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Does an opportunity attack allow a monk to use their unarmed bonus attack if they still have it and it’s still their turn?
Oportunity attacks are reactions, not normal actions, so this won't work
You can only use Martial Arts with the Attack action:
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon ...
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Can I spend additional ki points to make additional attacks with my Flurry of Blows bonus action?
You can make one flurry with two strikes
Flurry of Blows is not limited by a number per turn, but by coupling it to taking the Attack action on your turn, and by your available bonus actions:
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Does a Fireball whose damage type was changed via Awakened Spellbook still ignite flammable objects?
Awakened Spellbook only changes the damage type.
Awakened Spellbook changes a spell’s damage type, and this is the only effect of the spell that is changed. So a non-fire damage fireball still sets ...
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If I'm Wild Shaped or Polymorphed and reduced to 0 hit points, can I use Strength Before Death as a reaction to take an extra turn?
Yes if you're Wild Shaped, No if you're Polymorphed
The nature of this question strictly comes down to whether you have access to your class features while transformed.
The Wild Shape feature says the ...
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If I'm Wild Shaped or Polymorphed and reduced to 0 hit points, can I use Strength Before Death as a reaction to take an extra turn?
You most probably can if you were wildshaped
This answer differs depending on if you are polymorphed, or if you are wildshaped. If you are polymorphed, you don't get to keep your class features, you ...
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What happens when a level 14 bard uses Nimbus of Pathos on a wild shape Druid currently in wild shape?
The druid reverts to their normal form and stops dying
When Nimbus of Pathos ends, you fall to 0 hit points in your creature form, and are dying. That means you would have to make a death saving throw ...
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Can unarmed strikes be used with Dread Ambusher?
Dread Ambusher not intended to work with unarmed strikes
There is precedent from a very similar situation with Divine Smite, where we have this Sage Advice Compendium entry
Can a paladin use Divine ...
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 1st-level spell's damage type with force damage via Mage Armor, RAW?
This does not work as not all force is force damage
Force is a damage type, but mage armor does not deal force damage. The rules for damage types (PHB, p. 196) say:
Different attacks, damaging spells,...
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If I'm Wild Shaped or Polymorphed and reduced to 0 hit points, can I use Strength Before Death as a reaction to take an extra turn?
You can't delay something that isn't about to happen
If you take damage that reduces you to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to delay falling unconscious, and you can immediately take an extra ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
The "Inheritor" background from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is a variation on the Folk Hero background, but you get an item or similar thing as an inheritance.
One of the options ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
There are only very limited options
As of today, as far as I can tell, there are no other backgrounds, feats or class features that allow you to create a magic item of choice, which I think is what ...
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What happens when a level 14 bard uses Nimbus of Pathos on a wild shape Druid currently in wild shape?
You are not dying and you have your original form’s hit points.
Nimbus of Pathos has a phrase that I have seen called “unhelpful helper text”:
When this effect ends, the creature immediately drops to ...
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 1st-level spell's damage type with force damage via Mage Armor, RAW?
This does not work. Mage armor does not have a damage type.
Awakened Spellbook states:
When you cast a wizard spell with a spell slot, you can temporarily replace its damage type with a type that ...
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 3rd-level spell's damage type with piercing damage via Summon Fey?
Within the narrative, you don't have stat blocks in your spell
Other answers here have capably described the rules regarding how the Awakened Spellbook works with regards to damage type. I think it ...
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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?
You got the main impact
There are some additional implications for allowing the attacks with Flurry to happen first, depending on your monk subclass. For example:
As you say a Way of the Open Hand ...
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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?
Contingent Effects
Our friendly Hobgoblin's answer includes lots of valid interactions that might apply to the specific special abilities granted one subclass or another.
SeriousBri's comment points ...
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 3rd-level spell's damage type with piercing damage via Summon Fey?
No, stat blocks are separate
The stat block template does no "appear in" the Summon Fey spell. It is separate. The rules for spells (p. 201, PHB) say:
Each spell description [...] begins ...
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Can you use Awakened Spellbook to replace a 3rd-level spell's damage type with piercing damage via Summon Fey?
Summon fey does not deal damage, a summoned fey does.
Summon fey the spell does not have a damage type. It does not deal damage. There is no damage type appearing on the spell. This should not be a ...
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Must a monk's Flurry of Blows attacks occur after the initial (and extra) attack from the Attack action?
We can compare the official ruling from SAC for a very similar feature.
The Shield Master feat allows, among other options, to shove a creature as a Bonus action once the Attack action has been taken:
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