Musician 5e (Updated for the 2024 Rules)

By Mike Bernier

Published on February 16, 2025, Last modified on March 7th, 2025

Inspire your allies with the Musician feat! Learn how this Origin feat can make you into every party member’s dream support caster!

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What Is the Musician Feat in 5e?

Have you ever wanted to bring the power of music to your adventuring party? The Musician Origin feat allows you to inspire your allies through song, granting them Heroic Inspiration simply by playing an instrument during a Short or Long rest, making it one of the most powerful support feats in the game.

If you’ve ever been in a campaign where Inspiration is often forgotten or rarely granted, this feat ensures your party will have a steady supply of rerolls to spend.

Heroic Inspiration Changes in the 2024 Player’s Handbook

Previously, you could only use Inspiration when you made an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check. Now, you can use Heroic Inspiration on any roll made. Additionally, Inspiration used to only give you Advantage on your roll, now it allows you to reroll the dice after seeing the result.

How Does Musician Work?

Musician is an Origin Feat, meaning you can get it for free by choosing certain backgrounds.

When you take the Musician feat, you gain the following benefits:

Instrument Training: You gain proficiency in three Musical Instruments of your choice.
Encouraging Song: At the end of a Short or Long Rest, you can play a song on an instrument you’re proficient with. A number of allies equal to your Proficiency Bonus gain Heroic Inspiration if they can hear you.

How to Get the Musician Feat

You can pick up the Musician feat when you choose the Entertainer background at character creation, or any other time you’re allowed to take a feat (such as at level 4).

Is Musician Good?

We gave Musician an S Tier rating In our 5e Feats Tier List, making it among the most potent feats in D&D 5e.

This feat essentially provides a free reroll to your party during every rest, which is an incredibly strong mechanic in 5e. While Lucky allows you to gain Advantage on your own D20 Tests, Musician spreads this power to multiple party members, making it one of the best team-focused feats in the game. It also offers the utility of being able to spend these rerolls on anything—including damage dice, death saving throws, Bardic Inspiration, etc.

Plus, some DMs struggle to remember to dole out Heroic Inspiration, so this feat provides a steady and reliable supply of rerolls to your party.

It’s worth noting that this feat’s effect diminishes if more people in the party pick it up, especially once your PB exceeds the number of people in your party. It’s also diminished the more Human player characters you have in your party, as they get a free Heroic Inspiration at the end of every Long Rest.

Keep in mind that handing out Heroic Inspiration isn’t necessarily limited to player characters. You could hand this feat out to mounts, familiars, and sidekicks.

Which 5e Classes Make the Most of Musician?

The color code below has been implemented to help you identify, at a glance, how good the Musician 5e feat is for a specific class/subclass.

Red: Weak, unlikely to contribute to your build

Orange: Situationally good, but below average

Green: A solid choice

Blue: A great option worth considering

Sky Blue: One of the best choices for optimization

Artificer: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect an Artificer specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Barbarian: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Barbarian specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Bard: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Bard specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole. It's also very on-brand for a Bard, and the extra Musical Instrument proficiencies may help your performances.

Cleric: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Cleric specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Druid: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Druid specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Fighter: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Fighter specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Monk: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Monk specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Paladin: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Paladin specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Ranger: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Ranger specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Rogue: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Rogue specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Sorcerer: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Sorcerer specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Warlock: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Warlock specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

Wizard: Handing out Heroic Inspiration to your party at the end of the Short or Long Rest doesn't affect a Wizard specifically, but it's a huge amount of value for your party as a whole.

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Mike Bernier

Mike Bernier is the lead content writer and founder of Arcane Eye. He is a Adamantine best-selling author of Strixhaven: A Syllabus of Sorcery on DMs Guild and is a contributing author at D&D Beyond. Follow Mike on Twitter.

Musician 5e (Updated for the 2024 Rules)

What Is the Musician Feat in 5e?

How Does Musician Work?

How to Get the Musician Feat

Is Musician Good?

Which 5e Classes Make the Most of Musician?

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