Questions tagged [grapple]
For questions about grappling — wrestling, or engaging in unarmed, nonlethal combat where the goal is often to incapacitate, restrain, or pin rather than kill one's opponent. Some systems may also refer to this as grabbing.
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Does Trox Grappling Appendages stack damage?
I am in a campaign with a trox brawler and am wondering about clarification for the trox ability grabbing appendages. If the trox can maintain grapple and still make an attack roll, does that mean ...
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Can you use two weapon fighting while maintaining a grapple?
Grappling just says you must use at least one free hand to initiate a grapple. But once you have successfully grappled a target, can you then engage in two-weapon fighting against that target? Or do ...
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Do Grapple Checks Ignore or Include attack Modifiers?
Theory Crafting optimization time:
Your attack bonus on a grapple check is:
Base attack bonus + Strength modifier + special size modifier
Is this a complete replacement of the attack modifier system ...
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How does one Calculate Dual Variable Probability?
Or asked another way:
How do we determine the probability of given grapple to succeed?
In DnD 3.5 the grapple mechanic relies on double variable randomness in order to determine success or failure. ...
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Is it a viable tactic to use a flurry of blows monk to mass grapple a single target?
Can anyone help illustrate or explain the statistical advantages or disadvantages in using flurry of blows to make multiple grapple attempts against a target in the hopes of overwhelming them and &...
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Can a Harengon take a grappled creature with them when they use Rabbit Hop?
If a Harengon character grapples a target and then uses Rabbit Hop, can they drag/carry the target with them? If they can, is the distance of the hop halved like regular movement would be?
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Fall damage from being dropped by a Large creature
Simple question this time. Or maybe not.
If I am a Large creature, i.e. over 10 feet tall, I am going to grapple someone and (assuming I succeed) pick them up. If I hold them up to the level of my ...
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Statting a wall-defense military fork
The party is making their way through my 5e conversion of the classic D-series. They are about to come upon a high, battlemented wall being defended by drow troopers armed with military forks.
The ...
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Potential complications from allowing Arms of the Astral Self to interact with Grapple Rules via feats?
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My earlier question led to a definitive RAW answer proving that Arms of the Astral Self can't be used for grappling, even if a feat like Tavern Brawler gave you a grapple check bonus action ...
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Tavern Brawler + Arms of the Astral Self + Grappler = 10' Grapples/Pins?
Am I correct that specific beats general in this use-case, or is there an interaction/exclusion I'm overlooking that prevents this scene from playing as described? If I'm correct, what rules ...
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Moonbeam + grappling to move an enemy in and out in the same turn? [duplicate]
For reference, Moonbeam:
When a creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it is engulfed in ghostly flames that cause searing pain, and it must make a ...
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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,
immediately before or ...
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Does forced movement free someone from telekenesis' grip?
I was thinking about a team that was pushing and pulling folks into hazards. I'm wondering if an eldritch blast that pushes the enemy will synergize with a teammate using the telekenesis spell, or if ...
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In the One D&D Character Origins Playtest, does a grapple end if you shove the grappler away from you?
Say Alice grapples Bob. Bob then shoves Alice and pushes them 5 feet away.
Which of the following occurs?
A. The shove pushes the grappler out of range, breaking the grapple.
B. Alice drags Bob with ...
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Can the Soulmonger's Tentacles grab & drop a creature into lava the same turn?
In the Tomb of Annihilation adventure, one of the last encounters is against the Soulmonger, a cylindric evil artifact suspended over lava by three adamantine struts.
The artifact can defend itself ...
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Can Monks Use Dex to grapple and shove under the One D&D Character Origins UA?
The Character Origins UA makes Grapple and Shove an Unarmed Strike, which makes sense:
UNARMED STRIKE
An Unarmed Strike is a melee attack that involves you using your body to damage,...
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Does the plasmoid's Amorphous trait grant advantage on ability checks made to avoid being grappled?
The Plasmoid's Amorphous trait (from Ch. 1 of the Astral Adventurer's Guide in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space) says, in part:
[...] You have advantage on ability checks you make to initiate or ...
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What happens to a grappler when their haste effect ends? In the air?
This happened last night in our session and we couldn't find a conclusive answer:
An NPC is grappling a polymorphed PC in the air (the PC polymorphed into a Quetzalcoatlus, and we didn't at the time ...
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Does a Shove or a Grapple count as an "unarmed strike" for purposes of a Monk using a bonus action for a martial arts attack?
The Monk's Martial Arts ability says:
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.
The Grapple and Shove ...
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Does a bugbear's reach revert to normal between multiple consecutive attacks?
A bugbear's long-limbed trait says
When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
Suppose the bugbear has multiple attacks on its attack actions and ...
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Can the Echo Knight's Echo's size dictate what it can grapple?
This question assumes your table rules that the echo of the echo knight can grapple. Purely RAW, I would not ask this.
Say you are a medium creature and you want to grapple something gargantuan, like ...
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Does grappling a prone creature effectively create the restrained condition?
I need some clarification. I’m playing a barbarian (5e), Path of the Storm Wielder (Journey to Ragnarok) level 5 as of now. If he uses an attack action to shove an opponent prone (and wins the ...
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Can a grappled creature attack the grappler's appendage if the grappler is out of the grappled creature's reach? [duplicate]
This question has been answered by a Jeremy Crawford tweet here, but it is my understanding that those rulings are not valid here, so I'm hoping to find an answer in the game rules themselves.
To use ...
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Can an Echo Knight's Echo use a weapon with two hands if the Knight is grappling?
I am about to play an Echo Knight in a game, and have been doing my research. The gist of my understanding is that Echoes are unable to make grappling checks, and I am prepared to work with this. The ...
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How are armor spikes used in a grapple?
Armor spikes' page says:
Armor spikes deal extra piercing damage (see “spiked armor” on Table:
Weapons) on a successful grapple attack. The spikes count as a martial
weapon.
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Can animal companion use grapple in Pathfinder 2e?
Rules of grapple state:
Requirements You have at least one free hand or have your target grappled or restrained. Your target isn't more than one size larger than you.
Obviously, animals don't have ...
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What are the mechanics for attacking a creature grappled by someone else?
I've successfully grappled a creature. What are the mechanics for someone else attacking said creature?
Do they get advantage on the attack?
Is there a higher chance that they hit me?
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Can an attacker with Greater Grapple or Rapid Grapple make a full attack action?
This is specifically for Pathfinder 1e.
So, I haven't been able to find the exact answer I'm looking for. I'm a Druid with two ranks in Brawler (technically, it's a home brew Brawler called Beastial ...
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Does The Amazing Lightspeed Grapple Relay work, RAW?
Inspired by Does The Amazing Lightspeed Horse work, RAW? I thought up a different exploit and I hope someone can find a RAW flaw in it.
N Medium humanoids have gathered on an arbitrarily long field, ...
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Can I push myself away from me? [duplicate]
In their extensive comments on this answer, V2Blast explains that including yourself in the area of effect of a thunderwave is possible, but asks, perhaps rhetorically, why one would ever want to.
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Is it a free action for a monster to release a grapple? [duplicate]
Here's the scenario that elicited this question.
A Roc swoops in and lands a Talon attack, which grapples the target on hit. Roc flies up with remaining movement and then, as a free action, releases ...
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Can Bigby's Hand / Arcane Hand lift an object?
Arcane Hand has a lot of text. Among it, it says:
It has a Strength of 26 (+8)
When you cast the spell and as a Bonus Action on your subsequent turns, you can move the hand up to 60 feet and then ...
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How does variant encumbrance affect monsters like Grells?
I'm running a game with variant encumbrance, and I'm wondering how the monsters would be affected. Obviously, heavily armed and armoured enemies would be hampered, but what about "drug and drag&...
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Does Goliath Beast Barbarian synergize with Tavern Brawler feat as well as I think? [duplicate]
I'm considering playing a Goliath barbarian, Path of the Beast. As I've played mostly arcanists since D&D 3.0, and when I DMed I trusted my players with their PC rules, I'm having a bit of a ...
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Does the weight of the grapplee factor into the speed the grappler can drag them? [duplicate]
Does the weight of the grapplee (the one being grappled) factor into the speed the grappler can drag them? Or conversely, is a low strength grappler limited by their dragging/listing capacity when ...
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Does escaping a concealed grappler require a flat check?
Suppose your character is grappled by a creature with the concealed condition. Normally, targeting such a creature with an attack requires a DC 5 flat check.
A creature that you're concealed from ...
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If someone is knocked unconscious by a Mind Flayer's tentacles and grappled, then healed, do they still make a saving throw against being stunned?
This seems to be a fairly unusual situation and I have not been able to find a ruling.
The description of the Mind Flayer's Tentacles attack states, in part:
[...] If the target is Medium or smaller, ...
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What space does a creature grappled by another creature occupy? [duplicate]
Based on the comments in the top answer to this question, my question aims to solve the dilemma presented of where a grappler and it's grappled target are in relation to each other with respect to ...
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Do bonuses to grappling CMD apply to enemy's rolls to escape grapple?
Human alternate fighter favored class bonus states:
Add +1 to the fighter’s CMD when resisting two combat maneuvers of the
character’s choice.
If I want to make one of the choices to be grapple ...
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Does the Robe of Stars's ability to enter the Astral Plane with "everything you are [...] carrying" let you do so with a grappled creature?
One of my Players has the Robe of Stars. Can he, for example, put a rabbit in his bag and take it with him to the Astral Plane, because he carries it in his bag?
I would think not, but I am not sure. ...
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What is the combined movement speed of multiple grapplers moving a single grappled creature? [duplicate]
So specifically, there are two or three Bullywugs that are going to grab a gnome and then drag him around 200 feet away from where he currently is. Assuming the Bullywugs successfully grapple and ...
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Can you grapple or shove a non-creature?
The rules for grappling and shoving clearly apply to creatures:
Grappling. When you want to grab a creature or wrestle with it, you can use the Attack action to make a special melee attack, a grapple....
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Can an Astral Self Monk/Stars Druid apply the dragon starry form to grapples? [duplicate]
Arms of the Astral Self
While the spectral arms are present, you gain the following benefits:
You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength checks and ...
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Is it an action to voluntarily end a grapple?
If a monster, such as a Chuul, has grappled a character can they end the grapple for free?
EG a Chuul attacks a halfling with a pincer attack and hits, the halfling is now considered grappled, trapped ...
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Can I move a grappled creature so that they precede me towards a destination, rather than following behind?
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In a comment on this answer, user V2Blast suggests that you could circumnavigate* a creature, then push them into a hazard. This would enable moving a grappled creature into a hazard ...
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Can the Grappling Strike maneuver option be used with the Thorn Whip cantrip to grapple a creature from up to 30 feet away?
Grappling Strike is a maneuver option for Battle Master fighters (and others with access to maneuvers) that reads (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, p. 42; emphasis mine):
Immediately after you hit a ...
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Can someone use the Telekinesis power with an Area modifier to attempt an Area Grapple?
If I have the Telekinesis power with an Area modifier (also Selective and Damaging, why not?), can I attempt grappling multiple opponents in the area with it like an enraged Sith Lord?
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How does grappling work in the air?
It seems that RAW a high-flying creature falls the very moment it becomes grappled.
The rules for grappling state
you subject the target to the grappled condition
and the grappled condition is ...
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Does Catfolk's ancestry feat Lucky Break work with the Grapple action?
For reference:
Grapple action
Lucky Break feat
I argue that when grappling with the Lucky Break feat, you are able to reroll the Grapple attack action (when failing or critical failing), because the ...
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Full attacking with natural while grappling or being grappled
My GM said that a creature with several appenges can full attack with all of their natural attacks towards me?
I know that the grapple rules specify "Instead of attempting to break or reverse the ...
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