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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How do I deal with an Umbral Sight Ranger's enormous advantages in Curse of Strahd? [closed]
I'm playing the module Curse of Strahd. The Tabaxi Ranger with the Umbral Sight ability causes a lot of problems.
Fights take place in dark rooms or at night. Almost all undead have darkvision, but ...
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Does Paladin Fighting Style: Defense count as a separately named feature from Fighter: Fighting Style Defense for stacking?
Fighter class feature says
You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later ...
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How does the updated Centaur work with an effect of 'gain a climbing speed equal to your current speed'?
I am building a College of Satire Bard from the Unearthed Arcana: Kits of Old mentioned here. I found the PDF on wizards.com.
The two rules elements are quoted below. There are three similar questions,...
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Is the Path of the Zealot barbarian almost immortal at level 15?
I was looking at classes and subclasses, and saw the Path of the Zealot barbarian, and the question if it could become almost immortal came to mind. At level 14, the Path of the Zealot gains the ...
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Can a Path of Wild Magic Barbarian/Rogue use a greataxe for sneak damage? [duplicate]
Sneak attack reads
The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon...
The ranged weapon property reads
A weapon that can be used to make a ranged Attack has a range in parentheses after the ...
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How does the Trickery Domain cleric's Invoke Duplicity feature interact with the Booming Blade spell?
How does the Trickery Domain cleric's Channel Divinity option Invoke Duplicity (PHB, p. 63) interact with the Booming Blade spell (TCoE, p. 106)?
Does it allow Booming Blade to be cast from a distance?...
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Does Rainbow Servant allow a full-list spontaneous caster to cast all cleric spells?
A full-list spontaneous arcane caster (Warmage, Beguiler or Dread Necromancer) does not pick spells to learn each level, like a Wizard or a Sorcerer, and cannot copy spells from other sources to a ...
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Can you use Second Wind outside of combat? [duplicate]
The fighter's Second Wind feature says:
You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to ...
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Do Symbiotic Entity + Hand of Harm stack damage?
I am working on a multiclass starting with a few levels of way of mercy monk dipping into circle of spores druid to get that kind of cycle of life and death flair. Before I commit I wanted to make ...
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Can an Artillerist Artificer's arcane cannon walk without shooting?
I just noticed as I was looking at the artillerist artificer's Eldritch Cannon class feature. Can the eldritch cannon walk without shooting?
On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to ...
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Can you stack Eldritch Knight's War Magic ability with Bladesinger's Extra Attack? [duplicate]
Let's say I am playing a 13th level character, 6 levels Bladesinger Wizard, 7 levels Eldritch Knight Fighter. I would have access to these abilities in question:
War Magic:
Beginning at 7th level, ...
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Can an Artillerist use their eldritch cannon as a focus?
I'm trying to parse out how to wear a shield, still be able to cast spells, and mitigate the cannon's abysmal walking speed in between encounters. Perhaps a shoulder mount, a la "Predator"?
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How does a Phantom Rogue's Ghost Walk ability movement work?
At level 13, the Phantom Rogue gets the Ghost Walk ability which grants (in part):
As a bonus action, you assume a spectral form. While in this form, you have a flying speed of 10 feet, you can hover ...
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Replacing an ability with another via archtypes
In pathfinder. When I take the archetype of a Hungry Ghost Monk, I get the following:
Punishing Kick (Ex)
At 1st level, a hungry ghost monk gains Punishing Kick as a bonus
feat, even if he does not ...
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What would be the impact if I let Hand of Harm be used more than once, like Hand of Healing?
In Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, the Way of Mercy Monastic Tradition grants both Hand of Healing and Hand of Harm at 3rd level. Hand of Healing/Harm describe their effects as using 1 ki point to ...
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How do class features interact in Gestalt?
Under the Gestalt rules, how does class features of one "side" affect the class features of the other?
To illustrate the question, and in my specific case, let us look at a Wizard 2//...
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Can the Circle Of Wildfire druid's Enhanced Bond, give the ability to have multiple origin for the multi ray spell type?
In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than self, the spell can originate from you or your wildfire spirit.
If I cast a multiple ray spell such as Scorching Ray or Eldritch Blast, can ...
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Can a Beast Barbarian jump 57 feet at level 20?
So I was just wondering whether I'm reading this correctly. Path of the Beast Barbarians get the level 6 feature "Bestial Soul" which has the following option:
When you jump, you can make a ...
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What objects are considered 'loose'?
The warlock I DM for is considering Blade of Disaster (from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything) for his 9th level Arcanum, and I have just now read its description. The blade may be directed at:
a ...
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Does the Fog Cloud spell work in conjunction with the Blind Fighting fighting style the way I think it does?
The description of the Fog Cloud spell says:
You create a 20-foot-radius sphere of fog centered on a point within range. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts ...
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Can the Hunter subclass use their Volley feature with a melee weapon?
The Ranger subclass in D&D 5e, Hunter, has an 11th-level feature called Multiattack which allows them to pick Volley or Whirlwind.
Volley.
You can use your action to make a ranged attack against ...
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Does a Lyric Thaumaturge qualify for the Extra Spell Secret feat from Complete Arcane?
The Lyric Thamateurge prestige class from Complete Mage has a feature at every third level titled Spell Secret. This feature grants them additional spells known as they level. The book Complete Arcane ...
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What are the best non-wizard options for divination?
I'm creating a character for a D&D 5e game. The setting is home-brewed, but the rules are not. One limitation imposed by the setting is that wizard is not an allowed option at character creation.
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Am I correctly understanding how the Barbarian's Danger Sense feature works?
I've heard a lot about how a Rogue's specialty is disarming traps, even going as far as online DMs suggesting Rogues always use the Investigation action to watch for those traps. And while I do not ...
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How does Training work with Warrior Spirit?
The Training (weapon enchantment) ability says:
Popular among those who seek to impersonate skilled warriors, a training weapon grants one combat feat to the wielder as long as the weapon is drawn ...
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What happens to an Armorer Artificer's extra infusions if they change their Arcane Armor?
Armorer artficiers have the Armor Modifications feature, which lets them improve parts of their Arcane Armor, but also importantly...
In addition, the maximum number of items you can infuse at once ...
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Is Emboldening Bond added before or after the roll is seen?
The Peace Cleric's Emboldening Bond feature can temporarily bond creatures together giving a d4 bonus to rolls. The effect is as follow:
While any bonded creature is within 30 feet of another, the ...
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Can a Pact of the Blade warlock summon any weapon?
With the Blade boon, can a warlock summon any weapon, or does it have to be from the Weapons table?
If it has to be a weapon from the Weapons table, can you do things like change the weight?
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Is the Armorer artificer's Arcane Armor magical?
Is an Armorer artificer's Arcane Armor magical?
As far as I've seen, the rules do not clearly state that the armor becomes a magical object. In addition, an argument can be made that the rules ...
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Is the Planar Bubble created by a Planar Shepherd immobile for its duration or does it stay centered on its creator?
The Planar Shepherd prestige class offers an ability at 5th level to temporarily apply the traits of a specific plane (chosen when you first take levels in the class) to the area around you.
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Does a Planar Shepherd's Planar Bubble affect spells cast from wands or scrolls?
The Planar Shepherd prestige class offers an ability at 5th level to temporarily apply the traits of a specific plane (chosen when you first take levels in the class) to the area around you. This ...
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Does the Wizard's Spell Mastery spells need to be prepared as a Wizard or can they be "known"?
At 18th level, a Wizard gains the feature Spell Mastery. It reads:
At 18th level, you have achieved such mastery over certain spells that you can cast them at will. Choose a 1st-level wizard spell ...
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Can a Dragonborn monk with Way of the Ascendant Dragon and extra attack use more than one breath weapon per turn?
The Dragonborn breath weapons for the variant Dragonborns from Fizban's Treasury of Dragons vary a little between the subraces, but they all begin with the same section:
When you take the Attack ...
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Can Tempestuous Magic break a grapple?
A Storm Sorcerer's Tempestuous Magic allows:
Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to
cause whirling gusts of elemental air to briefly surround you,
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Can a multiclass Beguiler/Wizard cast Wizard spells using Beguiler spell slots?
A Wizard can:
To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, the wizard must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a wizard's spell ...
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Does the Scout's Ambush Master feature require a successful attack to activate it?
The Scout subclass of the Rogue includes the 13th-level feature "Ambush Master" which says:
Starting at 13th level, you excel at leading ambushes and acting first in a fight.
You have ...
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Can a druid use Wild Companion and Wild Shape simultaneously?
The context for this is that a PC druid that is not yet level 8, wants to achieve flight by using the Wild Companion feature from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything to summon a familiar with a fly speed ...
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Does the ranger feature Land's Stride negate the movement debuff from the centaur's Equine Build trait?
The second part of the centaur's Equine Build racial trait says (MP:MotM, p. 9):
In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your equine legs. When ...
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Does the Undead Warlock Spirit Projection ability allow you to gain the effects of items held or equip?
Undead Warlock's Spirit Projection states that both the body and the spirit is affected by damage and effects that apply to each equally. So from my understanding anything and everything that affects ...
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Does the Quick Stow feat allow a Counterfeit Mage rogue to sheathe a wand as a free action?
I am looking at playing a Counterfeit Mage Rogue, and one of their abilities is Signature Wand (Ex) – emphasis mine:
At 4th level, a counterfeit mage can spend 1 hour practicing with a
wand to ...
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Intimidating Prowess and Unchained Barbarian's Intimidating Glare Interaction
So, I want to make an Intimidating Unchained Barbarian, and I saw that Intimidating Glare got changed. Which means that my go to feat, Intimidating Prowess, allows double your Strength modifier to ...
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Is Mind Sliver + Pact of the Chain Investment of Chain Master pseudodragon game breakingly OP?
The spell Mind Sliver's text says:
You drive a disorienting spike of psychic energy into the mind of one creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or ...
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What spells can be used to increase the speed of another creature over an extended period of time?
My party and I are flying on the back of a large undead creature (homebrew) to go extended distances. It has a speed of 50, so we estimate that if it moves and dashes as an action it gets 100ft per ...
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Can a monk use Stunning Strike on a creature that has already failed a save against their Stunning Strike in the previous round?
If a monk hits a creature and stuns it with Stunning Strike—thus stunning it until the end of the monk's next turn—can the monk then use another Stunning Strike on the same creature the next turn, ...
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Are there any V/S/M components for the Chronurgy wizard's Momentary Stasis feature?
We're having an epic scene where the tavern in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is being raided by the Waterdeep government representatives who suspect that there is a Zhentarim officer hiding in the party's ...
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Can an epic knight/death delver use Nine Lives after Loyal Beyond Death?
What if my character is a level 20 Knight (PHII) and it got the Loyal Beyond Death (Ex) class feature and also has the Nine Lives (Ex) because it is a level 10 Death Delver (HoH) as well and his HP ...
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Does a ranger with the Land's Stride feature ignore damage from the Spike Growth spell?
I was running a combat for a ranger character, and the player claimed Land's Stride allowed them to not take the 2d4 damage per 5 feet of movement from the Spike Growth spell. Is this accurate?
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What happens if you roll a Nat1 on a proficient d20 test with Reliable Talent or a similar feature?
The One D&D Character Origins playtest has the following rule for d20 tests:
If you roll a 1 on the d20, the d20 Test automatically fails, regardless of any modifiers to the roll.
Using 5th ...
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Can a College of Creation Bard make an instrument play itself?
Can a bard of the college of creation use their animating performance class feature to make an instrument play itself?
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Does Hex / Hexblade's curse end the spell Time Stop?
Time stop states:
This spell ends if one of the actions you use during this period, or any effects that you create during this period, affects a creature other than you or an object being worn or ...
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