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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Can Cutting Words be used while in an area of Silence?
In a current combat encounter, a bard character is unable to move out of the area of effect of a Silence spell. Silence is very clear on a complete lack of sound:
For the duration, no sound can be ...
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Can the Wildfire Druid ability Blazing Revival prevent Instant Death due to massive damage or disintegrate?
The 14th level Circle of Wildfire ability reads:
If the spirit is within 120 feet of you when you are reduced to 0 hit points and thereby fall unconscious, you can cause the spirit to drop to 0 hit ...
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Can you end Rune Knight's Giants Might at will?
One of our players is playing a Rune Knight Fighter and has completely hypothetically asked if they could at will end the Giants Might effect from their class features. We cannot find anything that ...
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What are the class features of a cleric with the Death Domain? Where could I find this?
I've seen that in the 'gods and goddesses' list in the PHB, some of the gods/goddesses are part of the Death Domain. But the PHB never says anything about the Death Domain.
What are the class features ...
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Do any of a character's skills or other capabilities transfer to a Podling?
When a Bodytaker plant successfully produces a Podling based on the form & memories of an enveloped creature, does that Podling retain any of the creature's skills or other capabilities?
The ...
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How do the knowledge skills of the cloistered cleric work?
The class description says that:
"the cloistered cleric class skill list includes decipher script, speak language, and all knowledge skills(from the Knowledge domain)"
Does that mean that ...
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Can you still use Commander’s Strike if the only attack available to forego is an attack against an ally?
At 3rd level, My Battlemaster Fighter chose Commander's Strike for one of his maneuvers. He is a Dex-based fighter and uses shortsword and dagger in melee. This previous question was whether he ...
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How to counter the Open Sea paladin's "Marine Layer" Channel Divinity option?
The Oath of the Open Sea paladin (a third-party subclass from Critical Role) gets the Channel Divinity option "Marine Layer" at level 3:
As an action, you channel the sea to create a thick ...
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Do increases (or other changes) to an Echo Knight fighter's movement/speed also apply to the echo?
My multiclassed Echo Knight fighter/barbarian has a speed of 50 feet (base 30 ft, barbarian's Fast Movement +10 ft, Mobile feat +10 feet) – and as a bonus from going into a rage (barbarian's ...
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How much light do psychic blades give off?
The description for a Soulknife's psychic blades says,
Also at 3rd level, You can manifest your psionic power as shimmering blades of psychic energy.
Are there similarly described items that have ...
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Is This Homebrew "Protective Ward" Spell/Ability Balanced?
I am in the process of creating a homebrew class.
or potentially a subclass...
I haven't decided yet if I wanted to make this class a type of caster or martial character, but either way, I want it to ...
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How does Arcane Cascade interact with Weakness/Resistance?
One of the basic effects of Arcane Cascade is
While you're in the stance, your melee Strikes deal 1 extra damage.[...]
The damage type is determined by the spell used before entering the Stance.
If ...
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Does the rogue's Reliable Talent feature apply to a harengon's initiative checks (thanks to the Hare-Trigger trait)?
Rogues gain the Reliable Talent feature at level 11:
By 11th level, you have refined your chosen skills until they approach perfection. Whenever you make an ability check that lets you add your ...
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What area can a fathomless warlock's tentacle attack?
Are we to think of the tentacle as a coiled up spiritual weapon with reach which covers a 10 ft radius around a point, or is it like a 10 ft line, which can attack anything within 10 ft of this 10 ft ...
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Turn Undead vs. Champion Challenge
An interesting situation happened last night during our 4th-level party's exploration of Chult, where wandering monsters really don't care about your party level or whether or not they are an ...
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Tempest domain ability Destructive Wrath with multiple targets
How does Destructive Wrath interact with Chain Lightning? Do you need to expand a Channel Divinity slot on each enemy or is one slot enough for every enemy?
What about Shatter?
I've seen the twinned ...
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Do a Ring of Protection and a Paladin's Aura of Protection stack?
Does a player wearing a Ring of Protection +1 and standing in a Paladin's Aura of Protection (bonus equal to Charisma modifier, +2 in my case) get a +3 bonus to their saving throws? Or do they only ...
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How many times can a creature be affected by the Avenging Angel Aura of Menace?
The party paladin (Oath of Vengeance) is currently 18th level and we are planning on playing to 20th. Eventually he will get the Avenging Angel class feature, which states, in part:
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What is the Avenging Angel Aura of Menace save DC?
The party paladin (Oath of Vengeance) is currently 18th level and we are planning on playing to 20th. Eventually he will get the Avenging Angel class feature, which states, in part:
At 20th level, ...
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What character options (except spells) increase AC as reaction?
Some monsters, (e.g. the Death Knight) have a reaction called Parry which enables them to increase their AC.
Are there any character options that work the same way, i.e. increase AC as a reaction? I ...
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Can a Knowledge cleric using the Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts feature to cast the Suggestion spell be perceived, for the purposes of Counterspell?
The Knowledge Domain cleric's Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts feature (PHB, p. 59-60) lets you read a creature's surface thoughts, and states that while you do so:
During that time, you can use your ...
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Does the Monster Slayer Ranger's Hunter's Sense feature reveal conditional resistances and those from traits?
The Monster Slayer Ranger's Hunter's Sense ability gives insight into immunities, resistances and vulnerabilities. The important bit saying this:
"At 3rd level, you gain the ability to peer at ...
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Can Scorn Earth be used to prevent falling damage?
Can you use Scorn Earth to avoid falling damage since you never actually hit the ground?
Scorn Earth (Su) At 1st level, an elocater’s feet lift from the
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dnd-3.5e Warmage Edge damage to Wounding Spell damage per turn
Does Warmage Edge's additional damage apply to the damage per round caused by the Wounding Spell metamagic when applied to an instantaneous duration damaging spell?
"If a spell deals damage for ...
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Can a Chronurgy Wizard upcast using Arcane Abeyance?
Can arcane abeyance be used to upcast a spell? For example, can a bead made via arcane abeyance hold a 4th level fireball?
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Can the Opal of the Ild Rune gift of flame be given to a Pact blade?
the Opal of the Ild Rune gift of flame can be transfered to a nonmagical item, a weapon, by tracing the ild rune there with your finger. The transfer takes 8 hours of work that requires the two items ...
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Explain Like I'm 5 How Oath Spells Work (D&D 5e)
What the title says. I genuinely cannot, for the life of me, figure out how they work. What spell slot would a level 8 Devotion Paladin use for Sanctuary? It says 3rd level, but I don't know if that's ...
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Are Bonus Feats from Class usable without prerequisites?
I was looking at a Dragon Magazine Wizard Alternate Class, the Fleshcrafter (DM #312). At level 1, one of the class features given is:
Craft Construct: A fleshcrafter gains Craft Construct as a bonus ...
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A question about paladin oath spells
So, I'm making a Devotion paladin. What spell slot level would I use for, say, Lesser Restoration (which is received at level 5)?
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Can you eat a druid? [duplicate]
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In my recent game our party was travelling through some barren wasteland and we were short on food, fortunately we have druid in a party so we think of using wildshape ability to create ...
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When does a character get temporary HP from the Shepherd druid's Bear Spirit Totem?
The Circle of the Shepherd druid's Spirit Totem feature can summon a spirit that grants certain benefits. One of the options it can summon is the Bear Spirit (XGtE, p. 23; emphasis mine):
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Does using the Archer ability with Circle of the Stars Druid require a free hand?
The Archer ability for the Circle of the Stars Druid subclass reads as follows:
Archer. A constellation of an archer appears on you. When you activate this form, and as a bonus action on your ...
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How does Anarchomancer handle a high Leadership score?
In Dragon Magazine #315, a prestige class called
Anarchomancer
was introduced.. It comes with a class feature called "Ritual of the Dark Infiltrator", which is described thusly:
Ritual of ...
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Are you saving 'against' an effect if that effect applies when you successfully save?
The party tonight was about to face a Demilich. They didn't have any specific knowledge of demiliches, but it was clear they were about to confront the boss, and just about every minion they had ...
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Would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words?
Now, I know that Cutting Words is inferred to be a Charm effect based on the last sentence of the paragraph. This raises a question for me; would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words? (I.e. reducing the ...
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Does a barbarian benefit from the fast movement ability while wearing medium armor?
The Player's Handbook makes a conflicting statement that some people may find confusing, requiring some official clarification.
Barbarian (PHB pg. 25)
Fast Movement (Ex): A barbarian’s land speed is ...
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Where does a Wildfire Druid's Thorn Whip "originate” in conjunction with the Level 6 class feature Enhanced Bond?
The class feature Enhanced Bond contains this:
[provision that grants a bonus on casting fire or healing spells]
In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than self, the spell can ...
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How does the Flexible Casting ability from the sorcerer's Font of Magic feature work?
I've recently joined a D&D table which happened to be with only new players, including the DM himself.
The thing is that, we added an extra friend to the party that decided to play a sorcerer, and ...
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Can the Infiltrator model's benefit of the Armorer Artificer's 15th-level Perfected Armor feature be stacked?
The description of the Infiltrator model's benefit for the Armorer artificer's Perfected Armor feature says (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, p. 17):
Infiltrator. Any creature that takes lightning ...
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What impact does this "Spell Melding" homebrew feature have on the balance of casters?
I am currently homebrewing alternative types of casters for D&D 5e, and mostly looking at making them unique through new ways of casting spells. My main objective is to keep them in line with the ...
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Commander's Strike and meaning of 'forgo'
In tonight's session my fighter just leveled to 3rd and declared as a Battlemaster; he selected Commander's Strike as one of his combat superiority maneuvers:
When you take the Attack action on your ...
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When targeted by a Nightwalker, can a Monk get rid of Finger of Doom effect by using Stillness of Mind?
The effect of Nightwalker's Finger of Doom skill is:
The nightwalker points at one creature it can see within 300 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw or take 6d12 ...
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What is the mechanical advantage of a Beast Barbarian's form?
What I am seeking here is the logic that makes the Form of the Beast so enticing. From what I understand, it would take a 2d6 greatsword attack and reduce it to a 1d8 bite/tail attack, or two separate ...
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Readying Empty Body as an action in response to an attack
Empty Body states that as an action you can spend 4 ki points to become invisible. I understand this puts the monk under the invisible condition which means the monk is heavily obscured, resistant to ...
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How much damage can the Paladin's Divine Smite feature do in a single action?
The Paladin's Divine Smite feature description states:
Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, ...
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Can a Twilight Domain cleric wearing heavy armor still fly using the Steps of Night feature?
A player in my campaign is a Twilight Domain cleric. The Steps of Night feature (TCoE, p. 35) allows them to gain a flying speed equal to their walking speed for one minute. As a cleric, they have ...
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Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts for combat advantage?
My knowledge domain cleric just levelled up and got the Channel Divinity: Read Thoughs ability. Provided I use this ability during combat and the enemy fails their saving throw, would reading their ...
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Does a Dragonborn Dragon Magic Sorcerer pierce their own damage resistance when taking damage from Nusemnee's Atonement?
An oft discussed optimization trick in the 4th edition era was the use of Nusemnee's Atonement on a Dragonborn Dragon Magic Sorcerer in order to recharge your breath weapon with the use of the Ancient ...
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Does the Protector Aasimar's transformation work while Wild Shaped? [duplicate]
Does the Protector Aasimar's Radiant Soul feature work if they are a wildshaped druid?
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For Celestial Resilience, is just the level halved, or level + charisma modifier?
The Celestial Resilience class feature of the Celestial warlock patron from Xanathar's Guide to Everything lets you grant temporary hitpoints to other creatures. The calculation is described as "...
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