29 votes

Are you saving 'against' an effect if that effect applies when you successfully save?

A really strict reading of just the stats block implies that countercharm cannot help in this case. A Bard's countercharm grants advantage to saving throws against being charmed or frightened. The ...
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Would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words?

No There are no secret rules Fey Ancestry: You have advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep. There is no saving throw for Cutting Words and it doesn’t put ...
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Would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words?

No Cutting words says: ...When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of ...
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15 votes
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Does a barbarian benefit from the fast movement ability while wearing medium armor?

Medium armor typically reduces the wearer's speed. A barbarian's extraordinary ability fast movement mitigates but does not obviate the medium armor's speed reduction. The barbarians in the examples ...
15 votes
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Does using the Archer ability with Circle of the Stars Druid require a free hand?

When a feature requires a free hand, there will be something in the rules to tell you that. We know that casting a spell with somatic components requires a free hand because there is a rule for that: ...
13 votes
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When does a character get temporary HP from the Shepherd druid's Bear Spirit Totem?

The timing is pretty clear: “when the spirit appears”. The feature description seems pretty clear about when you can gain these temporary hit points: Each creature of your choice in the aura when the ...
8 votes

Where does a Wildfire Druid's Thorn Whip "originate” in conjunction with the Level 6 class feature Enhanced Bond?

A straightforward reading of the rules tells that the target is pulled towards the caster. The description of Thorn Whip reads as (emphases mine): You create a long, vine-like whip covered in thorns ...
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Are Bonus Feats from Class usable without prerequisites?

Near-universal consensus The way just about everyone plays this is that if a bonus feat names a specific feat, you get it and can use it regardless of requirements. If a bonus feat allows you to get a ...
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5 votes
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How does Anarchomancer handle a high Leadership score?

The prestige class anarchomancer at level 1 gains the supernatural ability ritual of the dark infiltrator that, in part, says, that the player should determine the maximum ECL of the creature into ...
4 votes
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Can a Chronurgy Wizard upcast using Arcane Abeyance?

Yes, as long as the spell is cast no higher than 4th level. Arcane Abeyance states: When you cast a spell using a spell slot of 4th level or lower This is the only requirement. The rules for casting ...
4 votes

Can the Opal of the Ild Rune gift of flame be given to a Pact blade?

Maybe, but you shouldn't. I don't think "will this work" is actually an important question. Even if this would work, it's a bad idea that will waste the rune. Let us assume, for the sake of ...
4 votes

Can the Opal of the Ild Rune gift of flame be given to a Pact blade?

Going by the logic in multiple answers to Pact of the Blade and Antimagic Fields, the answer is: Yes, if you're using the plain Pact of the Blade pact weapon, which is a supernatural, but not ...
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Would Fey Ancestry affect Cutting Words?

No. Cutting words doesn't work on creatures ~immune to charm~. This is the last sentence of the paragraph you mentioned. The creature is immune if it can’t hear you or if it’s immune to being charmed....

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