Lol yeah, recently my party and I got into a situation with a gang/mob/ whatever you wanna call them, And next thing leads to another and we stole an item they wanted and they started firing at us with shotguns and machine guns and all that (yikes) Basically, I used disguise self to become a gang member and escaped that way.... The chaos was so much fun
@@defensivekobra3873 no, it is still in a semi-fantasy setting, But guns do exist, but usually only with higher ranking figures and used in the war (The guns are semi-mechanical, semi-magical) But I'm guessing that those guys had guns just because they were criminals and probably stole them/got them off of some sort of dnd black market
@@BlueBolt Amongst all the other times where it has saved (and will save) us alot of trouble, my favorite example of how op these kinds of spells are has to be last session, where my party took a pretty heavily fortified castle in 5 minutes without any casualties. Context: We had previously battled and beaten the baron's army using a clever ambush that actually worked and didn't just involve into total chaos for a change. That also involved the use of illusion magic to funnel the enemy troops and to stop a cavalry charge dead in its tracks sending the horses tumbling and the riders flying after an illusionary flame wall went up right in front of them. After obliterating or scattering most of his troups and capturing the rest, we (with our humble army of around 120 sellswords) laid siege to the castle. We could have probably enacted the actual takeover much sooner, but given that we are, for the most part, not TOTAL bastards, we spent the next few days healing the few wounded on our own side and providing equal care to our 43 prisoners. Since we treated them well and took care to not let them die, about two thirds joined us, and the rest we kept prisoner for now. The Baron, meanwhile, wasn't listening to our reasonable proposal of surrendering to avoid more bloodshed or inevitable death on his and his men's end, and we didn't want to risk further delays to give him time to pull his troups together and pincer us between the moat and his reinforcements. So we waited until nightfall, and struck. Cast: One elf, one witch (me) and her trusty flight stick. I cast seeming on both of us and spiderclimb on the elf, we fly/climb up over an unguarded piece of wall, walk up to all of the guards in turn with a mixture of confidence and disgust at the hour of night, inform them of the shift change and grumble something as the poor sobs gratefully go to bed. Elf casts a sphere of silence on the gate/draw bridge, and two minutes and a few choice words later, our (now slightly bigger than before) army stands in the middle of the courtyard infront of a very pissed Baron who is being held by his own men because he wanted to send them into a suicide charge. They saw their own men on our side, and went "Fuck this, I'm changing teams". The twenty-odd prisoners that refused to join us we let go home to their families. After swearing to not give their service to anybody else, of course. The Baron is rotting in his own cell, we have a(nother) castle, ended this operation with a bigger army than we started with, and nobody died (well, if you discount the ambush). All in all, pretty fucking sweet. Illusion/enchantment magic is best magic, you can't change my mind.
@@isabelled.4799 I mean I am in a group with s lore bard and I am a Abjuration wizard. Just statistically speaking there are a few levels where the wizard holds the lead but lore bard is better.
10:29 - Okay, okay. I hear what you're saying. I understand. I appreciate you. But, counterpoint: If a target is killed by this spell, _its head explodes._ I think that earns it at least 4 davvies.
I always say 4 feet plus your standard 1 for each foot of movement. So moving 5 feet takes 25 feet of your movement. I hate that it words it in non 5 foot increments too
WotC: Hello Davvy Chappy, we see you put great effort in your video series about each classes' *complete* spell list. We particularly liked the idea of weighing them based on the concept that certain classes can't swap their known spell once learned! Really lovely. *Now wouldn't it be a shame if something were to happen to said Spellcasting feature...*
@@ronazdug that's just a misnaming. Bards don't get Warding Bond at all, so describing that instead of Warding Wind, which bards do get, however is an actual mistake
On the subject of Arcane Tricksters, Shadow Blade is an interesting spell because it's an Illusion spell. And since you have so many feats dedicated to not getting hit, it likely wouldn't be too hard to maintain concentration. Though casting it does contend with your bonus action... But in dark areas you have advantage with Shadow Blade, so you have an easy opening for Sneak Attack.
Amazing...I'm also working on a Paladin / Bard multiclass. Two levels of Paladin = Divine Smites Add a Sword Bard, or Valor Bard, and you have a seriously dangerous bard.
@@ZeRasseru Had a dwarf barbarian named Lyria, who had been a bouncer for a band in Waterdeep. An assassin hired by a rival band tried to take out the lead singer; she broke his arm and turned him in to the guards. The band was so appreciative, they took her on permanantly...and found out she could sing. And so, Lyria became a bard-barian. : ) She sings parodies of popular songs as she wades into battle.
Project image: The evil necromancer is trying to complete his complicated ritual, but cant concentrate because an image of a bard sings and daces around him all day.
I pay for no ads. You adding a time stamp for after the ad is literal god tier, instant like and sub thanks for thinking of your viewers. 1:11 min in and I think you’re amazing lmao.
I would totally like to see more of these class spell list videos, ESPECIALLY THE WIZARD. Actually I'm more interested in the druid and cleric videos, I just wanted to say that. Hehe 😋
5:54 Davvy: 'i have joker movie spoilers and i'm not affraid to use them!' Me: *immune to fear* Davvy: 'How?!' Me: 'you fool, i already have seen the movie! Your tricks Don't effect me'
6:28 I’m pretty sure Plant Growth is saying it’s like a double difficult terrain, costing 4 times as much per 5 foot square (making one move cost 20 feet)
Thanks for reminding me why I love bards. I had forgotten, or maybe never fully realized. You get so caught up in fireballs and big sword swing that you forget the pure satisfaction of just being able to make that thing trying to kill you fall over laughing hysterically while you eat peanuts you pocketed at the last tavern you visited.
plant growth if bloody amazing. ever thought "it sure would be nice if this giant couldn't get to me and not be able to smash my face in." then take this spell. huge area of very hard retain quartering speed AND can stack with regular difficult terain. if you want to just fuck over an encounter by making non of the enemies be able to get to you in time use plant growth. also farmers will fucking love you.
Don’t sleep on modify memory. It’s a “this never happened. No it happened exactly how we wanted it to happen and you like us and we did what you wanted us to do and you just promised to give me something like 5 seconds ago” spell that is a solve all for all difficult role play encounters
This was actuslly a super helpful video! I've been playing dnd 5e for the majority of 2019 and just started playing my first bard recently in an online campaign and you've given some very useful tips on good spells! Thanks so much you chappiest of davvies!
Foresight is amazing! It's an 8 hour buff to literally everything and a debuff to things trying to hurt. Advantage is awesome, and just always having it for everything for 8 hours is great! (Stick it on the Elf warlock with the elven accuracy feat and watch the critical hits come rollin in)
I’d like to make a point for pyrotechnics: It specifies only that it must target an area of fire. It does not state a minimum and the maximum is 5ft. by 5ft. It is also non-concentration, meaning you can have as many effects from this spell present as you like. And of course, because of that first thing I mentioned... *YOU CAN TURN A TORCH INTO A FLASHBANG*
This is really helpful! I play Bard, but I struggle with all the options for my character... v_v Having a rating and description of why stuff works or doesn’t really helps weed out the bad from the good for what I’m looking for! Thank you! :D
Psychic Scream is great because its an intellegence save, and if you're fighting a group of anything that isn't wizards, they'll probably not be good at intellegence saves.
Int saves are rare, at least for humanoids. Beasts and monsters on the other hand, it depends. I could see this being used on a pack of Allosauris in Chult.
After the part where you wrote a script for a non-bard spell, I decided to make a list of noticeable errors. 2:17 Anyone else see the flickering and bugging out? 4:44 Knock is heard but isn't seen. 5:25 You talk about warding bond (which is not a bard spell), but display warding wind. 7:41 Honestly, just a slip of the tongue, you describe and show the correct spell, but I already started a list.
Vicious Mockery is the best cantrip ever! I (the bard) made three kobalds our minions and help us through the dungeon by first casting this and then persuading them to help us. It was fun.
I feel like it'd be more effective on dark vision denizens. Fiend: I see you little... why'd you light a candle? Bard: Stop me if you heard this one, so a Drow walks out of a Bar at high noon.
@@kylethomas9130 the effect is exactly the same as the Darkness spell, except for the differences I noted. The lack of concentration is a BIG deal to a Bard, freeing him to use his concentration on something else.
If the enemy is wearing a metal helmet with metal face covering, the Bard can cast Heat Metal and literally melt the enemy’s face off with a wicked lute solo.
I use cloud of daggers like a budget magic missile Also good for when you've got allies who can combo with you to keep the enemy in the area Worst case scenario, you do a burst of reliable, unavoidable magical slashing damage
I keep thinking I am watching seth sorokowski's channel since Davvy started using that book backdrop. Thanks for the vid though. Always love your content. Who doesn't love a surprise banana.
I had a campaign where someone in the party released a big bad by detecting magic, finding a magic chair, and dispelling the magic on it without a second thought. That was an amusing day.
With Plant growth, just times it by 5, its just explaining how its more strong rough terrain, for every 1 ft you move, you have to spend 4ft of movement, aka, for every 5ft you move, you must spend 20ft of movement
That's true but stupid since 5e presumes everyone is using grids that incorporate 5-foot movement units. Just saying that every five feet of movement costs 20 feet would be so much simpler and still true.
@@WhiteManOnCampus its consistant with many of the other times they mention rough terrain being "2ft for every 1ft", i agree that 5ft would be easier, but in the large scheme of things it doesnt change anything
Dissonant whispers is awesome for fighting big single target enemies. Not only do you get 3d6 damage on a failed save, you can also trigger attacks of opportunity for your front liners when the target runs away.
Mending is useful in a "planning for failure" context. Theres very little worse than being a bard and popping a string on your harp mid dungeon and losing all your music and or somatic focus magic Longstrider lets you be pack mule without slowing the party down when trying to cart your loot home. Speak with animal is good for being a pseudo tracker. Cloud of Daggers. Area denial is always useful in narrow dungeon/castle hallways Locate animals/plants: if your dm is getting survivalist on you invest in this Nondetection: For Escort missions or "steal the bad guys thing but not break it" situations. Can also be used to smuggle magic weapons in for assasinations. Hallucinatory terrain: good for getting away from dumb goblin hoards or for dms Mordenkainen's sword: one of the best dps spells ever. Lets you het in extra hits or do both attack and heal in the same turn
Mordenkainen's sword is a 7th level spell, so you get to cast it exactly once per day (unless you're lvl 20), it competes with other also very strong spells, it competes with your concentration slot, and it uses the bonus actions that were already mentioned to be cluttered with uses on Bards. You can also already heal and attack on the same turn using bonus action spells like (Mass) Healing Word. If I _really_ wanted a caster Bard with several attacks in a turn, I'd much rather take a Magical Secrets Spiritual Weapon (no concentration and a bonus action cast instead of action) or Swift Quiver (several extra attacks), both of which also have the benefit of several possible casts per day AND are available a lot earlier
Well put. It holds down a hallway or doorway pretty well too. Also it gets +2d4 above level 2. That's a lot of slashing damage. At level 5 that's a 10d4 for one minute in a 5x5x5 foot area. "When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 2nd."
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Seriously since I only have PHB keeping track of what spell certain classes do or don’t have is a PAIN. I tend to rely on wikidot but sometimes the spell links don’t bloody work
I love these! Have to say, Foresight took me off guard... a spell to make your Rogue or Paladin an even more nigh-invulnerable death monster who can't miss all day anyday doesn't seem super weak to me, at least to have as one of your Ninth-spells (being a Bard). I know it takes away your "do a big thing" slot, but it's guaranteed to work for those eight hours and won't be counterspelled with a lucky roll. It's also not concentration, and isn't visible to dispel-happy enemies unless they're using Detect Magic in a high-level encounter like a dweeb. I haven't played a Bard at high level, so I don't know how well that works in practice, but it seems... really strong, and very difficult to counter.
If anyone still doubts the powers of the Bard Class, I recommend you look up the Owl House episode entitled Eda's Requiem. You'll see just how powerful bard magic can be, after that
Looking forward to Sorcerer, Cleric and Ranger spell videos In my campaigns the Ranger breaks every encounter they meet and 2 of them are able to TPK my players at half their current level, so that's fun
Synaptic static is so much more than fireball. Remember how much you liked bane? it is like a bane spell, that doesn't require concentration, that targets more enemies, that also gets a fireball thrown on top, except the fireball deals psychic damage, so way fewer things are immune. The bard has a lot of great concentration spells, any spell that doesn't require concentration is at a premium.
Im not sure you'er gonna see this BUT an important reminder: Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster both borrow spells from the Wizard spell list. Although they should probably not be covered in their own thing, it's still good to MAYBE reference them in the Wizard one, or do a combined one for both those subclasses. (also warlock stuff can be a part of the Blood Hunter but that's not a core class and as such I dont expect ya to think about)
We almost need a list of 'forbidden' spells. Where class features and feats allow you to add spells outside the average base class. I remember an argument to use one such feat to learn, Find Familiar, a Wizard exclusive, to have an owl use the help action, and flyby, to gain advantage on endless attacks.
Knock: 2 Davvy's(?) Also, why is there not a bard spell called Power Ballet/Battle Ballet; Something that could pump up your team mates; Think like the power of the music causes them to move faster and when cast with a higher spell slot make there attacks stronger? idk about you but that sounds like a pretty awesome battle bard spell.
I'm basically the party healer, so Cure Word, Healing Word, and Lesser Restoration are in my repertoire and of course I'll be grabbing Raise Dead at a later point. A single dip into Draconic Sorcerer gives Valor Bard a lot more options.
Blindness/deafness, in an eberron campaign, we faced a flying dragon like creature that had no sight and used its hearing to locate us. Was told what it was but can’t remember. Our bard and our monk combined to one shot it. Monk ran at a flat cliff wall and as the “dragon” swooped in for the kill, bard cast deafness and it fails the save. It got confused and slammed head first into the cliff wall and died instantly.
Foresight - Better than you think if you throw it on the fighter, so that they have a greater chance of critting all day long. Saw it used in one of nat19's games, and the guy it was cast on proceeded to get like a half-dozen crits over the course of the fight. It was absurd and beautiful.
So funny story about Otto's Irresistible Dance: I was playing a game with me (bard), a rogue, and a few others don't matter very much to the story. We went up against a creature that had 218 health and could teleport once per turn for free (probably homebrew). I casted Otto's on it in the first round and because the dancing didn't restrict it from teleporting, the DM didn't make it save on its turns. Now here comes the rogue with a magic crossbow that does like an extra 2d4 damage or something (again, probably homebrew) and because she had advantage on every attack, she was just throwing out Sneak Attacks that were doing like 40 damage a round. With the added help of our warlock's Eldritch Blasts, a few arrows from the fighter, and a brief wall of fire from yours truly, the thing was dead before it even took its third turn. So yeah, don't underestimate Otto's
Man plant growth got a 1...I can't tell you how many times I've shut down encroaching enemies with it haha. 5 foot over movement = 20ft its sooo good. Not to mention for role playing purposes you can really help local farms and forests going through droughts.
Youve never needed the teleportation circle spell? My party uses it constantly to get around. Once youve managed to get the combinations to a few cities is super useful fast travel.
@@houndofculann1793 Yes..., I knew that, I only stated that there are plenty of settings, where it is not as usefull as it is in settings where it is common to have cirrcles in all major cities
@@Ludens_H that is of course true. I meant that it's not really the spell's fault if the GM doesn't want to create a setting where it's used =D To me it's very logical that if a spell like this existed, it would see pretty wide usage among aristocracy at the least
Man, I’m quick. Do you think you’ll do a recommended list for magical secrets later? Edit: Also, no one talks about how you can use Prestidigitation to make someone poop their pants.
So mending I actually had many good uses for. Example for one was our Rogue got a Nat 1 on an attack roll with his crossbow which luckily he was not far from me when the DM decided the best result would be for the crossbow to break. So when my turn came up I turned to the direction and asked the rogue if I could see what was broken, then I used mending on his crossbow fixing it and getting him back in the fight. Weapons break and so will other things like armor depending on how the DM decides to go about with critical hits and bad rolls.
So my groups has put all of the recent features of the newer Revised class features UA into effect, meaning casters now have Spell Versatility. THANK GOD. This makes the bard i'm playing soooo much more fun! That 1 spell makes a huge difference. It makes me want to play a sorcerer now too. The only issue is that i can't incorporate it into the Artificer. Maybe i can actually, but we will see.
If you took counterspell as one of your magical secrets, then glibness turns you into a beast that can counter 9th-level spells with a 3rd-level slot. Also, I speak from experience when I say that foresight is the 9th-level spell when you are playing a melee caster like a bladelock or a sword bard, and if you cast it on a martial character, then that creature they are fighting is already dead.
Forcecage is insanely strong, anything that doesn't have a good ranged attack or teleportation just dies, no save. Doesn't matter if it is Demon lord, or whatever. Like this literally defeats 2/3 of the demon princes in one move, without a save. Those are the most powerful demons in existence.
Fun story about Leomund's Tiny Hut. In a homebrew campaign a few years back, I was playing my infamous Goblin Bard named Badric. We had gotten to a sketchy town, and while the rest of the party paid money to stay in the least sketchy inn in town like chumps, I cast Leomund's Tiny Hut in the alley behind some trash and slept there because Goblin. Also, I didn't trust the townsfolk (which would later prove to be justified). BUT. The DM didn't hear me say the bit about casting LTH. All he heard was that I was crashing in the alley behind some trash. So later that night he informs me that I wake up to being stabbed in the chest a la Prancing Pony style. When I asked how that was possible due to, y'know my spell, we realized he hadn't heard me. But, the guy doing the stabbing was the top assassin of the bad guys, so it just made him seem like thay much more of a bad ads. So we rolled with it. So Badric woke up in the middle of the night with a fancy dagger in his chest, looked the guy in the eyes and called him a dick, then rolled over and went back to sleep. The next morning, the dagger was still there in his chest, so he pulled it out and showed it to the other party members. It became his favoured weapon. . . Also, we ended up allying with said assassin later. And every time I cast LTH, I make sure the DM knows. Lol
Artificer, as a arcane caster, can cast Cure Wounds spell. Davvy mentions bards were the only arcane casters to have cure wounds, which they were. But now that Artificers are here there are two arcane casters that can cast that spell. It's easy to miss that detail so I don't blame Davvy one bit for forgetting or missing it.
The main problem with spells like dominate monster is that most of the things you want to use it on at that level have good saves and legendary resistances, and it if they succeed their checks it does nothing. Force cage is pretty overpowered in comparison, since while it doesn't paralysis them you still get all the benefit of preventing a monster from moving and not being able to punch you, *and* *they* *don't* *get* *a* *saving* *throw* . Force cage just happens, no save, no check. Unless they can teleport they are, for certain, stuck. And even if they can teleport they have to make a charisma check to see if it works, and if they fail the spell fissiles. Oh and it extends into the astral sea so eternalness doesn't work either. And to top it all off, it doesn't require concentration.
I’d give glyph of warding a 1.5 rating because it takes an hour to cast (so you cant use it in combat the same way you’d use fireball), it’s expensive (200 gp worth of incense and diamond dust) and whatever object you cast it on can’t move more than 10 ft from where the spell was cast without disabling the glyph. Its only real use is as a security system or for ambushes which means that the dm will get way more use out of it than the party
So, this is probably very presumptuous of me to say and it's a long way off anyways, but when you get to the Wizard spells, please remember that Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters share this spell list up to 4th level spells, so there is some reason for more melee oriented spells on the list for an otherwise very squishy class. Sorry, but one of things that I remember from the original school spells videos was that a lot of both the video and comment commentary had to do with if a character should be in melee while casting or not.
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"Disguise Self: Useful before, during or after a very bad idea."
This... This is the best description I've ever seen lmao
Lol yeah, recently my party and I got into a situation with a gang/mob/ whatever you wanna call them,
And next thing leads to another and we stole an item they wanted and they started firing at us with shotguns and machine guns and all that (yikes)
Basically, I used disguise self to become a gang member and escaped that way....
The chaos was so much fun
@@BlueBolt were you playing a so-called modern Magic campaign, set in our world but with Magic as described in a UA and some other material?
@@defensivekobra3873 no, it is still in a semi-fantasy setting,
But guns do exist, but usually only with higher ranking figures and used in the war
(The guns are semi-mechanical, semi-magical)
But I'm guessing that those guys had guns just because they were criminals and probably stole them/got them off of some sort of dnd black market
@@BlueBolt Amongst all the other times where it has saved (and will save) us alot of trouble, my favorite example of how op these kinds of spells are has to be last session, where my party took a pretty heavily fortified castle in 5 minutes without any casualties.
Context: We had previously battled and beaten the baron's army using a clever ambush that actually worked and didn't just involve into total chaos for a change. That also involved the use of illusion magic to funnel the enemy troops and to stop a cavalry charge dead in its tracks sending the horses tumbling and the riders flying after an illusionary flame wall went up right in front of them. After obliterating or scattering most of his troups and capturing the rest, we (with our humble army of around 120 sellswords) laid siege to the castle. We could have probably enacted the actual takeover much sooner, but given that we are, for the most part, not TOTAL bastards, we spent the next few days healing the few wounded on our own side and providing equal care to our 43 prisoners. Since we treated them well and took care to not let them die, about two thirds joined us, and the rest we kept prisoner for now.
The Baron, meanwhile, wasn't listening to our reasonable proposal of surrendering to avoid more bloodshed or inevitable death on his and his men's end, and we didn't want to risk further delays to give him time to pull his troups together and pincer us between the moat and his reinforcements. So we waited until nightfall, and struck.
Cast: One elf, one witch (me) and her trusty flight stick.
I cast seeming on both of us and spiderclimb on the elf, we fly/climb up over an unguarded piece of wall, walk up to all of the guards in turn with a mixture of confidence and disgust at the hour of night, inform them of the shift change and grumble something as the poor sobs gratefully go to bed.
Elf casts a sphere of silence on the gate/draw bridge, and two minutes and a few choice words later, our (now slightly bigger than before) army stands in the middle of the courtyard infront of a very pissed Baron who is being held by his own men because he wanted to send them into a suicide charge. They saw their own men on our side, and went "Fuck this, I'm changing teams".
The twenty-odd prisoners that refused to join us we let go home to their families. After swearing to not give their service to anybody else, of course.
The Baron is rotting in his own cell, we have a(nother) castle, ended this operation with a bigger army than we started with, and nobody died (well, if you discount the ambush). All in all, pretty fucking sweet. Illusion/enchantment magic is best magic, you can't change my mind.
Someone needs to make that phrase a t-shirt
Davvy's Davvy Meter is how I measure most things.
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Its better than metric
That's fair
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Can’t wait for paladin
All of the smite spells... and compelling duel
For a paladin every spell must be compared to a smite!
"you are the only arcane caster that can heal"
Artificers: "Word?"
@Tama Falconer Celestial Warlock:Yea bitch what
Tama Falconer I feel like they are both divine and arcane
Crowvassal what I said to Tama
But those require a specific subclass to get the healing spells, Bards just have them.
@@TheProfessor529 artificer doesnt need a subclass to have healing spells
“You can’t Counterspell...”
I legitimately forgot that wasn’t a bard spell because I always grab it with Magical secrets ASAP.
Biggest reason Lore bard is competitive with any of the new flashy subclasses.
Yeah I really wish it was. It's one of the most Bard-y spells out there. It's basically the "No, u" of magic
Lore Bards are the best dispellers
Makes Abjuration wizard feel bad
@@DyrgeAfterDark Why not both?
@@isabelled.4799 I mean I am in a group with s lore bard and I am a Abjuration wizard. Just statistically speaking there are a few levels where the wizard holds the lead but lore bard is better.
10:29 - Okay, okay. I hear what you're saying. I understand. I appreciate you. But, counterpoint: If a target is killed by this spell, _its head explodes._ I think that earns it at least 4 davvies.
Psychic *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!*
Oh so it's the Scanners spell.
"I speak for the bees! _The bees say you talkin s•••."_
Verbose Mode heya Verbose, so I heard someone was talking shit, and didn’t think that I would hear it.
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Warding glyph is not a bomb
You...might also want to fix all the other mistakes XD
So since bards get magical secrets, shouldn't this have been on every spell in the game?
Just a heads up, the audio you use when presenting Greater and Lesser Restoration is switched.
I always say 4 feet plus your standard 1 for each foot of movement. So moving 5 feet takes 25 feet of your movement. I hate that it words it in non 5 foot increments too
WotC: Hello Davvy Chappy, we see you put great effort in your video series about each classes' *complete* spell list. We particularly liked the idea of weighing them based on the concept that certain classes can't swap their known spell once learned! Really lovely.
*Now wouldn't it be a shame if something were to happen to said Spellcasting feature...*
yeah but it is an UA for now so some GMs may not give the ok
5:26 there's an error. You're talking about the spell Warding Bond, but the spell Warding Wind is on the screen. Just a heads up.
Far from the only one
7:41 he calls greater restoration “lesser restoration”
@@ronazdug that's just a misnaming. Bards don't get Warding Bond at all, so describing that instead of Warding Wind, which bards do get, however is an actual mistake
Ronaz Dug 4:48 he calls “lesser” “greater”
I love that bards have all these weird druid spells
hopefully he does these for the archetype casters like Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster
That would be very handy despite the flaw of limiting eldritch knights to abjuration and evocation instead of abjuration and transmutation.
@@maxx8362 well they can learn 4 spells from any school
@@enfuegobeat7953 when it comes to that much versatility, I'd think the older videos might give the best insight.
@@kylethomas9130 I meant from the wizard's spell list
On the subject of Arcane Tricksters, Shadow Blade is an interesting spell because it's an Illusion spell. And since you have so many feats dedicated to not getting hit, it likely wouldn't be too hard to maintain concentration. Though casting it does contend with your bonus action... But in dark areas you have advantage with Shadow Blade, so you have an easy opening for Sneak Attack.
When I just start playing a weird Paladin/Bard hybrid, and really need to find out which spells I should pick, this video drops.
Amazing...I'm also working on a Paladin / Bard multiclass.
Two levels of Paladin = Divine Smites
Add a Sword Bard, or Valor Bard, and you have a seriously dangerous bard.
I thought about an ogre barbarian/bard 'thing'. Because being an artist comes from the bottom of your heart. And even a scream can be poetic.
@@ZeRasseru Had a dwarf barbarian named Lyria, who had been a bouncer for a band in Waterdeep. An assassin hired by a rival band tried to take out the lead singer; she broke his arm and turned him in to the guards.
The band was so appreciative, they took her on permanantly...and found out she could sing.
And so, Lyria became a bard-barian. : )
She sings parodies of popular songs as she wades into battle.
Project image: The evil necromancer is trying to complete his complicated ritual, but cant concentrate because an image of a bard sings and daces around him all day.
Two words. "Project meat spin.
Annoying is my bard's middle name. Distraction is his expertisee.
@@jtjames79 ...thats three words.
@@2MeterLP I cast Tasha's hideous laughter on self.
Cakkles in Gnome.
Roll save vs sonic attack.
Project image + Changeling: Go streaking in any town in the world as someone else, and ruin their reputation.
@@2MeterLP *Annoying* is his middle name.
2:47 Artificers: Am I a joke to you?
and the warlock and sorcerer subclasses that get cure wounds
Artificers, prepare your comment cannons! :D
@@SimonCarl93 I wouldn't bother. Wizards will just nerf them again.
@@VexWerewolf how'd they nerf the cannons? The only thing that gave me a sad was my Goblin could no longer ride a mobile flamethrower into battle.
Trans Rights Werewolf only thing they nerfed was size? Everything does more damage now
I love how fast and concise these are. If I want more info, I can pause but sometimes I don't want to watch a 40 min video.
"Only Arcane caster that can heal" Artificer would like to have a word with you.
Not a healing word of course, but a word nonetheless.
I pay for no ads. You adding a time stamp for after the ad is literal god tier, instant like and sub thanks for thinking of your viewers. 1:11 min in and I think you’re amazing lmao.
I would totally like to see more of these class spell list videos, ESPECIALLY THE WIZARD.
Actually I'm more interested in the druid and cleric videos, I just wanted to say that. Hehe 😋
The very fact that you made this beautiful video which is exactly what I wanted but never knew I wanted is exactly why I'm going to not skip the add.
Bards have such a great spell list by default and they get magical secrets! 🤯
5:54 Davvy: 'i have joker movie spoilers and i'm not affraid to use them!'
Me: *immune to fear*
Davvy: 'How?!'
Me: 'you fool, i already have seen the movie! Your tricks Don't effect me'
"YOU FOOL! I have seen it 6 times already, if anything, _I_ spoil _YOU!_ "
I appreciate he give us the opportunity to know how to skip the ad. Real chad youtuber move.
6:28 I’m pretty sure Plant Growth is saying it’s like a double difficult terrain, costing 4 times as much per 5 foot square (making one move cost 20 feet)
Thanks for reminding me why I love bards. I had forgotten, or maybe never fully realized. You get so caught up in fireballs and big sword swing that you forget the pure satisfaction of just being able to make that thing trying to kill you fall over laughing hysterically while you eat peanuts you pocketed at the last tavern you visited.
plant growth if bloody amazing. ever thought "it sure would be nice if this giant couldn't get to me and not be able to smash my face in." then take this spell. huge area of very hard retain quartering speed AND can stack with regular difficult terain. if you want to just fuck over an encounter by making non of the enemies be able to get to you in time use plant growth.
also farmers will fucking love you.
I have a Druid with that spell that separate from the party to help out the farmers cause part of farmland got burn in war
Don’t sleep on modify memory. It’s a “this never happened. No it happened exactly how we wanted it to happen and you like us and we did what you wanted us to do and you just promised to give me something like 5 seconds ago” spell that is a solve all for all difficult role play encounters
so fast, so clear : perfect. happy 2022
This was actuslly a super helpful video! I've been playing dnd 5e for the majority of 2019 and just started playing my first bard recently in an online campaign and you've given some very useful tips on good spells! Thanks so much you chappiest of davvies!
Foresight is amazing! It's an 8 hour buff to literally everything and a debuff to things trying to hurt. Advantage is awesome, and just always having it for everything for 8 hours is great!
(Stick it on the Elf warlock with the elven accuracy feat and watch the critical hits come rollin in)
I didn't skip the ad just for you davvy just for your metrics notice me sing song spell senpai
Damn, usually I turn channels to 1.25x speed to hurry the F up. I had to play this at 0.75% to catch it all. Thank you for your Haste good sir!
I’d like to make a point for pyrotechnics:
It specifies only that it must target an area of fire. It does not state a minimum and the maximum is 5ft. by 5ft.
It is also non-concentration, meaning you can have as many effects from this spell present as you like.
And of course, because of that first thing I mentioned... *YOU CAN TURN A TORCH INTO A FLASHBANG*
Combined with presdigitation, and the Bards knack for drawing attention, I feel like its underappreciated.
Use candles for flashbangs
Patheron Aetherson eh, torches are easier to throw.
@@CurlyHairedRogue and actually stay lit when you throw them
HoundofCulann *snaps and points* this guy gets it.
This is really helpful! I play Bard, but I struggle with all the options for my character... v_v Having a rating and description of why stuff works or doesn’t really helps weed out the bad from the good for what I’m looking for! Thank you! :D
Psychic Scream is great because its an intellegence save, and if you're fighting a group of anything that isn't wizards, they'll probably not be good at intellegence saves.
And it makes the heads of those who die from it EXPLODE.
Int saves are rare, at least for humanoids. Beasts and monsters on the other hand, it depends. I could see this being used on a pack of Allosauris in Chult.
*PSYCHIC REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
My favorite class is bard thanks for the good video
After the part where you wrote a script for a non-bard spell, I decided to make a list of noticeable errors.
2:17 Anyone else see the flickering and bugging out?
4:44 Knock is heard but isn't seen.
5:25 You talk about warding bond (which is not a bard spell), but display warding wind.
7:41 Honestly, just a slip of the tongue, you describe and show the correct spell, but I already started a list.
Oh boy, another video from RUclips's premier DnD animator!
Vicious Mockery is the best cantrip ever! I (the bard) made three kobalds our minions and help us through the dungeon by first casting this and then persuading them to help us. It was fun.
Last time i was this early the padawan's were still alive
Thank you, this came in handy. My dwarven fighter died just last night, so I'm going to be a bard now.
Pyrotechnics: Darkness that devils can't see through and doesn't require concentration.
I feel like it'd be more effective on dark vision denizens.
Fiend: I see you little... why'd you light a candle?
Bard: Stop me if you heard this one, so a Drow walks out of a Bar at high noon.
@@kylethomas9130 the effect is exactly the same as the Darkness spell, except for the differences I noted. The lack of concentration is a BIG deal to a Bard, freeing him to use his concentration on something else.
@@ChristnThms except I think you can omit allies from the effect, on top of the factors you listed I think it'd be better than darkness.
@@kylethomas9130 nope. Creates the heavily obscured condition. Just like Darkness. No concentration.
If this is gonna be a series, cant wait for my favorite class, the druid
Plant growth is awesome as a ranger. Cast the spell and casually stroll up to your struggling enemies as they desperately try to get away.
A new series! I’m hyped to show it to my players!
Wait I'm early, woo 3:00 am Bard class!
If the enemy is wearing a metal helmet with metal face covering, the Bard can cast Heat Metal and literally melt the enemy’s face off with a wicked lute solo.
I use cloud of daggers like a budget magic missile
Also good for when you've got allies who can combo with you to keep the enemy in the area
Worst case scenario, you do a burst of reliable, unavoidable magical slashing damage
I keep thinking I am watching seth sorokowski's channel since Davvy started using that book backdrop. Thanks for the vid though. Always love your content. Who doesn't love a surprise banana.
Last time I was this early, 4 edition was still relevant
4 edition was never relevant. When it came out everyone still preferred 3.5
I had a campaign where someone in the party released a big bad by detecting magic, finding a magic chair, and dispelling the magic on it without a second thought. That was an amusing day.
Magical secrets, just take Ranger and Pala lvl 5 spells aswell as a Pegasus
Ah, yes..."Find Greater Steed".
I enjoy riding a dire wolf into battle. That is heavy metal.
With Plant growth, just times it by 5, its just explaining how its more strong rough terrain, for every 1 ft you move, you have to spend 4ft of movement, aka, for every 5ft you move, you must spend 20ft of movement
That's true but stupid since 5e presumes everyone is using grids that incorporate 5-foot movement units. Just saying that every five feet of movement costs 20 feet would be so much simpler and still true.
@@WhiteManOnCampus its consistant with many of the other times they mention rough terrain being "2ft for every 1ft", i agree that 5ft would be easier, but in the large scheme of things it doesnt change anything
Dissonant whispers is awesome for fighting big single target enemies. Not only do you get 3d6 damage on a failed save, you can also trigger attacks of opportunity for your front liners when the target runs away.
Mending is useful in a "planning for failure" context. Theres very little worse than being a bard and popping a string on your harp mid dungeon and losing all your music and or somatic focus magic
Longstrider lets you be pack mule without slowing the party down when trying to cart your loot home.
Speak with animal is good for being a pseudo tracker.
Cloud of Daggers. Area denial is always useful in narrow dungeon/castle hallways
Locate animals/plants: if your dm is getting survivalist on you invest in this
Nondetection: For Escort missions or "steal the bad guys thing but not break it" situations. Can also be used to smuggle magic weapons in for assasinations.
Hallucinatory terrain: good for getting away from dumb goblin hoards or for dms
Mordenkainen's sword: one of the best dps spells ever. Lets you het in extra hits or do both attack and heal in the same turn
Mordenkainen's sword is a 7th level spell, so you get to cast it exactly once per day (unless you're lvl 20), it competes with other also very strong spells, it competes with your concentration slot, and it uses the bonus actions that were already mentioned to be cluttered with uses on Bards. You can also already heal and attack on the same turn using bonus action spells like (Mass) Healing Word. If I _really_ wanted a caster Bard with several attacks in a turn, I'd much rather take a Magical Secrets Spiritual Weapon (no concentration and a bonus action cast instead of action) or Swift Quiver (several extra attacks), both of which also have the benefit of several possible casts per day AND are available a lot earlier
I cant wait for the wizard. I love longer videos
I think cloud of daggers is underrated considering it's a guaranteed minimum of at least 4d4 on 1 target. It's the magic missile of bards.
Well put. It holds down a hallway or doorway pretty well too. Also it gets +2d4 above level 2. That's a lot of slashing damage. At level 5 that's a
10d4 for one minute in a 5x5x5 foot area.
"When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 2nd."
I feel like you could kill wizards pretty fast with this and a hold person spell.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Seriously since I only have PHB keeping track of what spell certain classes do or don’t have is a PAIN. I tend to rely on wikidot but sometimes the spell links don’t bloody work
Can’t wait for wizard, gonna be a 20ish min video.
I love how Davvy's videos has recently become so much gayer.
I love these! Have to say, Foresight took me off guard... a spell to make your Rogue or Paladin an even more nigh-invulnerable death monster who can't miss all day anyday doesn't seem super weak to me, at least to have as one of your Ninth-spells (being a Bard). I know it takes away your "do a big thing" slot, but it's guaranteed to work for those eight hours and won't be counterspelled with a lucky roll. It's also not concentration, and isn't visible to dispel-happy enemies unless they're using Detect Magic in a high-level encounter like a dweeb.
I haven't played a Bard at high level, so I don't know how well that works in practice, but it seems... really strong, and very difficult to counter.
Glibness is actually pretty damn great on a bard (or any other charisma caster) considering that counterspell/dispel magic rolls are ability checks.
If anyone still doubts the powers of the Bard Class, I recommend you look up the Owl House episode entitled Eda's Requiem.
You'll see just how powerful bard magic can be, after that
Looking forward to Sorcerer, Cleric and Ranger spell videos
In my campaigns the Ranger breaks every encounter they meet and 2 of them are able to TPK my players at half their current level, so that's fun
Synaptic static is so much more than fireball.
Remember how much you liked bane? it is like a bane spell, that doesn't require concentration, that targets more enemies, that also gets a fireball thrown on top, except the fireball deals psychic damage, so way fewer things are immune.
The bard has a lot of great concentration spells, any spell that doesn't require concentration is at a premium.
Im not sure you'er gonna see this
BUT an important reminder:
Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster both borrow spells from the Wizard spell list. Although they should probably not be covered in their own thing, it's still good to MAYBE reference them in the Wizard one, or do a combined one for both those subclasses.
(also warlock stuff can be a part of the Blood Hunter but that's not a core class and as such I dont expect ya to think about)
We almost need a list of 'forbidden' spells. Where class features and feats allow you to add spells outside the average base class. I remember an argument to use one such feat to learn, Find Familiar, a Wizard exclusive, to have an owl use the help action, and flyby, to gain advantage on endless attacks.
Knock: 2 Davvy's(?)
Also, why is there not a bard spell called Power Ballet/Battle Ballet; Something that could pump up your team mates; Think like the power of the music causes them to move faster and when cast with a higher spell slot make there attacks stronger?
idk about you but that sounds like a pretty awesome battle bard spell.
Compulsion: Useful for melee bards when you want them to get close, and for caster bards when you want them to f*ck off.
I'm basically the party healer, so Cure Word, Healing Word, and Lesser Restoration are in my repertoire and of course I'll be grabbing Raise Dead at a later point.
A single dip into Draconic Sorcerer gives Valor Bard a lot more options.
Blindness/deafness, in an eberron campaign, we faced a flying dragon like creature that had no sight and used its hearing to locate us. Was told what it was but can’t remember. Our bard and our monk combined to one shot it. Monk ran at a flat cliff wall and as the “dragon” swooped in for the kill, bard cast deafness and it fails the save. It got confused and slammed head first into the cliff wall and died instantly.
Can't wait for your sorcerer spell guide.
Foresight - Better than you think if you throw it on the fighter, so that they have a greater chance of critting all day long. Saw it used in one of nat19's games, and the guy it was cast on proceeded to get like a half-dozen crits over the course of the fight. It was absurd and beautiful.
So funny story about Otto's Irresistible Dance: I was playing a game with me (bard), a rogue, and a few others don't matter very much to the story. We went up against a creature that had 218 health and could teleport once per turn for free (probably homebrew). I casted Otto's on it in the first round and because the dancing didn't restrict it from teleporting, the DM didn't make it save on its turns. Now here comes the rogue with a magic crossbow that does like an extra 2d4 damage or something (again, probably homebrew) and because she had advantage on every attack, she was just throwing out Sneak Attacks that were doing like 40 damage a round. With the added help of our warlock's Eldritch Blasts, a few arrows from the fighter, and a brief wall of fire from yours truly, the thing was dead before it even took its third turn. So yeah, don't underestimate Otto's
I used the video to make my Bard. Thank you.
Man plant growth got a 1...I can't tell you how many times I've shut down encroaching enemies with it haha. 5 foot over movement = 20ft its sooo good. Not to mention for role playing purposes you can really help local farms and forests going through droughts.
Youve never needed the teleportation circle spell? My party uses it constantly to get around. Once youve managed to get the combinations to a few cities is super useful fast travel.
But there are no circles in many settings though
@@Ludens_H There are as many or few as the GM wants. And after that, players can make their own although that does take a very long time
@@houndofculann1793 Yes..., I knew that, I only stated that there are plenty of settings, where it is not as usefull as it is in settings where it is common to have cirrcles in all major cities
@@Ludens_H that is of course true. I meant that it's not really the spell's fault if the GM doesn't want to create a setting where it's used =D To me it's very logical that if a spell like this existed, it would see pretty wide usage among aristocracy at the least
@@houndofculann1793 Aaaaah, I get it
How fun is that I decided to make a new bard character today good timing
Hey thanks this video helps out my ideas on dnd bard spells
Man, I’m quick. Do you think you’ll do a recommended list for magical secrets later?
Edit: Also, no one talks about how you can use Prestidigitation to make someone poop their pants.
My DM wishes I would STOP talking about it
With a K Have you done it before?
@@ascapedgoat8462 Furley Hurdle the Halfling Bard has shat the pants of commoners and kings alike!
@@ascapedgoat8462 As a point of order, don't use this on kings. In my experience, you end up in jail for it.
The vids a little glitchy bro
Memedrop Nothing I could do about it, unfortunately. My computer is getting worn out.
So mending I actually had many good uses for. Example for one was our Rogue got a Nat 1 on an attack roll with his crossbow which luckily he was not far from me when the DM decided the best result would be for the crossbow to break. So when my turn came up I turned to the direction and asked the rogue if I could see what was broken, then I used mending on his crossbow fixing it and getting him back in the fight. Weapons break and so will other things like armor depending on how the DM decides to go about with critical hits and bad rolls.
So my groups has put all of the recent features of the newer Revised class features UA into effect, meaning casters now have Spell Versatility. THANK GOD. This makes the bard i'm playing soooo much more fun! That 1 spell makes a huge difference. It makes me want to play a sorcerer now too. The only issue is that i can't incorporate it into the Artificer. Maybe i can actually, but we will see.
If you took counterspell as one of your magical secrets, then glibness turns you into a beast that can counter 9th-level spells with a 3rd-level slot. Also, I speak from experience when I say that foresight is the 9th-level spell when you are playing a melee caster like a bladelock or a sword bard, and if you cast it on a martial character, then that creature they are fighting is already dead.
Forcecage is insanely strong, anything that doesn't have a good ranged attack or teleportation just dies, no save. Doesn't matter if it is Demon lord, or whatever. Like this literally defeats 2/3 of the demon princes in one move, without a save. Those are the most powerful demons in existence.
Fun story about Leomund's Tiny Hut.
In a homebrew campaign a few years back, I was playing my infamous Goblin Bard named Badric. We had gotten to a sketchy town, and while the rest of the party paid money to stay in the least sketchy inn in town like chumps, I cast Leomund's Tiny Hut in the alley behind some trash and slept there because Goblin. Also, I didn't trust the townsfolk (which would later prove to be justified).
BUT. The DM didn't hear me say the bit about casting LTH. All he heard was that I was crashing in the alley behind some trash. So later that night he informs me that I wake up to being stabbed in the chest a la Prancing Pony style. When I asked how that was possible due to, y'know my spell, we realized he hadn't heard me. But, the guy doing the stabbing was the top assassin of the bad guys, so it just made him seem like thay much more of a bad ads. So we rolled with it.
So Badric woke up in the middle of the night with a fancy dagger in his chest, looked the guy in the eyes and called him a dick, then rolled over and went back to sleep. The next morning, the dagger was still there in his chest, so he pulled it out and showed it to the other party members. It became his favoured weapon. . .
Also, we ended up allying with said assassin later.
And every time I cast LTH, I make sure the DM knows. Lol
Ahh, I remember my Bard who would just cast Irrisistable Dance. Combat goes fine and dandy until all the enemies start doing the Harlem Shake
Artificer, as a arcane caster, can cast Cure Wounds spell.
Davvy mentions bards were the only arcane casters to have cure wounds, which they were. But now that Artificers are here there are two arcane casters that can cast that spell.
It's easy to miss that detail so I don't blame Davvy one bit for forgetting or missing it.
And Divine soul Sorc as well as Celestial Warlock but I'm guessing you mean core classes.
The main problem with spells like dominate monster is that most of the things you want to use it on at that level have good saves and legendary resistances, and it if they succeed their checks it does nothing. Force cage is pretty overpowered in comparison, since while it doesn't paralysis them you still get all the benefit of preventing a monster from moving and not being able to punch you, *and* *they* *don't* *get* *a* *saving* *throw* . Force cage just happens, no save, no check. Unless they can teleport they are, for certain, stuck. And even if they can teleport they have to make a charisma check to see if it works, and if they fail the spell fissiles. Oh and it extends into the astral sea so eternalness doesn't work either. And to top it all off, it doesn't require concentration.
Chappy, how about some advice for the best magical secrets that a bard can have?
There is that UA class feature revision thing, some of which adds new spell options and the ability to switch out a single spell each long rest.
The room image you used at the beginning looks really similar to the room Jack the NPC hangs out in, in Seth Skorkowsky videos.
I require my entire party to take "legend lore" just so I can go off
Yes, Santa definitely wants snow..... nothing else.....
Cloud of Daggers sounds badass for a hallway or doorway.
I’d give glyph of warding a 1.5 rating because it takes an hour to cast (so you cant use it in combat the same way you’d use fireball), it’s expensive (200 gp worth of incense and diamond dust) and whatever object you cast it on can’t move more than 10 ft from where the spell was cast without disabling the glyph. Its only real use is as a security system or for ambushes which means that the dm will get way more use out of it than the party
shout out to davvy calling lesser restoration greater, and greater lesser
jk, love the vid davvy
So, this is probably very presumptuous of me to say and it's a long way off anyways, but when you get to the Wizard spells, please remember that Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters share this spell list up to 4th level spells, so there is some reason for more melee oriented spells on the list for an otherwise very squishy class. Sorry, but one of things that I remember from the original school spells videos was that a lot of both the video and comment commentary had to do with if a character should be in melee while casting or not.
Longstrider : you don't need to be faster than the monster, just faster than the other party members.
Yes! This will be very helpful!
Glibness makes counterspell auto succeed if you didn’t know