Bard Spells

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Level 0 Bard Spells

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

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

Level 1 Bard Spells

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

Level 2 Bard Spells

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

Level 3 Bard Spells

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

Level 4 Bard Spells

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

Level 5 Bard Spells

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

Level 6 Bard Spells

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