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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How much does the Enlarge/Reduce spell increase weapon damage? [duplicate]
If we enlarge a character with the Enlarge/Reduce spell, he grows with the weapon
We have a rule for interacting with larger weapons on p.278 of the DMG. Which says that enlarged weapons have double ...
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Is there a RAW monster that can create large quantities of water without magic?
I've asked the google and can't find anything, and I feel as though I've looked pretty deeply into the monster manual, but I'm wondering if there's a monster that can naturally create large quantities ...
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Can a battlefist be broken by normal means?
I am playing an Artificer, Mastermaker subclass (from Keith Barkers Dread Metrol Ravenloft/Eberron crossover), and for roleplaying purposes want my character's battlefist be unrepairable owing to ...
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Would a group of creatures floating in Reverse Gravity have any chance at saving against a fireball?
I have a character with reverse gravity and fireball at their disposal. Would floating creatures affected by reverse gravity get a chance to make a dex save against fireball if they have no flying ...
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Are an Onyx Dog’s attacks magical? [duplicate]
The figurine of wondrous power is a magic item, and therefore by the definition in the SAC, magical in a game-mechanical sense, i.e. activating it would not work in an antimagic field, detect magic ...
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What can I do about a fellow player who forgets his class features and metagames?
I need advice on how to handle the behavior of a fellow PC.
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Our group formed about 4 Months ago, we are 4PCs + 1DM. We are playing D&D 5e Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. Our DM ...
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Interaction between reaction attacks and concentration spells
I was considering the following scenario with a Wild Magic Sorcerer (this uses a houserule where the player chooses when to refresh Tides of Chaos ability) where they are targeted by a concentration ...
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Is this homebrew Gloves of the Fire Fist magic item balanced as an uncommon item?
Just now I homebrewed the following item and gave it to a player:
Gloves of the Fire Fist
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)
While wearing the gloves, once per day the wearer can cast ...
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Can Commune predict the indefinite future?
The spell:
Commune 5th-level divination (ritual) ...
You contact your deity or a divine proxy and ask up to three questions that can be answered with a yes or no. You must ask your questions before ...
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Double Rings of Amity
The Ring of Amity from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants has a property that states:
When you first attune to this ring, you can touch one willing creature and form a magical bond between the two ...
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How can we streamline a game with seven players in DnD 5e?
The question is: how do I balance gameplay when it comes to initiative?
The game is in person, every other week or so. My party is comprised of 7 players, two of whom are noobs. I, myself, and also ...
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Glory of the Giants item Ring of Amity and Artificers: Free Magical Healing?
The new book Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants has an attunement item called the Ring of Amity, which has an interesting property:
When you first attune to this ring, you can touch one willing ...
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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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Are there consistent rules or lore guidelines about what creatures cannot be magically put to sleep?
I've recently become unreasonably annoyed by sleep effects and how the game seems to handle them. There is a story tied to this:
I play a level 11 bard in our bi-weekly 5e game. Our party was recently ...
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Can you take the dodge action multiple times on the same turn?
The reason I ask this is that I'm doing a build focused on the Dwarven Fortitude feat.
Whenever you take the Dodge action in combat, you can spend one Hit Die to heal yourself. Roll the die, add your ...
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Can I use Performance of Creation to provide the 100gp gem for a homunculus servant?
The College of Creation Bard has the class feature Performance of Creation, which states:
As an action, you can channel the magic of the Song of Creation to create one nonmagical item of your choice ...
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Can half-Elves interbreed with half-Orcs?
Can half-elves and half-Orcs interbreed with each other and who will be born in this case?
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What are the design differences between Pathfinder 2E and D&D 5E? [duplicate]
(I do not believe this is a duplicate of What are the major differences in style and system between D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e? [duplicate] -- despite the similar name, the answer there just ...
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Alternate Magical Ring placement [closed]
I play D&D with my brother in a group. He has a character (a sorcerer) who wears his rings on his toes. He also created a campaign using his character as the enemy (NPC).
I am the only one he told ...
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Could a famous object on the floor of the ocean have gone undiscovered for centuries?
In my setting, five meteors fell on the planet. Each meteor contained a very powerful magical gem.
Four of those fell on land, and the gems were retrieved rather quickly. The last one fell in an ...
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Is there a mechanical disadvantage or taboo with creating an underaged character?
Maybe I have overthought this before posting, but I have a nagging feeling that I might be missing a piece of mechanics or social taboo that addresses this topic.
I am interested in playing a ...
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Is this homebrew "Shimmering Barrier" spell balanced?
I'm trying to make a spell based on a scene from the Dungeon and Dragons movie where a spellcaster protects a group of people around him with some sort of magical barrier:
Shimmering Barrier
2nd ...
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How do I maximize the damage of a single, unarmed attack?
I've noticed that monks favor many, smaller attacks which grow to a set limit of strength after a period of time, but I was wondering if you could somehow get a different build setup that favors a few,...
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Are there examples in WotC publications of a disease that's "a more complicated outbreak"?
On disease, the DMG says:
A simple outbreak might amount to little more than a small drain on party resources, curable by a casting of lesser restoration. A more complicated outbreak can form the ...
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What rarity is appropriate for a homebrew item that lets a Wizard delay declaring a single spell preparation?
Consider the following homebrew magic item:
Uncanny Bookmark
Wizard only, requires attunement.
When you complete a long rest, you may optionally delay choosing the spell for one of your spell ...
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Can I put all points in one ability with customized origins?
I was making a mountain dwarf monk in dnd beyond and was able to get my dex up to 19 at level one, using point buy and customized origins (it allowed me to put both initial ASIs on dex). This seems ...
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Can a Dragonborn bard use a two handed greataxe as a weapon?
If so the greataxe is a axe and a electric guitar if you was wondering
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Does being a Fey creature type offer any advantages? [duplicate]
In the book Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse (MPMM), many creatures are classed as Fey, some that were not classed as fey now are, namely the Changeling.
However with things like ...
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Ready Action and Bonus Action [closed]
In our weekly game we had a pretty typical question about a ready action, reaction and bonus action.
I was DM and here is how it starte.
The players decided to explore some ruins. As they explored, ...
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What is the damage output of an average level 20 character in dnd 5e? [closed]
I would like to know how much an average level 20 character is capable of doing per turn and per ten turns, and how much a level 20 party is capable of doing per turn and per ten turns. I intend on ...
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What can I do to a magic item to prevent it from being stolen, lost, or destroyed?
My DM has given me a magic item that is great, and I passed it by the people on this site to see what they'd say about it. The only issue they brought up was if I lost it, and I'm at a loss.
What can ...
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What's the maximum amount of Constructs you can have active at one time?
I'm on a bit of a Construct schtick right now, and my character is aiming specifically to make the most constructs possible. The roadmap is Lvl 13 College of Creation Bard/Lvl 3 Battle Smith Artificer,...
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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 deductive reasoning capabilities would a soulless Simulacrum with an Intelligence score of 22 have?
Assume that:
A level 17 Wizard (School of Evocation) with an Intelligence score of 22 is able to create a finite but arbitrarily large number of simulacrums of himself, using the widely known ...
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Would someone help with understanding my DM's homebrewed magic item? [closed]
As the title states, my DM made the whole party custom magic items according to our character's class, history, and other details, which is crazy awesome. My character is a Bard that plays a drum for ...
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How does the Beast Transformation optional rule for the Beastlands work?
I'm a little confused about how to handle the Beast Transformation optional rule for the Beastlands (DMG, pg. 60).
What happens when a creature drops to 0 hp before the spell becomes permanent (i.e., ...
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Is there a grand scheme at work for buying worship?
This involves two player characters: A wealthy cleric and a sorcerer with detect thoughts. They are cooperating whereby the cleric is giving gold to NPCs for free, simply asking them to pray to a god ...
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Can you use an illusion to trigger the Warlock Invocation "One With Shadow"?
Can you use an illusion to trigger the Warlock Invocation "One With Shadow"?
One with Shadow makes you invisible in dim light or darkness – so if you cast a Silent Image or Minor Image of ...
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Are these homebrew 'Enhanced Arrows' balanced against each other?
Between adventures my campaign has Down Time, a more structured form of play where the players can build relationships with other NPCs, create things, earn money, etc (taking inspiration from the ...
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Is a dead creature inside a Shambling Mound still Engulfed?
I was playing in a game where there was a Shambling Mound and after Engulfing a creature and killing it, the creature goes about its turn and Engulfs a second person. The DM didn't specify anything ...
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How does the poisoned condition affect the challenge rating?
I am planning an encounter against different Ogres (Half-Ogre, Ogre, Ogre Battering Ram...). During the fight, the Ogres are drunk and suffer the poisoned condition (disadvantage on attack rolls and ...
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Possible not intended mechanics of Encode Thoughts
I have learned in one of my campaigns the Encode Thoughts cantrip as an additional means of communication, so as it was intended, but then I have had a couple of ideas that I could try pull off with ...
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Does casting Dispel Magic on the Illusion created by a Mislead spell also end the Mislead's invisibility?
The Mislead spell has two effects: It creates an illusory copy of the caster that lasts for the duration (concentration, up to 1 hour), and it makes the caster invisible (same conditions as the ...
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Can you alter how Spiritual Weapon moves?
We recently had a situation at our table where we had to chase down a mob of Goblins. One of the clerics had cast Spiritual Weapon and found quickly that it was not very helpful as the spectral weapon ...
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Does the movement speed obtained from different sources add up in dnd5e?
For example, will a character with wings gain an additional 30 feet of flight speed if he wears Winged boots? I have recently studied the topic of speed and flight in dnd a lot, but so far I have not ...
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Would it be unbalanced to let a 5e Cleric cast Enlarge/Reduce?
Playing D&D 5e. The Cleric (Tempest domain) in my players' 4th-level party (Cleric, Ranger, Rogue, Warlock) spotted Enlarge/Reduce and has taken a liking to it for hijinks of the Enormous Half-Orc ...
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Find Familiar magical item [closed]
I want help to create a magic item. I am a Bard 1/Sorcerer 2 with a (Faerie Dragon) pet. I would like to make an item in-game. I'm not quite sure how to proceed.
I want an item (or a set? Like when ...
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How long can you negotiate the price for service with a Planar Ally?
Planar Ally summons a creature for whose service the caster then negotiates. The spell states:
If you are unable to agree on a price for the creature's service, the
creature immediately returns to ...
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How does the Seeming spell disguise weapons?
The Seeming spell "disguises physical appearances as well as clothing, armor, weapons, and equipment".
Does this mean you can make weapons disappear as part of the disguise, or that you can ...
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