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Can a snake be prone?
Yes, Snakes can be prone
Conditions
Prone is a condition (PHB, 290). And the only way to avoid that condition is to have some form of immunity or something else mechanically that prevents a creature ...
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Petrification at low levels
This pit-fall of Challenge Rating is anticipated in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
The DMG gives some guidance for designing encounters, and there is a sidebar on p. 82 that mentions exactly the problem ...
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Can a petrified character drown?
No, you can't drown
The first of the rules for the petrified condition states:
A petrified creature is transformed, along with any nonmagical object it is wearing or carrying, into a solid inanimate ...
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Can a paralyzed creature targeted by an Evocation Wizard's Sculpt Spells feature actually succeed a Dex save?
While these are two contrary rules exceptions, and therefore ambiguous, from a story perspective, Sculpt Spell is intended to represent the evoker guiding their damaging spell to avoid the target, so ...
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How Much Does a Petrified Character Weigh?
A petrified character weighs 10 times their normal weight
This is answered in the first bullet point of the petrified condition (emphasis added):
A petrified creature is transformed, along with ...
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Since advantage and disadvantage caused in a heavily obscured area cancel out, what effect does it have in combat?
It levels the playing field
Casting darkness will cancel out both advantage and disadvantage, due to the way they stack.
If your opponent has advantage and you have disadvantage, then cancelling both ...
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Can an incapacitated character still use bonus actions?
No, an incapacitated character cannot take bonus actions.
From the rules for bonus actions:
anything that deprives you of your ability to take actions also prevents you from taking a bonus action.
...
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Does the frightened condition provide supernatural knowledge of the location of the source of fear?
Not going RAW
The player is not "willingly" moving closer to the dragon, they are unknowingly doing so. They can keep moving closer to the dragon up until they become aware of the dragon's ...
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If you are incapacitated, can you move?
Yes.
The condition states everything you're not allowed to do:
Actions (which also prevents Bonus Actions, per PHB p. 189: "anything that deprives you of your ability to take actions also ...
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Is a character swallowed by a giant toad considered "unseen" on an attack against the toad, granting advantage (which cancels out disadvantage)?
Neither advantage nor disadvantage
As you say, you have several sources of disadvantage and one source of advantage - being unseen. These cancel, leaving you with neither.
Even if you don’t ...
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Since advantage and disadvantage caused in a heavily obscured area cancel out, what effect does it have in combat?
If you cannot see your opponent then you cannot use any spell or feature that says "that you can see".
For example, you cannot:
Use Protection fighting style.
Use Uncanny Dodge.
Make Opportunity ...
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Unlisted effects of Incapacitated Condition
This answer only lists the otherwise unlisted effects of each condition that could apply to practically any character (that I could find, of course).
It does not include class-specific examples, race-...
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If a character is stunned but still has attacks remaining, can they still make those attacks?
I would say that Alex can no longer finish their turn, as they are immediately Stunned and therefore incapacitated.
Stunned
A stunned creature is incapacitated (see the condition), can’t ...
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Which Saves oppose which Conditions?
No, because it depends on the effect that is causing the condition. You cannot save against a condition, you save against an effect (a spell, item, monster, maneaver, etc)
The same condition might be ...
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If you succeed on all of your death saving throws, what happens?
If you succeed on a Death Saving Throws 3 times, you don't recover any hitpoints. Instead, you become stable:
A stable creature doesn’t make death saving throws, even though it has 0 hit points, ...
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Does immunity to fear prevent a mummy's Dreadful Glare from paralyzing a character?
The lore given in the Monster Manual provides an answer
The stat block of any monster is not given in isolation, the Source Book (in this case the Monster Manual) provides lore of each monster ...
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Does Disguise Self end if the caster falls unconscious?
Disguise Self does not end when you are incapacitated
According to the rules on spell duration in the Player's Handbook
A spell's duration is the length of time the spell persists. A duration can be ...
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Does being stunned interrupt concentration?
Being Stunned ends concentration by inflicting the Incapacitated condition
One of the effects of the Stunned condition is this:
A stunned creature is incapacitated (see the condition), can't move, ...
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Does the beholder's charm ray really take a PC out of the fight like this?
That's correct: the beholder's Charm Ray does not have a repeating save. The other rays you've quoted show what it would look like if it were there, and it's not.
You're also correct that while ...
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Can you negate the Frightened condition by not looking at the source of your fear?
If the source of the Frightened condition isn't within line of sight, you're still Frightened, but you don't suffer some of the effects of being Frightened.
A frightened creature has ...
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Can You Use Teleportation to Stand Up?
The basic (but unwritten) rule is that spells do not do things that are not in their description. There is a price to pay for standing up and misty step and other similar spells do not waive it.
But ...
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How to tell a statue from a petrified creature in 5e?
Cast a long-duration spell on it, then identify
First, is a petrified creature a creature? The petrified condition says:
A petrified creature is transformed, along with any nonmagical object it is ...
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Do PCs roll saves for pre-existing effects while Unconscious?
Yes, unconscious creatures still roll saving throws.
"Automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws" implies that other saving throws do not automatically fail. The phrasing would be ...
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Can You Use Teleportation to Stand Up?
Prone is a condition, and the Conditions section (page 290 of the PHB) says this:
A condition lasts either until it is countered
(the prone condition is countered by standing
up, for example) ...
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Does a petrified creature stay conscious (and sane)?
Not-Unconscious does not necessarily mean awake and aware.
Sometimes the game just expects us to understand certain terms without giving explicit rules text about what they mean. Famously, 5e doesn't ...
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Can I use an Immovable Rod to Pin an enemy?
Mechanically...
In order to attempt to pin an opponent, they must first be on the ground, or perhaps pressed flat up against a solid surface like a wall. In order to put them there, you'll need to ...
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How many opportunity attacks can you make per turn before becoming exhausted?
Usually a creature has only a single opportunity attack available
To make an opportunity attack a creature needs to use their reaction to do so. From the rules on opportunity attacks (emphasis mine):
...
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What is the source of the fear in the Hallow spell's extra Fear effect?
RAW: Unclear
As written, the Hallow spell does not specify any of this, as you noted. I can't find any mention of Hallow in the Sage Advice Compendium or the PHB Errata, and I couldn't find any ...
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Are creatures with the immune to poisoned condition immune to poison damage?
No, but flesh golems are also immune to poison damage
The poisoned condition and the poison damage type have no mechanical link beyond the fact that they are both poison derived. This is relevant for ...
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Does the frightened condition provide supernatural knowledge of the location of the source of fear?
The Frightened condition isn't supernatural at all.
"Frightened" means the character is overcome with fear, the way people and animals sometimes are. Spells and magical creatures' abilities can cause ...
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