Questions tagged [class-feature]
For questions that are centrally about class features, powers or properties that are exclusive to a given class, such as the Cleric's ability to Turn Undead in D&D. (See also: the [alternate-class-feature] tag.)
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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?
Monk's Ki feature Flurry of Blows is defined like this (PHB, page 78):
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus ...
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Can I spend additional ki points to make additional attacks with my Flurry of Blows bonus action?
I just re-read the rules about monks and I wonder how to interpret this from the PHB:
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes ...
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Does an opportunity attack allow a monk to use their unarmed bonus attack if they still have it and it’s still their turn?
I’m theorycrafting a new character with a buddy. We’re debating the following.
Say we have a monk with access to the dissonant whispers spell from something like the Fey Touched feat. When they cast ...
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Can unarmed strikes be used with Dread Ambusher?
I’m currently playing an unarmed monk. The build is to run as many attacks as I can without going too far into multi-classing fighter (I’ll go two levels in to pick up action surge). I’m considering ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
Besides the three "default" ways of getting a magic item by finding, buying, or crafting, are there other ways for a player to gain them? I found the second level artificer feature "...
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What happens when a level 14 bard uses Nimbus of Pathos on a wild shape Druid currently in wild shape?
Nimbus of Pathos states:
When this effect ends, the creature immediately drops to 0 hit points and is dying. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
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Does a Fireball whose damage type was changed via Awakened Spellbook still ignite flammable objects?
A Fireball spell "blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame. [...] The fire spreads around corners. It ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried."
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 3rd-level spell's damage type with piercing damage via Summon Fey?
The Awakened Spellbook feature of the Order of Scribes Wizard states that under certain circumstances when casting a spell, "you can temporarily replace its damage type with a type that appears ...
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 1st-level spell's damage type with force damage via Mage Armor, RAW?
According to the Player's Handbook Ch. 9, "force" is a damage type, and "damage types have no rules of their own."
The Awakened Spellbook feature of the Order of Scribes Wizard ...
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If I'm Wild Shaped or Polymorphed and reduced to 0 hit points, can I use Strength Before Death as a reaction to take an extra turn?
The ability comes from the Fighter Samurai subclass.
Strength Before Death
Starting at 18th level, your fighting spirit can delay the grasp of death. If you take damage that reduces you to 0 hit ...
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Would an Armorer artificer have to use their action to doff their Arcane Armor if told to do so via the Command spell?
Just a thought experiment I had while I was working on my Armorer artificer. There's a part about their Arcane Armor feature that specifies they can don or doff the armor as an action (TCoE, p. 15-16)....
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Can Bards learn Oath of the Open Sea Spells via Magical Secrets? If so, does it require the GM's discretion?
The Oath of the Open Sea Spells section of Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says:
Paladins of the Oath of the Open Sea automatically gain two new spells through their Oath Spells feature. These ...
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Is Aura of Liberation hampered from actually working to escape a grapple or restraint? [duplicate]
The Aura of Liberation feature of the Oath of the Open Sea from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says:
Creatures that are already grappled or restrained when they enter the aura can spend 5 feet of ...
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What type of damage does Bond of Mutual Suffering deal to the attacker? [duplicate]
The Bond of Mutual Suffering feature of the Blood Magic Wizard from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says:
At 6th level, when a creature you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your ...
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Can the damage taken from Blood Channeling cause you to lose concentration on the spell it's paying for?
The Blood Channeling feature of the Blood Magic Wizard from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says:
When casting a wizard spell that requires a costly material component, you can forego the ...
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Are thrown Magic Stones thrown weapons for the purposes of Thrown Weapon Fighting Style?
Magic Stone says: "You or someone else can make a ranged spell attack with one of the pebbles by throwing it or hurling it with a sling. If thrown, it has a range of 60 feet. If someone else ...
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When a Beast Master Ranger is incapacitated, who controls the primal companion?
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything's Primal Companion description says:
If you are incapacitated, the beast can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
Since it's a magically summoned primal ...
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Looking for RAW features or items that allow a PC to modify the outcome of a d4+1 that also isn't damage
I'm looking at Time Stop and wondering if there is any way at all to modify the rolled d4+1. I know that Extend Spell doesn't work because the duration is Instantaneous despite the extra rounds it ...
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Can Greater Metamorphosis or Assume Supernatural Ability be used to acquire supernatural class features??
The ability to change into various forms using Greater Metamorphosis includes the assumption that when there are more than one creature of a particular race, they do NOT count as a unique individuals ...
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Does a Rod of the Pact Keeper add its bonus to a Pact of the Blade Hexblade's pact weapon?
This is perhaps more of a RAI question as opposed to RAW, but if a Hexblade Warlock with Pact of the Blade can add his Charisma bonus instead of Strength or Dexterity to the attack rolls of his pact ...
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How does Scorn Earth function underwater?
Scorn Earth (Su)
At 1st level, an elocater’s feet lift from the ground. From now on, she can float a foot above the ground. Instead of walking she glides along, unconcerned with the hard earth or ...
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Do you get the benefits of Oversized Weapons with Path of Giant?
The description of the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver feature (from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants) says, in part:
Giant Stature: Your reach increases by 5 feet, and if you are ...
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Does the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver damage increase by 1d6 each attack?
The description of the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver feature (from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants) says, in part:
[...] While you wield the infused weapon during your rage, the ...
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At what AC does GWM become ineffective? [closed]
For the mathematically challenged (me), is there a general, simple, easy-to-remember rule of thumb for when a monster's AC is high enough that you should not use GWM because the -5 to hit becomes too ...
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Epic Holy Strike and its applicability to Unarmed Strikes
Under the Unarmed Strike subsection of the Monk class it states:
A monk’s unarmed strike is treated both as a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that ...
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Does my Tree Ghost Totem Warrior barbarian have to choose the bear totem animal every time?
The Sword Coast Adventurers Guide (p. 122) describes a number of Uthgardt tribes for the Path of the Totem Warrior barbarian from the Player's Handbook. Saying:
The totems of the Uthgardt barbarians ...
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When stacking Energy Substitution and Energy Admixture of the same energy type, can Mastery of Elements be used to maintain different energy types?
In Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e, using the Archmage prestige class from the Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG), I've chosen the Arcane Thesis feat to allow the use of metamagic feats with a +0 level ...
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For the artificer's Magical Tinkering feature, do you need to touch the object with your tool?
The artificer's Magical Tinkering feature says you need to hold the object in hand. Then touch an item to imbue it.
But can the touch be with the other hand?
Are there any other examples of this in ...
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Does the Animal Companion from the Beastmaster Ranger subclass get additional Hit Dice as the ranger gains levels?
We're using the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition players handbook only. The Ranger's Companion section (PHB p. 93) seems, for the most part, to be pretty clear. The part about hit points states:
It's ...
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Druid, Circle of Stars "Archer Starry Form" and Lvl 10 Twinkling Constellations form change: How many Luminous Arrow attacks can you make in one turn?
Starry Form
At 2nd level, you gain the ability to harness constellations' power to alter your form. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form, rather ...
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Can the Simulacrum of a Bard regain its Bardic Inspiration dice?
The spell Simulacrum reads as follows:
It obeys your spoken commands, moving and acting in accordance with your wishes and acting on your turn in combat. ...The simulacrum lacks the ability to learn ...
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If your echo knight grabs you, can that echo knight move vertically? [duplicate]
When using the manifest echo feature, can you grapple a creature and then, since the movement says it can go in 'any direction,' can you just start going vertically with half movement?
A player in a ...
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What's the price of blood?
The class Tainted Sorcerer from Unearthed Arcana (p. 191) has, among other abilities, the class feature "Blood Component":
Blood Component
A tainted sorcerer must use blood in place of any ...
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Enlightened fist and split ray
In one of my recent games a friend brought an enlightened fist (Complete Arcane) to the table: while I'm glad he is showing to like it, I also think to understand where the build is pointing, and ...
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Does a two-handed thrown weapon have to be thrown with two hands?
In the new Path of the Giant Barbarian subclass for 5e, a weapon you're holding while raging gains the thrown property with a 20/60 range. If I give that to my greatsword, do I have to throw the ...
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How to create a Homebrew Monk Ki feature using DnD Beyond?
I am trying to create a Homebrew, Ki fueled feature for a Monk. I would like to use DnD Beyond to create the feature and store it for my campaign. However, I can only see templates which lead me ...
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Do I understand the mechanics of how Echo Knight works?
I would like to sketch out a combat encounter and ask if I understand mechanically how an Echo Knight works, particularly in conjunction with Polearm Master. Note I’m mentioning d10 in this encounter ...
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Can a Rogue Inquisitive use their passive Insight with Insightful Fighting?
Can a Rogue Inquisitive use their passive Insight with Insightful Fighting?
Insightful Fighting short version: as a bonus action, make a Wis (Insight) check contested by target's Cha (Deception) ...
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Can my Order of Scribes wizard gnome with the Mark of Scribing cast Silence to survive her 120 ft fall?
If I can cast silence on the ground below me before falling, with the thunder damage immunity replaced with bludgeoning, and we land from the fall inside the sphere of silence, do my party and I take ...
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"Each of your turns" Gathered swarm clarification
I'm trying to figure out if I can do the reaction polearm master and use gathered swarm if I hit
I'm just honestly confused by the "each of your turns" part of gathered swarm.
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Is the DC of the Swarmkeeper ranger's Gathered Swarm feature affected by a Moon Sickle?
In the Swarmkeeper ranger's 3rd-level feature Gathered Swarm, one of the possible effects after you hit a creature with an attack on your turn is:
The attack’s target must succeed on a Strength ...
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Does bonus damage from Thrown Weapon Fighting affect the ability Deflect Missiles?
All Monks of level 3 and higher have the trait "Deflect Missiles".
A Monk can multiclass into one of the classes that offer a fighting style, and take the fighting style "Thrown Weapon ...
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Can a Gloom Stalker Ranger (potentially) make an attack roll five times in one turn via the Attack action?
As the DM, a player at my table is playing a Gloom Stalker Ranger, at level 11. This player was able to make an attack on their first turn of combat while utilising two-weapon fighting, per the PHB ...
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How many more non-wizard spells can an Order of Scribes wizard get that are either a new source of damage type or new use of damage types?
A few setting specific backgrounds (such as the Izzet Engineer from Ravnica) and lineages (such as the Mark of Handling Human from Eberron) have spells that are "added to the spell list of your ...
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Can I knock myself prone? Do I have to spend any movement to do so?
I am building a Drunken Master monk, and came across this subclass feature:
Leap to Your Feet. When you're prone, you can stand up by spending 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.
Since ...
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Can a monk disarm the target with a Flurry of Blows?
A monk uses his Flurry of Blows feature and tries to snatch a wand from an enemy caster.
We model this using the Disarm rules (DMG, p. 271):
A creature can use a weapon attack to knock a weapon or ...
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Does the paladin's Lay on Hands feature cure parasites?
My rogue is a very promiscuous individual. The paladin in the party is attempting to cure him of his STDs through a nightly application of Lay on Hands.
Would the Lay on Hands feature cure pubic lice?
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How does the Order of Scribes wizard's Awakened Spellbook feature work with spells that require you to choose a damage type?
There is a question that handles how the Order of Scribes wizard's Awakened Spellbook feature works with spells that have multiple damage types at the same time. However, those spells are rare.
There ...
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Is this Order of Scribes wizard combo with the Elemental Bane and Faithful Hound spells a legal exploit?
So I'm playing an OOS wizard in a 3/4 shot game. I really like the replace damage type feature for the interesting flavour it can provide to battles, but when looking at the spell list, I stumbled ...
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Can someone tell who used the Improved Warding Flare class feature?
This came up regarding using Improved Warding Flare (Light Domain Cleric) during a fight to help someone in the fight, by a person not involved in the fight, and whether or not an observer could tell ...
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