures or objects.
Haunting Mists	Illusion	Std	Creatures are shaken and take gnashing damage...or DO they?
Heroic Fortune	Evocation	Std	The target gains 1 temporary Action Point.
Heroism	Enchantment	Std	Gives +2 bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks.
Hidden Speech	Hidden Speech (Bard Spell)	Std	Hidden Speech (Bard Spell)
Hold Person	Enchantment	Std	Paralyzes one humanoid creature for a brief time.
Honeyed Tongue	Transmutation	Std	Roll 2 dice for some uses of Diplomacy, take higher roll.
Invisibility	Illusion	Std	Subject is invisible until the end of its next encounter.
Least Polymorph	Transmutation	Std	Assume form of a Small or Medium Humanoid.
Marching Chant	Transmutation	Std	Allies can hustle without penalty.
Minor Image	Illusion	Std	Creates a visual and audible illusion of your design that can cause harm to believers.
Mirror Image	Illusion	Std	Creates a decoy duplicate of you.
Piercing Shriek	Piercing Shriek (Bard Spell)	Std	Piercing Shriek (Bard Spell)
Pilfering Hand of the Magus	Evocation	Std	You may seize an object or manipulate it from afar, robbing or attacking enemies, and delighting friends.
Pyrotechnics	Transmutation	Std	Turns a fire into a burst of dazzling fireworks and a thick column of smoke.
Qualm	Enchantment	Std	Target gains Burned or Singed and is at risk of a Synergy until it spends actions doing nothing.
Scare	Necromancy	Std	Inflict psychic damage and Cringing on one or two targets.
Seducer's Eyes	Enchantment	Std	You first flirt with, then brutally reject, targets, inflicting terrible rugosic damage upon them.
Share Memory	Universal	Std	Share or inflict one memory upon the target.
Shatter	Abjuration	Std	Sonic vibration damages objects or a enemy creatures.
Sound Burst	Sound Burst (Bard Spell)	Std	Sound Burst (Bard Spell)
Spell Gauge	Universal	Std	You learn the nature of, and disable, a target creature's supernatural or spell-like ability.
Suggestion	Enchantment	Std	Compels subject to follow stated course of action.
Summon Monster II	Universal	Std	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.
Tactical Acumen	Enchantment	Std	Your or your allies gain an additional bonus on attack rolls or to AC due to battlefield positioning.
Touch of Mercy	Enchantment	Std	The target creature gains the Secured condition.

Level 3 Bard Spells

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Accept Affliction	Conjuration	Std	The caster can transfer the effects of afflictions such as curses, diseases, and poisons from the target creature to himself.
Adjustable Disguise	Illusion	Std	As Disguise Self (Bard Spell), but you can change the disguise as a swift action.
Blink	Blink (Bard Spell)	Std	Blink (Bard Spell)
Blot	Illusion	Std	Ruins writings and wipes creatures out of existence.
Charm Monster	Enchantment	Std	Makes monster believe it is your ally.
Confusion	Enchantment	Std	Subjects struck by ray behave oddly and are at risk of a synergy.
Coordinated Effort	Universal	Std	Grants allies a Teamwork feat.
Crushing Despair	Enchantment	Std	Subjects struggle to keep living against the assault of quiescent damage.
Cure Serious Wounds	Conjuration	Std	Cures 6d8 damage + 1/lvl (max +30).
Daylight	Evocation	Std	60-ft. radius of bright light, or touch a creature to inflict Light damage and Blind.
Dispel Magic	Abjuration	Std	Cancels one magical spell or effect
Displacement	Illusion	Immediate	Attacks miss subject on a natural 12 or less, if the subject moves at least 30 feet each round.
Fear	Necromancy	Std	Subjects within cone suffer Psychic damage and gain the Cringing condition.
Feather Step, Mass	Transmutation	Std	As Feather Step (Bard Spell), but multiple creatures.
Gaseous Form	Gaseous Form (Bard Spell)	Std	Gaseous Form (Bard Spell)
Good Hope	Enchantment	Std	Subjects gain +2 Arcane Bonus on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and skill checks
Haste	Transmutation	Std	Two or more allies move faster, and gain a bonus attack action during a full attack.
Invisibility Sphere	Illusion	Std	Makes creatures within 10 ft. of the touched recipient invisible.
Isolate	Illusion	Std	Your ray attack causes a target to become Exiled.
Jester's Jaunt	Conjuration	Std	Teleport target within 30 ft. of itself.
Lucky Strike	Evocation	Std	You gain an increasing Arcane Bonus on attack and damage rolls.
Major Image	Illusion	Std	As Minor Image (Bard Spell), plus bigger, more damaging, and has sound, smell and thermal effects.
Overwhelming Grief	Enchantment	Std	Grieving targets suffer psychic damage and are Dazzled by tears unless a save is made for half effect.
Phantom Steed	Conjuration	Std	Magic mount appears for the day.
Remove Curse	Abjuration	Std	Frees object or person from curse.
See Invisibility	Universal	Std	Reveals invisible creatures or objects.
Slow	Transmutation	Std	Inflicts Hindered upon multiple foes.
Summon Monster III	Universal	Std	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.
Tiny Hut	Evocation	Std	Creates shelter for 10 creatures on a Material Plane.

Level 4 Bard Spells

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Adjustable Polymorph	Transmutation	Std	As Least Polymorph (Bard Spell), but you can change the shape as a swift action.
Break Enchantment	Break Enchantment (Bard Spell)	Std	Break Enchantment (Bard Spell)
Cure Critical Wounds	Conjuration	Std	Cures 8d8 damage + 2/lvl (max +40).
Dimension Door	Conjuration	Std	Teleports you and possibly others a short distance
Dominate Person	Enchantment	Std	Controls Humanoid telepathically.
Echolocation	Transmutation	Std	Grants you Echolocation.
Envious Urge	Enchantment	Std	Targets suffer damage and want what you have. A lot.
Feast on Fear	Feast on Fear (Bard Spell)	Std	Feast on Fear (Bard Spell)
Freedom of Movement	Abjuration	Std	Subject moves, despite impediments to restrict movement.
Heroic Fortune, Mass	Evocation	Std	Multiple targets receive an Action Point.
Hold Monster	Enchantment	Std	Briefly paralyzes one creature of any type.
Invisibility, Greater	Illusion	Std	As Invisibility (Bard Spell), but works against all senses.
Master's Escape	Conjuration	Immediate	Switch places with one summoned creature you control.
Modify Memory	Enchantment	Std	Changes 5 minutes of subject's memories.
Neutralize Poison	Conjuration	Std	Immunizes subject against poison, or detoxifies poison in or on subject.
Phantom Steed, Communal	Conjuration	Std	Summon up to 6 Phantom Steeds, dividing the duration among them.
Rainbow Pattern	Illusion	Std	Lights fascinate and inflict Light damage on chosen creatures.
Secure Shelter	Conjuration	Std	Creates sturdy cottage.
Serenity	Enchantment	Std	Peaceful feelings harm those attempting violence.
Shadow Step	Shadow Step (Bard Spell)	Std	Shadow Step (Bard Spell)
Shocking Image	Illusion	Std	As Mirror Image (Bard Spell), but the duplicates emit electrical damage when destroyed.
Shout	Evocation	Std	Damages creatures and objects within cone with Sonic damage.
Sonic Thrust	Abjuration	Std	Ray of sound damages and moves targets.
Summon Monster IV	Universal	Std	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.
Utter Contempt	Enchantment	Std	Targets suffer heavy Soul (energy, rare) damage as you deride them.
Wall of Blindness	Illusion	Std	Creatures that pass through a translucent wall suffer fictive damage and an assault on their senses.
Wall of Sound	Enchantment	Std	Sonic wall damages creatures.
Wandering Star Motes	Illusion	Std	Outlines subject, creating bright light, making concealment and stealth impossible and dealing Stellar damage.

Level 5 Bard Spells

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Archon's Trumpet	Enchantment	Std	Inflicts heavy thundercrash damage to all targets in a 30 foot cone.
Bard's Escape	Bard's Escape (Bard Spell)	Std	Bard's Escape (Bard Spell)
Boneshatter	Transmutation	Std	A crackling ray deals heavy damage and inflicts wobbly.
Cloak of Dreams	Enchantment	Std	Ray causes living creatures to fall asleep and risk a Synergy.
Cure Light Wounds, Mass	Conjuration	Std	Cures 1d8 damage + 1/lvl, maximum +15.
Dispel Magic, Greater	Abjuration	Std	Cancels multiple magical spells or effects
Foe to Friend	Enchantment	Immediate	Redirect an enemy creature's attack.
Hallucinatory Terrain	Illusion	Std	Appears like any sort of natural terrain, but does not conceal structures or creatures.
Heroism, Greater	Enchantment	Std	Gives +3 bonus on attack rolls, saves, and skill checks, and temporary hit points.
Hymn of Mercy	Enchantment	Std	The target creatures gain the Secured condition.
Mind Fog	Illusion	Std	Illusory fog obscures vision and causes fictive damage.
Mislead	Mislead (Bard Spell)	Std	Mislead (Bard Spell)
Music of the Spheres	Conjuration	Std	Grant Fast Healing, ER, and a bonus to saves to targets.
Nap Stack	Necromancy	Ritual	Subjects only need 2 hours for a night's sleep.
Nightmare	Illusion	Std	Sends vision dealing heavy psychic damage and fatigue.
Persistent Image	Illusion	Std	As Minor Image (Bard Spell), but much stronger.
Phantasmal Web	Illusion	Std	Catches subjects in an illusory web.
Resonating Word	Transmutation	Std	Target is damaged, and suffers ongoing sonic damage.
Shadow Walk	Illusion	Std	Step into shadow to travel rapidly.
Suggestion, Mass	Enchantment	Std	As Suggestion (Bard Spell), affects multiple targets.
Summon Monster V	Universal	Std	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.

Level 6 Bard Spells

Name	School	Cast Time	Description
Brilliant Inspiration	Enchantment	Immediate	Immediate spell can add 1d4+1 to many rolls for one round.
Charm Monster, Mass	Enchantment	Std	As Charm Monster (Bard Spell), but multiple targets within 30 feet of each other.
Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass	Conjuration	Std	Cures 3d8 damage + 1/lvl, maximum +20.
Eyebite	Necromancy	Std	Targets suffer rugosic damage and are dazzled.
Forced Quiet	Enchantment	Std	Muffle sound around the target.
Heroes' Feast	Conjuration	Ritual	Food for several creatures, cures, and grants combat bonuses.
Insanity	Enchantment	Std	Subject suffers continuous confusion.
Irresistible Dance	Enchantment	Std	Forces subject to dance.
Mad Hallucination	Illusion	Std	Target is locked into an illusionary world of madness, or suffers fictive damage, and is at risk of a Synergy.
Mirage Arcana	Illusion	Std	As Hallucinatory Terrain (Bard Spell), plus structures.
Overwhelming Presence	Enchantment	Std	Creatures prostrate themselves before you as if you were divine and are at risk of a Synergy.
Programmed Image	Illusion	Std	As Minor Image (Bard Spell), but dormant until triggered by event.
Project Image	Illusion	Std	Illusory double can talk and cast spells.
Sending	Evocation	Std	Delivers short message anywhere, instantly.
Shout, Greater	Evocation	Std	Devastating yell deals Sonic damage.
Sonic Form	Sonic Form (Bard Spell)	Std	Sonic Form (Bard Spell)
Summon Monster VI	Universal	Std	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.
Sympathetic Vibration	Evocation	Ritual	Deals Siege Damage to a portion of a freestanding structure.