Bard

Description: Bards often serve as negotiators, messengers, scouts, and spies. They love to accompany heroes (and villains) to witness heroic (or villainous) deeds firsthand, since a bard who can tell a story from personal experience earns renown among his fellows. A bard casts arcane spells without any advance preparation, much like a sorcerer. His magic emphasizes charms and illusions, and the bard can also play an inspiring song that strengthens him and his allies. Bards also share some specialized skills with rogues, and their knowledge of item lore is nearly unmatched.

Alignment Restrictions: Any non-lawful

Hit Die: d6

Proficiencies: Armor (Light, Medium), Shields, Weapons (Simple)

Skill Points: (Int mod * 4 at 1st level) 4 + Int Mod

Skills: Appraise, Bluff, Concentration, Craft Armor, Craft Trap, Craft Weapon, Discipline, Heal, Hide, Listen, Lore, Move Silently, Parry, Perform, Persuade, Pick Pocket, Spellcraft, Taunt, Tumble, Use Magic Device

Primary Saving Throw(s): Reflex, Will

Spellcasting: Arcane (Charisma-based, no spell preparation, spell failure from armor is a factor). Bards begin the game knowing four cantrips. Must have a Charisma score of 10 + the spell’s level to cast a spell.

Special Abilities & Feats

• Level 1 Bardic Knowledge, Bard Song

Spells

Level 0

• Cure Minor Wounds
• Daze
• Flare
• Light
• Resistance

Level 1

• Amplify
• Balagarn's Iron Horn
• Charm Person
• Cure Light Wounds
• Expeditious Retreat
• Grease
• Identify
• Lesser Dispel
• Mage Armor
• Magic Weapon
• Protection from Alignment
• Scare
• Sleep
• Summon Creature I

Level 2

• Blindness/Deafness
• Bull's Strength
• Cat's Grace
• Clarity
• Cloud of Bewilderment
• Cure Moderate Wounds
• Darkness
• Eagle's Splendor
• Fox's Cunning
• Ghostly Visage
• Hold Person
• Invisibility
• Owl's Wisdom
• See Invisibility
• Silence
• Sound Burst
• Summon Creature II
• Tasha's Hideous Laughter
• Ultravision

Level 3

• Bestow Curse
• Charm Monster
• Clairaudience/Clairvoyance
• Confusion
• Cure Serious Wounds
• Dispel Magic
• Displacement
• Fear
• Find Traps
• Greater Magic Weapon
• Gust of Wind
• Haste
• Invisibility Sphere
• Keen Edge
• Magic Circle against Alignment
• Remove Curse
• Remove Disease
• Slow
• Summon Creature III
• Wounding Whispers

Level 4

• Cure Critical Wounds
• Dismissal
• Dominate Person
• Hold Monster
• Improved Invisibility
• Legend Lore
• Neutralize Poison
• Summon Creature IV
• War Cry

Level 5

• Ethereal Visage
• Greater Dispelling
• Healing Circle
• Mind Fog
• Summon Creature V

Level 6

• Dirge
• Energy Buffer
• Ice Storm
• Mass Haste
• Summon Creature VI

Spells per Day

Class Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	*	*	*	*	*	*
2	3	0	*	*	*	*	*
3	3	1	*	*	*	*	*
4	3	2	0	*	*	*	*
5	3	3	1	*	*	*	*
6	3	3	2	*	*	*	*
7	3	3	2	0	*	*	*
8	3	3	3	1	*	*	*
9	3	3	3	2	*	*	*
10	3	3	3	2	0	*	*
11	3	3	3	3	1	*	*
12	3	3	3	3	2	*	*
13	3	3	3	3	2	0	*
14	4	3	3	3	3	1	*
15	4	4	3	3	3	2	*
16	4	4	4	3	3	2	0
17	4	4	4	4	3	3	1
18	4	4	4	4	4	3	2
19	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
20	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

Known Spells

Class Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	4	*	*	*	*	*	*
2	5	2	*	*	*	*	*
3	5	3	*	*	*	*	*
4	5	3	2	*	*	*	*
5	5	4	3	*	*	*	*
6	5	4	3	*	*	*	*
7	5	4	4	2	*	*	*
8	5	4	4	3	*	*	*
9	5	4	4	3	*	*	*
10	5	4	4	4	2	*	*
11	5	4	4	4	3	*	*
12	5	4	4	4	3	*	*
13	5	4	4	4	4	2	*
14	5	4	4	4	4	3	*
15	5	4	4	4	4	3	*
16	5	5	4	4	4	4	2
17	5	5	5	4	4	4	3
18	5	5	5	4	4	4	3
19	5	5	5	5	5	4	4
20	5	5	5	5	5	5	4

Epic Bard

Skill Points: 4 + Int mod

Bonus Feats: 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38

Epic Bonus Feats: Epic Skill Focus, Epic Will, Great Charisma, Great Dexterity, Improved Combat Casting, Lasting Inspiration, Epic Spell Focus