3e SRD:Bard Spell List

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Bard Spells

0-Level Bard Spells (Cantrips)

• Dancing Lights: Creates torches or other lights.
• Daze: Creature loses next action.
• Detect Magic: Detects spells and magic items within 60 ft.
• Flare: Dazzles one creature (–1 attack).
• Ghost Sound: Figment sounds.
• Light: Object shines like a torch.
• Mage Hand: 5-pound telekinesis.
• Mending: Makes minor repairs on an object.
• Open/Close: Opens or closes small or light things.
• Prestidigitation: Performs minor tricks.
• Read Magic: Read scrolls and spellbooks.
• Resistance: Subject gains +1 on saving throws.

1st-Level Bard Spells

• Alarm: Wards an area for 2 hours/level.
• Cause Fear: One creature less flees for 1d4 rounds.
• Charm Person: Makes one person the caster's friend.
• Cure Light Wounds: Cures 1d8 +1/level damage (max +5).
• Detect Secret Doors: Reveals hidden doors within 60 ft.
• Erase: Mundane or magical writing vanishes.
• Expeditious Retreat: Doubles the caster’s speed.
• Feather Fall: Objects or creatures fall slowly.
• Grease: Makes 10-ft. square or one object slippery.
• Hypnotism: Fascinates 2d4 HD of creatures.
• Identify: Determines single feature of magic item.
• Mage Armor: Gives subject +4 armor bonus.
• Magic Weapon: Weapon gains +1 bonus.
• Message: Whispered conversation at distance.
• Protection from Chaos/Evil/Good/Law: +2 AC and saves, counter mind control, hedge out elementals and outsiders.
• Silent Image: Creates minor illusion of the caster’s design.
• Sleep: Puts 2d4 HD of creatures into comatose slumber.
• Summon Monster I: Calls outsider to fight for the caster.
• Unseen Servant: Creates invisible force that obeys the caster’s commands.
• Ventriloquism: Throws voice for 1 min./level.

2nd-Level Bard Spells

• Animal Trance: Fascinates 2d6 HD of animals.
• Blindness/Deafness: Makes subject blind or deaf.
• Blur: Attacks miss subject 20% of the time.
• Bull's Strength: Subject gains 1d4+1 to Str for 1 hr./level.
• Cat's Grace: Subject gains 1d4+1 to Dex for 1 hr./level.
• Cure Moderate Wounds: Cures 2d8 +1/level damage (max +10).
• Darkness: 20-ft. radius of supernatural darkness.
• Daylight: 60-ft. radius of bright light.
• Delay Poison: Stops poison from harming subject for 1 hour/level.
• Detect Thoughts: Allows "listening" to surface thoughts.
• Enthrall: Captivates all within 100 ft. + 10 ft./level.
• Glitterdust: Blinds creatures, outlines invisible creatures.
• Hold Person: Holds one person helpless for 1 round/level.
• Hypnotic Pattern: Fascinates 2d4+1 HD/level of creatures.
• Invisibility: Subject is invisible for 10 min./level or until it attacks.
• Locate Object: Senses direction toward object (specific or type).
• Magic Mouth: Speaks once when triggered.
• Minor Image: As silent image, plus some sound.
• Mirror Image: Creates decoy duplicates of the caster (1d4 +1/three levels, max 8).
• Misdirection: Misleads divinations for one creature or object.
• Obscure Object: Masks object against divinations.
• Pyrotechnics: Turns fire into blinding light or choking smoke.
• Scare: Panics creatures up to 5 HD (15-ft. radius).
• See Invisibility: Reveals invisible creatures or objects.
• Shatter: Sonic vibration damages objects or crystalline creatures.
• Silence: Negates sound in 15-ft. radius.
• Sound Burst: Deals 1d8 sonic damage to subjects; may stun them.
• Suggestion: Compels subject to follow stated course of action.
• Summon Monster II: Calls outsider to fight for the caster.
• Summon Swarm: Summons swarm of small crawling or flying creatures.
• Hideous Laughter: Subject loses actions for 1d3 rounds.
• Tongues: Speak any language.
• Undetectable Alignment: Conceals alignment for 24 hours.
• Whispering Wind: Sends a short message one mile/level.

3rd-Level Bard Spells

• Bestow Curse: -6 to an ability; -4 on attacks, saves, and checks; or 50% chance of losing each action.
• Blink: The caster randomly vanishes and reappears for 1 round/level.
• Charm Monster: Makes monster believe it is the caster’s ally.
• Clairaudience/Clairvoyance: Hear or see at a distance for 1 min./level.
• Confusion: Makes subject behave oddly for 1 round/level.
• Cure Serious Wounds: Cures 3d8 +1/level damage (max +15).
• Dispel Magic: Cancels magical spells and effects.
• Displacement: Attacks miss subject 50%.
• Emotion: Arouses strong emotion in subject.
• Fear: Subjects within cone flee for 1 round/level.
• Gaseous Form: Subject becomes insubstantial and can fly slowly.
• Geas, Lesser: Commands subject of 7 HD or less.
• Greater Magic Weapon: +1 bonus/three levels (max +5).
• Gust of Wind: Blows away or knocks down smaller creatures.
• Haste: Extra partial action and +4 AC.
• Illusory Script: Only intended reader can decipher.
• Invisibility Sphere:Makes everyone within 10 ft. invisible.
• Keen Edge: Doubles normal weapon's threat range.
• Magic Circle against Chaos/Evil/Good/Law: As protection spells, but 10-ft. radius and 10 min./level.
• Major Image: As silent image, plus sound, smell and thermal effects.
• Phantom Steed: Magic horse appears for 1 hour/level.
• Remove Curse: Frees object or person from curse.
• Remove Disease: Cures all diseases affecting subject.
• Scrying: Spies on subject from a distance.
• Sculpt Sound: Creates new sounds or changes existing ones.
• Sepia Snake Sigil: Creates text symbol that immobilizes reader.
• Slow: One subject/level takes only partial actions, -2 AC, -2 melee rolls.
• Summon Monster III: Calls outsider to fight for the caster.
• Tiny Hut: Creates shelter for ten creatures.
• Wind Wall: Deflects arrows, smaller creatures, and gases.

4th-Level Bard Spells

• Break Enchantment: Frees subjects from enchantments, alterations, curses, and petrification.
• Cure Critical Wounds: Cures 4d8 +1/level damage (max +20).
• Detect Scrying: Alerts the caster of magical eavesdropping.
• Dimension Door: Teleports the caster and up to 500 lb.
• Dismissal: Forces a creature to return to native plane.
• Dominate Person: Controls humanoid telepathically.
• Hallucinatory Terrain: Makes one type of terrain appear like another (field into forest, etc.).
• Hold Monster: As hold person, but any creature.
• Invisibility, Improved: As invisibility, but subject can attack and stay invisible.
• Legend Lore: Learn tales about a person, place, or thing.
• Locate Creature: Indicates direction to familiar creature.
• Modify Memory: Changes 5 minutes of subject’s memories.
• Neutralize Poison: Detoxifies venom in or on subject.
• Rainbow Pattern: Lights prevent 24 HD of creatures from attacking or moving away.
• Secure Shelter: Creates sturdy cottage.
• Shout: Deafens all within cone and deals 2d6 damage.
• Summon Monster IV: Calls outsider to fight for the caster.

5th-Level Bard Spells

• Contact Other Plane: Ask question of extraplanar entity.
• Control Water: Raises or lowers bodies of water.
• Dispelling, Greater: As dispel magic, but +20 on check.
• Dream: Sends message to anyone sleeping.
• False Vision: Fools scrying with an illusion.
• Healing Circle: Cures 1d8 +1/level damage in all directions.
• Mind Fog: Subjects in fog get -10 Wis, Will checks.
• Mirage Arcana: As hallucinatory terrain, plus structures.
• Mislead: Turns the caster invisible and creates illusory double.
• Nightmare: Sends vision dealing 1d10 damage, fatigue.
• Persistent Image: As major image, but no concentration required.
• Summon Monster V: Calls outsider to fight for the caster.

6th-Level Bard Spells

• Control Weather: Changes weather in local area.
• Eyebite: Charm, fear, sicken or sleep one subject.
• Geas/Quest: As lesser geas, plus it affects any creature.
• Haste, Mass: As haste, affects one/level subjects.
• Permanent Image: Includes sight, sound, and smell.
• Plane Shift: Up to eight subjects travel to another plane.
• Programmed Image: As major image, plus triggered by event.
• Project Image: Illusory double can talk and cast spells.
• Repulsion: Creatures can't approach the caster.
• Scrying, Greater: As scrying, but faster and longer.
• Suggestion, Mass: As suggestion, plus one/level subjects.
• Summon Monster VI: Calls outsider to fight for the caster.
• Veil: Changes appearance of group of creatures.

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