D&D: These Five Magic Items Fit For Bards That’ll Be Music to Your Ears
Shopping for the rest of the adventurers in your party? Here are five magic items perfect for any Bard. Well. Almost any.
In The Chronicles of Narnia, one of the best moments in this fantasy story of British children who have wandered into a magical land full of talking animals oppressed and terrorized by an all-powerful sorcerer-queen who once killed all life on her home planet by speaking a single, unutterable word (all of this is canonical) is when Father Christmas shows up and gives them magic items.
Don’t believe me? Give your D&D characters magic items as gifts from someone inexplicably jolly. Just watch how many chapters of faffing around about cherry cordial you can get from it. Here’s a list of magic items that would be a great gift for any bard.
Bow of Melodies
Right away we get a weapon that pretty much screams Bard. It’s a bow that you can also play with a bow. Get it?
Introduced in The Book of Many Things, the Bow of Melodies can work as a regular bow, but you can also play a magical melody on it as part of the action that you use to make a ranged weapon attack. You can even play one melody per attack, so if you can make multiple attacks, you can benefit from more than one.
It can give your attack an extra +1 or +2 (depending on how good you are at performance) or deal extra thunder damage equal to your Charisma modifier. Which is extremely good for most Bards.
Instrument of Illusions
This is basically the Holophonor from Futurama. It’s a musical instrument that lets you create harmless, illusory visual effects within a 15-foot radius. Which is pretty huge, if you think about it. That’s a 30-foot diameter area. You can create any kind of illusory visual effects from gently falling snow to something much more imaginative that you come up with.
Sure they’re obviously illusory, but that doesn’t make for any less of an impression when you bust out the Holophoner for the king’s birthday opera.
Jester’s Mask
This magical mask is a perfect item for a Bard. It functions as a spellcasting focus, and gives you a +3 bonus to any spell attack and/or saving throw DC for spells that use Charisma as the spellcasting ability. And you can wear it, so you can keep your hands free to wield weapons or shields or whatever else.
But that’s not all! The mask lets you use your reaction to disappear in a puff of smoke and colorful sparkles whenever you’re hit, negating the attack (taking no damage) and appearing within 30 feet of where you were. AND you can treat a 1 on a d20 as if you had rolled a 20 instead. Both of these properties can only be used once per day, but that’s still incredible.
And it looks cool, most important of all.
Shiftweave
What do you get the Bard who already has the perfect outfit?
The ability to wear up to five different outfits in one. A suit of shiftweave is a magical garment that can be transformed, as a bonus action, into a different outfit of your own design. You can store up to five outfits in a single suit of shiftweave, and while they can’t be armor, they can be as different as you like.
Perfect for the Bard who can’t be in the same outfit twice in the same scene.
Reveler’s Concertina
Finally the reveler’s concertina is a magical concertina that gives you a +2 bonus to your Bard spell save DCs. Theoretically, this bonus stacks with the Jester’s Mask, so you can really boost your save DCs into the stratosphere.
And you can cast Otto’s Irresistible Dance once per day with the spell.
What will you get the Bard in your party?
