Bard Spells

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Level 0 Bard Spells

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

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

Level 1 Bard Spells

Name	Description	Rev?
Adjuring Step	You can move slowly and safely and still cast spells, until you move quickly.	Y
Alarm	Wards an area for the night.	Y
Alter Musical Instrument	Treat any instrument as your bard implement.	Y
Animate Rope	Makes a rope move at your command, to trip or entangle an enemy.	Y
Anticipate Peril	Targets gain a scaling bonus on their next initiative check.	Y
Blurred Movement	As Blur (Spell), but only while you are moving, unless you move twice in a single round.	Y
Bungle	Inflict a penalty on a target's d20 roll as an immediate action.	Y
Cause Fear	One creature gains the Cringing condition.	Y
Charm Person	Makes one Humanoid creature or person your friend.	Y
Chord of Shards	Performance deals 2d6 Piercing Damage.	N
Cure Light Wounds	Cures 2d8 damage + 1/lvl (max +10).	Y
Dancing Lantern	Animates a lantern-flame that follows you and can be used as a ray attack.	Y
Deja Vu	Make a creature realize that things aren't so bad after all.	Y
Disguise Self	Changes your appearance.	Y
Ear-Piercing Scream	Deal Sonic Damage to an enemy target, or deafen an ally to all but yourself.	Y
Embrace Destiny	Dice with Fate, for good or ill.	Y
Expeditious Retreat	Your Walk speed increases.	Y
Feather Fall	Instantly changes the rate at which the targets falls.	Y
Feather Step	Ignores the adverse movement effects of difficult terrain.	Y
Fumbletongue	Causes a creature to be unable to speak intelligibly.	N
Grease	Covers a 10-ft. square or one object with a layer of slippery grease.	Y
Hideous Laughter	Subject becomes wobbly due to gales of forced mirth.	Y
Horn of Pursuit	Create 3 notes that can be heard up to five miles away.	Y
Hypnotism	Distracts and inflicts psychic damage.	Y
Liberating Command	Restrained target may make an Escape Artist check to escape as an immediate action.	Y
Lock Gaze	Compel the target to look at you and only you, no matter how painful.	Y
Magic Aura	Alter your aura to grant AC.	Y
Magic Mouth	Objects speaks once when triggered.	Y
Memory Lapse	Subject forgets events back to last turn.	Y
Peacebond	Locks a weapon in place on the target's body.	Y
Poisoned Egg	Transform the contents of a normal egg into a single dose of Simple Venom.	Y
Remove Fear	Suppresses fear or gives +4 bonus on saves against fear	Y
Restful Sleep	Gain more hit points while sleeping.	N
Shillelagh	Target's bludgeoning (physical, common) or buffeting (physical, uncommon) weapon deals damage as a larger weapon.	Y
Silent Image	Creates minor illusion of your design.	Y
Solid Note	Creates tangible music note.	N
Summon Monster I	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.	Y
Tap Inner Beauty	Gain a bonus on all Charisma-based skill checks.	Y
Timely Inspiration	Immediate spell gives an Arcane Bonus on failed skill check or attack roll.	Y
Toilsome Chant	Inspire Competence (Performance) persists until the target’s next skill check.	Y
Unseen Servant	Creates an invisible, mindless, shapeless force that performs simple tasks.	Y
Vanish	Immediately become Invisible for 1 round.	Y
Ventriloquism	Make your voice seem to issue from someplace else.	Y

Level 2 Bard Spells

Name	Description	Rev?
Air Step	Tread on air, with limitations.	Y
Allegro	Gain Haste (Spell) while maintaining Bardic Performance.	Y
Blade Tutor's Spirit	Attack penalties you choose to suffer are reduced.	Y
Blindness/Deafness	Makes subject blind to sight or sound, dazzled if they make their save, and at risk of a Synergy.	Y
Blistering Invective	Make an Intimidate check against all foes within 30 feet; those demoralized also take Fire Damage.	N
Blur	Attacks miss subject 20% of the time, if the subject moves at least 15 feet each round.	Y
Burning Gaze	Inflict fire damage and Burned to creatures simply by looking at them.	Y
Codespeak	Recipients gain the ability to speak, read, and write a new, coded language.	Y
Compassionate Ally	Target is compelled to help injured ally or suffer the Antagonized condition.	Y
Cure Moderate Wounds	Cures 4d8 damage +1/lvl (max. +20).	Y
Disguise Other	As Disguise Self (Spell), but affects you or another.	Y
Dust of Twilight	Black particles extinguish light sources and damages creatures.	Y
False Life	Gain 1d10 temporary hp + 1/lvl (max +10).	Y
Gallant Inspiration	Immediate spell allows +2d4 Arcane Bonus on failed attack roll or skill check.	Y
Gentle Repose	Preserves one corpse.	Y
Glitterdust	Inflicts Light damage, blinds creatures, and outlines invisible creatures or objects.	Y
Haunting Mists	Creatures are shaken and take gnashing damage...or DO they?	Y
Heroic Fortune	The target gains 1 temporary Action Point.	Y
Heroism	Gives +2 bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks.	Y
Hidden Speech	Gain +10 Competence Bonus on Bluff to send secret messages.	N
Hold Person	Paralyzes one humanoid creature for a brief time.	Y
Honeyed Tongue	Roll 2 dice for some uses of Diplomacy, take higher roll.	Y
Invisibility	Subject is invisible until the end of its next encounter.	Y
Least Polymorph	Assume form of a Small or Medium Humanoid.	Y
Marching Chant	Allies can hustle without penalty.	Y
Minor Image	As Silent Image (Spell), plus sound and damage.	Y
Mirror Image	Creates a decoy duplicate of you.	Y
Piercing Shriek	Target is staggered by a painful sound.	N
Pilfering Hand of the Magus	You may seize an object or manipulate it from afar, robbing or attacking enemies, and delighting friends.	Y
Pyrotechnics	Turns a fire into a burst of dazzling fireworks and a thick column of smoke.	Y
Qualm	Target gains Burned or Singed and is at risk of a Synergy until it spends actions doing nothing.	Y
Scare	Inflict psychic damage and Cringing on one or two targets.	Y
Seducer's Eyes	You first flirt with, then brutally reject, targets, inflicting terrible rugosic damage upon them.	Y
Share Memory	Share or inflict one memory upon the target.	Y
Shatter	Sonic vibration damages objects or an enemy creature.	Y
Sound Burst	Deals 1d8 Sonic Damage and may stun subjects.	N
Spell Gauge	You learn the nature of, and disable, a target creature's supernatural or spell-like ability.	Y
Suggestion	Compels subject to follow stated course of action.	Y
Summon Monster II	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.	Y
Tactical Acumen	Your or your allies gain an additional bonus on attack rolls or to AC due to battlefield positioning.	Y
Touch of Mercy	The target creature deals only Non-Lethal Damage with all of its weapon attacks.	N

Level 3 Bard Spells

Name	Description	Rev?
Accept Affliction	The caster can transfer the effects of afflictions such as curses, diseases, and poisons from the target creature to himself.	Y
Adjustable Disguise	As Disguise Self (Spell), but you can change the disguise as a swift action.	Y
Blink	You randomly vanish and reappear for 1 round per level.	N
Blot	Ruins writings and wipes creatures out of existence.	Y
Charm Monster	Makes monster believe it is your ally.	Y
Confusion	Subjects struck by ray behave oddly and are at risk of a synergy.	Y
Coordinated Effort	Grants allies a Teamwork feat.	Y
Crushing Despair	Subjects struggle to keep living against the assault of quiescent damage.	Y
Cure Serious Wounds	Cures 6d8 damage + 1/lvl (max +30).	Y
Daylight	60-ft. radius of bright light, or, touch a creature to inflict heavy Light damage and a status condition.	Y
Dispel Magic	Cancels one magical spell or effect	Y
Displacement	Attacks miss subject 50% of the time, if the subject moves at least 30 feet each round.	Y
Fear	Subjects within cone suffer Psychic damage and gain the Cringing condition.	Y
Feather Step, Mass	As Feather Step (Spell), but multiple creatures.	Y
Gaseous Form	Subject becomes insubstantial and can fly slowly.	N
Good Hope	Subjects gain +2 Arcane Bonus on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks	Y
Haste	Two or more allies move faster, and gain a bonus attack on a full attack action.	Y
Invisibility Sphere	Makes creatures within 10 ft. of the touched recipient invisible.	Y
Isolate	Your ray attack causes a target to become Exiled.	Y
Jester's Jaunt	Teleport target within 30 ft. of itself.	Y
Lucky Strike	You gain an increasing Arcane Bonus on attack and damage rolls.	Y
Major Image	As Minor Image (Spell), plus bigger, more damaging, and has sound, smell and thermal effects.	Y
Overwhelming Grief	Grieving targets suffer psychic damage and are Dazzled by tears unless a save is made for half effect.	Y
Phantom Steed	Magic mount appears for the day.	Y
Remove Curse	Frees object or person from curse.	Y
See Invisibility	Reveals invisible creatures or objects.	Y
Slow	One subject/lvl is hindered and takes -1 to REFL saves.	N
Summon Monster III	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.	Y
Tiny Hut	Creates shelter for 10 creatures on a Material Plane.	Y

Level 4 Bard Spells

Name	Description	Rev?
Adjustable Polymorph	As Least Polymorph (Spell), but you can change the shape as a swift action.	Y
Break Enchantment	Frees subjects from enchantments, transmutations, and curses.	N
Cure Critical Wounds	Cures 8d8 damage + 2/lvl (max +40).	Y
Dimension Door	Teleports you and possibly others a short distance	Y
Dominate Person	Controls Humanoid telepathically.	Y
Echolocation	Grants you Echolocation.	Y
Envious Urge	Targets suffer damage and want what you have. A lot.	Y
Feast on Fear	Targets are panicked, and you gain temporary hit points.	N
Freedom of Movement	Subject moves, despite impediments to restrict movement.	Y
Heroic Fortune, Mass	Multiple targets receive an Action Point.	Y
Hold Monster	Briefly paralyzes one creature of any type.	Y
Invisibility, Greater	As Invisibility (Spell), but works against all senses.	Y
Master's Escape	Switch places with one summoned creature you control.	Y
Modify Memory	Changes 5 minutes of subject's memories.	Y
Neutralize Poison	Immunizes subject against poison, or detoxifies poison in or on subject.	Y
Phantom Steed, Communal	Summon up to 6 Phantom Steeds, dividing the duration among them.	Y
Rainbow Pattern	Lights fascinate and inflict Light damage on chosen creatures.	Y
Secure Shelter	Creates sturdy cottage.	Y
Serenity	Peaceful feelings harm those attempting violence.	Y
Shadow Step	Teleport from one shadow to another.	N
Shocking Image	As Mirror Image (Spell), but the duplicates emit electrical damage when destroyed.	Y
Shout	Deafens all within cone and deals 5d6 Sonic Damage.	N
Sonic Thrust	Ray of sound damages and moves targets.	Y
Summon Monster IV	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.	Y
Utter Contempt	Targets suffer heavy Soul (energy, rare) damage as you deride them.	Y
Wall of Blindness	Creatures that pass through a translucent wall suffer fictive damage and an assault on their senses.	Y
Wall of Sound	Sonic wall damages creatures.	Y
Wandering Star Motes	Outlines subject, creating bright light, making concealment and stealth impossible and dealing Stellar damage.	Y

Level 5 Bard Spells

Name	Description	Rev?
Archon's Trumpet	Inflicts heavy thundercrash damage to all targets in a 30 foot cone.	Y
Bard's Escape	You and allies escape an emergency by teleporting to safety.	N
Boneshatter	A crackling ray deals heavy damage and inflicts wobbly.	Y
Cloak of Dreams	Ray causes living creatures to fall asleep and risk a Synergy.	Y
Cure Light Wounds, Mass	Cures 1d8 damage + 1/lvl, maximum +15.	Y
Dispel Magic, Greater	Cancels multiple magical spells or effects	Y
Foe to Friend	Redirect an enemy creature's attack.	Y
Hallucinatory Terrain	Appears like any sort of natural terrain, but does not conceal structures or creatures.	Y
Heroism, Greater	Gives +3 bonus on attack rolls, saves, and skill checks, and temporary hit points.	Y
Hymn of Mercy	As Touch of Mercy (Spell), except 30-ft.-radius burst centered on you.	N
Mind Fog	Illusory fog obscures vision and causes fictive damage.	Y
Mislead	Turns you invisible and creates illusory double.	N
Music of the Spheres	Grant Fast Healing, ER, and a bonus to saves to targets.	Y
Nap Stack	Subjects only need 2 hours for a night's sleep, and can sleep even longer for more benefits.	N
Nightmare	Sends vision dealing heavy psychic damage and fatigue.	Y
Persistent Image	As Minor Image (Spell), but much stronger.	Y
Phantasmal Web	Catches subjects in an illusory web.	Y
Resonating Word	Target is damaged, and suffers ongoing sonic damage.	Y
Shadow Walk	Step into shadow to travel rapidly.	Y
Suggestion, Mass	As Suggestion (Spell), affects multiple targets.	Y
Summon Monster V	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.	Y

Level 6 Bard Spells

Name	Description	Rev?
Brilliant Inspiration	Immediate spell can add 1d4+1 to many rolls for one round.	Y
Charm Monster, Mass	As Charm Monster (Spell), but multiple targets within 30 feet of each other.	Y
Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass	Cures 3d8 damage + 1/lvl, maximum +20.	Y
Eyebite	Targets suffer rugosic damage and are dazzled.	Y
Forced Quiet	Muffle sound around the target.	Y
Heroes' Feast	Food for one creature/lvl cures and grants combat bonuses.	N
Insanity	Subject suffers continuous confusion.	Y
Irresistible Dance	Forces subject to dance.	Y
Mad Hallucination	Target is locked into an illusionary world of madness, or suffers fictive damage, and is at risk of a Synergy.	Y
Mirage Arcana	As Hallucinatory Terrain (Spell), plus structures.	Y
Overwhelming Presence	Creatures prostrate themselves before you as if you were divine and are at risk of a Synergy.	Y
Programmed Image	As Minor Image (Spell), but dormant until triggered by event.	Y
Project Image	Illusory double can talk and cast spells.	Y
Sending	Delivers short message anywhere, instantly.	Y
Shout, Greater	Devastating yell deals 10d6 Sonic Damage; stuns creatures.	N
Sonic Form	Turn yourself into a creature of semisolid sound.	N
Summon Monster VI	Summons one Summoned Monster to fight for you.	Y
Sympathetic Vibration	Deals 2 Siege Damage damage/round to freestanding structure.	N