Questions tagged [reach]
For questions about reach, a mechanical concept in many role-playing games that determines the distance from which a creature can make melee attacks based on its size, the nature of the attack, and the weapon used.
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What effects would allowing to flank with reach have on game balance?
One of my players asked me recently if I would allow their character, who has 10ft. reach, gain advantage from flanking while still using their reach.
I am aware that RAW this would not work since you ...
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Can a creature with reach flank without being directly next to the enemy? [duplicate]
This is something one of my players asked me recently and I'm not 100% sure how to handle it. I'm leaning towards "no, this does not work" but I am not certain and don't want to be unfair to ...
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Can I get out of melee range by being Huge but still small?
When thinking about reach and the space rules in the Player's Handbook, I devised the following thought experiment. If I am huge sized, but occupy a space smaller than 5 feet, am I out of range of any ...
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Why do 6 ft. weapons not have the Reach property? [closed]
There are several weapons in D&D 5e that are at least six feet:
Quarterstaff
Spear
Battleaxe
Greataxe
Greatsword
Trident
Warhammer
Yet these weapons(although there may be some incorrect ones in ...
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Does a Polearm Master with 10' reach get an opportunity attack vs an enemy 10' away when they step to only 5' away?
Polearm Master states:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter the reach you have with that weapon.
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Should my bugbear with long limbs be able to reach further if he is 21 feet tall?
I'm currently playing the Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden published adventure. My Bugbear has been affected by Vlagomir's spark (see area H30 on p. 226-227), and he has grown to be 21 feet tall ...
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How does Cut from the Air interact with Reach weapons?
Cut from the Air
When a ranged attack is made against you or a target adjacent to you, you can cut the weapon (or ammunition) out of the air, deflecting the attack so the target takes no damage. As ...
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Can a PC with a reach weapon attack a tiny creature moving into his square?
Tiny creatures can move in an enemy's square but they provoke an AoO.
Very Small Creature
A Fine, Diminutive, or Tiny creature can move into or through an occupied square. The creature provokes ...
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How can I get reach for touch spells without spending an action per spell?
Snaptongue Gripplis with the Long Tongue feat can deliver touch spells from 10 feet.
Aberrant Sorcerers can use the Tentacular Limbs focus spell1 to get a similar effect.
Is there any other way?
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Does the Enemies Abound spell force a creature to move toward a perceived enemy in order to attack them?
The Enemies Abound spell specifies (emphasis mine):
Whenever the affected creature chooses another creature as a target, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures it can see within ...
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Is melee attacks' reach always written?
So, a group of mine made this doubt pop up: do huge creatures have reach just because of their size?
From what I understand, a creature has reach on a melee attack only if it's written as this one (an ...
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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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Underground Combat - Melee Attack with Reach
About combat possibilities with a creature remaining underground (0 feet away from the surface, as in the picture).
Can a huge monster, with the burrow speed to stay completely underground, having ...
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Does a player character's attack from the "Attack" action have a reach?
While discussing this answer I made to a recent question concerning the Bugbear's Long Limbed trait and how the reach bonus affects the character's other reach-related effects, this question naturally ...
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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 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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How do I make a phalanx fighter?
I have been toying with running Red Hand of Doom again (I last ran it about eight years ago).
One thing I found unsatisfying then was that the hobgoblin foot soldiers are described as professional ...
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Do the Bugbear's Long-Limbed trait and the Way of the Astral Self's astral arms stack for reach?
The Bugbear has a trait called Long-Limbed that states:
When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
The Way of the Astral Self monk has a feature ...
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Can I hit a creature that has a reach larger than mine but is using itself to hit me?
The Enormous Tentacle Has the following attack:
Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 35 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). ...
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Is the Bardic College of Spirits "Tale of the Renowned Duelist" melee spell attack limited by your reach?
The Bardic College of Spirits, published in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, has a feature called "Tales from Beyond":
You reach out to spirits who tell their tales through you. While you ...
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Can a trickery cleric's illusory duplicate make opportunity attacks if the cleric has the War Caster feat?
The cleric's Trickery Domain subclass has the Channel Divinity feature "Invoke Duplicity" which creates an illusory duplicate of the cleric and provides the following abilities:
For the ...
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When you have multiple reaches, are you free to use any of them? [duplicate]
This question is prompted by the Eldritch Claw Tattoo which can allow your attacks to "reach a target up to 15 feet away from you..." and specifically relates to Attacks of Opportunity.
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Are there any Feats for / ways to use spears that reflect its dominance over shorter melee weapons?
Spear are wildly effective weapons, in small-ish Combat Groups.
In particular, when used defensively, they can keep melee attackers at bay with no ability to retaliate relatively easily. You would, ...
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Can weapons with Reach be used to attack "through" willing allies? [duplicate]
I'm picturing the Greek Phalanx formation, where soldiers were arranged in rows and the men in Row B or even Row C could attack the enemy by thrusting their spears between the soldiers in Row A.
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What is the reason for the stone giant's 15' reach with the greatclub? [closed]
The standard stone giant stat block has a reach of 15' with its greatclub melee attack. However, I can see no reason from the rules or description for it to be so, instead of the standard 10' reach of ...
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What weapons have the Reach property?
Is there a comprehensive list of all weapons with Reach? The PHB lists a few however I have heard rumors that a spear and or staff had an errata to add Reach, but I cannot find a source for that.
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Is a creature's reach linked to the reach of its attacks?
This is an issue I've seen coming up with the addition of the Eldritch Claw Tattoo in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, though there seem like there were possible cases of it before.
As far as I can ...
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What's the furthest possible range that an unarmed strike could have?
From what I have seen, the furthest that I could get it was 20 feet, however, I'm sure it's possible to increase it further, so, how far can an unarmed strike truly reach?
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Does the reach increase of the Eldritch Claw tattoo stack with Fangs of the Fire Snake?
The Eldritch Claw tattoo released in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything includes the Eldritch Maul ability which grants the following benefit:
For the duration, each of your melee attacks with a weapon ...
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Ways to extend my natural (non-weapon) reach?
I have a character who has taken Inhuman Reach from Lords of Madness and Deformity (Tall) from Heroes of Horror, and is two levels away from warshaper 3rd and the morphic reach feature from Complete ...
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Does a Bugbear PC take damage when holding an enemy on the other side of a Wall of Fire with Grapple?
Bugbears have long arms, allowing them to grapple enemies 10 ft. away.
The Bugbear's square is not in the effect range of the Wall of Fire.
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Does the Spell Sniper feat double the range of booming blade when you are not wielding a reach weapon?
When using a weapon without reach, does the range of booming blade still double if you have spell sniper?
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Is there a feat or a class feature in 3.5e that is similar to Step Up (Combat) from Pathfinder?
I am looking for a feat that in some way resembles Step Up from Pathfinder:
Step Up (Combat)
You can close the distance when a foe tries to move
away.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
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Does a player character wielding a whip gain advantage if they are 10 feet away from the target? [duplicate]
We had an episode in combat tonight that I was not sure how to adjudicate.
A player character (PC1) with a whip was 10 feet away from an enemy.
In between PC1 and the enemy was another player ...
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How to calculate movement within an area
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How does the UA Tunnel Fighter fighting style's reaction attack interact with the Sentinel feat's speed-reduction effect?
Can a Tunnel Fighter Polearm Master hit the same incoming ...
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Is the Mounted Combatant feat's ability to redirect an attack at the mount limited by the reach of the attacker?
The second benefit of the Mounted Combatant feat says (PHB, p. 168):
You can force an attack targeted at your mount to target you instead.
My DM used a foe to attacked my mount. Imagine this was the ...
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What happens after an Echo Knight fighter grapples using its echo?
This question occurred to me after reading another one: Can the Echo Knight's Echo make Ability Checks?
That question asks whether the Echo Knight fighter's echo can make ability checks. A ...
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Attack of Opportunity - some corner cases (and specters) [closed]
We had a D&D 5E session where a Specter besides a character and a wall "moved" into the wall without leaving the reach of the character, but depending on how you consider reach to work with ...
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Notion of adjacent and natural reach for large creatures or more
The notion of a creature beeing "adjacent" to another seems in general to involve beeing in an adjacent 5-ft square. The only mention I found about this in the rules relates to melee attacks :
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Ride-by attack with a lance
I am currently mastering a game of Pathfinder with a few friends, and a situation occured during a game.
The cavalier which has a few mounted feats (including ride-by attack), charges.
He asked if ...
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What is my vertical reach? [duplicate]
I created a fighter which can jump very high, but I had difficulty determining how high I can exactly reach. I am a Goliath which is 8 feet tall (strength 20). Say my weapon has 5 feet reach.
Can I ...
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For the Charger feat, is it possible to move at least 10 feet in a straight line while staying within an enemy's reach?
The Charger feat lets you make a bonus-action attack with +5 to the damage roll if you take the Dash action and "If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line immediately before taking this bonus ...
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What happens when the UA Bait and Switch maneuver is used on a grappled ally when both the user and ally are still within the grappler's range?
This question is based on this one: What happens when the UA Bait and Switch maneuver is used on a grappled ally when the maneuver-user is out of the grappling monster's reach?
The Unearthed ...
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Jumping to extend one's vertical reach?
Can a character jump vertically (with range 3 + strength modifier) to reach a flying enemy?
Or, is it impossible to combine a vertical jump with an attack?
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Can an Elk make an attack of opportunity with its Hooves when an adjacent creature stands up from being prone?
The rulebook says that an attack of opportunity can be done on a foe leaving your reach area without disengaging. My thought is kind of reminiscent of the old wording "leaving a threatened area", but ...
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What happens when the UA Bait and Switch maneuver is used on a grappled ally when the maneuver-user is out of the grappling monster's reach?
The recent Unearthed Arcana Class Feature Variants includes the Bait and Switch fighter maneuver (page 5), which states:
When you’re within 5 feet of an ally on your turn, you can expend one ...
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How do you threaten diagonals with Reach?
According to the rules on measuring diagonals in the Pathfinder SRD:
When measuring distance, the first diagonal counts as 1 square, the second counts as 2 squares, the third counts as 1, the ...
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Does Enlarge increase your normal reach?
If my character, a medium-sized creature, were to drink a potion of growth, would his reach with a weapon increase?
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How to determine if and how a creature's reach should be modified when its size changes?
Table 9-1, "Size and Reach", on page 474 of the Pathfinder 2e Core Rulebook notes that creatures of a given size category have either a "Reach (Tall)" or a "Reach (Long)". The same page says,
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