List of Dungeons & Dragons 5e Spells (Bard)

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Dungeons & Dragons 5e Spells

There are 9 classes in Dungeons & Dragons that can cast spells: Artificer, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard. Other classes may also have access to certain spells under certain conditions. Spells can be filtered by:

Information about spells was collected in the following books:

Acquisition's Incorporated / Elemental Evil Player's Companion / Explorer's Guide to Wildemount / Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica / Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden / Lost Laboratory of Kwalish / Players Handbook / Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide / Tasha's Cauldron of Everything / Xanathars Guide To Everything / Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos / Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

All Bard Spells from D&D 5th Edition

The next table lists all Bard spells present in the fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons.

L
Spell
Name
V
S
M
Casting
Time
RIT
CON
Range
Duration
Spell
Save
0Blade Ward✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self1 Round✗
0Dancing Lights✓✓✓1 Action✗✓120 feet1 Minute✗
0Friends✗✓✓1 Action✗✓Self1 Minute✗
0Light✓✗✓1 Action✗✗Touch1 HourDexterity
0Mage Hand✓✓✗1 Action✗✗30 feet1 Minute✗
0Mending✓✓✓1 Minute✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
0Message✓✓✓1 Action✗✗120 feet1 Round✗
0Minor Illusion✗✓✓1 Action✗✗30 feet1 Minute✗
0Prestidigitation✓✓✗1 Action✗✗10 feet1 Hour✗
0Thunderclap✗✓✗1 Action✗✗5 feetInstantaneousConstitution
0True Strike✗✓✗1 Action✗✓30 feet1 Round✗
0Vicious Mockery✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneousWisdom
1Animal Friendship✓✓✓1 Action✗✗30 feet24 HoursWisdom
1Bane✓✓✓1 Action✗✓30 feet1 MinuteCharisma
1Charm Person✓✓✗1 Action✗✗30 feet1 HourWisdom
1Color Spray✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Self (15-foot cone)1 Round✗
1Command✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feet1 RoundWisdom
1Comprehend Languages✓✓✓1 Action✓✗Self1 Hour✗
1Cure Wounds✓✓✗1 Action✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
1Detect Magic✓✓✗1 Action✓✓Self10 Minutes✗
1Disguise Self✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self1 Hour✗
1Dissonant Whispers✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneousWisdom
1Distort Value✓✗✗1 Minute✗✗Touch8 Hours✗
1Earth Tremor✓✓✗1 Action✗✗10 feetInstantaneousDexterity
1Faerie Fire✓✗✗1 Action✗✓60 feet1 MinuteDexterity
1Feather Fall✓✗✓1 Reaction✗✗60 feet1 Minute✗
1Healing Word✓✗✗1 Bonus Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
1Heroism✓✓✗1 Action✗✓Touch1 Minute✗
1Identify✓✓✓1 Minute✓✗TouchInstantaneous✗
1Illusory Script✗✓✓1 Minute✓✗Touch10 Days✗
1Longstrider✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Touch1 Hour✗
1Silent Image✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet10 Minutes✗
1Silvery Barbs✓✗✗1 Reaction✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
1Sleep✓✓✓1 Action✗✗90 feet1 Minute✗
1Speak with Animals✓✓✗1 Action✓✗Self10 Minutes✗
1Tasha's Hideous Laughter✓✓✓1 Action✗✓30 feet1 MinuteWisdom
1Thunderwave✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self (15-foot cube)InstantaneousConstitution
1Unseen Servant✓✓✓1 Action✓✗60 feet1 Hour✗
2Aid✓✓✓1 Action✗✗30 feet8 Hours✗
2Animal Messenger✓✓✓1 Action✓✗30 feet24 Hours✗
2Blindness/Deafness✓✗✗1 Action✗✗30 feet1 MinuteConstitution
2Borrowed Knowledge✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Self1 Hour✗
2Calm Emotions✓✓✗1 Action✗✓60 feet1 MinuteCharisma
2Cloud of Daggers✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 Minute✗
2Crown of Madness✓✓✗1 Action✗✓120 feet1 MinuteWisdom
2Detect Thoughts✓✓✓1 Action✗✓Self1 MinuteWisdom
2Enhance Ability✓✓✓1 Action✗✓Touch1 Hour✗
2Enlarge/Reduce✓✓✓1 Action✗✓30 feet1 MinuteConstitution
2Enthrall✓✓✗1 Action✗✗60 feet1 MinuteWisdom
2Gift of Gab✓✓✗1 Reaction✗✗SelfInstantaneous✗
2Heat Metal✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 Minute✗
2Hold Person✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 MinuteWisdom
2Invisibility✓✓✓1 Action✗✓Touch1 Hour✗
2Kinetic Jaunt✗✓✗1 Bonus Action✗✓Self1 Minute✗
2Knock✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
2Lesser Restoration✓✓✗1 Action✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
2Locate Animals or Plants✓✓✓1 Action✓✗SelfInstantaneous✗
2Locate Object✓✓✓1 Action✗✓Self10 Minutes✗
2Magic Mouth✓✓✓1 Minute✓✗30 feetUntil Dispelled✗
2Mirror Image✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self1 Minute✗
2Nathair's Mischief✗✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 MinuteDexterity/Wisdom
2Phantasmal Force✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 MinuteIntelligence
2Pyrotechnics✓✓✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneousConstitution
2See Invisibility✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Self1 Hour✗
2Shatter✓✓✓1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneousConstitution
2Silence✓✓✗1 Action✓✓120 feet10 Minutes✗
2Skywrite✓✓✗1 Action✓✓Sight1 Hour✗
2Suggestion✓✗✓1 Action✗✓30 feet8 HoursWisdom
2Warding Wind✓✗✗1 Action✗✓Self10 Minutes✗
2Zone of Truth✓✓✗1 Action✗✗60 feet10 MinutesCharisma
3Bestow Curse✓✓✗1 Action✗✓Touch1 MinuteWisdom
3Catnap✗✓✓1 Action✗✗30 feet10 Minutes✗
3Clairvoyance✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✓1 mile10 Minutes✗
3Dispel Magic✓✓✗1 Action✗✗120 feetInstantaneous✗
3Enemies Abound✓✓✗1 Action✗✓120 feet1 MinuteIntelligence
3Fast Friends✓✗✗1 Action✗✓30 feet1 HourWisdom
3Fear✓✓✓1 Action✗✓Self (30-foot cone)1 MinuteWisdom
3Feign Death✓✓✓1 Action✓✗Touch1 Hour✗
3Glyph of Warding✓✓✓1 Hour✗✗TouchUntil Dispelled or TriggeredDexterity
3Hypnotic Pattern✗✓✓1 Action✗✓120 feet1 MinuteWisdom
3Intellect Fortress✓✗✗1 Action✗✓30 feet1 Hour✗
3Leomund's Tiny Hut✓✓✓1 Minute✓✗Self (10-foot-radius hemisphere)8 Hours✗
3Major Image✓✓✓1 Action✗✓120 feet10 Minutes✗
3Mass Healing Word✓✗✗1 Bonus Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
3Motivational Speech✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feet1 Hour✗
3Nondetection✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Touch8 Hours✗
3Plant Growth✓✓✗1 Action / 8 Hours✗✗150 feetInstantaneous✗
3Sending✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Unlimited1 Round✗
3Slow✓✓✓1 Action✗✓120 feet1 MinuteWisdom
3Speak with Dead✓✓✓1 Action✗✗10 feet10 Minutes✗
3Speak with Plants✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self (30-foot radius)10 Minutes✗
3Stinking Cloud✓✓✓1 Action✗✓90 feet1 MinuteConstitution
3Tongues✓✗✓1 Action✗✗Touch1 Hour✗
4Charm Monster✓✓✗1 Action✗✗30 feet1 HourWisdom
4Compulsion✓✓✗1 Action✗✓30 feet1 MinuteWisdom
4Confusion✓✓✓1 Action✗✓90 feet1 MinuteWisdom
4Dimension Door✓✗✗1 Action✗✗500 feetInstantaneous✗
4Freedom of Movement✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Touch1 Hour✗
4Greater Invisibility✓✓✗1 Action✗✓Touch1 Minute✗
4Hallucinatory Terrain✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✗300 feet24 Hours✗
4Locate Creature✓✓✓1 Action✗✓Self1 Hour✗
4Phantasmal Killer✓✓✗1 Action✗✓120 feet1 MinuteWisdom
4Polymorph✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 HourWisdom
4Raulothim's Psychic Lance✓✗✗1 Action✗✗120 feetInstantaneousIntelligence
5Animate Objects✓✓✗1 Action✗✓120 feet1 Minute✗
5Awaken✓✓✓8 Hours✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
5Dominate Person✓✓✗1 Action✗✓60 feet1 MinuteWisdom
5Dream✓✓✓1 Minute✗✗Special8 HoursWisdom
5Geas✓✗✗1 Minute✗✗60 feet30 DaysWisdom
5Greater Restoration✓✓✓1 Action✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
5Hold Monster✓✓✓1 Action✗✓90 feet1 MinuteWisdom
5Legend Lore✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✗SelfInstantaneous✗
5Mass Cure Wounds✓✓✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
5Mislead✗✓✗1 Action✗✓Self1 Hour✗
5Modify Memory✓✓✗1 Action✗✓30 feet1 MinuteWisdom
5Planar Binding✓✓✓1 Hour✗✗60 feet24 HoursCharisma
5Raise Dead✓✓✓1 Hour✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
5Rary's Telepathic Bond✓✓✓1 Action✓✗30 feet1 Hour✗
5Scrying✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✓Self10 MinutesWisdom
5Seeming✓✓✗1 Action✗✗30 feet8 HoursCharisma
5Skill Empowerment✓✓✗1 Action✗✓Touch1 Hour✗
5Synaptic Static✓✓✗1 Action✗✗120 feetInstantaneousIntelligence
5Teleportation Circle✓✗✓1 Minute✗✗10 feet1 Round✗
6Eyebite✓✓✗1 Action✗✓Self1 MinuteWisdom
6Find the Path✓✓✓1 Minute✗✓Self1 Day✗
6Guards and Wards✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✗Touch24 Hours✗
6Heroes' Feast✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✗30 feetInstantaneous✗
6Mass Suggestion✓✗✓1 Action✗✗60 feet24 HoursWisdom
6Otto's Irresistible Dance✓✓✗1 Action✗✓30 feet1 MinuteWisdom
6Programmed Illusion✓✓✓1 Action✗✗120 feetUntil Dispelled✗
6True Seeing✓✓✓1 Action✗✗Touch1 Hour✗
7Dream of the Blue Veil✓✓✓10 Minutes✗✗20 feet6 Hours✗
7Etherealness✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self8 Hours✗
7Forcecage✓✓✓1 Action✗✗100 feet1 HourCharisma
7Mirage Arcane✓✓✗10 Minutes✗✗Sight10 Days✗
7Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion✓✓✓1 Minute✗✗300 feet24 Hours✗
7Mordenkainen's Sword✓✓✓1 Action✗✓60 feet1 Minute✗
7Prismatic Spray✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Self (60-foot cone)InstantaneousDexterity
7Project Image✓✓✓1 Action✗✓500 miles1 Day✗
7Regenerate✓✓✓1 Minute✗✗Touch1 Hour✗
7Resurrection✓✓✓1 Hour✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
7Symbol✓✓✓1 Minute✗✗TouchUntil Dispelled or Triggered✗
7Teleport✓✗✗1 Action✗✗10 feetInstantaneous✗
8Antipathy/Sympathy✓✓✓1 Hour✗✗60 feet10 DaysWisdom
8Dominate Monster✓✓✗1 Action✗✓60 feet1 HourWisdom
8Feeblemind✓✓✓1 Action✗✗150 feetInstantaneousIntelligence
8Glibness✓✗✗1 Action✗✗Self1 Hour✗
8Mind Blank✓✓✗1 Action✗✗Touch24 Hours✗
8Power Word Stun✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
9Foresight✓✓✓1 Minute✗✗Touch8 Hours✗
9Mass Polymorph✓✓✓1 Action✗✓120 feet1 HourWisdom
9Power Word Heal✓✓✗1 Action✗✗TouchInstantaneous✗
9Power Word Kill✓✗✗1 Action✗✗60 feetInstantaneous✗
9Prismatic Wall✓✓✗1 Action✗✗60 feet10 MinutesConstitution
9Psychic Scream✗✓✗1 Action✗✗90 feetInstantaneousIntelligence
9True Polymorph✓✓✓1 Action✗✓30 feet1 HourWisdom

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