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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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Blade Ward | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 Round | ✗ |
| 0 | Dancing Lights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 0 | Friends | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 0 | Light | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 Hour | Dexterity |
| 0 | Mage Hand | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 0 | Mending | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 0 | Message | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | 1 Round | ✗ |
| 0 | Minor Illusion | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 0 | Prestidigitation | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 0 | Thunderclap | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 5 feet | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| 0 | True Strike | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Round | ✗ |
| 0 | Vicious Mockery | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Wisdom |
| 1 | Animal Friendship | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 24 Hours | Wisdom |
| 1 | Bane | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Minute | Charisma |
| 1 | Charm Person | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 Hour | Wisdom |
| 1 | Color Spray | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self (15-foot cone) | 1 Round | ✗ |
| 1 | Command | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 Round | Wisdom |
| 1 | Comprehend Languages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✓ | ✗ | Self | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 1 | Cure Wounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 1 | Detect Magic | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✓ | ✓ | Self | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 1 | Disguise Self | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 1 | Dissonant Whispers | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | Wisdom |
| 1 | Distort Value | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 8 Hours | ✗ |
| 1 | Earth Tremor | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | Instantaneous | Dexterity |
| 1 | Faerie Fire | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 1 | Thunderwave | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self (15-foot cube) | Instantaneous | Constitution |
| 1 | Unseen Servant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✓ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 2 | Aid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 8 Hours | ✗ |
| 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 | 1 Minute | Charisma |
| 2 | Cloud of Daggers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 2 | Crown of Madness | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Detect Thoughts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Enhance Ability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 2 | Enlarge/Reduce | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Minute | Constitution |
| 2 | Enthrall | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Gift of Gab | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Reaction | ✗ | ✗ | Self | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 2 | Heat Metal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 2 | Hold Person | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 2 | Invisibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | 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 | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 2 | Magic Mouth | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✓ | ✗ | 30 feet | Until Dispelled | ✗ |
| 2 | Mirror Image | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 2 | Phantasmal Force | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 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 | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 2 | Skywrite | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✓ | ✓ | Sight | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 2 | Suggestion | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 8 Hours | Wisdom |
| 2 | Warding Wind | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 2 | Zone of Truth | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 10 Minutes | Charisma |
| 3 | Bestow Curse | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 3 | Catnap | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 3 | Clairvoyance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✓ | 1 mile | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 3 | Dispel Magic | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 3 | Enemies Abound | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Minute | Intelligence |
| 3 | Fast Friends | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Hour | Wisdom |
| 3 | Fear | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Self (30-foot cone) | 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 | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 3 | Intellect Fortress | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 3 | Leomund's Tiny Hut | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✓ | ✗ | Self (10-foot-radius hemisphere) | 8 Hours | ✗ |
| 3 | Major Image | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 10 Minutes | ✗ |
| 3 | Mass Healing Word | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Bonus Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 3 | Motivational Speech | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 3 | Nondetection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 8 Hours | ✗ |
| 3 | Plant Growth | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action / 8 Hours | ✗ | ✗ | 150 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 3 | Sending | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Unlimited | 1 Round | ✗ |
| 3 | Slow | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 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 | 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 | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 4 | Confusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 90 feet | 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 | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 4 | Hallucinatory Terrain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✗ | 300 feet | 24 Hours | ✗ |
| 4 | Locate Creature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 4 | Phantasmal Killer | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 4 | Polymorph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 1 Hour | Wisdom |
| 5 | Animate Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 5 | Awaken | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 Hours | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 5 | Dominate Person | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 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 | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 5 | Legend Lore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✗ | Self | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 5 | Mass Cure Wounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 5 | Mislead | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 5 | Modify Memory | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 5 | Planar Binding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Hour | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 24 Hours | Charisma |
| 5 | Raise Dead | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Hour | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 5 | Rary's Telepathic Bond | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✓ | ✗ | 30 feet | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 5 | Scrying | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 10 Minutes | Wisdom |
| 5 | Seeming | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | 8 Hours | Charisma |
| 5 | Skill Empowerment | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | Touch | 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 | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 6 | Find the Path | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✗ | ✓ | Self | 1 Day | ✗ |
| 6 | Guards and Wards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 24 Hours | ✗ |
| 6 | Heroes' Feast | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✗ | 30 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 6 | Mass Suggestion | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 24 Hours | Wisdom |
| 6 | Otto's Irresistible Dance | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Minute | Wisdom |
| 6 | Programmed Illusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 120 feet | Until Dispelled | ✗ |
| 6 | True Seeing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 7 | Dream of the Blue Veil | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 Minutes | ✗ | ✗ | 20 feet | 6 Hours | ✗ |
| 7 | Etherealness | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self | 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 | 1 Minute | ✗ |
| 7 | Prismatic Spray | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Self (60-foot cone) | Instantaneous | Dexterity |
| 7 | Project Image | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 500 miles | 1 Day | ✗ |
| 7 | Regenerate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 1 Hour | ✗ |
| 7 | Resurrection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Hour | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 7 | Symbol | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Until Dispelled or Triggered | ✗ |
| 7 | Teleport | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 10 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 8 | Antipathy/Sympathy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Hour | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 10 Days | Wisdom |
| 8 | Dominate Monster | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 60 feet | 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 | ✗ |
| 9 | Foresight | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Minute | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | 8 Hours | ✗ |
| 9 | Mass Polymorph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 120 feet | 1 Hour | Wisdom |
| 9 | Power Word Heal | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | Touch | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 9 | Power Word Kill | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | Instantaneous | ✗ |
| 9 | Prismatic Wall | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 60 feet | 10 Minutes | Constitution |
| 9 | Psychic Scream | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✗ | 90 feet | Instantaneous | Intelligence |
| 9 | True Polymorph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Action | ✗ | ✓ | 30 feet | 1 Hour | Wisdom |
