Questions tagged [bard]
For questions about the bard, a charismatic class involving limited spontaneous casting, the use of songs to buff allies and average chance to hit with weapons. The bard class appears in D&D, Pathfinder and many other tabletop RPGs.
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Can a lvl 20 CoC Bard waive the spell cost to cast and sustain the spell, Imprisonment, for six hours?
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Performance of Creation. Also at 3rd level, as an action, you can channel the magic of the Song of Creation to create one nonmagical item of your choice in an ...
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Does a Swords Bard's extra damage count as damage that the original attack inflicts for Vampiric Bite's HP gain and roll bonus?
I know that Slashing Flourish, and the rest of the options, deal extra damage to the original target, but I'm asking if the damage it deals to creatures of your choice within 5 feet of you counts as ...
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Can the Simulacrum of a Bard regain its Bardic Inspiration dice?
The spell Simulacrum reads as follows:
It obeys your spoken commands, moving and acting in accordance with your wishes and acting on your turn in combat. ...The simulacrum lacks the ability to learn ...
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Can I use Performance of Creation to provide the 100gp gem for a homunculus servant?
The College of Creation Bard has the class feature Performance of Creation, which states:
As an action, you can channel the magic of the Song of Creation to create one nonmagical item of your choice ...
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Can a Dragonborn bard use a two handed greataxe as a weapon?
If so the greataxe is a axe and a electric guitar if you was wondering
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Would someone help with understanding my DM's homebrewed magic item? [closed]
As the title states, my DM made the whole party custom magic items according to our character's class, history, and other details, which is crazy awesome. My character is a Bard that plays a drum for ...
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Guidelines for Virtuosic Performer
The Virtuosic Performer feat says:
You have exceptional talent with one type of performance. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus when making a certain type of performance. If you are a master in ...
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Can a Bard restart a Glamour Bard's Enthralling Performance after being interrupted or is the ability used for that day?
I have a friend playing with a Bard and wants to use the class ability, but he is asking me if the person he wants to enchant leaves the place for a moment during the use of the ability he can ...
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Can Cutting Words be used while in an area of Silence?
In a current combat encounter, a bard character is unable to move out of the area of effect of a Silence spell. Silence is very clear on a complete lack of sound:
For the duration, no sound can be ...
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Wail of the Banshee Trap vs Bard's countersong
The party have just set off a Wail of the Banshee Trap.
Can a Bard's Countersong be used to mitigate the effects. The bardic music had not been started before setting off the Trap. My feeling is it ...
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Boosting Poet’s Cloak? (Pathfinder 1e)
I’m trying to make my Skald a bit more versatile to assist the party and the Poet’s cloak caught my eye. Not all the party greatly benefits from my inspired rages all the time but being able to shift ...
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Can an army of bards with lyres of building make a castle wall invulnerable?
The item Lyre of Building is a rare magic item from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything:
Lyre of Building
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a bard)
While holding this lyre, you can cast Mending ...
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Are you saving 'against' an effect if that effect applies when you successfully save?
The party tonight was about to face a Demilich. They didn't have any specific knowledge of demiliches, but it was clear they were about to confront the boss, and just about every minion they had ...
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Would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words?
Now, I know that Cutting Words is inferred to be a Charm effect based on the last sentence of the paragraph. This raises a question for me; would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words? (I.e. reducing the ...
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In Dungeon World, is the Bard's Arcane Art subject to the same failure outcomes as other spells?
Because Arcane Art is a spell with multiple utilities for the Bard, if 1-6 risks them forgetting it, it feels quite a brutal outcome compared to a wizard suffering a similar consequence.
As a result I'...
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