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An “F” or “M” appearing in the Comp. column denotes a focus or material component not normally included in a spell component pouch.
Order of Presentation: The spells (or formulae) are listed in alphabetical order by name, except when a spell’s name begins with “lesser,” “greater,” or “mass,” in which case it is alphabetized under the second word of the spell name.
Hit Dice: The term “Hit Dice” is used synonymously with “character levels” for effects that affect a specific number of Hit Dice of creatures.
Caster Level: A spell’s power often depends on caster level, which is defined as the caster’s class level for the purpose of casting a particular spell. The word “level” in the short spell descriptions that follow always refers to caster level.
Creatures and Characters: “Creature” and “character” are used synonymously in the short descriptions.
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1st-Level Bard Spells
| Formula Name |
Comp. |
Description |
Source |
| Abundant Ammunition |
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Replaces nonmagical ammunition every round. |
PRG:UC |
| Abstemiousness |
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Make a handful of food satisfy the nutritious needs of a Medium or smaller creature for 1 day. |
PC:FoB |
| Adjuring Step |
|
You can move slowly and safely and still cast spells, until you move quickly, make an attack, or cast a harmful spell. |
PRG:UC |
| Adoration |
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You gain a bonus on Diplomacy checks and performance combat checks. |
PRG:UC |
| Alarm |
|
Wards an area for 2 hours/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Alter Musical Instrument |
F |
Make one instrument sound like a different kind of instrument. |
PRG:ACG |
| Animate Rope |
|
Makes a rope move at your command. |
PRG:CRB |
| Anticipate Peril |
|
Target gains a bonus on one initiative check. |
PRG:UM |
| Aphasia |
|
Prevent a target from understanding language. |
PRG:UI |
| Aspect of the Nightingale |
|
You gain a +2 competence bonus on Perform (sing) checks and a +2 competence bonus on Diplomacy checks. Once per minute, if you are subject to a charm effect that allows a saving throw, you may roll twice and take the more favorable result. |
PCS:ISG |
| Auditory Hallucination |
|
Create a phantasm with auditory effects. |
PRG:UI |
| Beguiling Gift |
|
Subject immediately accepts an offered item and uses it. |
PRG:APG |
| Blurred Movement |
|
As blur, but only while you are moving. |
PRG:ACG |
| Borrow Skill |
|
Make a skill check using another’s ranks. |
PRG:APG |
| Call Weapon |
|
Telekinetically summon a weapon from an ally’s possession. |
PCS:ISM |
| Cause Fear |
|
One creature of 5 HD or less flees for 1d4 rounds. |
PRG:CRB |
| Charm Person |
|
Makes one person your friend. |
PRG:CRB |
| Chord of Shards |
|
Performance deals 2d6 piercing damage. |
PRG:UM |
| Clarion Call |
|
Make a sound like a mighty horn or trumpet and subject can speak in a booming voice that carries over great distances. |
KoIS |
| Compel Hostility |
|
Compels opponents to attack you instead of your allies. |
PRG:UC |
| Comprehend Languages |
|
You understand all languages. |
PRG:CRB |
| Compulsive Liar |
|
Prevent target from speaking the truth. |
PRG:UI |
| Confusion, Lesser |
|
One creature is confused for 1 round. |
PRG:CRB |
| Cultural Adaptation |
|
You gain the correct native accent and mannerisms when you speak a language with a spell like tongues, granting you bonuses to interactions with native speakers of that language. |
PRG:UI |
| Cure Light Wounds |
|
Cures 1d8 damage + 1/level (max +5). |
PRG:CRB |
| Dancing Darkness |
|
You create either up to four spheres of darkness that each reduce the illumination level by one step within a 20-foot-radius, or one dimly lit, vaguely humanoid shape. Each sphere of dancing darkness must stay within a 10-foot-radius area of one another but can otherwise move as you desire (no concentration required): forward or back, up or down, straight or turning corners, or the like. |
PPC:BoS |
| Dancing Lantern |
|
Animates a lantern that follows you. |
PRG:APG |
| Darting Duplicate |
|
You create an illusory duplicate of yourself that opponents might waste an attack of opportunity on. |
PPC:MTT |
| Dazzling Blade |
|
Make 1 metal weapon appear as if crafted from pure silver and heavily polished, wielder gains +1 competence bonus per 3 levels (max +5) to Bluff checks made to feint in combat, CMB checks to disarm and CMD to resist disarm attempts. Can be discharged in a burst of light which might blind or dazzle an adjacent opponent. |
RG |
| Deadeye’s Lore |
|
Gain +4 sacred bonus on all Survival checks and do not have to move at 1/2 speed while traveling through wilderness or while tracking. |
PRG:UC |
| Delusional Pride |
|
Target is penalized on attacks and checks but gains bonus against charms and compulsions. |
PRG:UM |
| Desperate Weapon |
|
Create an improvised weapon. |
PRG:UI |
| Detect Charm |
|
Detect strength and location of charms, compulsions, and possession auras on creatures in the area. |
ASoL |
| Detect Metal |
|
You detect any metal objects or creatures within a 60-foot cone. |
PPC:PotR |
| Detect Secret Doors |
|
Reveals hidden doors within 60 ft. |
PRG:CRB |
| Discern Next of Kin |
|
Read the target’s mind to learn about its family. |
PRG:ACG |
| Disguise Weapon |
|
Changes one weapon’s appearance. |
PRG:ACG |
| Disguise Self |
|
Changes your appearance. |
PRG:CRB |
| Ear-Piercing Scream |
|
Deal sonic damage and daze target. |
PRG:UM |
| Enhance Water |
|
Turn water into alcohol and removes poisons, diseases, and toxins. |
PC:FoP |
| Erase |
|
Mundane or magical writing vanishes. |
PRG:CRB |
| Expeditious Retreat |
|
Your base land speed increases by 30 ft. |
PRG:CRB |
| Fabricate Disguise |
|
Create a disguise in an instant. |
PRG:UI |
| Feather Fall |
|
Objects or creatures fall slowly. |
PRG:CRB |
| Feather Step |
|
Ignore movement penalty in difficult terrain. |
PRG:APG |
| Flare Burst |
|
As flare, but on all creatures within 10 ft. |
PRG:APG |
| Fool’s Gold |
|
Those who possess gold pieces you have cast this spell on are more vulnerable to your magics.
|
PPC:AA |
| Forced Quiet |
|
Target cannot make loud noises. |
PRG:UM |
| Fumbletongue |
|
Target cannot speak intelligently. |
PRG:UM |
| Glue Seal |
|
Makes one 5-ft. square or one object sticky. |
PRG:ACG |
| Grease |
|
Makes 10-ft. square or one object slippery. |
PRG:CRB |
| Haze of Dreams |
|
Target moves at 1/2 speed. |
PC:FoP |
| Heightened Awareness |
|
Your recall and ability to process information improve. |
PRG:ACG |
| Hidden Diplomacy |
|
Attempt a Intimidate check to make a target act friendly toward you but not remember why after the spell ends. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Hideous Laughter |
|
Subject loses actions for 1 round/ level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Horn of Pursuit |
|
Create three notes heard miles away. |
PRG:UM |
| Hypnotism |
|
Fascinates 2d4 HD of creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Identify |
|
Gives +10 bonus to identify magic items. |
PRG:CRB |
| Innocence |
|
Gain +10 on Bluff checks to seem innocent. |
PRG:APG |
| Invigorate |
|
Temporarily relieves fatigue or exhaustion. |
PRG:APG |
| Invisibility Alarm |
|
As alarm, but reacting only to invisible creatures. |
PRG:ACG |
| Itching Curse |
|
Curse target with a distracting, unbearable itch. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Jitterbugs |
|
Targets gets –4 penalty on all Dex and Dex-based skill checks, and cannot take the delay, ready, or total defense actions. |
PRG:ARG |
| Jury-Rig |
|
Removes the broken condition from the targeted object. |
PRG:UC |
| Ki Arrow |
|
Arrow deals damage as your unarmed strike. |
PRG:UM |
| Know Peerage |
|
Target uses your Knowledge (nobility) ranks. |
PRG:UI |
| Liberating Command |
|
Target makes an Escape Artist check as an immediate action and gains a bonus on it. |
PRG:UC |
| Lighten Object |
|
Reduce weight of 1 object by 50%. |
PC:FoB |
| Linked Legacy |
|
Targets of this spell automatically gain the knowledge any other target gains when succeeding a Knowledge check to answer a question within its field of study or identify a monster and its special powers or vulnerabilities. |
PPC:AA |
| Lock Gaze |
|
Compels the target to look only at you for the duration of the spell. |
PRG:UC |
| Memorize Page |
F |
Target perfectly memorizes one page of information. |
PRG:ACG |
| Moment of Greatness |
|
Doubles a morale bonus. |
PRG:UC |
| Magic Mouth |
M |
Objects speaks once when triggered. |
PRG:CRB |
| Memory Lapse |
|
Subject forgets events back to last turn. |
PRG:APG |
| Magic Aura |
|
Alters object’s magic aura. |
PRG:CRB |
| Nature’s Paths |
|
The target instinctively knows the shortest, easiest, and fastest way through the wilderness. |
PPC:HotW |
| Negative Reaction |
|
Targeted creature may not positively influence anyone. |
PRG:UC |
| Obscure Object |
|
Masks object against scrying. |
PRG:CRB |
| Obscure Poison |
|
Make it harder to detect a poison or a venomous creature. |
PRG:UI |
| Open and Shut |
|
Obfuscate whether a door is open or closed. |
PRG:UI |
| Play Instrument |
|
Play instrument as if you were skilled. |
PRG:UM |
| Poisoned Egg |
|
You transform the contents of a normal egg into a single dose of small centipede poison (injury; save DC 11; frequency 1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1 Dex; cure 1 save). |
PCS:ISG |
| Read Weather |
|
Predict weather for next 48 hours. |
PC:FoB |
| Recharge Innate Magic |
|
Regain one use of all 0 and 1st-level spell-like abilities of a racial trait. |
PRG:ARG |
| Remove Fear |
|
Suppresses fear or gives +4 on saves against fear for one subject + one per four levels. |
PRG:CRB |
| Restful Sleep |
|
Gain more hit points while sleeping. |
PRG:APG |
| Saving Finale |
|
Subject rerolls failed saving throw. |
PRG:APG |
| See Alignment |
|
Pick an alignment; in your sight, creatures and items with that alignment emit a ghostly radiance. |
PRG:UC |
| Shadow Trap |
|
You pin the target’s shadow to its current location, causing the target to become entangled and preventing it from moving farther than 5 feet from its original position, as if its shadow were anchored to the terrain. |
PPC:BoS |
| Share Language |
|
Subject understands chosen language. |
PRG:APG |
| Silent Image |
|
Creates minor illusion of your design. |
PRG:CRB |
| Sleep |
|
Puts 4 HD of creatures into magical slumber. |
PRG:CRB |
| Solid Note |
|
Creates tangible music note. |
PRG:APG |
| Summon Minor Monster |
|
Summon 1d3 Tiny animals. |
PRG:UM |
| Summon Monster I |
|
Summons extraplanar creature to fight for you. |
PRG:CRB |
| Swallow Your Fear |
|
Grants +2 morale bonus to Str and Con, +1 morale bonus to Will saves, and -2 penalty to AC to subjects suffering from a fear effect. Prevents frightened subject from running. |
PAP:KM1 |
| Tap Inner Beauty |
|
You gain a +2 insight bonus on all Charisma ability checks and Charisma-based skill checks. |
PC:FoP |
| Tears to Wine |
|
Turn nonmagic liquids into mead or wine of average quality.
|
PPC:AA |
| Technomancy |
|
As detect magic, except detects the presence of technological objects instead of magical objects and grants the Technologist feat for attempting Knowledge (engineering) checks to identify the properties of technological items. If you already possess this feat, you gain a +10 bonus on Knowledge (engineering) checks to identify item properties. |
PCS:TG |
| Timely Inspiration |
|
Gives bonus on failed check/attack. |
PRG:APG |
| Toilsome Chant |
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Apply Inspire Competence to a skill check that takes up to an hour to complete. |
PRG:ARG |
| Touch of Blindness |
|
A touch from your hand, which is engulfed in darkness, disrupts a creature’s vision by coating its eyes in supernatural darkness. |
PPC:BoS |
| Touch of Gracelessness |
|
Subject loses 1d6 + 1 Dex/two levels and is prone to falling down. |
PRG:APG |
| Transfer Tattoo |
|
Move a magic tattoo from one creature to another. |
PCS:ISM |
| Twisted Futures |
|
A creature affected by this spell is unable to benefit from effects that grant the ability to roll multiple times and take the higher result. |
PCS:GHH |
| Unbreakable Heart |
|
Target gains a +4 bonus on saves against mind-affecting effects that rely on negative emotions. |
PCS:ISWG |
| Undetectable Alignment |
|
Conceals alignment for 24 hours. |
PRG:CRB |
| Unnatural Lust |
|
Target is compelled to kiss or caress another. |
PRG:UM |
| Unprepared Combatant |
|
Target takes -4 on initiative and Reflex saves. |
PRG:UM |
| Unseen Servant |
|
Invisible force obeys your commands. |
PRG:CRB |
| Vanish |
|
As invisibility for 1 round/level (5 max). |
PRG:APG |
| Ventriloquism |
|
Throws voice for 1 min./level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Vocal Alteration |
|
Disguise target’s voice. |
PRG:UM |
| Weaponwand |
F |
Merge a magic wand with a weapon to wield both simultaneously. |
PCS:ISM |
| Wizened Appearance |
|
Make a target appear as an older version of itself. |
PRG:UI |
| Youthful Appearance |
|
Target appears younger. |
PRG:UM |
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2nd-Level Bard Spells
| Formula Name |
Comp. |
Description |
Source |
| Absurdity |
|
Threats seem like a ridiculous farce. |
PRG:HA |
| Acute Senses |
|
Subject gains bonus on Perception checks. |
PRG:UM |
| Air Step |
|
Tread unsteadily on air, with limitations. |
PRG:ACG |
| Allegro |
|
Gain haste while maintaining bardic performance. |
PRG:UM |
| Alter Self |
|
Assume form of a Small or Medium humanoid. |
PRG:CRB |
| Alter Summoned Monster |
|
You swap a creature summoned by a conjuration (summoning) spell for a creature you could summon with a summon monster or summon nature’s ally spell |
PPC:MSH |
| Ancestral Communion |
|
You contact your ancestors to bolster your own knowledge. |
PCS:Dwarves |
| Animal Messenger |
|
Sends a Tiny animal to a specific place. |
PRG:CRB |
| Animal Purpose Training |
|
Animal gains a new general purpose. |
PRG:ACG |
| Animal Trance |
|
Fascinates 2d6 HD of animals. |
PRG:CRB |
| Anonymous Interaction |
|
Creatures forget details about you and conversations with you. |
PRG:ACG |
| Anti-Summoning Shield |
|
Within the area of effect, this spell impedes the use of spells of the summoning subschool and other effects that summon creatures. |
PPC:DHH |
| Arcane Disruption |
|
This spell makes it difficult for the subject to cast arcane spells, use spell-like abilities, and use some abilities granted by arcane spellcasting classes. |
PPC:ACO |
| Aristocrat’s Nightmare |
|
Temporarily curse a creature so its touch lessens the value of coins it touches. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Bestow Insight |
|
Target gain insight bonus on skill checks and is considered trained in that skill. |
PRG:ARG |
| Bladed Dash |
|
Swiftly move 30 feet and attack one foe along the way. |
PCS:ISM |
| Blindness/Deafness |
|
Makes subject blind or deaf. |
PRG:CRB |
| Blistering Invective |
|
Make an Intimidate check against all foes within 30 feet; those demoralized also take fire damage. |
PRG:UC |
| Blood Biography |
|
Learn about a creature with its blood. |
PRG:APG |
| Boiling Blood |
|
Targets take fire damage; orcs get +2 Strength. |
PRG:UM |
| Book Ward |
|
As protection from energy, except lasting 1 day/level instead of 10 minutes per level and that the spell only protects against acid and fire damage (and while energy protection remains, the item is also completely waterproof). |
PCh:SoS |
| Blur |
|
Attacks miss subject 20% of the time. |
PRG:CRB |
| Build Trust |
|
Gain various bonuses when interacting with the target. |
PRG:UI |
| Bullet Ward |
M |
Adamantine bullets intercept firearm attacks. |
PRG:ACG |
| Buoyancy |
|
Several creatures or objects become very buoyant, floating automatically and must struggle to submerge. |
PoIS |
| Cacophonous Call |
|
Nauseates target. |
PRG:APG |
| Callback |
|
If your familiar takes hp damage while within range of this spell, it immediately teleports to your space after the damage is applied. |
PPC:FF |
| Calm Emotions |
|
Calms creatures, negating emotion effects. |
PRG:CRB |
| Cat’s Grace |
|
Subject gains +4 to Dex for 1 min./level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Charitable Impulse |
|
Affected creature practices nonviolent combat behaviors according to a list of priorities. |
PCS:Righteous |
| Codespeak |
|
Speak, read, and write a new code language. |
PRG:UI |
| Commune with Birds |
|
You can ask birds a question. |
PRG:ARG |
| Compassionate Ally |
|
Target compelled to help injured ally. |
PRG:UM |
| Conditional Favor |
|
Provide another spell whose effects reverse if the target breaks a restriction. |
PRG:UI |
| Create Treasure Map |
M |
Creates a treasure map out of a creature’s corpse. |
PRG:APG |
| Cure Moderate Wounds |
|
Cures 2d8 damage + 1/level (max +10). |
PRG:CRB |
| Darkness |
|
20-ft. radius of supernatural shadow. |
PRG:CRB |
| Dark Whispers |
|
Whisper through the shadows. |
PRG:UI |
| Daze Monster |
|
Living creature of 6 HD or less loses next action. |
PRG:CRB |
| Deflect Blame |
|
Blame someone else for your action. |
PRG:UI |
| Delay Pain |
|
Ignore pain for 1 hour/level. |
PRG:UM |
| Delay Poison |
|
Stops poison from harming target for 1 hour/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Detect Desires |
|
Learn what creatures desire. |
PRG:UI |
| Detect Magic, Greater |
|
As detect magic, but learn more information. |
PRG:UI |
| Detect Thoughts |
|
Allows “listening” to surface thoughts. |
PRG:CRB |
| Determine Depth |
|
With a touch, you determine the exact thickness of a wall, ceiling, or other solid barrier. |
DHB |
| Discovery Torch |
|
Touched object emanates bright light, granting Perception and Sense Motive bonuses. |
PRG:UC |
| Disguise Other |
|
As disguise self, but affects you or another. |
PRG:UM |
| Disrupt Silence |
|
Disrupt all silence effects in an area. |
PRG:UI |
| Distracting Cacophony |
|
Noise makes it difficult to cast. |
PRG:UM |
| Distressing Tone |
|
Sound sickens 1d4 creatures. |
PRG:UM |
| Dream Shield |
|
You ward the target’s mind against intrusion and influence while she is unconscious. |
PPC:OO |
| Dust of Twilight |
|
Black particles extinguish light sources. |
PRG:APG |
| Eagle’s Splendor |
|
Subject gains +4 to Cha for 1 min./level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Empower Holy Water |
|
You empower a vial of holy water to deal additional damage to undead creatures.
|
PPC:USH |
| Enshroud Thoughts |
|
You are warded against the mental prying of others. |
BoE |
| Enter Image |
|
Transfers your consciousness to an object bearing your likeness. |
PRG:APG |
| Enthrall |
|
Captivates all within 100 ft. + 10 ft./level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Escaping Ward |
|
Move 5 feet away from a larger attacking creature as an immediate action. |
PRG:ARG |
| False Belief |
|
Temporarily plant a false memory. |
PRG:UI |
| Flickering Lights |
|
Create an area of inconsistent lighting. |
PRG:HA |
| Focused Scrutiny |
|
Gain skill bonuses when interacting with the target. |
PRG:ACG |
| Fox’s Cunning |
|
Subject gains +4 to Int for 1 min./level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Full Pouch |
|
Creates a copy of a consumable alchemical item when you draw one from a pouch into your hand. The copy functions as the original except saves against the new item’s effects use the original item’s save DC or the save DC of this spell, whichever is higher. |
PPC:AA |
| Gallant Inspiration |
|
+2d4 bonus on failed attack roll or skill check. |
PRG:APG |
| Garrulous Grin |
|
This spell plants a seed of supernatural fear deep in a subject’s mind, causing self-doubt, stuttering, and evasiveness. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Ghostbane Dirge |
|
Incorporeal creature takes half damage from non-magical weapons. |
PRG:APG |
| Ghostly Disguise |
|
You look like a ghost of yourself. |
PRG:UM |
| Glitterdust |
|
Blinds creatures, outlines invisible creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Haunting Mists |
|
Creatures are shaken and take Wis damage. |
PRG:UM |
| Heckle |
|
The target’s attitude shifts one category toward hostile regarding you and everyone within 30 feet of the target at the time the spell is cast and the target takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, ability and skill checks that rely on Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. |
PPC:AA |
| Heightened Reflexes |
|
Each ally in area gains a +10 bonus on one Reflex save. |
PRG:ACG |
| Heroic Fortune |
M |
The target gains 1 temporary hero point. |
PRG:APG |
| Heroism |
|
Gives +2 on attack rolls, saves, skill checks. |
PRG:CRB |
| Hidden Blades |
|
Render a target weapon or up to 50 pieces of ammo invisible, granting the wielder a bonus on Sleight of Hand checks made to conceal the weapon or ammunition and to Bluff checks to feint with the weapon or ammo. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Hidden Presence |
|
Prevent creatures from noticing your presence. |
PRG:UI |
| Hidden Speech |
|
Gain +10 on Bluff to send secret messages. |
PRG:APG |
| Hold Person |
|
Paralyzes one humanoid for 1 round/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Honeyed Tongue |
|
Roll 2 dice when using Diplomacy, take higher roll. |
PRG:APG |
| Human Potential |
|
The target chooses one ability score and gains a +2 enhancement bonus to that ability score. The bonus confers the usual benefit to skills and abilities based on the ability enhanced, but does not affect bonus spells or skill ranks. |
PPC:AA |
| Hydrophobia |
|
Targets in the area must succeed at a Will save or become deathly afraid of drowning. |
PPC:MM |
| Hypnotic Pattern |
|
Fascinates (2d4 + level) HD of creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Ignoble Form |
|
Target drow takes on the form of a half-elf and loses its darkvision, light blindness, and light sensitivity traits, if it normally has them but gains low-light vision; a +3 racial bonus on a single Craft, Knowledge, Perform, or Profession skill of its choice; and both a +4 bonus on Bluff checks and a +10 bonus on Disguise checks to pass itself off as a half-elf. |
PPC:BoS |
| Instant Weapon |
|
You create a masterwork melee weapon sized appropriately for you from opaque force. As a force effect, it can strike and damage incorporeal creatures. |
PPC:MTT |
| Investigative Mind |
|
Roll twice and take the higher roll when using certain mental skills. |
PRG:ACG |
| Invisibility |
|
Subject is invisible for 1 min./level or until it attacks. |
PRG:CRB |
| Jealous Rage |
|
You fill the target with a sense of entitled self-importance, making the subject unable to bear the indignity of another creature getting something that it doesn’t have. |
PPC:OO |
| Lay of the Land |
|
In a flash of recognition, you learn about the geography of your surroundings within a radius of 1 mile per 2 caster levels (minimum 1 mile). This instant familiarity grants you an insight bonus equal to your caster level (maximum +5) on Knowledge (geography) checks and Survival checks to avoid getting lost so long as you remain in the affected area. |
PPC:DHH |
| Locate Object |
|
Senses direction toward object (specific or type). |
PRG:CRB |
| Mad Hallucination |
|
Target takes penalties to mental actions. |
PRG:UM |
| Marching Chant |
|
Allies can hustle without penalty while you sing or chant. |
PRG:ACG |
| Masterwork Transformation |
M |
Make a normal item into a masterwork one. |
PRG:UM |
| Matchmaker |
|
Cause two creatures to fall in love. |
PRG:UI |
| Mindlocked Messenger |
|
Target gains a message that can be given only to its intended recipient. |
PRG:ACG |
| Minor Image |
|
As silent image, plus some sound. |
PRG:CRB |
| Mirror Image |
|
Creates decoy duplicates of you (1d4 + 1 per three levels, max 8). |
PRG:CRB |
| Misdirection |
|
Misleads divinations for one creature or object. |
PRG:CRB |
| Miserable Pity |
|
Opponents cannot attack a pathetic creature. |
PRG:UM |
| Muffle Sound |
|
Allies gain a bonus on Stealth checks but risk verbal spell failure. |
PRG:ACG |
| Open Book |
|
Make it permanently easier to learn more about a target. |
PRG:UI |
| Oppressive Boredom |
|
Target loses its next action. |
PRG:UM |
| Passing Fancy |
|
When you cast this spell, you dictate one specific topic or recent event and instill a magical obsession with that subject within the target. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Path of Glory |
|
Create an expanding glow that heals allies within it of 1 hp of damage. |
PRG:ACG |
| Perfect Placement |
|
Affected creatures gain a +1 insight bonus to AC and Reflex saves and a +3 insight bonus against attacks of opportunity. |
PPC:AA |
| Piercing Shriek |
|
Target is staggered by a painful sound. |
PRG:UM |
| Pilfering Hand |
|
You may seize an object or manipulate it from afar. |
PRG:UC |
| Pugwampi’s Grace |
|
One creature rolls 2d20 whenever it needs to roll a d20, and must take the lower result. |
PCS:ISM |
| Pyrotechnics |
|
Turns fire into blinding light or choking smoke. |
PRG:CRB |
| Qualm |
|
Target gains penalties on ability checks, skill checks, and concentration checks until it spends an entire round doing nothing. |
PRG:UC |
| Quick Change |
|
Use change shape as a swift action and surprise foes. |
PRG:HA |
| Rage |
|
Gives +2 to Str and Con, +1 on Will saves, –2 to AC. |
PRG:CRB |
| Reckless Infatuation |
|
Target is compelled to stay near another. |
PRG:UM |
| Resounding Clang |
|
You create a loud, resonating clangor that causes metallic objects to vibrate wildly.
|
PPC:PotR |
| Retrieve Item |
|
Call an item instantly to you hand from nearby by speaking a special word and snapping your fingers. The spell fails if the item is in the possession of another creature. |
CTR |
| Returning Weapon |
|
Grants a weapon the returning special weapon quality. |
PRG:UC |
| Rumormonger |
|
Follow a rumor to see where it spreads. |
PRG:UI |
| Scare |
|
Panics creatures of less than 6 HD. |
PRG:CRB |
| Seducer’s Eyes |
|
You gain a bonus on Charisma-based skill checks equal to +1 (+1 per 4 caster levels (max +5)) towards those who might find you attractive. |
PC:FoB |
| Shadow Anchor |
|
Target needs to make a bull rush to move more than 5 feet away from his current square. |
PRG:ARG |
| Shamefully Overdressed |
|
Force target to remove equipment. |
PRG:UI |
| Share Language, Communal |
|
As share language, but you may divide the duration among creatures touched. |
PRG:UC |
| Share Memory |
|
Share one memory with the target. |
PRG:UM |
| Shatter |
|
Sonic vibration damages objects or crystalline creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shifted Steps |
|
Make a target sound as if elsewhere. |
PRG:UI |
| Silence |
|
Negates sound in 20-ft. radius. |
PRG:CRB |
| Silent Table |
|
Give yourself privacy by muffling sound leaving the area. |
PRG:ACG |
| Silk to Steel |
|
Use a scarf as a shield or whip. |
PRG:UM |
| Snapdragon Fireworks |
|
Create 1 dragon firework/level. |
PRG:UM |
| Sonic Scream |
|
Create a cone of damaging sound at will. |
PRG:ACG |
| Sound Burst |
|
Deals 1d8 sonic damage and may stun subjects. |
PRG:CRB |
| Spell Gauge |
|
You become aware of a selection of spells the target creature has prepared or knows. |
PC:FoB |
| Steal Voice |
|
Target gains the croaking spellblight. |
PRG:UM |
| Suggestion |
|
Compels subject to follow stated course of action. |
PRG:CRB |
| Summon Monster II |
|
Summons extraplanar creature to fight for you. |
PRG:CRB |
| Summon Swarm |
|
Summons swarm of bats, rats, or spiders. |
PRG:CRB |
| Tactical Acumen |
|
You gain an additional +1 on attack rolls or to AC due to battlefield positioning. |
PRG:UC |
| Tattoo Potion |
M |
Cause a potion to turn into a spell tattoo when it is drunk. |
PCS:ISM |
| Telepathic Censure |
|
This spell creates an invisible psychic interference that inhibits telepathic communication.
|
PPC:DHH |
| Thunder Fire |
|
Ammunition in the targeted firearm deafens opponents. |
PRG:UC |
| Tongues |
|
Speak and understand any language. |
PRG:CRB |
| Touch of Mercy |
|
The target creature deals only nonlethal damage with all of its weapon attacks. |
PPC:CoP |
| Track Ship |
|
Track a ships location and movement with the aid of a nautical chart and a piece of the ship to be tracked. |
PoIS |
| Trail of the Rose |
|
Creates an illusory misty, faint pink-tinged rose-scented trail that ripples and flows in the area that you and up to six others can see. |
PC:FoP |
| Umbral Weapon |
|
1/rnd wielder of target touched melee weapon can reroll a failed attack roll. If reroll hits, the attacked creature suffers 1d8 cold damage, plus 1 per 2 caster levels (maximum 1d8+10). |
PPC:MTT |
| Unadulterated Loathing |
|
Target is compelled to avoid another creature. |
PRG:UM |
| Urban Step |
|
Step into one doorway and out another. |
PRG:UI |
| Versatile Weapon |
|
Weapon bypasses some DR. |
PRG:APG |
| Voluminous Vocabulary |
|
Grant ability to speak, read, and write one or more languages for 8 hours. |
PRG:UI |
| Wartrain Mount |
|
Animal gains the combat training general purpose. |
PRG:UM |
| Whip of Spiders |
|
Create a whip made of poisonous spiders. |
PRG:ACG |
| Whispering Wind |
|
Sends a short message 1 mile/level. |
PRG:CRB |
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3rd-Level Bard Spells
| Formula Name |
Comp. |
Description |
Source |
| Accept Affliction |
|
The caster can transfer the effects of afflictions such as curses, diseases, and poisons from the target creature to himself. |
PPC:CoP |
| Adjustable Disguise |
|
As disguise self, but you can change the disguise as a swift action. |
PRG:ACG |
| Akashic Communion |
M/DF |
Attempt to gain a glimpse of some specific event from the Akashic Record. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Arcane Concordance |
|
Grants metamagic to arcane spells. |
PRG:APG |
| Assume Appearance |
F |
Use a creature’s corpse to adopt its form. |
PRG:HA |
| Audiovisual Hallucination |
|
Create a phantasm with auditory and visual effects. |
PRG:UI |
| Aura of the Unremarkable |
|
An invisible sphere of magic surrounds you, clouding the minds of creatures in the area so they regard even the strangest actions as innocuous. |
PRG:UI |
| Blink |
|
You randomly vanish and reappear for 1 round/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Blot |
|
Ruins writings.
|
PRG:CRB |
| Campfire Wall |
|
Creates a shelter around a campfire. |
PRG:APG |
| Channel the Gift |
|
Channel magical power into target to fuel their spellcasting. The next 3rd level or lower spell target casts does not expend a spell slot; instead you use your spell slot to power their spell. |
PCh:GaM |
| Charm Monster |
|
Makes monster believe it is your ally. |
PRG:CRB |
| Claim Identity |
|
You steal the target’s face, transforming yourself into a flawless imitation of it. All of the target’s facial features, vocal cues, and identifying physical traits change, transforming it into an unremarkable member of its race and gender. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Clairaudience/Clairvoyance |
|
Hear or see at a distance for 1 min./level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Confusion |
|
Subjects behave oddly for 1 round/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Conjure Carriage |
|
Create a fine carriage. |
PRG:UI |
| Contingent Action |
|
Set the condition for triggering a target’s readied standard, move, or swift action. |
PRG:ACG |
| Control Summoned Creature |
|
Direct a summoned monster as if you had summoned it. |
PRG:UM |
| Coordinated Effort |
|
Grants a teamwork feat you have. |
PRG:APG |
| Crushing Despair |
|
Subjects take –2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks. |
PRG:CRB |
| Cure Serious Wounds |
|
Cures 3d8 damage + 1/level (max +15). |
PRG:CRB |
| Curse of Disgust |
|
Target is sickened when viewing a trigger. |
PRG:UM |
| Daylight |
|
60-ft. radius of bright light. |
PRG:CRB |
| Death from Below |
|
Grant bonus to AC against larger creatures. |
PRG:ARG |
| Deft Digits |
|
You animate a glove from a distance.
|
PPC:AA |
| Delay Poison, Communal |
|
As delay poison, but you may divide the duration among creatures touched. |
PRG:UC |
| Deep Slumber |
|
Puts 10 HD of creatures to sleep. |
PRG:CRB |
| Demanding Message |
|
Send messages as per message with a suggestion for one creature. |
PRG:UI |
| Detect Anxieties |
|
Learn what makes creatures anxious. |
PRG:UI |
| Discern Value |
F |
You can quickly analyze the monetary value of objects and identify which are most valuable to an average trader. |
DHB |
| Dispel Magic |
|
Cancels one magical spell or effect. |
PRG:CRB |
| Displacement |
|
Attacks miss subject 50% of the time. |
PRG:CRB |
| Disrupt Link |
|
The target has her link with her bonded creature temporarily severed. |
PPC:FF |
| Draconic Malice |
|
You surround yourself with a palpable aura of draconic fear and dread. |
PPC:LoD |
| Dreadscape |
|
Surroundings and unfamiliar creatures seem like something out of a nightmare. |
PRG:HA |
| Elemental Speech |
|
Enables you to speak to elementals and some creatures. |
PRG:APG |
| Exquisite Accompaniment |
|
Instrument maintains bardic performance for you. |
PRG:UM |
| False Alibi |
M |
As modify memory, except you can modify the target’s memory only in a specific way. |
AP59 |
| False Future |
|
Cause divinations of the future to reveal the result you choose. |
PRG:UI |
| Fear |
|
Subjects within cone flee for 1 round/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Fearsome Duplicate |
|
Make a monstrously distorted duplicate of you and control it. |
PRG:ARG |
| Feather Step, Mass |
|
As feather step, but multiple creatures. |
PRG:APG |
| Find Fault |
|
You instantly learn many of the target’s weaknesses, and gain a bonus on your first melee or ranged attack roll against the creature before the end of your next turn. |
PPC:AA |
| Flexible Fury |
|
Swap one rage power for another. |
PRG:ACG |
| Flexile Curse |
|
Curse your target with a withering aura that degrades its armor and shield (if any). |
PPC:MaTT |
| Fractions of Heal and Harm |
|
Heal yourself when you cast your next damaging spell. |
AP:SS |
| Gaseous Form |
|
Subject becomes insubstantial and can fly slowly. |
PRG:CRB |
| Geas, Lesser |
|
Commands subject of 7 HD or less. |
PRG:CRB |
| Glibness |
|
You gain +20 bonus on Bluff checks, and your lies can escape magical discernment. |
PRG:CRB |
| Good Hope |
|
Subjects gain +2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks. |
PRG:CRB |
| Guardian Monument, Lesser |
|
You touch an unattended, non-magical object to create a touchstone for humans defending the area. Such human defenders are protected by a shimmering aura as long as they are in the area. |
PPC:AA |
| Harrowing |
F |
You use a Harrow deck to tell a fortune for yourself or someone else. |
PCS:ISWG |
| Haste |
|
One creature/level moves faster, receives +1 on attack rolls, AC, and Reflex saves. |
PRG:CRB |
| Haunting Choir |
|
Spirits cause wracking pain to listeners. |
PRG:UM |
| Hollow Heroism |
|
Provide a heroism effect that you can reverse at any time. |
PRG:UI |
| Illusory Script |
M |
Only select creatures can read text. |
PRG:CRB |
| Instant Fake |
|
Provide a short-term replica of an object. |
PRG:UI |
| Invigorate, Mass |
|
As invigorate, but multiple creatures. |
PRG:APG |
| Invisibility Sphere |
|
Makes everyone within 10 feet invisible. |
PRG:CRB |
| Isolate |
|
You cause the target to become invisible and silent, but only to his allies. |
PRG:MC |
| Jester’s Jaunt |
|
Teleport target within 30 ft. of itself. |
PRG:APG |
| Liquefy |
|
Target object becomes a liquid version of itself.
|
PPC:AA |
| Lover’s Vengeance |
M |
You inspire yourself or a lover to a vengeful rage against a chosen enemy. |
PCS:ISWG |
| Mad Monkeys |
|
Summon a swarm of mischievous monkeys. |
PRG:UM |
| Mad Sultan’s Melody |
F |
Bizarre cacophony fascinates eldritch creatures. |
PRG:HA |
| Magic Aura, Greater |
|
As magic aura, but also affects creatures and allows more options. |
PRG:UI |
| Major Image |
|
As silent image, plus sound, smell, and thermal effects. |
PRG:CRB |
| Malicious Spite |
M |
Target is compelled to plot against another. |
PRG:UM |
| Martial Marionette |
|
Manipulate foe’s limbs to hamper its attacks and provide you cover. |
PCS:ISM |
| Meticulous Match |
|
Determine if two things are identical. |
PRG:UI |
| Minor Dream |
|
As dream but messenger is you or a gnome, and the message cannot be longer than 20 words. |
PRG:ARG |
| Motes of Dusk And Dawn |
|
When you cast this spell, you create up to four motes that shed light or darkness in a 20-foot-radius, increasing or decreasing the illumination level by up to two categories. You decide whether each individual mote sheds light or darkness when the spell is cast. |
PPC:BoS |
| Mydriatic Spontaneity |
|
You overstimulate the target with alternating flashes of light and shadow within its eyes, causing its pupils to rapidly dilate and contract. |
PPC:BoS |
| Overwhelming Grief |
|
Grieving target can take no actions and is denied its Dex bonus. |
PRG:UM |
| Phantom Driver |
|
Conjures a phantom to drive vehicles. |
PRG:UC |
| Penumbral Disguise |
|
You mask your features with shadowy illumination. |
PPC:BoS |
| Phantom Steed |
|
Magic horse appears for 1 hour/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Pierce Disguise |
|
See through low-level magical disguises. |
PRG:ACG |
| Prehensile Pilfer |
|
Use tail to make a dirty trick or steal combat maneuver as a swift action when making full-attack action. |
PRG:ARG |
| Purging Finale |
|
Removes one negative effect. |
PRG:APG |
| Raging Rubble |
DF |
Swarm of stones damaging (1d6) and distracting anything within it. |
PRG:ARG |
| Rags to Riches |
|
The target object is enhanced as a masterwork item. |
PPC:AA |
| Rain of Frogs |
|
Summon a swarm of poisonous frogs. |
PRG:UM |
| Raven’s Flight |
|
You can cast this spell only if it is the first action you take on your turn. In a burst of shadowy feathers, you turn into a Tiny blurred shape reminiscent of a black raven until the beginning of your next turn. |
PPC:HotW |
| Remove Curse |
|
Frees object or person from curse. |
PRG:CRB |
| Returning weapon, Communal |
|
As returning weapon, but you may divide the duration among weapons touched. |
PRG:UC |
| Reviving Finale |
|
Allies cured 2d6 damage. |
PRG:APG |
| Scrying |
F |
Spies on subject from a distance. |
PRG:CRB |
| Sculpt Sound |
|
Creates new sounds or changes existing ones into new sounds. |
PRG:CRB |
| Secret Page |
|
Changes one page to hide its real content. |
PRG:CRB |
| See Invisibility |
|
Reveals invisible creatures or objects. |
PRG:CRB |
| Seek Thoughts |
|
Detects thinking creatures’ thoughts. |
PRG:APG |
| Selective Alarm |
|
As alarm, but only against selected creatures. |
PRG:UI |
| Sepia Snake Sigil |
M |
Creates a snake-shaped text symbol that immobilizes reader. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shadow Enchantment |
|
You use material from the Shadow Plane to cast a quasi-real, illusory version of a psychic, sorcerer, or wizard enchantment spell of 2nd level or lower. |
PCS:OR |
| Slow |
|
One subject/level takes only one action/round, –1 to AC, Reflex saves, and attack rolls. |
PRG:CRB |
| Smug Narcissism |
|
Target is distracted by its sense of self. |
PRG:UM |
| Speak with Animals |
|
You can communicate with animals. |
PRG:CRB |
| Spotlight |
|
You create a mobile area of bright light centered on one target while simultaneously suppressing other light sources surrounding it. |
PPC:BoS |
| Stage Fright |
|
You fill your targets with the sudden fear of failure causing them to take a –4 penalty on ability checks, skill checks, and checks that require concentration (such as casting a spell in difficult circumstances or operating a complex device). |
PPC:AA |
| Summon Monster III |
|
Summons extraplanar creature to fight for you. |
PRG:CRB |
| Terrible Remorse |
|
Creature is compelled to harm itself. |
PRG:UM |
| They Know |
|
Convince target that a nearby creature knows her greatest secret. |
PRG:UI |
| Thunderous Drums |
|
1d8 damage/level and knocked prone. |
PRG:APG |
| Tiny Hut |
|
Creates shelter for 10 creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Tongues, Communal |
|
As tongues, but you may divide the duration among creatures touched. |
PRG:UC |
| Trade Items |
|
Swap a focus object with a target object. |
PRG:UI |
| Triggered Suggestion |
|
As suggestion, but triggered only and target doesn’t remember the suggestion. |
PRG:ACG |
| Vision of Hell |
|
Illusory hellscape makes creatures shaken. |
PRG:UM |
| Wall of Nausea |
|
Creatures that pass through the wall are nauseated and might fall prone. |
PRG:ACG |
| Wall of Split Illumination |
|
An immobile curtain of illumination springs into existence. |
PPC:BoS |
| Witness |
|
See through the target’s eyes and ears. |
PRG:UM |
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4th-Level Bard Spells
| Formula Name |
Comp. |
Description |
Source |
| Adjustable Polymorph |
|
As alter self, but you can change the shape as a swift action. |
PRG:ACG |
| Ancestral Gift |
|
A ghostly ancestor appears and gives you a magic weapon, which you may use as if you were proficient in it. |
PCS:Dwarves |
| Animal Ambassador |
|
Grant an animal messenger sentience to deliver your message. |
PRG:UI |
| Antithetical Constraint |
|
The target automatically misses with attacks against creatures that are not of the opposite alignment of it. |
PPC:CoB |
| Apparent Master |
|
Charm makes a construct regard you as its master. |
M:GoD |
| Assume Appearance, Greater |
F |
Use a likeness to adopt a dead creature’s form. |
PRG:HA |
| Blood Song |
|
As imbue with spell ability but only bard spells of the conjuration (healing), enchantment, and transmutation schools can be transferred; the imbued spells last for 1 day; and the subject isn’t beholden to any principles regarding the imbued spells’ use. |
PPC:F&P |
| Bountiful Banquet |
|
Create a luxurious feast for two creatures/level. |
PRG:UI |
| Break Enchantment |
|
Frees subjects from enchantments, transmutations, and curses. |
PRG:CRB |
| Charm Person, Mass |
|
As charm person, but affects multiple creatures within 30 ft. |
PRG:UI |
| Complex Hallucination |
|
Create a phantasm with effects for all senses. |
PRG:UI |
| Conjuration Foil |
|
Interfere with nearby teleportation effects. |
PRG:UI |
| Contingent Scroll |
F, M |
Transfer a scroll’s power to the target; the scroll is then triggered as contingency. |
PRG:ACG |
| Conversing Wind |
|
As whispering wind, except it can carry responses and doesn’t end after delivering its first message. |
PPC:RTT |
| Create Armaments |
|
You create one non-magical weapon, shield, or set of armor.
|
PPC:AA |
| Cure Critical Wounds |
|
Cures 4d8 damage + 1/level (max +20). |
PRG:CRB |
| Curse of the Outcast |
|
Curse someone to rub people the wrong way. |
PRG:UI |
| Dance of a Hundred Cuts |
|
Gain +1 combat bonus/3 levels. |
PRG:UM |
| Daze, Mass |
|
As daze, but affecting multiple creatures. |
PRG:UM |
| Deadman’s Contingency |
|
Set one of a list of contingencies for your demise. |
PRG:UI |
| Deceitful Veneer |
|
Make someone seem like an obvious liar. |
PRG:UI |
| Denounce |
|
Worsens attitudes toward target creature. |
PRG:APG |
| Detect Scrying |
|
Alerts you to magical eavesdropping. |
PRG:CRB |
| Dimension Door |
|
Teleports you a short distance. |
PRG:CRB |
| Discordant Blast |
|
3d6 sonic damage in 10-ft. burst or 30-ft. cone can also bull rush creatures. |
PRG:APG |
| Dominate Person |
|
Controls humanoid telepathically. |
PRG:CRB |
| Echolocation |
|
Sonic sense gives you blindsight 40 ft. |
PRG:UM |
| Entice Fey, Lesser |
|
Entice service from a fey of 6 Hit Dice or fewer. |
PRG:UI |
| Envious Urge |
|
Targets steal from or disarm others. |
PRG:UM |
| Feast on Fear |
|
Targets are panicked, and you gain temporary hit points. |
PRG:ACG |
| Foretell Failure |
|
This spell informs you whether an action will succeed. |
PPC:AA |
| Forgetful Slumber |
M |
As deeper slumber and make target forgets the last 5 minutes. |
PRG:ARG |
| Ghostbane Dirge, Mass |
|
As ghostbane dirge, but affecting multiple creatures. |
PRG:APG |
| Ghost Brand |
|
Allow an item to transform into a brand and back. |
PRG:UI |
| Flash Forward |
|
At end of charge, alter time and return to your original position before you charged. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Freedom of Movement |
|
Subject moves normally despite impediments to restrict movement. |
PRG:CRB |
| Grand Destiny |
|
You inspire the target with the power to seize a grand destiny.
|
PPC:AA |
| Hallucinatory Terrain |
|
Makes one type of terrain appear like another (field as forest, or the like). |
PRG:CRB |
| Heroic Finale |
|
Subject within range of your bardic performance can take an action. |
PRG:APG |
| Heroic Fortune, Mass |
M |
As heroic fortune, except it affects more targets. |
PRG:APG |
| Hold Monster |
|
As hold person, but any creature. |
PRG:CRB |
| Horrific Doubles |
|
Call forth disturbing mirror images. |
PRG:HA |
| Insect Scouts |
|
This spell summons one or more vermin to investigate a single location or building you can see. Your scouts must spend 1d6 hours investigating the target location, but need no oversight. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Invisibility, Greater |
|
As invisibility, but subject can attack and stay invisible. |
PRG:CRB |
| Kiss of the First World |
M |
Grant living creatures enhanced life or undead creatures debilitating conditions. |
PCS:ISM |
| Legend Lore |
MF |
Lets you learn tales about a person, place, or thing. |
PRG:CRB |
| Locate Creature |
|
Indicates direction to known creature. |
PRG:CRB |
| Majestic Image |
|
As enter image, but also gain bonuses on social skills while in the image. |
PRG:UI |
| Modify Memory |
|
Changes 5 minutes of subject’s memories. |
PRG:CRB |
| Neutralize Poison |
|
Immunizes subject against poison, detoxifies venom in or on subject. |
PRG:CRB |
| Nixie’s lure |
|
Unearthly and infectious song that seductively summons up to 24 HD of creatures and fascinate them. |
PRG:ARG |
| Passing Fancy, Mass |
|
This spell functions as per passing fancy except target is one living creature/level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Path of Glory, Greater |
|
Create an expanding glow that heals allies within it of 5 hp of damage. |
PRG:ACG |
| Pessimism |
|
Force a creature to see the negative side of things. |
PRG:HA |
| Phantasmal Reminder |
|
Create a memory loop of a successful attack made against the target, forcing its conscious mind to recall the details of the attack in such excruciating detail that its physical body is racked by the recollection. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Phantom Steed, Communal |
|
As phantom steed, but you may divide the duration among creatures touched. |
PRG:UC |
| Primal Scream |
|
Free yourself from enchantments and paralysis effects. |
PRG:UM |
| Quieting Weapons |
|
Weapons make no sound and quiet their victims. |
PRG:UI |
| Rainbow Pattern |
|
Lights fascinate 24 HD of creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Red Hand of the Killer |
|
Stain the hand of a creature’s killer red. |
PRG:UI |
| Repel Vermin |
|
Insects, spiders, and other vermin stay 10 ft. away. |
PRG:CRB |
| Rune of Ruin |
|
You curse a magic item, such as magical clothing, a suit of armor, or a weapon.
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PPC:AA |
| Secure Shelter |
|
Creates sturdy cottage. |
PRG:CRB |
| Serenity |
|
Peaceful feelings harm those attempting violence. |
PRG:UM |
| Shadow Conjuration |
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Mimics conjuration below 4th level, but only 20% real. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shadowform |
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You replace the target’s body with mystic shadow material drawn from the Shadow Plane. |
PPC:BoS |
| Shadow Step |
|
Teleport from one shadow to another. |
PRG:UM |
| Shield of the Dawnflower |
|
Creatures that strike you take 1d6 +1/level fire damage. |
PCS:ISWG |
| Shocking Image |
|
As mirror image, but the duplicates emit electrical damage when destroyed. |
PRG:UC |
| Shout |
|
Deafens all within cone and deals 5d6 sonic damage. |
PRG:CRB |
| Sleepwalking Suggestion |
M |
Cause a creature to perform a suggested action while asleep. |
PRG:HA |
| Song of Healing |
|
Your bardic performance heals allies. |
PCS:ISM |
| Sonic Thrust |
|
Sound moves targets away from you. |
PRG:UM |
| Speak with Plants |
|
You can talk to plants and plant creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Spellblight Jinx |
|
Inflict a curse similar to the spell burn spellblight on a creature. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Spellsword |
|
You can hide a single magic rod or magic staff inside an extradimensional space within a target weapon.
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PPC:AA |
| Summon Accuser |
|
Summons a single accuser devil from Hell to do your bidding. |
RG |
| Summon Monster IV |
|
Summons extraplanar creature to fight for you. |
PRG:CRB |
| Tough Crowd |
|
You fortify your allies against attempts to control or mislead them.
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PPC:AA |
| Treasure Stitching |
M |
Objects on cloth become embroidered. |
PRG:APG |
| Unseen Crew |
|
Create 1 unseen crewmember per caster level to attend to ships riggings and other affairs. |
PoIS |
| Utter Contempt |
|
Target’s attitude worsens by two categories. |
PRG:UM |
| Vicarious View |
|
Plant a scrying sensor that you can use to spy on a creature, object, or location. |
PRG:UI |
| Virtuoso Performance |
|
Start a second bardic performance while maintaining the first. |
PRG:UM |
| Wall of Blindness/Deafness |
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Translucent wall blinds or deafens creatures that pass through it. |
PRG:ACG |
| Wall of Sound |
|
Sonic wall deflects and damages creatures. |
PRG:UM |
| Wandering Star Motes |
|
Outlines subject, produces light. |
PRG:APG |
| Zone of Silence |
|
Keeps eavesdroppers from overhearing you. |
PRG:CRB |
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5th-Level Bard Spells
| Formula Name |
Comp. |
Description |
Source |
| Archon’s Trumpet |
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Upon hearing a booming report, as if from a trumpet archon’s mighty horn, all creatures in the area of the burst are paralyzed for 1d4 rounds. |
PPC:CoP |
| Bard’s Escape |
|
You and allies escape an emergency by teleporting to safety. |
PRG:APG |
| Bladed Dash, Greater |
|
Swiftly move 30 feet and attack all foes along the way. |
PCS:ISM |
| Cacophonous Call, Mass |
|
Nauseates multiple targets. |
PRG:APG |
| Callback, Greater |
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As callback but with increased range. |
PPC:FF |
| Claim Identity, Greater |
M |
This spell functions as claim identity, except it transforms its target into a helpless, inanimate porcelain mask for the spell’s duration. |
PPC:SpyHB |
| Cloak of Dreams |
|
Living creatures within 5 ft. fall asleep. |
PRG:APG |
| Compelling Rant |
|
People believe your ridiculous speech as long as you keep talking. |
PRG:HA |
| Covetous Aura |
|
You may gain the benefits of a spell meant for someone else. |
PCS:ISWG |
| Crime Wave |
|
Compel targets to commit criminal actions. |
PRG:UI |
| Cure Light Wounds, Mass |
|
Cures 1d8 damage + 1/level, affects 1 subject/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Deafening Song Bolt |
|
Blast of song deals 3d10 damage and deafens targets. |
PRG:APG |
| Death Pact |
|
As dominate person, plus you can sense through their senses, and implants a powerful burst of psychic energy in the subject’s mind. |
PPC:OO |
| Dispel Magic, Greater |
|
As dispel magic, but can affect multiple targets. |
PRG:CRB |
| Dream |
|
Sends message to anyone sleeping. |
PRG:CRB |
| False Vision |
M |
Fools scrying with an illusion. |
PRG:CRB |
| Foe to Friend |
|
Redirect an enemy creature’s attack. |
PRG:APG |
| Frozen Note |
|
Paralyzes creatures listening to your song. |
PRG:APG |
| Guardian Monument, Greater |
|
This spell functions as lesser guardian monument, except it grants DR 4/magic. |
PPC:AA |
| Heroism, Greater |
|
Gives +4 bonus on attack rolls, saves, skill checks; immunity to fear; temporary hp. |
PRG:CRB |
| Hymn of Mercy |
|
As touch of mercy, except 30-ft.-radius burst centered on you. |
PPC:CoP |
| Joyful Rapture |
|
Negate harmful emotions. |
PRG:UM |
| Ki Shout |
|
Target takes 1d6 sonic/level and is stunned. |
PRG:UM |
| Locate Gate |
|
Find a nearby magical portal. |
PRG:HA |
| Mage’s Decree |
|
Send a message to creatures within miles. |
PRG:UI |
| Mind Fog |
|
Subjects in fog get –10 to Wis and Will checks. |
PRG:CRB |
| Mirage Arcana |
|
As hallucinatory terrain, plus structures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Mislead |
|
Turns you invisible and creates illusory double. |
PRG:CRB |
| Music of the Spheres |
|
Grant fast healing, resistance, and save bonuses to all creatures in a 20-foot radius from you. |
PCS:ISM |
| Mydriatic Spontaneity, Mass |
|
As mydriatic spontaneity, except it can affect multiple creatures. |
PPC:BoS |
| Nightmare |
|
Sends vision dealing 1d10 damage, fatigue. |
PRG:CRB |
| Persistent Image |
|
As major image, but no concentration required. |
PRG:CRB |
| Phantasmal Web |
|
Catches subjects in illusory web. |
PRG:APG |
| Phobia |
|
Induce an irrational fear in a creature to the point of madness. |
PRG:HA |
| Pox of Rumors |
|
Curse a creature to attract nasty rumors. |
PRG:UI |
| Release The Hounds |
M |
Summon a pack of canines that respond to your commands and act in perfect unison, causing them to function like a swarm. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Resonating Word |
|
Target is damaged, staggered, and stunned. |
PRG:UM |
| Sabotage Construct |
|
As confusion, except that it affects only constructs. |
PPC:PotR |
| Scripted Hallucination |
|
As complex hallucination, but without concentration. |
PRG:UI |
| Seeming |
|
Changes appearance of one person per two levels. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shadow Evocation |
|
Mimics evocation of lower than 5th level, but only 20% real. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shadow Walk |
|
Step into shadow to travel rapidly. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shadowbard |
|
Shadowy duplicate starts a bardic performance. |
PRG:UM |
| Song of Discord |
|
Forces targets to attack each other. |
PRG:CRB |
| Soulswitch |
|
You place your soul into the body of your familiar, and your familiar’s soul is placed in your body. |
PPC:FF |
| Stunning Finale |
|
Stuns 3 creatures for 1 round. |
PRG:APG |
| Suggestion, Mass |
|
As suggestion, affects subject/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Summon Infernal Host |
|
Summon host devils. |
RG |
| Summon Monster V |
|
Summons extraplanar creature to fight for you. |
PRG:CRB |
| Unwilling Shield |
M |
Subject shares wounds you receive. |
PRG:APG |
| Vengeful Outrage |
|
Target is compelled to destroy one enemy. |
PRG:UM |
| Whip of Centipedes |
|
Create a whip made of poisonous centipedes. |
PRG:ACG |
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6th-Level Bard Spells
| Formula Name |
Comp. |
Description |
Source |
| Analyze Dweomer |
F |
Reveals magical aspects of subject. |
PRG:CRB |
| Animate Objects |
|
Objects attack your foes. |
PRG:CRB |
| Artificer’s Curse |
|
You temporarily suppress the most powerful qualities of a magical item.
|
PPC:AA |
| Baleful Shadow Transmutation |
|
You infuse a target’s shadow with energies from the Shadow Plane, shaping the shadow into one that appears to belong to a different creature, and tricking the target into believing it actually is that creature. |
PPC:BoS |
| Brilliant Inspiration |
|
Take best of two d20 rolls. |
PRG:APG |
| Cat’s Grace, Mass |
|
As cat’s grace, affects 1 subject/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Charm Monster, Mass |
|
As charm monster, but all within 30 ft. |
PRG:CRB |
| Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass |
|
Cures 2d8 damage + 1/level, affects 1 subject/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Dance of a Thousand Cuts |
|
As dance of a hundred cuts, plus the benefits of haste. |
PRG:UM |
| Deadly Finale |
|
Deals 2d8 damage to multiple targets. |
PRG:APG |
| Demanding Message, Mass |
|
Send messages as per message with one suggestion for each creature. |
PRG:UI |
| Dirge of the Victorious Knights |
|
Call forth special illusions of mounted Hellknights. |
PCS:ISWG |
| Eagle’s Splendor, Mass |
|
As eagle’s splendor, affects 1 subject/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Entice Fey |
|
Entice service from a fey of 12 Hit Dice or fewer. |
PRG:UI |
| Euphoric Tranquility |
|
Makes a single creature peaceful and friendly. |
PRG:APG |
| Eyebite |
|
Target becomes panicked, sickened, and/or comatose. |
PRG:CRB |
| False Vision, Greater |
|
As false vision, but moves with the target. |
PRG:UI |
| Find the Path |
|
Shows most direct way to a location. |
PRG:CRB |
| Fool’s Forbiddance |
|
Confuses enemies who come within a magical emanation centered on you. |
PRG:APG |
| Fox’s Cunning, Mass |
|
As fox’s cunning, affects 1 subject/level. |
PRG:CRB |
| Geas/Quest |
|
As lesser geas, but affects any creature. |
PRG:CRB |
| Getaway |
|
Teleports a group of predetermined allies and creatures to a predetermined location. |
PRG:APG |
| Heroes’ Feast |
|
Food for one creature/level cures and grants combat bonuses. |
PRG:CRB |
| Hollow Heroism, Greater |
|
Provide a greater heroism effect that you can reverse at any time. |
PRG:UI |
| Human Potential, Mass |
|
As human potential, except it affects multiple creatures. |
PPC:AA |
| Hymn of Peace |
|
Subjects of this spell must make a Will save to attack or perform an aggressive or damaging actions. |
PPC:CoP |
| Impenetrable Veil |
M |
Enchant a target so it is nearly impossible to detect by both magical and mundane means, granting it multiple benefits. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Irresistible Dance |
|
Forces subject to dance. |
PRG:CRB |
| Life of Crime |
|
Permanently turn someone into a crazed criminal. |
PRG:UI |
| Lost Legacy |
DF/F |
Inflict a powerful curse on a touched creature that causes others to quickly forget positive aspects of their interactions with the target. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Magnifying Chime |
|
Touched object deals increasing sonic damage each round. |
PRG:ACG |
| Night Terrors |
|
Disturb a creature’s rest with dark dreams. |
PRG:HA |
| Overwhelming Presence |
|
Creatures bow before you as if you were divine. |
PRG:UM |
| Permanent Image |
|
Permanent illusion, includes sight, sound, smell, and thermal effects. |
PRG:CRB |
| Pied Piping |
|
Compel similar creatures to follow you. |
PRG:APG |
| Programmed Image |
M |
As major image, plus triggered by event. |
PRG:CRB |
| Project Image |
M |
Illusory double can talk and cast spells. |
PRG:CRB |
| Scrying, Greater |
|
As scrying, but faster and longer. |
PRG:CRB |
| Shadow Enchantment, Greater |
|
As shadow enchantment but up to 5th level spells. |
PCS:OR |
| Shadow Transmutation |
|
You suffuse one subject’s body with energy from the Shadow Plane, altering its form to match a creature from the Shadow Plane. |
PPC:BoS |
| Shout, Greater |
|
Devastating yell deals 10d6 sonic damage; stuns creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Sonic Form |
|
Turn yourself into a creature of semisolid sound. |
PRG:ACG |
| Subjective Reality |
|
You alter your perceptions to become convinced the target is an illusion.
|
PPC:OO |
| Summon Monster VI |
|
Summons extraplanar creature to fight for you. |
PRG:CRB |
| Symbol of Distraction |
M |
As symbol of death, except all creatures within the radius become fascinated by the symbol for 10 min./CL (other minor effects, see spell details). |
PPC:MaTT |
| Sympathetic Vibration |
|
Deals 2d10 damage/round to freestanding structure. |
PRG:CRB |
| Touch of Slumber |
|
A touched creature with an attitude toward you of indifferent or better (and not hostile toward your visible allies) must succeed a Will save or fall asleep. |
PPC:MaTT |
| Triggered Hallucination |
|
As scripted hallucination, but it only appears when triggered. |
PRG:UI |
| Unconscious Agenda |
|
Plant subconscious directive in target creature.
|
RoRLAE |
| Veil |
|
Changes appearance of group of creatures. |
PRG:CRB |
| Waves of Ecstasy |
|
Pleasure stuns and staggers creatures. |
PRG:UM |
| Whip of Ants |
|
Create a whip made of army ants. |
PRG:ACG |
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