Questions tagged [dnd-5e]
For questions about Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, an RPG published in 2014 by Wizards of the Coast. D&D 5e is a heroic fantasy RPG inspired by the mechanics and settings of all previous D&D editions. It was previously code-named D&D Next during the playtest period.
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If a creature is forced to make a Dex save but has nowhere to go to avoid the effect, can they still make the save?
So I came across a question I had as a DM the other day:
If there is a creature or creatures subject to an spell or effect requiring a Dex saving throw, but they are in a position where avoiding the ...
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Antimagic field vs 9th-level globe of invulnerability: who wins?
Alice the wizard casts globe of invulnerability at 9th level. Eve the enemy wizard casts antimagic field and walks to within 20 feet of Alice, causing the 10-foot spheres of the two spells to overlap.
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Does the Eldritch Knight's Eldritch Strike feature impose disadvantage on a saving throw against a spell cast before the attack?
Consider the following scenario:
A level 10 Fighter with the Eldritch Knight (EK) archetype (PHB, p. 74-75) is facing a single opponent, and has hold person as a spell available.
EK attacks with ...
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What can a spellcaster do against an Antimagic Field other than break it?
Say a full spellcaster is fighting an enemy that has cast an antimagic field on themselves, and due to either the enemy's high Con saves, the low damage output of their martial allies, or both, ...
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Can you use the Seeming spell and the Illusion Wizard's Illusory Reality feature to swap out an enemy's weapon?
The seeming spell description states:
This spell allows you to change the appearance of any number of creatures that you can see within range. You give each target you choose a new, illusory ...
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Is it possible to find and have another patron as a warlock?
I was reading through my player's handbook, and got to the warlock's patrons. Then I started to wonder, is it possible to have multiple patrons? If I made a warlock character, and later in the ...
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When a creature is hit with more than one fireball simultaneously, do they take damage from all of them?
Say a creature walks through a door and triggers two spell glyphs from two glyph of warding spells that are programmed to cast a fireball at the creature that walks through the door. Both glyphs are ...
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How to handle spontaneous multiclassing? [closed]
Some players like to plan their characters all the way up to level 20, even if the campaign starts at level 1. I would prefer my players to react organically to the story I’m presenting, taking into ...
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Would it be unbalanced to allow a Dragonborn access to both Breath Weapon AOE types?
Depending on the draconic ancestry of a dragonborn, their breath weapon either deals damage in a 5 by 30 ft. line or a 15 ft. cone.
Would there be any unbalancing if the character were allowed to ...
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Can Major Image or Minor Illusion block the view of a beholder's eye stalks?
I was reading the Monster Manual and got to the beholder (Monster Manual, p. 28). It says that the beholder can target three targets it can see.
If I used the major image or minor illusion spells, ...
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How could Lost Mines of Phandelver be adjusted/altered to run as a one-shot?
I bought the DnD starter set that includes the adventure Lost Mines of Phandelver, intending to play it with some friends. While the opportunity never came up, the idea of running it as a much shorter ...
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Does Fog Cloud render a Beholder's eyestalks ineffective?
The fog cloud spell creates "heavily obscured" vision, which effectively acts like the blinded condition for characters in it, per the answer to this Q&A: Interaction between fog cloud ...
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How do flat modifiers (like those from magic weapons) affect DPR comparison in GWF vs TWF?
This question has some answers with fantastic calculations comparing the Great Weapon Master feat to the Dual Wielding feat.
I'm interested in comparing Great Weapon Fighting and Two Weapon Fighting ...
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What happens to area-effect spells like Darkness or Fog Cloud when an Antimagic Field moves?
The antimagic field spell states that spell effects are "suppressed" in the area of the field.
Do (non-instantaneous) magical areas of effect take effect again after an antimagic field that passes ...
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Can the first effect of Plane Shift work remotely with the Distant Spell metamagic option?
The first effect of plane shift, a touch-range spell, is:
You and up to eight willing creatures who link hands in a circle are transported to a different plane. You can specify a target destination ...
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Can I create a superbomb with Glyph of Warding and a book?
Given glyph of warding, a book, unlimited funds, and enough time, I'd like to create a superbomb.
My goal here is to create a book where, only when I wanted it to, would detonate, dealing 100 ...
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Is a creature immune to the prone condition also immune to being incapacitated by the Tasha's Hideous Laughter spell?
The Tasha's hideous laughter spell description states:
A creature of your choice that you can see within range perceives everything as hilariously funny and falls into fits of laughter if this ...
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Which dice do the Potion of Giant Size triple when making a weapon attack?
Consider the Potion of Giant Size, from Storm King's Thunder (p. 236, Appendix B):
Everything you are carrying and wearing also increases in size for the duration. When rolling damage for weapons ...
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What's the benefit for Saving Throws of rerolling vs. advantage?
Relevant: Does Indomitable let you reroll Saving Throws with Advantage?
There's a line that comes up a lot in class abilities that seems out of place, and I don't know what the difference is between ...
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How do I deal with all the NPCs in Out of the Abyss? [closed]
Most combat tips were to either give them to players or make a background scene where they would be fighting. But how do I keep track of the progression of the living NPC and loot share, etc?
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Does a Wild Magic Surge trigger at the beginning or the end of the casting of a spell?
This is, in some way, a follow-up to this question: Can you trigger Wild Magic Surges with rituals?
Some spells take longer than an action to cast (the best example is a ritual, which takes 10 ...
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What differentiates "Gods" from other entities in the Forgotten Realm cosmology?
I am creating a campaign world that is supposed to be a “refuge from the gods”: no true deities can come here, no intervention in the affairs of mortals. People came here from the Forgotten Realms to ...
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Are all Eladrin CR 10?
With the release of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes we get more information about the Eladrin and race options. The Eladrin listed are CR 10.
For someone who knows very little about Feywild lore, are ...
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How do you make a character's alignment change in-game?
I want to change the alignment of my warlock drow in game from neutral evil to neutral good. Can you just change it? Do you have to have a monster change it? Can I make the reason because of the ...
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Damage Weapon Crystals for 5e (custom magic item) [closed]
I am running a West Marches-style campaign and due to a lack of clerics and wizards enchanting weapons is beginning to be a hindrance on the party. As such I would like to create single use stored ...
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What are the “unique magic abilities” that draconians get instead of a breath weapon?
I like dragonborn, but I don’t really like the breath weapon that much. You can’t use it very often, and it doesn’t seem to scale very well at all, so it’s hard to imagine it having much relevance to ...
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How strict is the level guide in one-shot games?
I'm fairly new to D&D 5e, but a pretty quick study (thanks at least in part to this site!) I'll be DMing a one shot game at a family event in a couple of months. One of my players has played a ...
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Can an Elf grow a beard?
Can an Elf player character grow a beard?
I would love to plant a cursed Belt of Dwarvenkind in a campaign for an unsuspecting and unwitting Elf (or Half-Elf) PC to promote a memorable role-play ...
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Can you craft during an adventure?
Player's Handbook lists some rules about downtime activities, including crafting (p. 187), as does Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 127). In both resources, downtime activities are defined as activities ...
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How wide is the arc of the medusa's Petrifying Gaze?
I asked this question some time ago, and after a while I figured out more specifically what I want to ask.
The medusa has the Petrifying Gaze trait:
When a creature that can see the medusa's eyes ...
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What constitutes the most protective degree of cover?
The rules for cover state:
If a target is behind multiple sources of cover, only the most protective degree of cover applies
In most situations, determining which cover is most protective is ...
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How can I end the Stunned Condition?
The Stunned condition seems to be incredibly powerful.
Are there any ways to end it with magic, magic items, abilities, or prevent it from occurring in the first place?
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What are the vertical limits of Mirage Arcane?
The mirage arcane spell indicates that it can alter the appearance of terrain in 1 mile square to appear different and ostensibly act function differently as discussed here and here.
Within the spell, ...
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How does the Life Drain ability of the Wraith and Specter interact with temporary hit points?
Wraiths have the Life Drain action; on a hit, it forces the target to make a Con save to avoid having their max HP reduced:
The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or its hit ...
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Can you store a Wished spell inside a Ring of Spell Storing?
The wish spell enables you to emulate any spell of 8th level or lower.
A Ring of Spell Storing enables you to store up to a 5th level spell inside it for later use.
My question is: can you store a ...
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How do I deal with a loot hungry PC?
I am new to the DM role and I have come across a player that maybe some of you have experience with. His main drive is loot. So much so that he has started pick pocketing and searching enemies IN ...
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Do the Zariel tiefling's subrace bonuses stack with the tiefling's regular racial bonuses?
I'm rather new to D&D and I've been trying to create a Tiefling Paladin. When I looked through the subraces, I saw the Zariel tiefling and thought it to be a good idea, which my friends agreed to.
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Question about Dawnbringer and Out of the Abyss [Minor Spoilers]
This question contains spoilers for the Lost Tomb of Khaem from the Out of the Abyss adventure, hence why this question's title is quite ambiguous as well. If you do not want this to be spoiled, avoid ...
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Does Greater Restoration also end the effects cured by Lesser Restoration?
The lesser restoration spell description states:
You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.
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Does a lycanthrope's AC change when shapechanged from a form wearing armor?
Weretigers (and all lyncathropes; Monster Manual p. 210) have the Shapechanger trait:
The weretiger can use its action to polymorph into a tiger-humanoid hybrid or into a tiger, or back into its ...
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Do planes other than the Material detect as magic to Detect Magic?
From my understanding of how the detect magic spell works, using it on another plane would cause problems. Primarily from my current understanding that:
If a character used detect magic on another ...
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Stopping Each Player From Rolling Every Check? [duplicate]
This is a problem that many a DM has faced, but only one I've run aground of recently. I'm running a campaign with a group of fairly new gamers, and as such they are playing to win. And I mean win at ...
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How do Fire Genasi with burning hair sleep?
I'm currently developing a character concept for a Moon Druid I'll be playing in Storm King's Thunder soon, and I've been thinking about going with a Water Genasi.
So far, so good, until I googled ...
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help with finding materials in D&D 5e [closed]
I shall play a campaign with my dungeon master in Faerûn, and wanted to know how to get a specific material in this specific amount.
The two specific materials is Iron golem without a soul, Mundane ...
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Can I use the Mirage Arcane spell to walk on top of a stretch of ocean?
I'm not entirely sure how to ask this question since this spell starts bending reality in ways that are difficult for me to envision. To be fair, though, that's kind of the point.
This answer posits ...
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Can you Contingency a spell from a Ring of Spell Storing?
The contingency spell requires that you "can cast" the contingent spell (of fifth level or lower).
A Ring of Spell Storing lets you store up to a single 5th-level spell by any caster (for example, a ...
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Can a Half-Elf choose the same Ability Score for the +1's of Ability Score Increase?
The Half-Elf has a trait called Ability Score Increase which states:
Your Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1.
Do these "other ability scores" ...
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Can you apply metamagic to a Wished spell?
The wish spell enables you to emulate any spell of 8th level or lower.
Can a sorcerer apply a metamagic effect to the emulated spell by spending the appropriate number of sorcery points (provided ...
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Can a Warlock with the Book of Ancient Secrets invocation add unintelligible spell scrolls to their book?
Can a warlock with the Book of Ancient Secrets eldritch invocation copy spells from a spell scroll from another class' spell list? For example: could a level three warlock copy a spell scroll of ...
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Does casting Contingency with Wish allow you to pick a spell that you don't usually have access to as the contingent spell?
One of the clauses of the contingency spell is that the contingent spell must be a spell "that you can cast".
The wish spell allows you to cast any spell of any class (except other 9th-level spells), ...