Questions tagged [forced-movement]
For questions related to powers or abilities which can move other creatures without their consent.
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Does forcing a Vampire indoors count as an invitation?
On page 297 of the Monster Manual under the Vampire's Vampire Weaknesses section, it says:
Forbiddance. The vampire can't enter a residence without an invitation from one of the occupants.
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Can I trigger an Opportunity Attack by forcing an opponent to move out of my reach?
If I cause an opponent to leave my reach with an ability, spell, or effect can I use my reaction to take an Opportunity Attack against them?
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Can you shove your way out of a grapple?
The [grappled] condition also ends if an effect removes the
grappled creature from the reach of the grappler...
What's stopping the grapplee from shoving the grappler?
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Can the druid cantrip Thorn Whip really defeat a water weird this easily?
Water weirds (MM, p. 299) have the Water Bound trait:
The water weird dies if it leaves the water to which it is bound or if that water is destroyed.
If a water weird is fewer than 10 feet from ...
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Can I drag a grappled creature and release it after moving half of my speed, then move the remainder of my speed?
The grappling rules state:
Moving a Grappled Creature.
When you move, you can drag or carry the grappled creature with you, but your speed is halved, unless the creature is two or more sizes smaller ...
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Is Lightning Lure like a tractor beam?
Lightning Lure says (among other things):
The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pulled up to 10 feet in a straight line toward you...
"In a straight line" here leads to ...
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Can Bigby's Hand move creatures that are Grappled into the air?
Bigby's hand can grapple via Grasping Hand. This allows:
The hand attempts to grapple a Huge or smaller creature within 5 feet of it. You use the hand's Strength score to resolve the grapple. If ...
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Can a monster with a flying speed lift a Grappled PC and then drop them?
Can a monster with a flying speed grapple a PC, use half its movement to fly directly up, and then drop the player in the same turn?
Would this be allowed? Or if any 5th edition core book ruling ...
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How to design and run cinematic combats that move between zones?
I've been running D&D for a few years now, and I just want a little more from my combats. I've already got a very solid handle on designing environments to make combat more dynamic, but what I can'...
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Is teleporting a creature considered forced movement of said creature?
Is teleporting a creature considered to be forced movement of said creature? I have a player interested in a power that adds damage on forced movement and teleport.
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Would a frightened, fleeing creature be considered moving willingly?
If I were to cast a spell on a creature that causes it to become frightened of me and spend all of its movement getting away from me, would that count as "moving willingly" for the purpose ...
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How much of a large's creature's space must be above a pit before they fall?
Scenario: The party encounters large skeletons. The combat map has a lot of squares marked as (possibly) bottomless pits. Each skeleton takes up four squares. If they are forced towards the edge, how ...
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Is it unbalancing to permit OA on forced movement?
I am considering proposing a houserule that would remove the exemption to opportunity attacks (OA) when a creature is moved against it's volition. The intent being to permit players (and monsters) to ...
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Is allowing Shot On The Run with a net to bag and drag a target in one turn overpowered?
So I am running a 9th-level 3.5e campaign for a mix of new and old players. Since not everyone has a handbook, I've been keeping generally to the SRD rule base, since all my players can look them up. ...
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What does the spell Compelled Duel actually do?
After reading through the description of the spell compelled duel, it seems as though the spell does not actually say what it does with respect to restricting the movement of the target creature.
Let'...
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Can you use the Telekinetic feat from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything to break grapples?
With the new 5e book, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, there exists a new feat, Telekinetic (emphasis mine):
You learn to move things with your mind, granting you the following benefits...
As a bonus ...
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What direction do you go if you push yourself?
Dominated: The creature can’t take actions voluntarily. Instead, the dominator chooses a single action for the creature to take on the creature’s turn: a standard, a move, a minor, or a free action. ...
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What happens when your movement is set to zero while attempting to move through a friendly space?
Say Anne is 10 ft away from and fighting Grogo the dwarf fighter, Grogo has Sentinel and Polearm Master. Grogo still has his reaction. Anne has a reach weapon, so she and Grogo are pretty much on a ...
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Dissonant whispers targeting a mounted combatant
When a mounted target of Dissonant Whispers fails its saving throw, can it use its reaction to move the mount and itself away from the caster, or does it use its reaction to move on its own, ...
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Does shoving a creature break its grapple on another?
A situation came up in my session where a fighter used his Shield Master Shove feature to shove a Giant Crocodile that was currently restraining another PC using it's bite+grapple ability.
I did a ...
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What happens when you step off the battle map?
D&D 4th Edition is heavily map-based in combat, right down to dungeon tiles and insert maps and the like. But what happens if a creature moves off the map, either willingly or through forced ...
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For how long does a creature run/stay away after failing the saving throw against the Dissonant Whispers spell?
I'm playing a Bard in a 5E campaign. One of my most useful spells has been Dissonant Whispers. It's saved the party quite a few times but the question has come up and I've not found any answers in ...
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Are there any rules relevant to involuntary movement and effects other than Opportunity Attacks?
PHB p. 195 states that involuntary movement does not provoke opportunity attacks:
You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using ...
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Forced movement into danger: is there a saving throw?
Is there a saving throw to stop forced movement (a push, pull, or slide) from forcing you into a square that will damage you?
My wizard's tactic lately has been to try to Thunderwave enemies into the ...
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When I push a target, do I choose the direction?
When I use a power that allow me to push a target X squares, can I choose the direction the target will be pushed to?
For example: can I push a target in front of me to the diagonal or it must be ...
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Are there specific rules for pushing enemies into/over difficult terrain?
In previous editions of Dungeons and Dragons there was typically a reasonable assurance of being able to resist/avoid forced movement, or a way to prevent being harshly penalized for it (saving throw ...
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Can you shove a friendly creature?
This came up in a session recently, and we couldn't really decide on how this would work. Basically, I wanted to move through an ally's square, and then shove them backward... so I could move up to ...
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Does pushing someone into difficult terrain require extra "movement"?
The Way of the Open Hand monk gets the Open Hand Technique feature at 3rd level, which allows the following effect as one of the options when using Flurry of Blows:
Whenever you hit a creature with ...
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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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How does Come and Get it work with forced movement reduction
The L7 fighter Power Come and Get It specifies that you can pull enemies in a burst 3 up to 2 squares, but mandates that they become adjacent to you.
How does this interact with creatures that can ...
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Can forced movement be used to dismount a rider?
Are a rider and mount considered different targets so I could push or pull one but not the other with a power?
If I can push the rider off of the mount, would the "Catching yourself"(PHB p284) clause ...
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Can you grapple-drag someone out of a grapple?
You are grappled by an enemy. You cannot move (Grappled Condition), though he could move you.
Moving a Grappled Creature. When you move, you can drag or carry the grappled creature with you, but ...
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Can an Arcane Hand be pushed?
In our last session, the party was in a large ice cavern which the adult white dragon boss monster was attempting to enter through a tunnel that was just wide enough for itself. The party evoker had ...
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Does a character with the Sentinel feat whose opportunity attack hits an enemy, forced to move by Dissonant Whispers, have to stop the enemy?
The first benefit of the Sentinel feat (PHB, p. 169-170) says:
When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature’s
speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
Situation: A ...
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When forced away, can I move towards the caster, if my net distance away ends up greater than had I not?
This concerns all forced movement, but is especially relevant for spells like Dissonant Whispers, that caveat how the creature moves. The relevant text for this sort of spell is quoted below:
The ...
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How does forced movement affect a rider?
The Player's Handbook specifies what happens if a rider's mount undergoes forced movement (p. 198):
If an effect moves your mount against its will while you're on it, you must succeed on a DC 10 ...
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Can a character dodge/fly if they use up all their speed?
There's something about the language in the rules for Dodging and Flying that confuses me. In both cases, both can only performed so long as the character's Speed is not 'reduced to 0'.
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Can you choose to not pull with the Thorn Whip spell?
The 5E Druid spell Thorn Whip has a hit effect that pulls the target (Large or smaller) 10 feet, in addition to dealing piercing damage. I imagine this hit effect as the whip wrapping itself around ...
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Can the Crusher feat push enemies off cliffs?
One of the benefits of the Crusher feat from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (p. 79) reads as follows:
Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, you can move ...
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Can a monk push a banshee?
Can an Open Hand Monk push/shove a Banshee using Flurry of Blows, in spite of all of the banshee's condition immunities and features (i.e.: grappled, prone, hover, incorporeal, etc.)?
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D&D 4e Required Forced Movement
I just started getting into forced movement in D&D 4e, and I have a couple of questions:
Is forced movement required to take place? IE As the attacker can you opt not to enact the forced movement....
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How does forced movement reduction interact with "destination-oriented" forced movement?
Dwarfs have a forced movement reduction of 1:
Stand Your Ground: When an effect forces you to move — through a pull,
a push, or a slide — you can move 1 square less than the effect
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Can I smite somebody so hard they pop out the side of a Forcecage?
The relevant part of Forcecage is:
[...] creating a solid barrier that prevents any matter from passing through it [...]
[...] any creature that is completely inside the cage's area is trapped.
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If you force creature into the Snare spell square does it activate?
Snare is a spell that activates when
The trap triggers when a Small creature or larger moves into the area protected by the spell.
Would forced movement via the Thornwhip cantrip snare the foe?
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Does forced movement, as in Thunderwave, necessarily break a grapple? [duplicate]
Consider the situation with three characters: Gary the Grappler, Casey the Caster, and Victor the Victim.
Gary has Victor grappled. Suddenly, Casey shows up to help Victor escape. He isn't strong ...
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Does Sentinel's opportunity attack trigger when I shove someone? [duplicate]
Alright, so me and my pal are working through making a 5e fighty Cleric. He wants to take the Sentinel and Shield Master feats. Sentinel and Shield Master's relevant parts read:
Sentinel
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Does the Infestation cantrip cause the target to provoke opportunity attacks?
Infestation is one of the new cantrips from Unearthed Arcana: Starter Spells. Here is the relevant text
The target must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 piercing
damage. If ...
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In this example, which path would a monster affected by the Dissonant Whispers spell take?
A bard casts Dissonant Whispers (PHB, p. 234) on a monster (diagram below). The monster has to choose between 2 paths. The left path is "safer" than the right path since his allies are that way but ...
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Is a target pushed into a wall by a spell effect subject to collision damage?
Some spells can push the target X feet away (like thunderwave, which pushes 10 feet away on a failed save). I was wondering what happens if the target, while being pushed, encounters a wall or other ...
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Can those paralyzed by the Hold Person spell be forcibly moved?
Can a character shove a paralyzed person, forcing them to move?
Similarly, could a sorcerer cast the cantrip Gust to force the paralyzed person to move (without a Strength save)?
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