Bard Spells

Cantrips

Dancing Lights

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Evocation
Range: 120ft	Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration)	Components: VSM (a bit of phosphorus or wychwood, or a glowworm)

You create up to four torch-sized lights within range, making them appear as torches, lanterns, or glowing orbs that hover in the air for the duration. You can also combine the four lights into one glowing vaguely humanoid form of Medium size.

Whichever form you choose, each light sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the lights up to 60 feet to a new spot within range. A light must be within 20 feet of another light created by this spell, and a light winks out if it exceeds the spell's range.

Friends

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Enchantment
Range: Self	Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration)	Components: SM (a small amount of makeup applied to the face as this spell is cast)

For the duration, you have advantage on all Charisma checks directed at one creature of your choice that isn’t hostile toward you. When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you. A creature prone to violence might attack you. Another creature might seek retribution in other ways (at the DM’s discretion), depending on the nature of your interaction with it.

Light

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action	Evocation
Range: Touch	Duration: 1 Hour	Components: VSM (a firefly or phosphorescent moss)

You touch one object that is no larger than 10 feet in any dimension. Until the spell ends, the object sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. The light can be colored as you like. Completely covering the object with something opaque blocks the light. The spell ends if you cast it again or dismiss it as a free action.

If you target an object held or worn by a hostile creature, you must make a melee spell attack against that creature, casting the spell on a successful attack.

Lucky Number

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Divination
Range: Self	Duration: 24 Hours	Components: VS

You are able to tweak tiny variables affecting a creature's immediate future in order to grant yourself a bit of luck at the right time. Roll a d20; once during the duration of lucky number, when you roll that result (regardless of what type of dice the target rolls), the creature has the option to either reroll the result or add a +2 bonus to the result. The creature must decide to use this ability before the success or failure of the original roll is known. A creature can have only one lucky number per day.

Mage Hand

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Conjuration
Range: 30ft	Duration: 1 Minute	Components: VS

A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within range. The hand lasts for the duration or until you dismiss it as an action. The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 30 feet away from you or if you cast this spell again.

You can use your action to control the hand. You can use the hand to manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents out of a vial. You can move the hand up to 30 feet each time you use it. The hand can't attack, or carry more than 10 pounds.

Mending

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Minute	Transmutation
Range: Touch	Duration: Instant	Components: VSM (two lodestones)

This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such as a broken chain link, two halves of a broken key, a torn cloak, or a leaking wineskin. As long as the break or tear is no larger than 1 foot in any dimension, you mend it, leaving no trace of the former damage.

This spell can physically repair a magic item or construct, but the spell can't restore magic to such an object.

Message

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Enchantment
Range: 120ft	Duration: 1 Round	Components: VSM (a short copper wire)

You point your finger toward a creature within range and whisper a message. The target (and only the target) hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear.

You can cast this spell through solid objects if you are familiar with the target and know it is beyond the barrier. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood blocks the spell. The spell doesn't have to follow a straight line and can travel freely around corners or through openings.

Minor Illusion

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Illusion
Range: 30ft	Duration: 1 Minute	Components: SM (a bit of fleece)

You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.

If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else's voice, a lion's roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.

If you create an image of an object--such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest--it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.

If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature.

Shocking Grasp

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Evocation
Range: Touch	Duration: 1 Minute	Components: VS

Lightning springs from your hand to deliver a shock to a creature you try to touch. Make a melee spell attack against the target. You have advantage on the attack roll if the target is wearing armor made of metal. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 lightning damage, and it can't take reactions until the start of its next turn.

The spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

True Strike

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Divination
Range: 30ft	Duration: 1 Round (Concentration)	Components: S

You point a finger at a target in range. Your magic grants you a brief insight into the target's defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your attack rolls against the target, provided that this spell hasn't ended.

Vicious Mockery

Level: Cantrip	Casting Time: 1 Action	Enchantment
Range: 60ft	Duration: Instant	Components: V

You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range. If the target can hear you (though it need not understand you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 1d4 psychic damage and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.

This spell's damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).