Revised 2024 UA Bard

Revised 5.24e Bard Spell Slots per Spell Level

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Bardic Die	Cantrips Known	Prepared Spells	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+2	Bardic Inspiration, Spellcasting	d6	2	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+2	Expertise, Jack of All Trades	d6	2	4	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	Bard Subclass	d6	2	6	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	d6	3	7	4	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	Font of Inspiration	d8	3	9	4	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	+3	Subclass Feature	d8	3	10	4	3	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	+3	Countercharm	d8	3	11	4	3	3	1	—	—	—	—	—
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement	d8	3	12	4	3	3	2	—	—	—	—	—
9th	+4	Magical Secrets	d8	3	14	4	3	3	3	1	—	—	—	—
10th	+4	Subclass Feature	d10	4	15	4	3	3	3	2	—	—	—	—
11th	+4	Expertise	d10	4	16	4	3	3	3	2	1	—	—	—
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	d10	4	16	4	3	3	3	2	1	—	—	—
13th	+5	Unrelenting Inspiration	d10	4	17	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	—	—
14th	+5	Subclass Feature	d10	4	17	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	—	—
15th	+5	Superior Inspiration	d12	4	18	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	—
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	d12	4	18	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	—
17th	+6	Magical Secrets	d12	4	19	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1
18th	+6	Subclass Feature	d12	4	20	4	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement+	d12	4	21	4	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1
20th	+6	Master of All Trades	d12	4	22	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1

Class Features

As a Bard, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per Bard level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 16 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your
Constitution modifier per Bard level after 1st.

Proficiencies

Armor: Light Armor
Weapons: Simple Weapons
Tools: Three Musical Instruments of your choice
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
Skills: Any 3 skills of your choice

Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:

Dagger (2), Entertainer's Pack, Leather Armor

Musical Instrument (one of your choice), 26 gp

1st level: Bardic Inspiration

You can supernaturally inspire others through words,
music, or dance. This inspiration is represented by your
Bardic Inspiration die, which is a d6.

Using Bardic Inspiration: As a Bonus Action, you can
inspire another creature within 60 feet of yourself who
can see or hear you. That creature gains one of your
Bardic Inspiration dice. A creature can have only one
Bardic Inspiration die at a time.

Once within the next hour when the creature fails a d20
Test, the creature can roll that die and add the number
rolled to the d20, potentially turning the failure into a
success. A Bardic Inspiration die is expended when it’s
rolled.

Number of Uses: You can confer a Bardic Inspiration die
a number of times equal to your Spellcasting Ability
Modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended
uses when you finish a Long Rest.

At Higher Levels: Your Bardic Inspiration die changes
when you reach certain Bard levels, as shown in the
Bardic Die column of the Bard table. The die becomes a
d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.

1st level: Spellcasting

You have learned to cast spells through your bardic arts.
See the Player’s Handbook for the rules on spellcasting.
The information below details how you use those rules as
a Bard.

Chosen Spell List: At 1st level, choose a spell list:
Sorcerer, Bard, Cleric, or Druid. The chosen list is your
Bard spell list and represents the magical tradition in
which you learned your bardic arts. Whichever list you
choose, it includes the Vicious Mockery cantrip for you.

Cantrips: You know two cantrips of your choice from your
Bard spell list. Whenever you gain a Bard level, you can
replace one of your cantrips with another cantrip of your
choice from your Bard spell list. When you reach 4th and
10th level in this class, you learn another cantrip of your
choice from your Bard spell list, as shown in the Cantrips
column of the Bard table.

Spell Slots: The Bard table shows how many spell slots
you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To
cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the
spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots
when you finish a Long Rest.

Prepared Spells of 1st+ Level: You prepare the list of
spells of 1st level and higher that are available for you to
cast with this feature. To start, choose four 1st-level spells
from your Bard spell list. The number of spells on your list
also increases as you gain Bard levels, as shown in the
Prepared Spells column of the Bard table. Whenever that
number increases, choose additional spells from your
Bard spell list until the number of spells on your list
matches the number on the table. The chosen spells must
be of a level for which you have spell slots. For example, if
you’re a 3rd-level Bard, your list of prepared spells can
include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If
another Bard feature gives spells that you always have
prepared, those spells don’t count against the number of
spells on the list you prepare with this Spellcasting
feature, but those spells otherwise follow the rules in this
feature.

Changing Your Prepared Spells: Whenever you gain a
Bard level, you can replace one spell on your list with
another spell for which you have spell slots and that is on
your Bard spell list.

Chosen Spellcasting Ability: Choose between
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma to be your Spellcasting
Ability for your Bard spells.

Spellcasting Focus: You can use a musical instrument as
a Spellcasting Focus for the spells you cast with your Bard
features.

2nd level: Jack of All Trades

You can add half your Proficiency Bonus (round down) to
any ability check you make that uses a skill proficiency
you lack and that doesn’t otherwise use your Proficiency
Bonus.

For example, if you make a Strength (Athletics) check and
lack Athletics proficiency, you can add half your
Proficiency Bonus to the check.

2nd level: Expertise

You gain Expertise in two of your skill proficiencies of your
choice.

Performance and Persuasion are iconic choices for a Bard
if you have proficiency in them.

3rd level: Bard Subclass

You gain a Bard subclass of your choice: College of Dance,
College of Glamour, College of Lore, or College of Valor.
Subclasses are detailed after this class’s description.

A subclass is a specialization that grants you special
abilities at certain Bard levels. For the rest of your career,
you gain each of your subclass’s features that are of your
Bard level and lower.

4th level: Ability Score Improvement

You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another
feat of your choice for which you qualify. As shown on the
Bard table, you gain this feature again at levels 8, 12, 16,
and 19.

5th level: Font of Inspiration

You now also regain all your expended uses of Bardic
Inspiration when you finish a Short Rest.

In addition, if you have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left,
you can give yourself one use by expending a spell slot
(no action required). You can do so only once per turn.

7th level: Countercharm

You can use musical notes or words of power to disrupt
mind-influencing effects. If you or a creature within 30
feet of you fails a saving throw against an effect that
applies the Charmed or Frightened condition, you can use
your Reaction to cause the save to be rerolled, and the
new roll has Advantage.

9th level: Magical Secrets

You have collected magical knowledge from a wide
spectrum of disciplines. As a result, your Bard spell list
now includes eiher the Bard, Sorcerer, Druid, or Cleric
spell lists. You may not choose the same list as you did as
a level 1 Bard.

11th level: Expertise

You gain Expertise in two of your skill proficiencies of your
choice.

13th level: Unrelenting Inspiration

When creatures rolling your inspiration on a d20 test, they
may roll twice and keep the higher of the 2 rolls.

15th level: Superior Inspiration

When you roll Initiative and have less than 3 uses of
Bardic Inspiration left, you regain 2 uses, up to your
maximum number of uses.

17th level: Magical Secrets

You have collected magical knowledge from a wide
spectrum of disciplines. As a result, your Bard spell list
now includes either the Bard, Sorcerer, Druid, or Cleric
spell lists. You may not choose the same list as you did as
at level 1 or at level 9 Bard.

20th level: Epitome of Virtuosity

Your Proficiency modifier increases by +2 and when you
cast Epitome of Virtuosity spells, you may target 1
additional target within range to receive the full effect.
You also have the following spells always prepared that
do not count towards your prepared spells.

You may cast one spell from your Epitome of Virtuosity
once per Long Rest without using a spell slot. You still
must provide any costly components, including any that
are consumed.

**Epitome of Virtuosity spells**
Spell Level	Spells
5th	Creation, Scrying
6th	Heroes Feast, Mass Suggestion
7th	Power Word Fortify, Power Word Pain
8th	Power Word Stun, Glibness
9th	Power Word Heal, Power word Kill

Bard Subclasses


College of Dance
College of Glamour
College of Lore
College of the Moon
College of Valor

College of Dance

Bards of the College of Dance know that the Words of
Creation can’t be contained within speech or even song;
they are uttered by the movements of celestial bodies
and flow through the motions of even the smallest
creatures. To these Bards, dance is art freed from the
constraints of a single point in space and time; it is
meaning unconfined by narrow definitions of words and
structures of grammar. The College of Dance practices a
way of being in harmony with the ever-whirling cosmos,
emphasizing agility, speed, and grace.

3rd level: Dazzling Footwork

Your practice of dance gives you the ability to gracefully
dodge and make agile strikes. While you aren’t wearing
armor or wielding a Shield, you gain the following
benefits:

Unarmored Defense:

Agile Strikes:

Bardic Damage:

Inspiring Dance:

3rd level: Inspiring Movement

When an enemy you can see ends its turn within 5 feet of
an ally of yours who is within 60 feet of you, you can use
your Reaction and expend one use of your Bardic
Inspiration to move up to half your Speed. Then take the
Maximum of your Bardic Inspiration die, and the ally can
move up to a number of feet equal to 5 times the
maximum on the die. None of this feature’s movement
provokes Opportunity Attacks.

6th level: Tandem Footwork

When you roll Initiative, you can spend one use of your
Bardic Inspiration if you don’t have the Incapacitated
condition. When you do so, roll your Bardic Inspiration
die, and choose a number of creatures within 60 feet of
yourself (you can choose yourself), up to a number equal
to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature).
Each of them gains a bonus to their Initiative equal to the
number rolled.

When you make an Unarmed Strike using Dazzling
Footwork: Agile Strikes feature, you may make 2 Unarmed
Strikes instead of one.

10th level: Leading Evasion

When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to
make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage,
you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving
throw, and you take only half damage if you fail. If any
creatures within 5 feet of you are making the same
Dexterity saving throw, you can share this benefit with
them for that save.

You can’t use this feature if you have the Incapacitated
condition.

In addition, gain the Vicious Mockery cantrip. If you
already have this cantrip, choose another Bard cantrip
instead. Whenever you use your Reaction to cast Vicious
Mockery on a target within 5ft of you, you may also make
an Unarmed Strike against the same target as part of the
same Reaction.

14th level: Irresistible Dance

You always have the Otto’s Irresistible Dance spell
prepared. You can cast it without expending a spell slot.
Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again
until you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use
of the feature by expending four uses of your Bardic
Inspiration (no action required).

18th level: Enthralling Dance

Whenever you cast Otto's Irresitible Dance, you may
target up to 6 creatures with 1 casting of the spell.

Whenever you use Persuasion check to influence a
creature, if you succeed, the target must make a Wisdom
saving throw or be Charmed by you and a number of
other creatures you designate up to your Charisma
modifier. If the creature is Immune to the Charmed
condition it is Dazed instead. The creature may make an
additional Wisdom save if they take any damage or if it is
attacked.

College of Glamour

The College of Glamour traces its origins to the beguiling
magic of the Feywild. The Bards who study this magic
weave threads of beauty and terror into their songs and
stories, and the mightiest among them can cloak
themselves in otherworldly majesty. Their performances
stir up wistful longing for forgotten innocence, evoke
unconscious memories of long-held fears, and tug at the
emotions of even the most hardhearted listeners.

3rd level: Beguiling Magic

You always have the Charm Person and Mirror Image
spells prepared.

In addition, immediately after you cast an Enchantment or
Illusion spell, you can cause a creature you can see within
60 feet of yourself to make a Wisdom saving throw
against your Spell Save DC. On a failed save, the target
has the Charmed or Frightened condition (your choice) for
1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the
end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a
success.

Once you use this benefit, you can’t use it again until you
finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of the
feature by expending one use of your Bardic Inspiration
(no action required).

3rd level: Mantle of Inspiration

You can weave fey magic into a song or dance to fill
others with vigor. As a Bonus Action, you can expend a
use of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die.
When you do so, choose a number of other creatures
within 60 feet of yourself, up to a number equal to your
Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). Each of
them gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to 2
times the number rolled on the Bardic Inspiration die, and
then each of them can use its Reaction to move up to its
Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks.

6th level: Mantle of Majesty

You always have the Command spell prepared. As a
Bonus Action, you cast Command without expending a
spell slot, and you take on an unearthly appearance for 1
minute or until your Concentration ends (as if you were
concentrating on a spell). During this time, you can cast
Command as a Bonus Action without expending a spell
slot.

Any creature Charmed by you automatically fails its saving
throw against the Command you cast with this feature.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of the
feature by expending a spell slot of 3rd level or higher (no
action required).

10th level: Naturally Charismatic

Whenever you have make a Charisma check with
someone who can see you, your check is done so with
Advantage and you add twice your Proficiency bonus if
you are proficient, and 3 times your proficiency bonus if
you have Expertise in the skill

Finally, creatures you have no attacked, harmed or
sabotaged are never initially hostile towards you when
trying to influence them.

14th level: Unbreakable Majesty

As a Bonus Action, you can assume a magically majestic
presence for 1 minute or until you have the Incapacitated
condition. For the duration, whenever any creature hits
you with an attack roll for the first time on a turn, the
attacker must succeed on a Charisma saving throw
against your Spell Save DC, or the attack misses instead,
as the creature recoils from your majesty.

Once you assume this majestic presence, you can’t do so
again until you finish a Short Rest or Long Rest.

18th level: Stunning Majesty

You may prepare Power Word Stun without affecting your
alloted number of Prepared Spells. When you Cast Power
Word Stun, you may effect any number of creatures of
your choice within 30 feet of you instead of just 1 target.

You may cast Power Word Stun once per Long Rest
without expended a Spell Slot. If target is not successfully
Stunned with Power Word Stun, they are Dazed until the
end of your next turn instead.

College of Lore

Bards of the College of Lore plumb the depths of magical
knowledge, collecting spells and secrets from sources as
diverse as scholarly tomes, mystical rites, and peasant
tales. The college’s members gather in libraries and
universities to share their lore with one another. They
also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can
expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at self-
important figures of authority.

3rd level: Improved Talents

You gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.

3rd level: Cutting Words

You learn how to use your wit to supernaturally distract,
confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and
competence of others. You learn the Vicious Mockery
Cantrip, if you already know this cantrip you may learn
another Bard cantrip of your choice. When a creature
that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack
roll, Ability Check, or a Saving Throw and you cast Vicious
Mockery as a Reaction, with the same Reaction, you may
expend a Bardic Inspiration die and subtract the number
rolled from the creature’s roll.

If this results in the creature failing the d20 roll, the
creature take additional Psychic Damage depending on
the level of the Bard. The Damage Roll equals 1 roll of
Bardic Inspiration die at Bard level 3, 2 rolls at Bard level
10 and 3 rolls at Bard level 18.

Vicious Mockery (Revised)

Enchantment Cantrip (Bard)

Casting Time: Reaction, which you take in

response to a creature rolling a d20 test

Range: 60 feet

Components: V

Duration: Instantaneous

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), impose

Disadvantage on the creature’s d20 test. If the

creature fails the d20 test, they take 1d6

psychic damage from the humiliation.

Cantrip Upgrade: This spell’s damage

increases by 1d6 when you reach certain Bard

levels: 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th

level (4d6).

6th level: Magical Discoveries

Choose a spell list you didn't choose at bard level 1:
Sorcerer, Bard, Cleric, or Druid. The chosen list is your
Bard spell list and represents the magical tradition in
which you learned your bardic arts. A spell you choose
must be a cantrip or a spell for which you have spell slots,
as shown on the Bard table. You always have the chosen
spells prepared, and whenever you gain a Bard level, you
can replace one of the spells with another spell that
meets the requirements above.

When you reach Bard level 9 and Bard level 17, you may
not choose Magical Secrets with the same choice you
made for Magical Discoveries.

10th level: Peerless Skill

When you make an Ability check, saving throw, or attack
roll and fail, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration,
roll the Bardic Inspiration die, and add the number rolled
to the d20, potentially turning the failure into a success.
On a failure, the Bardic Inspiration use isn't expended.

14th level: Legendary Knowledge

You learn the Legend Lore spell, and the spell doesn't
count against the number of bard spells you know.
Additionally, you may cast Legend Lore at will, provided
you have the Material components necessary.

Furthermore, when you cast the Legend Lore spell, if the
thing isn't of legendary importance, you still learn some
obscure facts or trivia about it regardless. Repeated
castings of the spell targeting same person, place, or
object doesn't ever give you the same information twice,
but it will let you know if there isn't any additional
relevant information to ascertain.

In addition with repeated castings, if the answers were
shrouded in riddles, you may make a Wisdom (Insight)
check to gain meaning behind the information given. You
make 1 Insight check per casting and the DC is 30, but the
DC drops by 5 each times you cast Legend Lore on the
same topic.

Finally, you add your Charisma modifier to all Arcana,
History, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Religion, and
Survival ability checks you make.

18th level: Infectious Morale

When an allied creature within 15 ft of you succeeds on a
d20 test and you have no uses of Bardic Inspiration, gain
1 use of Bardic Inspiration.

College of Valor

Bards of the College of Valor are daring storytellers whose
tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the
past. These Bards sing the deeds of the mighty, both past
and present, in vaulted halls or to crowds gathered
around great bonfires. They travel the land to witness
great events firsthand and to ensure that the memory of
these events doesn’t pass from the world. With their
songs, they inspire new generations to reach the same
heights of accomplishment as the heroes of old.

3rd level: Combat Inspiration

You can use your wit to turn the tide of battle. A creature
that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you can use it for
one of the following effects:

Defense:

Offense:

3rd level: Martial Training

You gain proficiency with Martial Weapons and armor
training with Medium Armor and Shields.

In addition, you can use a Simple or Martial weapon as a
spellcasting focus to cast spells from your Bard spell list.

Finally you learn 1 Weapon Mastery of your choice. It
must be with a weapon with the Light, Versatile, or
Finesse properties.

6th level: Inspiring Attacks

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take
he Attack action on your turn.

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can
replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your
Bard cantrips that has a casting time of an action.

When you use your Bardic Inspiration as a Bonus action,
you may make an additional attack with a one-handed
weapon as part of the same Bonus action.

10th level: Bolstered in Combat

Whenever a creature uses of your Bardic Inspiration die,
they gain temporary hit points equal to 2 rolls of the same
Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier.

14th level: Leading to Victory

As long as another creature has one of your Bardic
Inspiration die that they haven't used and is within 30 feet
of you can see in combat, you may utilize both the
Offense and Defense features of Combat Inspiration,
without expending a Bardic Inspiration die. You using
Defense aspect of Combat Inspiration doesn't take your
Reaction, but can only be used once per turn.

18th level: Battle Magic

When you make an attack as part of the Attack action, you
may replace 1 attack to cast a spell of 2nd level or lower
with a casting time of an Action. If you hit with a weapon
attack before you cast a spell from this feature, either the
spell attack roll of the spell is done so with advantage, or
the target has disadvantage on their saving throw.

College of the Moon

The College of the Moon traces its origins to the ancient
druidic circles of the Moonshae Isles, who entrusted the
first Bards of this tradition with chronicling the stories of
the islands and their people. Bards of this college draw
from the isles’ Fey magic and the primal power of the
moonwells to bolster their allies, protect the natural
world, and inspire their bardic works. Such works tend to
be based on well-known Moonshae myths such as the
whimsy of fairy pranksters, the viciousness of the Beast,
and the mysteries of the moonwells.

3rd level: Moonshae Folktales

As a Magic action, you can invoke the power of a folktale,
imbuing yourself with primal magicuntil you use this
feature again. When you use this feature, choose which of
the following folktales you invoke; your choice gives you
certain benefits while this magic is active.

Tale of Life:

Tale of Gloam:

Tale of Mirth:

3rd level: Primal Lorist

You learn Druidic and one cantrip from the Druid spell
list. It counts as a Bard spell for you but doesn’t count
against the number of cantrips you know.

Additionally, choose one of the following skills: Animal
Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, or
Survival. You have proficiency in that skill.

6th level: Blessings of the Moonwells

You always have the Moonbeam spell prepared. As a
Bonus Action, you can cast Moonbeam without expending
a spell slot. When you cast it using this feature, you glow
faintly while you maintain Concentration on the spell.
While glowing, you shed Dim Light out to 5 feet, and
whenever a creature fails its saving throw against the
effects of this Moonbeam, another creature of your
choice that you can see within 60 feet of you regains 2d4
Hit Points. While Concentrating on Moonbeam, if you
pend your Bonus action to give Bardic Inspiration, you
may take a Magic action with the same Bonus action to
switch your Moonshae Folktales selection.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by
expending a level 3+ spell slot (no action required). You
may also regain this feature if you take a Short rest while
exposed to Moonlight.

10th level: Bolstered Folktales

The power of your Moonshae Folktales improves. When
you use your Tale of Life or Tale of Mirth, you can roll 1d6
instead of expending a Bardic Inspiration die, and when
you use your Tale of Gloam, you can also teleport up to 30
feet to an unoccupied space you can see as part of that
Bonus Action. You may also attempt to Hide when
Concentrating on either Moonbeam or Font of Moonlight,
even while not heavily obscured or without cover.

In addition you may have up to 2 of your 3 Moonshae
Folktales active at once. When taking the Magic Action to
activate your Moonshae Folktales, you may activate 2
instead of just one.

14th level: Greater Blessing of the Moonwells

You always have the Font of Moonlight spell prepared. As
a Bonus Action, you can cast Font of Moonlight without
expending a spell slot. Whenever a creature is hit while
using this feature with any attack they take the Radiant
damage from Font of Moonlight. They also take the
damage of Font of Moonlight when they fail their saving
throw for Font of Moonlight or and Bard spell. While
Concentrating on Font of Moonlight, if you spend your
Bonus action to give Bardic Inspiration, you may take a
Magic action with the same Bonus action to switch your
Moonshae Folktales selection.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by
expending a level 5th+ spell slot (no action required). You
may also regain this feature if you take a Short rest while
exposed to Moonlight.

18th level: Gift from the Moon

When you cast Moonbeam with Blessings of the
Moonwells, it's duration is increased to 10 minutes, When
you cast Font of Moonlight with Greater Blessing of
the Moonwells, it's damage increases by 1d6 and if you
are Concentrating on Moonbeam or Font of Moonlight,
you may cast the other without interrupting your
Concentration on the other spell. You are Concentrating
on Both spells with the same Concentration.

In addition you have all 3 Moonshae Folktales active at
once. When taking the Magic Action to activate your
Moonshae Folktales, you may activate 3 instead of 2.