Questions tagged [saving-throw]
For questions about saving throws, often used in RPGs such as D&D to refer to a set of defensive traits based on a character's own ability to avoid the brunt of damage, resist control, and endure through some force.
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Can Saving Finale be used to save another creature from Phantasmal Killer?
The bard spell Saving Finale lets the bard end his performance to let one of the performance's targets reroll a failed save:
DESCRIPTION
You must have a bardic performance in effect to cast this ...
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Would a Periapt of Wound Closure protect a creature that does not get death saving throws?
Death saving throws are usually reserved for PCs and very important NPCs. In contrast, most creatures simply die when reduced to 0 HP.
If a creature is attuned to a periapt of wound closure, but does ...
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What do you do when a spell or something says that the target needs to do a saving throw without a number for the throw? [duplicate]
For command, it states, "The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn" without any context to how high the target needs to roll for it to succeed. ...
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Can a creature under Dominate Monster choose to willingly fail the saving throw against Calm Emotions if the caster is viewed as an enemy?
The description of the calm emotions spell says (emphasis mine):
You attempt to suppress strong emotions in a group of people. Each humanoid in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose ...
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How much damage does a creature with the Improved Evasion feature take if critically failing a Reflex Save?
Improved Evasion (available on at least Rogues and Swashbucklers) provides the following benefit:
You elude danger to a degree that few can match. Your proficiency rank for Reflex saves increases to ...
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If you succeed on the saving throw for the Sickening Radiance spell, do you still gain a level of exhaustion and emit light?
The description of the Sickening Radiance spell says (XGtE, p. 164):
When a creature moves into the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, that creature must succeed on a ...
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Do spell targets know they were targeted if they make their saves?
A lot of spells in D&D 5e either work or they don't, with no visual or audio effect. If your target cant see or hear that you are casting a spell, and they make their save for that spell... do ...
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In what order do you half and double when damage is both halved and doubled? [duplicate]
Suppose a creature is vulnerable to radiant damage, and is beginning its turn in the area of effect of Moonbeam. It will be taking radiant damage, and the damage roll is a 13. It succeeds on its ...
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Mage Slayer advantage vs. non-Instantaneous spells
The Mage Slayer feat provides the following benefit, amongst others:
You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you.
For spells with a duration of ...
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How do Aura of Devotion and Beguiling Twist interact?
At level 7, the Fey Wanderer ranger gets a feature called Beguiling Twist. The relevant part reads:
Whenever you or a creature you can see within 120 feet of you succeeds on a saving throw against ...
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Pact of the Chain, Sprite Familiar. What does it mean that a “saving throw result is 5 or lower”?
I've been looking into the warlocks Pact of the Chain, which states that you're allowed to pick from the normal familiars as well as a select few Warlock-Only familiars, including the Sprite.
When ...
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How to guarantee a successful DC 20 CON save to maximise benefit from the Bag of Beans Item “explosive egg”? [closed]
Planting one of the 3d4 beans from within the magic item Bag of Beans gives this result about 10% of the time:
A nest of 1d4 + 3 eggs springs up. Any creature that eats an egg must make a DC 20 ...
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Does the Mind Sliver cantrip's effect on saving throws stack with the Bane spell?
The cantrip mind sliver from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (p. 108) has a secondary effect that subtracts 1d4 from the target's next saving throw:
[...] subtract 1d4 from the next saving throw it ...
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using Guidance and Resistance for long term effects
The Guidance and Resistance cantrips both last for 1 minite, but a lot of saves and checks represent longer stretches of time, and I want to know if those cantrips can be applied in those situations.
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What magic items from the DMG give a +1 to saving throws?
My DM gave a few magic items to the party after a particularly rough encounter with a dragon a month or so ago. One player was absent, so we only had 3, and another player's character died. The result ...
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Can an Echo Knight's Echo ever fail a saving throw?
In an unsurprising turn of events the wording of the Echo Knight's Echo continues to cause confusion.
The description of the Echo states the following:
If [the Echo] has to make a saving throw, it ...
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Is there an easy formula for multiple saving throws?
My issue: I am playing a druid and if I do something like summon 8 wolves I can end up forcing the DM into 8 saving throws each turn.
I mitigate this on my end with an app to roll lots of dice, I pre-...
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How to include successful saves when calculating Fireball's average damage?
I want to know how to calculate the average damage of a spell that also deals half damage on a successful save. For this example, I'll be taking the most popular evocation spell, Fireball.
As far as ...
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How does the Dissonant Whispers spell interact with advantage from the halfling's Brave trait?
If someone casts the dissonant whispers spell on my halfling, how does it interact with the halfling's Brave trait?
I roll 2d20 for the advantage, and this "succeed or fail the save"
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Do reactions that trigger on saving throws give knowledge of saving throws that would otherwise be secret?
Preliminaries.
Some reactions have triggers which are tangible events in the fiction of the game. For example, feather fall's casting time is:
1 reaction, which you take when you or a creature within ...
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Does a Successful Saving Throw vs. Disease protect you until the next day?
So you have a monster that can inflict an Injury Track disease. The PC successfully saves to avoid contracting the disease when he is injured in the first round of combat. If he is injured in the same ...
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Does an effect that imposes disadvantage on saving throws remove the advantage from a creature's Magic Resistance trait?
How would the Magic Resistance trait interact with effects that impose disadvantage on saving throws (e.g. the sorcerer’s Heightened Spell Metamagic option, the first bullet point from the bestow ...
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Evangelist Prestige class and save progression
The Evangelist Prestige class level 2 feature, Aligned Class (Ex) states as follows:
Evangelists come from many different backgrounds, and they show an unusual range of diversity. At 2nd level, the ...
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Is the megaraptor's Fortitude saving throw correct?
I'm trying to understand whether this is an error, or whether there is something I'm missing.
According to the System Reference Document, a megaraptor's Fort save is +10.
As an 8 hit dice animal, its ...
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What ways (other than advantage) are there to improve the total for a death saving throw?
What ways (other than advantage) are there to improve the total for a death saving throw?
For instance, the bless spell allows you to add 1d4 to any saving throws you make during the duration.
I'm ...
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What happens if you get over 20 on a death save?
Normally with when you roll death saves, you get up with 1 HP if you roll a 20. But how does this apply with modifiers like Bless?
You bless up to three creatures of your choice within range. ...
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Do you know when you fail a saving throw?
The pathfinder rules say:
A creature that successfully saves against a spell that has no obvious physical effects feels a hostile force or a tingle, but cannot deduce the exact nature of the attack. ...
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What spells or other effects cause a creature to make a saving throw to avoid being knocked out?
I saw that a hydra has "advantage on saving throws against being... knocked unconscious" and was curious as to what spells or effects would cause such a thing to happen. The only effect that ...
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Are creatures aware of the effect of Mirror of Life Trapping?
The Mirror of Life Trapping can trap creatures in it.
Any creature other than you that sees its reflection in the activated mirror while within 30 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving ...
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Can the Mirror of Life Trapping force multiple saves?
The Mirror of Life Trapping can trap creatures in it.
Any creature other than you that sees its reflection in the activated mirror while within 30 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving ...
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What happens when a dying abjurer with an Arcane Ward active is attacked?
An abjuration wizard has the Arcane Ward class feature (PHB, p. 115):
Starting at 2nd level, you can weave magic around yourself for protection. When you cast an abjuration spell of 1st level or ...
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What happens when an unconscious creature fails their saving throw against a Banshee's Wail?
A Banshee (MM, p. 23) has the Wail action:
Wail (1/Day). The banshee releases a mournful wail, provided that she isn’t in sunlight. This wail has no effect on constructs and undead. All other ...
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Magic Resistance and Destructive Wrath
Currently hit a debate within our campaign in regards to a bearded devil gaining advantage on a Saving Throw from Magic Resistance when our Tempest Cleric can use their Channel Divinity for ...
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Resistance and saving throws [duplicate]
If i have resistance against a damage type and if i get a success on that damage types saving throw, does the damage halved twice? I checked the players handbooks for this but i couldn't find any ...
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Can a creature use Legendary Resistance to succeed on the saving throw against a Scrying spell?
My players recently decided that they would like to cast the scrying spell on a creature that has the Legendary Resistance trait.
Does the Legendary Resistance trait function outside of combat?
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How can a low-level rogue reduce a target's Constitution modifier?
I want to play a rogue that relies heavily on poisons and other utility flasks (e.g. alchemist's fire). We're starting out at level 1, and the story arc should take us to roughly level 11.
To make ...
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Does Enhance Ability spell help with saving throws?
Background: I was hoping to use Enhance Ability and its Bear's Endurance option to speed up our travelling a bit. But now I am not sure if it will work, hence this question.
Enhance Ability - Bear's ...
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When do magical items require saving throws?
When do magical items require saving throws?
For example, suppose a fighter with a ring of protection +2 is hit with a fireball. I see three possibilities:
A) The ring needs a save only if it's not ...
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Do ball bearings require more than 1 save when moving across the tiles?
Ball bearings cover a square area that is 10 feet on a side. A creature moving across the covered area must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. But is this for every square they ...
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How does the Heightened Spell metamagic work on the Immolation spell?
I've been looking for an answer on how the sorcerer's Heightened Spell Metamagic option would affect the immolation spell. Would it apply to all the Dex saves of the spell? Or would it only apply to ...
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Is Scry on Familiar an obvious waste of time?
I recently noticed that on top of getting a great level of spell resistance and inheriting their master's excellent base Will save bonus, a Wizard's familiar grants the Scry on Familiar (Sp) ability ...
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Is there any way to actually impose disadvantage (not just cancel advantage) on saving throws against spells for a creature with Magic Resistance?
Many creatures in D&D 5e have a feature called Magic Resistance. One such is the Archmage:
Magic Resistance. The archmage has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
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If 2 creatures in range have the Sanctuary spell cast on them, can you repeatedly switch targets between them until you succeed on the save?
The description of the sanctuary spell states:
You ward a creature within range against attack. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell ...
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Does the Iron Flask let you Order the Creature Back in Without a Save?
So I have an Iron Flask in my current campaign, and we happened to find out that it contains Tiamat. We released Tiamat to have a conversation, where she threatened to eat me at the end of the hour.
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Can Two Artificers Make a Bag of Holding Bomb?
The artificer class has the Infuse Item class feature, which allows it to make "effectively a prototype" of a permanent Bag of Holding using the Replicate Magic Item Artificer Infusion, ...
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Can the Chronurgy wizard's Chronal Shift feature be used when a creature uses Legendary Resistance to succeed on a saving throw?
The Chronurgy Magic wizard's Chronal Shift feature (Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 184) says:
You can magically exert limited control over the flow of time around a creature. As a reaction, after ...
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Does a character automatically fail one death save when they drop to 0 hit points?
I have a question regarding death saves and whether anyone knows an official source that can determine this.
So according to my DM's interpretation of the RAW, if an attack brings you below zero hit ...
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Are there any monsters with hypnosis-like abilities and what type of saving throw do they force?
I am wondering if any monsters have a hypnosis-like spell or feature, and if so what is the ability used in the saving throw?
What I mean about "hypnosis" is that it falls short of complete ...
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If 3+ characters cast Flesh to Stone on the same target, and the target fails the saving throws against all of them, is it petrified?
The flesh to stone spell states:
A creature restrained by this spell must make another Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns. If it successfully saves against this spell three ...
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Counterspelling or legendarily resisting a Critical hit spell attack in D&D 5e
I was wondering about something in D&D 5e:
About Counterspell
If my sorcerer casts a spell Rolling 20 against a magic user (normal npc or a boss), can they counterspell it?
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