Antipathy/sympathy becomes 20 days rather than 10, but are you still going to be fighting the same type of creatures 11 days from now that you are now? (Also, how many Bards even take that spell?) You could theoretically Extend foresight with tremendous results, but. Or you can Extend long-lasting, non-concentration buffs into the next day, which means. Many Lore Bards take aura of vitality as a Magical Secret, so you could potentially get twice as much out-of-combat healing out of that. Disguise self and various buffs ( enhance ability, tongues, longstrider) would be more plausible, but even with those, I'm still not sure how often you need 2 hours instead of 1. With respect to your charm/ dominate/ suggestion spells, it's not an order of magnitude - it wouldn't normally make sense that 1 minute/hour/day wouldn't be enough to get the person/thing to do what you want, and yet 2 minutes/hours/days would be.

That'd make a very big difference for a Bard.Įmpowered: Costs 1 SP, but a Bard doesn't need it.Įxtended: Costs 1 SP.

By RAW, counterspell is unaffected, but maybe you can get your DM to rule that it should be, because that doesn't make any sense. Dimension door becomes 1,000', which is bananas. You have several combat spells with 30' range that it'd be nice to be able to cast at 60' instead. Teleport also becomes an easier 'GTFO' button to press. i nvisibility, heroism) without having to have each team member stand next to you. There's the intriguing interaction where you can upcast a touch-range buff (e.g. Cure wounds of course is touch, if that does anything for you. The only touch attack spell I see on the Bard list is bestow curse, which to be fair does get good eventually, so now you can cast that a lot easier as someone who doesn't want to get into melee. That's probably about it, but hypnotic pattern might well be your go-to spell, especially if you have an Instrument of the Bards.ĭistant: Costs 1 SP. Would be very useful for hypnotic pattern, fear, and synaptic static. My first-look evaluation of each option:Ĭareful: Costs 1 sorcery point (SP), so it's an option. It's interesting to ponder, because Metamagic would work so much differently for Bards than it does for Sorcerers. I'm evaluating the possibility of the Metamagic Adept feat for a Lore Bard.

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