What is Dungeons & Dragons?
Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) is a fantasy tabletop RPG originally developed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974. Today the game is published by Wizards of the Coast. The publication of D&D is considered to be the origin of modern RPGs.
Dungeons & Dragons Spells
There are 8 classes in Dungeons & Dragons that can cast spells: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard.
Ritual (RIT): The spell can be done through a ritual.
Concentration (CON): The spell requires concentration.
Verbal (V): The spell needs a verbal component.
Somatic (S): The spell needs a hand movement.
Material (M): The spell needs a material component.
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 | Saving Throw |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal Friendship | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 24 hours | Wisdom |
| 1 | Bane | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 minute | Charisma |
| 1 | Charm Person | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 hour | Wisdom |
| 1 | Comprehend Languages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✓ | ✗ | Self | 1 hour | |
| 1 | Cure Wounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 1 | Detect Magic | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✓ | ✓ | Self | up to 10 minutes | |
| 1 | Disguise Self | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 hour | |
| 1 | Dissonant Whispers | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Wisdom |
| 1 | Earth Tremor | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | Instantaneous | Dexterity |
| 1 | Faerie Fire | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | Dexterity |
| 1 | Feather Fall | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 reaction | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 minute | |
| 1 | Healing Word | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 bonus action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 1 | Heroism | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | up to 1 minute | |
| 1 | Identify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✓ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 1 | Illusory Script | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✓ | ✗ | Touch | 10 days | |
| 1 | Longstrider | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | |
| 1 | Silent Image | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 10 minutes | |
| 1 | Sleep | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 90 feet | 1 minute | |
| 1 | Speak with Animals | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✓ | ✗ | Self | 10 minutes | |
| 1 | Tasha’s Hideous Laughter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 1 | Thunderwave | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self (15-foot cube) | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| 1 | Unseen Servant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✓ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 hour | |
| 2 | Animal Messenger | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✓ | ✗ | 30 feet | 24 hours | |
| 2 | Blindness / Deafness | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 minute | Constitution |
| 2 | Calm Emotions | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | Charisma |
| 2 | Cloud of Daggers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | |
| 2 | Crown of Madness | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Detect Thoughts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Enhance Ability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | up to 1 hour | |
| 2 | Enthrall | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 minute | |
| 2 | Heat Metal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | Constitution |
| 2 | Hold Person | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Invisibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | up to 1 hour | |
| 2 | Knock | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 2 | Lesser Restoration | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 2 | Locate Animals or Plants | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✓ | ✗ | Self | Instantaneous | |
| 2 | Locate Object | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 10 minutes | |
| 2 | Magic Mouth | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✓ | ✗ | 30 feet | Until dispelled | |
| 2 | Phantasmal Force | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | Intelligence |
| 2 | Pyrotechnics | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| 2 | See Invisibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 hour | |
| 2 | Shatter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| 2 | Silence | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✓ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 10 minutes | |
| 2 | Skywrite | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✓ | ✓ | Sight | up to 1 hour | |
| 2 | Suggestion | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 8 hours | Wisdom |
| 2 | Warding Wind | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 10 minutes | |
| 2 | Zone of Truth | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 10 minutes | Charisma |
| 3 | Bestow Curse | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 3 | Catnap | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Clairvoyance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 minutes | ✗ | ✓ | 1 mile | up to 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Dispel Magic | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 3 | Enemies Abound | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 1 minute | Intelligence |
| 3 | Fear | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self (30-foot cone) | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 3 | Feign Death | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✓ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | |
| 3 | Glyph of Warding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 hour | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Until dispelled or triggered | Dexterity |
| 3 | Hypnotic Pattern | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 3 | Leomund’s Tiny Hut | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✓ | ✗ | Self (10-foot-radius hemisphere) | 8 hours | |
| 3 | Major Image | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Nondetection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 8 hours | |
| 3 | Plant Growth | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action or 8 hours | ✗ | ✗ | 150 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 3 | Sending | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Unlimited | 1 round | |
| 3 | Speak with Dead | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Speak with Plants | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self (30-foot radius) | 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Stinking Cloud | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 90 feet | up to 1 minute | Constitution |
| 3 | Tongues | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | |
| 4 | Charm Monster | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 hour | Wisdom |
| 4 | Compulsion | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 4 | Confusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 90 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 4 | Dimension Door | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 500 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 4 | Freedom of Movement | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | |
| 4 | Greater Invisibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | up to 1 minute | |
| 4 | Hallucinatory Terrain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 minutes | ✗ | ✗ | 300 feet | 24 hours | |
| 4 | Locate Creature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 1 hour | |
| 4 | Polymorph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 hour | Wisdom |
| 5 | Animate Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 1 minute | |
| 5 | Awaken | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 hours | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 5 | Dominate Person | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 5 | Dream | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | Special | 8 hours | Wisdom |
| 5 | Geas | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 30 days | Wisdom |
| 5 | Greater Restoration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 5 | Hold Monster | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 90 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 5 | Legend Lore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 minutes | ✗ | ✗ | Self | Instantaneous | |
| 5 | Mass Cure Wounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 5 | Mislead | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 1 hour | |
| 5 | Modify Memory | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 5 | Planar Binding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 hour | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 24 hours | Charisma |
| 5 | Raise Dead | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 hour | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 5 | Scrying | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 minutes | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 10 minutes | Wisdom |
| 5 | Seeming | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 8 hours | Charisma |
| 5 | Skill Empowerment | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | up to 1 hour | |
| 5 | Synaptic Static | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | Instantaneous | Intelligence |
| 5 | Teleportation Circle | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | 1 round | |
| 6 | Eyebite | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 6 | Find the Path | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 1 day | |
| 6 | Guards and Wards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 minutes | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 24 hours | |
| 6 | Mass Suggestion | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 24 hours | Wisdom |
| 6 | Otto’s Irresistible Dance | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 minute | Wisdom |
| 6 | Programmed Illusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | Until dispelled | |
| 6 | True Seeing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | |
| 7 | Etherealness | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | Up to 8 hours | |
| 7 | Forcecage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 100 feet | 1 hour | Charisma |
| 7 | Mirage Arcane | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 10 minutes | ✗ | ✗ | Sight | 10 days | |
| 7 | Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | 300 feet | 24 hours | |
| 7 | Mordenkainen’s Sword | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 minute | |
| 7 | Project Image | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 500 miles | up to 1 day | |
| 7 | Regenerate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | |
| 7 | Resurrection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 hour | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 7 | Symbol | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Until dispelled or triggered | Constitution; Wisdom; Charisma; Intelligence |
| 7 | Teleport | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 8 | Dominate Monster | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | up to 1 hour | Wisdom |
| 8 | Feeblemind | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 150 feet | Instantaneous | Intelligence |
| 8 | Glibness | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 hour | |
| 8 | Mind Blank | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 24 hours | |
| 8 | Power Word Stun | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| 9 | Foresight | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 8 hours | |
| 9 | Mass Polymorph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 1 hour | Wisdom |
| 9 | Power Word Heal | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| 9 | Power Word Kill | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | |
| 9 | Psychic Scream | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 90 feet | Instantaneous | Intelligence |
| 9 | True Polymorph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 hour | Wisdom |
| C | Blade Ward | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 round | |
| C | Dancing Lights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | up to 1 minute | |
| C | Friends | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | up to 1 minute | |
| C | Light | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 hour | Dexterity |
| C | Mage Hand | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 minute | |
| C | Mending | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | |
| C | Message | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | 1 round | |
| C | Minor Illusion | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 minute | |
| C | Prestidigitation | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | up to 1 hour | |
| C | Thunderclap | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 5 feet | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| C | True Strike | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | up to 1 round | |
| C | Vicious Mockery | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Wisdom |
