D20:Bard Spell List Spells

[top]0-LEVEL BARD SPELLS (CANTRIPS)

• Dancing Lights: Creates torches or other lights.
  
• Daze: Humanoid creature of 4 HD or less loses next action.
  
• Detect Magic: Detects spells and magic items within 60 ft.
  
• Flare: Dazzles one creature (?1 on attack rolls).
  
• Ghost Sound: Figment sounds.
  
• Know Direction: You discern north.
  
• Light: Object shines like a torch.
  
• Lullaby: Makes subject drowsy; ?5 on Spot and Listen checks, ?2 on Will saves against sleep.
  
• Mage Hand: 5-pound telekinesis.
  
• Mending: Makes minor repairs on an object.
  
• Message: Whispered conversation at distance.
  
• 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.
  
• Summon Instrument: Summons one instrument of the caster?s choice.
  

• Alarm: Wards an area for 2 hours/level.
  
• Animate Rope: Makes a rope move at your command.
  
• Cause Fear: One creature of 5 HD or less flees for 1d4 rounds.
  
• Charm Person: Makes one person your friend.
  
• Comprehend Languages: You understand all spoken and written languages.
  
• Confusion, Lesser: One creature is confused for 1 round.
  
• Cure Light Wounds: Cures 1d8 damage +1/level (max +5).
  
• Detect Secret Doors: Reveals hidden doors within 60 ft.
  
• Disguise Self: Changes your appearance.
  
• Erase: Mundane or magical writing vanishes.
  
• Expeditious Retreat: Your speed increases by 30 ft.
  
• Feather Fall: Objects or creatures fall slowly.
  
• Grease: Makes 10-ft. square or one object slippery.
  
• Hideous Laughter: Subject loses actions for 1 round/ level.
  
• Hypnotism: Fascinates 2d4 HD of creatures.
  
• Identify^M : Determines properties of magic item.
  
• Magic Mouth^M : Speaks once when triggered.
  
• Magic Aura: Alters object?s magic aura.
  
• Obscure Object: Masks object against scrying.
  
• Remove Fear: Suppresses fear or gives +4 on saves against fear for one subject + one per four levels.
  
• Silent Image: Creates minor illusion of your design.
  
• Sleep: Puts 4 HD of creatures into magical slumber.
  
• Summon Monster I: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
  
• Undetectable Alignment: Conceals alignment for 24 hours.
  
• Unseen Servant: Invisible force obeys your commands.
  
• Ventriloquism: Throws voice for 1 min./level.
  

• Alter Self: Assume form of a similar creature.
  
• Animal Messenger: Sends a Tiny animal to a specific place.
  
• Animal Trance: Fascinates 2d6 HD of animals.
  
• Blindness/Deafness: Makes subject blind or deaf.
  
• Blur: Attacks miss subject 20% of the time.
  
• Calm Emotions: Calms creatures, negating emotion effects.
  
• Cat's Grace: Subject gains +4 to Dex for 1 min./level.
  
• Cure Moderate Wounds: Cures 2d8 damage +1/level (max +10).
  
• Darkness: 20-ft. radius of supernatural shadow.
  
• Daze Monster: Living creature of 6 HD or less loses next action.
  
• Delay Poison: Stops poison from harming subject for 1 hour/ level.
  
• Detect Thoughts: Allows ?listening? to surface thoughts.
  
• Eagle's Splendor: Subject gains +4 to Cha for 1 min./level.
  
• Enthrall: Captivates all within 100 ft. + 10 ft./level.
  
• Fox's Cunning: Subject gains +4 to Int for 1 min./level.
  
• Glitterdust: Blinds creatures, outlines invisible creatures.
  
• Glossolalia: Cone-shaped shriek distracts smart foes, makes concentrating difficult.
  
• Heroism: Gives +2 on attack rolls, saves, skill checks.
  
• Hold Person: Paralyzes one humanoid for 1 round/level.
  
• Hypnotic Pattern: Fascinates (2d4 + level) HD of creatures.
  
• Invisibility: Subject is invisible for 1 min./level or until it attacks.
  
• Locate Object: Senses direction toward object (specific or type).
  
• Minor Image: As silent image, plus some sound.
  
• Mirror Image: Creates decoy duplicates of you (1d4 +1 per three levels, max 8).
  
• Misdirection: Misleads divinations for one creature or object.
  
• Pyrotechnics: Turns fire into blinding light or choking smoke.
  
• Rage: Gives +2 to Str and Con, +1 on Will saves, ?2 to AC.
  
• Scare: Panics creatures of less than 6 HD.
  
• Shatter: Sonic vibration damages objects or crystalline creatures.
  
• Silence: Negates sound in 20-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 extraplanar creature to fight for you.
  
• Summon Swarm: Summons swarm of bats, rats, or spiders.
  
• Tongues: Speak any language.
  
• Whispering Wind: Sends a short message 1 mile/level.
  

• Blink: You randomly vanish and reappear for 1 round/level.
  
• Charm Monster:Makes monster believe it is your ally.
  
• Clairaudience/Clairvoyance: Hear or see at a distance for 1 min./level.
  
• Confusion: Subjects behave oddly for 1 round/level.
  
• Crushing Despair: Subjects take ?2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks.
  
• Cure Serious Wounds: Cures 3d8 damage +1/level (max +15).
  
• Daylight: 60-ft. radius of bright light.
  
• Deep Slumber: Puts 10 HD of creatures to sleep.
  
• Dispel Magic: Cancels magical spells and effects.
  
• Displacement: Attacks miss subject 50%.
  
• 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.
  
• Glibness: You gain +30 bonus on Bluff checks, and your lies can escape magical discernment.
  
• Good Hope: Subjects gain +2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks.
  
• Haste:One creature/level moves faster, +1 on attack rolls, AC, and Reflex saves.
  
• Illusory Script^M: Only intended reader can decipher.
  
• Invisibility Sphere:Makes everyone within 10 ft. invisible.
  
• 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.
  
• Scrying^F: Spies on subject from a distance.
  
• Sculpt Sound: Creates new sounds or changes existing ones.
  
• Secret Page: Changes one page to hide its real content.
  
• See Invisibility: Reveals invisible creatures or objects.
  
• Sepia Snake Sigil^M: Creates text symbol that immobilizes reader.
  
• Slow: One subject/level takes only one action/round, ?1 to AC, reflex saves, and attack rolls.
  
• Speak with Animals: You can communicate with animals.
  
• Summon Monster III: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
  
• Tiny Hut: Creates shelter for ten creatures.
  

• Break Enchantment: Frees subjects from enchantments, alterations, curses, and petrification.
  
• Cure Critical Wounds: Cures 4d8 damage +1/level (max +20).
  
• Detect Scrying: Alerts you of magical eavesdropping.
  
• Dimension Door: Teleports you short distance.
  
• Dominate Person: Controls humanoid telepathically.
  
• Freedom of Movement: Subject moves normally despite impediments.
  
• Hallucinatory Terrain: Makes one type of terrain appear like another (field into forest, or the like).
  
• Hold Monster: As hold person, but any creature.
  
• Invisibility, Greater: As invisibility, but subject can attack and stay invisible.
  
• Legend Lore^MF: Lets you 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: Immunizes subject against poison, detoxifies venom in or on subject.
  
• Rainbow Pattern: Lights fascinate 24 HD of creatures.
  
• Repel Vermin: Insects, spiders, and other vermin stay 10 ft. away.
  
• Secure Shelter: Creates sturdy cottage.
  
• Shadow Conjuration: Mimics conjuring below 4th level, but only 20% real.
  
• Shout: Deafens all within cone and deals 5d6 sonic damage.
  
• Speak with Plants: You can talk to normal plants and plant creatures.
  
• Summon Monster IV: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
  
• Zone of Silence: Keeps eavesdroppers from overhearing conversations.
  

• Cure Light Wounds, Mass: Cures 1d8 damage +1/level for many creatures.
  
• Dispel Magic, Greater: As dispel magic, but +20 on check.
  
• Dream: Sends message to anyone sleeping.
  
• False Vision^M: Fools scrying with an illusion.
  
• Heroism, Greater: Gives +4 bonus on attack rolls, saves, skill checks; immunity to fear; temporary hp.
  
• Mind Fog: Subjects in fog get ?10 to Wis and Will checks.
  
• Mirage Arcana: As hallucinatory terrain, plus structures.
  
• Mislead: Turns you invisible and creates illusory double.
  
• Nightmare: Sends vision dealing 1d10 damage, fatigue.
  
• Persistent Image: As major image, but no concentration required.
  
• Seeming: Changes appearance of one person per two levels.
  
• Shadow Evocation: Mimics evocation of lower than 5th level, but only 20% real.
  
• Shadow Walk: Step into shadow to travel rapidly.
  
• Song of Discord: Forces targets to attack each other.
  
• Suggestion, Mass: As suggestion, plus one subject/level.
  
• Summon Monster V: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
  

• Analyze Dweomer^F: Reveals magical aspects of subject.
  
• Animate Objects: Objects attack your foes.
  
• Cat's Grace, Mass: As cat?s grace, affects one subject/level.
  
• Charm Monster, Mass: As charm monster, but all within 30 ft.
  
• Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass: Cures 2d8 damage +1/level for many creatures.
  
• Eagle's Splendor, Mass: As eagle?s splendor, affects one subject/level.
  
• Eyebite: Target becomes panicked, sickened, and comatose.
  
• Find the Path: Shows most direct way to a location.
  
• Fox's Cunning, Mass: As fox?s cunning, affects one subject/level.
  
• Geas/Quest: As lesser geas, plus it affects any creature.
  
• Heroes' Feast: Food for one creature/level cures and grants combat bonuses.
  
• Irresistible Dance: Forces subject to dance.
  
• Permanent Image: Includes sight, sound, and smell.
  
• Programmed Image^M: As major image, plus triggered by event.
  
• Project Image: Illusory double can talk and cast spells.
  
• Scrying, Greater: As scrying, but faster and longer.
  
• Shout, Greater: Devastating yell deals 10d6 sonic damage; stuns creatures, damages objects.
  
• Summon Monster VI: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
  
• Sympathetic Vibration: Deals 2d10 damage/round to freestanding structure.
  
• Veil: Changes appearance of group of creatures.