Bard Spells

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Level 0 Bard Spells

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

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

Level 1 Bard Spells

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

Level 2 Bard Spells

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

Level 3 Bard Spells

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

Level 4 Bard Spells

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

Level 5 Bard Spells

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

Level 6 Bard Spells

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