Questions tagged [actions]
For questions involving the rules that apply to taking a certain action in a specified system.
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Could Shadow Step be used to cause fall damaged when grappled? [closed]
Curious about what would happen if a Shadow Monk used Shadow Step while carrying someone, I discovered these answers that said no but I'm unsure if these answers can be interpreted in an offensive way ...
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When casting Counterspell, do I know if the other spell is an action or bonus action?
Related to What do I know, when deciding whether to cast Counterspell?, except that my particular question isn't included in that question.
I've been thinking of ways to counter counterspell. ...
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How does “lashing out verbally” from the Take a Powerful Blow move work?
The Player's Observation
One of the choices for Take A Powerful Blow is (Basic Moves sheets/book p71):
you lash out verbally: provoke a teammate to foolhardy action or take advantage of your ...
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Are readied items/abilities expended or lost when the Ready action's trigger is not met?
I have been searching for an answer to the question as to whether a spell slot is lost or not if readied but not triggered. The rules as written does not explicitly state this but that appears to be ...
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Can you Disengage while you are in darkness?
When I read the rules, it is not written that the Disengage Action relies on sight, but Opportunity Attacks do.
Imagine that you are facing a spider, and a wizard casts the Darkness spell. You know ...
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Can you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action while falling?
Can you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action while falling assuming you are falling for at least one turn before hitting the ground.
I want to have some insight into the possibility of a PC ...
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Can I drop an object and cast Catapult on the same turn?
I'd like to drop an object weighing 1-5 pounds and use my action to cast Catapult on the item. PH 190 details Other Activity on your turn, and interacting with an object is included on that list. Can ...
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Can you pick up an item on the ground without a free hand?
I've been studying up on disarm interactions, and how you might be able to pick up a weapon after you disarmed your enemy of it.
The issue I'm facing is: none of the threads I'm seeing mention ...
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Since the Refocus activity requires spending a Focus Point before I Refocus again, can I only fully replenish my focus pool by resting?
I'm a bit unsure about how the Refocus activity works. If I have a pool of 3 focus points and spend 2, according to the Refocus rules I can regenerate 1, but need to use up at least 1 again before I ...
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Can I cast a spell as an action and use the bonus-action shove from the Shield Master feat in the same turn?
I need some clarification about this as I've had contradicting answers to this question, which has left me confused.
I am a cleric with the Shield Master feat. I want to wear my shield in battle to ...
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Will a mature animal companion with Haste get 2 actions when not commanded?
I tried to do this in a game, but the GM said I couldn’t and became irate when I asked why. He gave me an explanation that I didn’t think made sense. But instead of saying after the game we’ll ...
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Does a shield get its Hardness when using Shield Block?
The ability Shield Block allows you to spend your Reaction reducing incoming damage by a shield's Hardness at the cost of damaging the shield as well as you. Does this damage also get reduced by the ...
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If you cast a spell as a bonus action, can you use an action provided by some ongoing spells on the same turn?
If you cast a spell with a bonus action, you can't cast a spell with a casting time of one action (PHB, p. 202):
A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on ...
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Pros and Cons of Different Action/Turn Frameworks [closed]
I would like to have a clearer understanding of the pros and cons of various frameworks of turn composition and action economies. That is, I would like to see the relative benefits and drawbacks of ...
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Order of attacks when using Two Weapon Fighting and Extra Attack
Both Two Weapon Fighting and Extra Attack give additional attacks in a turn, but in what order do those attacks take place? Is it up to the player, or must it be a specific order?
My initial ...
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Can you take another action via Action Surge while casting a spell with a casting time longer than one action?
To preface, this is for D&D 5e.
This is building upon the answer from this question, since it did not address my issue completely. I am a Fighter 2 Wizard 10, and am currently casting the spell ...
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Can a weapon be “unsheathable”?
I've been reading a lot of questions and answers concerning the action economy ramifications of sheathing and unsheathing of weapons in combat. The unstated assumption in those posts is that the ...
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With the Horizon Walker ranger's Distant Strike feature, can you teleport prior to a bonus-action attack?
At 11th level, the Horizon Walker Ranger gets the Distant Strike feature, which states:
At 11th level, you gain the ability to pass between the planes in the blink of an eye. When you take the ...
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Does Dual strike work with Vital Strike?
I saw the feat Dual Strike:
Additional Prerequisite(s): Double Slice, Improved Vital Strike
As a standard action, you can make two attacks, one with each weapon you’re wielding, applying the ...
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If you cast a higher-level spell from a spell scroll with a casting time of 1 action, but fail the check, can you cast a bonus-action spell that turn?
The bonus-action spellcasting rule states (PHB p. 202):
A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven't ...
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How does creating two Eldritch Cannons with one action work for an Artillerist artificer? [duplicate]
The Artillerist Artificer's 15th-level Fortified Position feature (Eberron: Rising from the Last War, p. 60) states:
You can now have two cannons at the same time. You can create two with the same ...
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Can you use your action to interrupt another player's action from earlier in the same round?
I play in a game when everyone plays the way they want on their own turn : saying to another player what he should do is forbidden. Your turn = your action.
I think this is pretty fun and it adds a ...
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How can I combine a Strike and a Stride?
Rangers can use the Skirmish Strike to Step and Strike. Most enemies however don't do you a favor and stand just 5 feet away after you killed one of their friends.
What is the lowest investment for ...
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Does a Thief rogue's Fast Hands allow you to drink a potion as a bonus action?
A recent D&D Beyond article, Epic House Rules: Potion Toxicity and Quick Drinking, mentioned this houserule:
Variant: Quick Potion Drinking
You can use a bonus action, instead of an action,...
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If I Ready an action, can I then use my reaction for something else?
Merle the Wizard is fighting enemies with his friends on a bridge. He wants to cast a spell on the BBEG, but they are currently out of range and so he uses his action to ready a spell for when the ...
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How to do different things while casting?
Some spells take longer than one turn to cast. For example, the Planar Ally spell takes 10 minutes. As I understand it, this is the equivalent of taking a full-round action for ten minutes straight, ...
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Is an Elven Champion faster without a horse?
He has a speed of 30, while his Steed Ally a speed of 40. If the enemy is within 80 feet, he can use the Command an Animal action to direct his horse to use two of its actions close the distance, and ...
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Climb out of pit and use bow?
If a PC completes their move climbing out of a pit, is it reasonable to allow them to use their bow as an Attack?
I.e. to clamber out, take the bow off their back, find an arrow, notch the arrow, ...
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Does the extra movement you get from the Travel Devotion Feat provoke attacks of opportunity?
If you employ the domain feat Travel Devotion (Complete Champion, p. 62) you can
Once per day as a swift action, (...) activate this ability to move up to your speed as a swift action each round.
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Can you do anything after moving into an occupied space?
This is inspired by and is a branching off of the question "Move into nonhostile space attack and move"
The section on "Moving Around Other Creatures" states:
[...] Whether a creature is a friend ...
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Is Move/Action Order Meant to Be Restricted?
I would like to confidently know whether the order in which the free movement and the non-movement action should be taken (i.e. move+act vs. act+move) is meant to be restricted in the base ruleset.
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What action is changing your grip on a weapon with the two-hand poperty?
The Fighter feat Dual-handed Assault (CRB p146) lets you grip your weapon with 2 hands, strike, and release it with one of your hands, all in one action.
How many actions would it be without the ...
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Does a familiar act on its own initiative count?
In campaigns in which I participate a familiar is controlled by the player in normal situations; the DM takes over the familiar if the PC orders his familiar to do something very dangerous, gives it a ...
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Do young black dragons get lair actions? [duplicate]
Page 89 of the Monster Manual describes a black dragon's Lair Actions and Regional Effects. It says Regional Effects only apply to Legendary Black Dragons, but does not say that for Lair Actions.
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Do specters raised by the Hexblade warlock's Accursed Specter feature require an action to command?
The Hexblade warlock's Accursed Specter feature (XGtE, p. 56) says:
When you slay a humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter [...] It obeys your verbal commands
Does ...
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What can animated objects do in a fight?
Things affected by Animate Objects can be issued commands. When ordered to attack in combat, they will make a single melee attack. Grapple, Hold, Help, etc are not mentioned in the spell description. ...
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How do I sit down or stand up?
According to the "Table: Armor Class Modifiers" in the combat rules, a character who is kneeling or sitting has a -2 AC vs melee attacks and +2 AC vs ranged attacks.
However, I cannot find the rules ...
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What is the cheapest way to damage myself and trigger the effects of the Fade Away gnome racial feat?
The Fade Away gnome racial feat says (XGtE, p. 74):
Immediately after you take damage, you can use a reaction to magically become invisible until the end of your next turn or until you attack, deal ...
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Can creatures use the Attack action without attacking?
Suppose a creature gets some benefits when they take the Attack action. For example, the Horizon Walker ranger's Distant Strike lets them teleport at will, but only when they take the Attack action.
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Can you run, jump and flip and still attack?
A player the other night wanted to run, jump off a wall, flip over the other characters in front of him, land in front of the monster, and attack it — all in one turn. Is that actually doable?
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By RAW, can you use your free object interaction while taking the “Use an Object” action?
There is a drinking contest between a Dwarf and a Halfling to see who can drink flagons of ale the fastest. Normally one would assume the Dwarf would have an advantage at drinking, but unbeknown to ...
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Can a stirge dodge while draining blood? [duplicate]
Blood drain is initially a weapon attack action, but on subsequent turns while draining blood, it is not an attack.
Then can the Stirge perform other actions, like dodge?
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What are the ramifications of a disarmed creature having to take the Search action to find their weapon in combat?
Disarming in D&D seems to be very trivial, as explained in this question. Rules as Written, disarming a creature does not prevent them from attacking you with that weapon on their turn as they can ...
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Must a component pouch/focus be “out” to be handled, or can I keep it in my pocket?
When casting a spell with a material component, does one have to spend an object interaction taking the component pouch/focus out of wherever it's kept, or can it just be "handled" by touching it and ...
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Can you take the additional action from the fighter's Action Surge feature before you take your regular action?
The fighter's Action Surge feature (post errata mentioned in the 2019 Sage Advice Compendium) now states:
On your turn, you can take one additional action.
The Eldritch Knight fighter gets the ...
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Using the Grappler feat, can you grapple and pin (restrain) in the same action?
Using the Grappler feat, one can pin a grappled target. While grappling uses one of your attacks, in the rulebook pinning takes an action.
Can I, via multi-attack access to 2 attacks, use both ...
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Can allies take cover behind my tower shield?
I am a champion who is wielding a tower shield. I raise my shield, and then Take Cover. On their turns, can my allies attempt to take cover behind my tower shield also?
The Take Cover action requires:...
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Does a Beast Master Ranger's animal companion gain more actions when its master becomes incapacitated?
This question comes from discussion in the comments to the question "Can my Beast Master ranger's baboon animal companion use her Wand of Magic Missiles?"
The description of the Beast Master ranger's ...
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Do actions granted by the Haste spell count as “your action”?
I asked a similar question "How do the Haste spell and Turn Undead interact?". Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems that the answer there says that even haste's action is limited by Turn Undead, that Turn ...
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How much do monsters get from Change Shape? [duplicate]
If you have a dragon or a couatl and have it change shape into, say, the CR 3 knight, what among brave, multiattack, leadership, and parry is "not a class feature" and would therefore be available to ...
