Questions tagged [falling]
For questions about mechanics for physically falling over a vertical distance (and directly related issues) in a given RPG system.
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When does a flying creature knocked prone fall and how far? [duplicate]
I understand according to the rules for flying that
If a flying creature is knocked prone, has its speed reduced to 0, or is otherwise deprived of the ability to move, the creature falls, unless it ...
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Does falling provoke opportunity attacks?
Consider this scenario. A sorcerer climbs 20 foot up a tree and gets surprised by a large snake. The snake misses, and then the sorcerer wins initiative and decides to let go of the tree branches. ...
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Does Dimension Door up, then Feather Fall work as I expect?
My character wants to impress a person by teleporting 500' up with Dimension Door together with them, then casting feather fall to spend the next almost a minute (500' / 60' = landing on 9th round) ...
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What is the movement rate of a falling creature or object each round?
This question assumes that no method of controlling speed or direction is available, and that the falling is taking place from a location 30' higher than necessary in order for said creature or object ...
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Does armor class protect against damage from falling objects?
Does armor class protect against damage from falling objects?
Let’s say we have average Munchkin McGee. Now, he boosts his AC to Celestia and back, then his damage reduction to the Abyss and back. I ...
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How can I become immune to fall damage?
How can I become immune to fall damage?
I don’t mean things like feather fall that slow your descent or flight that prevents it from happening altogether; I'm more looking for an option that lets you ...
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Ending the Levitate spell at a considerable height
If a caster has spent the duration of the Levitate spell moving upward to 2000' how long would it take to float back down again?
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How does Feather Fall and cascading waterfalls interact?
"Feather Fall" (PH, p. 239) says:
Choose up to five falling creatures within range. A falling creature's
rate of descent slows to 60 feet per round until the spell ends. lf
the creature lands ...
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Does a dropped object take falling damage?
I see rules for falling creatures and the damage they take when struck by a falling object. But what about the object itself?
Does a dropped object take falling damage?
Context: someone dropped an ...
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Can level 1 characters survive a fall of several miles? [duplicate]
I'm going to start a new campaign soon, and I thought it would be fun to scare my players in the first session by having them start the game falling from the sky.
The thing is, I don't wanna kill ...
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Can Death Ward save you from death due to damage from falling?
I am curious about ways of using Death Ward and wondered what happens if you cast Death Ward on yourself and then throw yourself off a great height.
For example, would it be possible to cast Death ...
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Can you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action while falling?
Can you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action while falling assuming you are falling for at least one turn before hitting the ground.
I want to have some insight into the possibility of a PC ...
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Does feather falling out of a flying creature's space provoke an attack of opportunity?
Would feather falling out of a flying creature's space provoke an attack of opportunity?
The scenario: As you are feather falling, a flying creature flies and attacks you; you then are forced to fall ...
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Does a monk decide to use their reaction on the Slow Fall feature after falling damage is rolled?
At 4th level, monks get the class feature Slow Fall:
Beginning at 4th level, you can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your monk ...
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When a monk mitigates all the damage due to the Slow Fall feature, does he/she still fall prone?
So let's say I deliberately fall let's say 20 feet, I will take 2d6 points of damage. As a monk at 4th level I get slow fall which will let me nullify fall damage 5× monk level. So at 4th level, I get ...
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Does falling count as movement? [duplicate]
I'm planning to play a Sun Soul Aarakocra monk. With the flight of the Aarakocra I can essentially hit someone, fly up and repeat. Let's say I fly up 50 feet and decide to drop to the ground. Does the ...
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Heavy PC falling on enemies [duplicate]
I have a player who's playing as a Tortle (DND 5e) and weighs over 500 lbs. This combined with the ability for Tortles to hide in their shell led to some interesting crushing-related activities, and I ...
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Outside of combat, does a Totem Warrior Barbarian with Eagle Totemic Attunement still fall from flight?
Say a 14th-level Totem Barbarian chose the Eagle totem for the level 14 Totemic Attunement feature, and had the Persistent Rage barbarian feature.
Would they fall after flying 80 feet, assuming they ...
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How can 16th-level characters mitigate damage from a lethal (long) fall?
The core question
What is a way for a 16th level character to avoid potentially fatal falling damage - but are not Feather Fall, Levitate, magic items that grant the properties of these spells, or ...
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How should I handle a player attacking from the top of a tree?
There is a player in my group whose character is developed around staying in trees, climbling, Athletics, Acrobatics, and such. He likes to climb trees and then leap down onto enemies from the tree ...
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How much damage from a falling Orca? [duplicate]
Level 10 Circle of the Moon Druid has two uses of wild shape. At level 2 a player gets "combat wild shape" so you can choose to use your bonus action to transform.
Combat starts, your first turn you ...
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Falling after being Knocked Prone on a Slope
I'm setting up a trap for my players.
They will be entering a tunnel with a rather steep section - steep enough to require climb checks to avoid falling but not so steep it can't be counted as "...
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Can the Thorn Whip cantrip lift the target 10 feet into the air?
Can the thorn whip cantrip lift the target 10 feet into the air?
I can’t find any reason that casting thorn whip from above wouldn’t cause an extra d6 of falling damage.
This isn’t that difficult to ...
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Is there any way to change falling damage to another damage type?
The rules on "Falling" state:
[...] At the end of a fall, a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 20d6...
When looking at the reverse gravity spell I ...
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Does falling out of a threatened square trigger an attack of opportunity?
My party's warlock is hovering twenty feet above water and is surrounded by enemies at the same hover height as him.
Our warblade does not fly.
If our bard activates a wand of benign transposition ...
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How much damage should be caused by falling into water? [duplicate]
I have tried to find the answer to this question by searching the books and was unable to find anything in the regular rules.
Attempting to search here only threw up similar questions relating to ...
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For object fall damage, does the 20d6 maximum apply only to the additional damage from distance, or is it an overall maximum?
According to the DMG, page 303:
For each 200 pounds of an object’s weight, the object deals 1d6 points of damage, provided it falls at least 10 feet. Distance also comes into play, adding an ...
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Does a creature in flight affected by the Haste spell fall when the spell ends?
The final sentence of the Haste spell reads:
When the spell ends, the target can't move or take Actions until after its next turn, as a wave of lethargy sweeps over it. (PBH p. 250)
If a creature ...
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Can the Grasp of Hadar invocation be used to interrupt a lethal fall?
Picture the following: Your party is engaged in battle on the edge of a wall of a cliff of sufficient height that a fall would be lethal. Suddenly one of your party members gets pushed over the edge.
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Can a character with wings stop another character's fall?
If say, an Aasimar and human fall off a cliff and the Aasimar uses Radiant Soul, could they then attempt to at least slow the human's fall?
I was thinking that they would fall at half the speed, and ...
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Do class features that give a flying speed count as magical in relation to falling rules?
There are some classes, like the vengeance paladin's capstone or the Tempest Cleric's 17th level Stormborn feature, that grant a flying speed to a creature.
Is this considered 'magical' flight or is ...
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What would be the game balance implications for using the Gygax method for applying falling damage?
According to the rules, at the end of a fall, a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 20d6.
However, way back in Dragon Magazine #69, D&D co-creator ...
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Does the 500 feet falling cap apply per fall, or per turn?
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything (p. 77) has this to say about the rate of falling:
The rule for falling assumes that a creature immediately drops the entire distance when it falls. But what if a ...
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Is there anything in this grapple and run-jump-fall-stand-repeat strategy that does not work?
The Athlete feat (PHB, p. 165) gives the following benefits:
Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
When you are prone, standing up uses only 5 feet of your ...
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Do you take falling damage if falling from 20 feet or less while grappled by someone affected by the Cat's Grace option of the Enhance Ability spell?
Here are the rules on falling:
At the end of a fall, a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 20d6. The creature lands prone, unless it avoids taking ...
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If a Gelatinous Cube takes up the entire space of a pit trap, what happens when a creature falls in but succeeds on the saving throw against Engulf?
A player character falls into a 10-foot × 10-foot concealed pit trap, which is 20 feet deep. At the bottom of this pit is a gelatinous cube, which occupies all of the bottom 10 × 10 × 10 (width × ...
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Can a flying creature avoid falling damage by flying just before impact?
Say a creature with a flight speed starts their turn 500 feet above the ground. They then stop flying and plummet towards the ground. 5 feet before impact they use 5 feet of their flight movement to ...
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Does falling count as part of my movement? [duplicate]
I'm new to D&D. I've read certain answers to questions similar to mine, but I wish further clarification.
If I, as a Winged Tiefling, fall onto an opponent as part of an attack, does the distance ...
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How much damage should a beholder take if my character jumps onto it and slams it into the ground? [duplicate]
I was wondering how to rule something in my friend's campaign.
We were fighting a modified beholder boss as a level 13 druid and a level 12 warlock. The fight was at a large summoning circle at the ...
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Are there rules for falling in water vs. diving vs. just jumping in for various depths of water?
Just realized that in DMing 5e I have unconsciously used a falling-in-water rule-of-thumb that I inherited from somewhere (maybe 2e or AD&D or maybe even Pathfinder). The ruling I've been using is ...
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Can you break your fall by flying?
If a character in Pathfinder falls could they break their fall by flying, or would they fall to their potential death?
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Can casting the Meld into Stone spell before I hit the ground save me from falling damage?
If I am falling a great height and manage to cast meld into stone before hitting the ground (which happens to be stone, such as a cavern floor), would I suffer falling damage?
Consider the fall to be ...
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What does Banishment do to falling momentum?
A while ago, my DM let me use Banishment on myself to stop my fall from a likely fatal fall. As I was falling, I readied an action to cast Banishment on myself before I hit the ground. He let ...
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Can you take fall damage falling into water under the effects of the Water Walk spell?
The water walk spell states that it "grants the ability to move across any liquid surface [...] as if it were harmless solid ground".
If you fall off a cliff with water walk active on you and the ...
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Can I grapple an enemy, then jump with them and land on them to do crushing damage outside of falling damage?
I’m making a grappler who can jump 8 feet normally, and therefore with the jump spell they can jump 24 ft.
What would happen if I were to grapple a creature, then jump with them and land on them?
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Can a druid prevent or reduce falling damage when using Wild Shape?
I've been doing research to figure out if a druid using wild shape to shapeshift into a beast that is known to be nimble (in the real-world) would be able to prevent or reduce falling damage. For the ...
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How does the simic hybrid's Manta Glide racial trait work during combat?
Consider a Simic Hybrid with the Manta Glide trait:
You have ray-like fins that you can use as wings to slow your fall or allow you to glide. When you fall and aren't incapacitated, you can ...
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Do bullywugs take 1d6 damage and fall prone every time they high jump? [duplicate]
The PHB and basic rules state about falling:
At the end of a fall, a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 20d6. The creature lands prone, unless it ...
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Can Feather Fall be used to arrest falling at any point?
Can the spell feather fall be used to stop you/others falling at any point in the fall, or just at the start of the fall?
For example, could a character jump from a very large height, descend rapidly ...
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What happens to falling momentum (velocity) when a storm sorcerer uses Tempestuous Magic to fly?
Say a D&D 5e storm sorcerer with the Tempestuous Magic 1st-level feature (XGtE, p. 52) is falling from a height of 300 ft. They ready a spell to be cast just before they reach the ground, such ...
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