D&D 5E Spell Sniper Feat and Bard Cantrips: what am I missing?

[Strider1973]

Hi everybody: in the Spell Sniper Feat I read that a character can also choose a Cantrip, from various Spellcasting Classes, that requires an Attack Roll. The problem is, I can't find a single Bard Cantrip that requires an Attack Roll: what am I missing? Is it a typo? Has there been any erratas about that? Many thanks!

 

[BookTenTiger]

Bards don't have Cantrips with attack rolls.

 

[FrogReaver]

But don't give up hope, one day they could print such a cantrip.

 

[Strider1973]

Thank you very much! And in the meantime?According to you, if you select the Spell Sniper Feat, can you still choose Bard Cantrips even if they don't require Attack Rolls? I would definetely say "yes"... But then would that limitation ("Choose a cantrip THAT REQUIRE AN ATTACK ROLL" as written in the Feat) be canceled only for Bard Cantrips or even for all other Spellcasting Classes' ones?
Many thanks again!

 

[FrogReaver]

Thank you very much! And in the meantime?According to you, if you select the Spell Sniper Feat, can you still choose Bard Cantrips even if they don't require Attack Rolls? I would definetely say "yes"... But then would that limitation ("Choose a cantrip THAT REQUIRE AN ATTACK ROLL" as written in the Feat) be canceled only for Bard Cantrips or even for all other Spellcasting Classes' ones?
Many thanks again!

Not by the rules, but i'd probably allow it as DM as getting vicious mockery or whatever out to a range of 60ft shouldn't hurt anything.

 

[Mistwell]

Yes I'd allow you to do it. Seems balanced and interesting.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

You could pick up a cantrip that requires an attack roll via Magical Secrets. Those spells count as bard spells for you, so that would be a 100% legal way to make it work. You wouldn't be able to do that until either 6th or 10th level though (and the former only as College of Lore). Presumably you'd take eldritch blast, given its superior damage type and dice.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Thank you very much! And in the meantime?According to you, if you select the Spell Sniper Feat, can you still choose Bard Cantrips even if they don't require Attack Rolls? I would definetely say "yes"... But then would that limitation ("Choose a cantrip THAT REQUIRE AN ATTACK ROLL" as written in the Feat) be canceled only for Bard Cantrips or even for all other Spellcasting Classes' ones?
Many thanks again!

The only time I had a player take the feat they were a Warlock who already had an Eldritch Blast tricked out with multiple invocations, so learning Firebolt or Ray of Frost was just a meaningless part of the feat. So I let him learn Vicious Mockery instead.

 

[bedir than]

Not by the rules, but i'd probably allow it as DM as getting vicious mockery or whatever out to a range of 60ft shouldn't hurt anything.

Vicious Shoutery

 

[ECMO3]

Hi everybody: in the Spell Sniper Feat I read that a character can also choose a Cantrip, from various Spellcasting Classes, that requires an Attack Roll. The problem is, I can't find a single Bard Cantrip that requires an Attack Roll: what am I missing? Is it a typo? Has there been any erratas about that? Many thanks!

You can pick a cantrip from any class. It does not need to be a bard cantrip because you are a Bard.