Sage Advice Compendium (2014)
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Sage Advice Compendium (2014)
- Rules References
- Official Rulings
- Compiled Answers
- The Role of Rules
- Why even have a column like Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling?
- RAW
- RAI
- RAF
- Character Creation
- How do you calculate a creature's Armor Class (AC)?
- Unarmored
- Armored
- Unarmored Defense (Barbarian)
- Unarmored Defense (Monk)
- Draconic Resilience (Sorcerer)
- Natural Armor
- Racial Traits
- Does the Trance trait allow an elf to finish a long rest in 4 hours?
- Do the lightfoot halfling and wood elf hiding racial traits allow them to hide while observed?
- Can a dragonborn sorcerer with a draconic bloodline have two different kinds of Draconic Ancestry?
- How long do a shifter's temporary hit points last?
- Does all magical darkness block darkvision?
- Class Features
- When you use Extra Attack, do you have to use the same weapon for all the attacks?
- Artificer
- What is the timing of Flash of Genius?
- Which action is used to activate a Spell-Storing Item?
- Can an artificer dismiss one of their infusions on an object early?
- Barbarian
- Does the barbarian's Danger Sense work against breath weapons and enemies' special abilities?
- For the barbarian's Reckless Attack, do you grant advantage to all enemies, or only to the target of your attack?
- Bard
- Do the benefits from Bardic Inspiration and the guidance spell stack? Can they be applied to the same roll?
- Is the intent that a bard gets to know the number rolled on an attack roll or ability check before using Cutting Words, or should they always guess? If used on a damage roll, does Cutting Words apply to any kind of damage roll including an auto-hit spell like {@spell magic missile}?
- Can a bard replace spells gained through Magical Secrets?
- Which spell scrolls can bards understand—spells from the bard list only, or spells from the bard list plus spells from Magical Secrets?
- Does using College of Valor's Combat Inspiration add to the damage of an attack count as a damage die for purposes of critical hits?
- Cleric
- When a cleric uses the Destructive Wrath feature, does it maximize all damage getting rolled, as long as some of it is lightning or thunder?
- If a Grave Domain cleric casts a spell that restores hit points to multiple creatures and one of those creatures has 0 hit points, does the spell restore the maximum number of hit points to all targets of the spell?
- Druid
- What happens if a druid wears metal armor?
- Can a bound and gagged druid simply use Wild Shape to get out? It's hard to capture someone who can turn into a mouse at will
- Does the druid's Elemental Wild Shape limit you to the four creatures listed, or can you turn into any creature with the elemental type?
- Can a Circle of the Moon druid speak the languages it knows while in the form of an elemental?
- If a druid in elemental form can speak, can the druid cast spells?
- If a druid takes the Magic Initiate feat and chooses detect magic as their one spell, can the druid cast that spell as a ritual?
- Fighter
- Does the fighter's Action Surge feature let you take an extra bonus action, in addition to an extra action?
- Can a fighter have two fighting styles active at once?
- Does the Archery fighting style work with a melee weapon that you throw?
- Is the Dueling fighting style intended to support a shield?
- If you use Great Weapon Fighting with a feature like Divine Smite or a spell like hex, do you get to reroll any 1 or 2 you roll for the extra damage?
- If my Battle Master fighter provokes an opportunity attack and it misses, can I use Riposte?
- Does the "when" in the Eldritch Knight's War Magic feature mean the bonus attack comes after you cast the cantrip, or can it come before?
- If my Eldritch Knight casts true strike and has the War Magic feature, is the attack granted by War Magic made with advantage because of true strike?
- Can the Disarming Attack maneuver disarm a creature of a shield it has donned?
- Monk
- If a monk uses a staff or another versatile weapon two-handed, does it still count as a monk weapon?
- The dart is not classified as a monk weapon, yet a monk gets 10 darts as starting equipment. Why is that?
- Does the Martial Arts feature turn monk weapons and unarmed strikes into finesse weapons?
- When a monk using Deflect Missiles catches and throws a projectile, what is the damage of the attack?
- Can a monk use Stunning Strike with an unarmed strike, even though unarmed strikes aren't weapons?
- When a monk uses Empty Body, does the invisibility remain in effect after the monk attacks?
- Does a monk's Purity of Body feature grant immunity to poison damage, the poisoned condition, or both?
- Can the monk's Open Hand Technique push a Large or larger creature or knock it prone?
- Does a monk need to spend any ki points to cast the minor illusion cantrip granted by the Shadow Arts feature?
- For a Way of Shadow monk, can their silence be dispelled?
- Can a monk of the Way of the Four Elements replace Elemental Attunement with another elemental discipline?
- Paladin
- Would a Paladin's Divine Sense register a tiefling due to their infernal heritage?
- Can my paladin use a smite spell along with Divine Smite? As in, I cast wrathful smite, hit, then use Divine Smite on the same attack?
- Can a paladin use Divine Smite when they hit using an unarmed strike?
- Ranger
- There is no component pouch option in the ranger's starting equipment. Does the class not need one, nor a focus for spells?
- Can a ranger move between the attack rolls of the Whirlwind Attack feature?
- Does a Monster Slayer ranger's Supernatural Defense feature apply if a creature damages the ranger, thus causing the ranger to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell?
- Rogue
- Can a rogue use Sneak Attack more than once per round?
- For Sneak Attack, what if another enemy of your target was 10 feet away with a polearm (which has a reach of 10 feet), instead of 5 feet away? Would you still be able to use Sneak Attack?
- Does Uncanny Dodge work automatically against every attack a rogue or ranger gets hit by? Spell attacks too?
- Can a rogue use Evasion if they are {@status surprised}?
- Can the rogue's Reliable Talent feature be used in conjunction with Remarkable Athlete or Jack of All Trades?
- Can a thief use the Fast Hands feature to activate a magic item?
- For triggering the rogue's Assassinate ability, when does a creature stop being surprised? After their turn in the round, or at the end of the round?
- Does the Thief's Use Magic Device feature allow them to use spell scrolls?
- Can a Thief use Fast Hands to use or apply poisons?
- Sorcerer
- If a sorcerer casts a spell with only verbal or somatic components using Subtle Spell, can an opponent use counterspell against it?
- Metamagic rules state you can't use multiple Metamagic options on a single spell. Can you use one option multiple times?
- Elemental Affinity improves one damage roll of a spell, not multiple rolls? So with scorching ray, I don't add my Charisma modifier to each ray that hits?
- Can Empowered Spell affect all the rays of a scorching ray spell, or just one?
- Does Quickened Spell allow a sorcerer to cast two spells a round of 1st level or higher?
- Can my sorcerer use Twinned Spell on a spell duplicated by the casting of a wish spell? And if so, how many sorcery points does it cost?
- Does a sorcerer's Wild Magic Surge effect replace the effect of the spell that triggered it, or do both effects happen?
- Can my sorcerer use Twinned Spell to affect a particular spell?
- Warlock
- Do warlock spells granted by the Expanded Spell List feature count against the number of spells known?
- Does the Eyes of the Rune Keeper invocation work on magical runes?
- If a warlock uses Pact of the Blade to bond with a magic weapon, does that weapon have to be a melee weapon, and can the warlock change the weapon's form?
- If you're a Pact of the Blade warlock, can someone else wield your pact weapon?
- Does the warlock's Awakened Mind feature allow two-way telepathic communication?
- Does using a bonus action break invisibility from a warlock's One with Shadows invocation?
- Wizard
- Is an abjurer's Arcane Ward healed only when the ward has 0 hit points?
- Does casting alarm as a ritual heal Arcane Ward?
- How does Arcane Ward interact with temporary hit points and damage resistance that an abjurer might have?
- An abjurer gains resistance to spell damage at 14th level. Does the abjurer's Arcane Ward gain this resistance when a spell hits the abjurer?
- Does the evoker's Potent Cantrip feature apply to cantrips with attack rolls or only to saves?
- Does the 14th-level illusionist ability let you make something real every round, or just once?
- For the Shapechanger feature of the School of Transmutation, does polymorph need to be prepared if I only want to cast it without using a spell slot?
- Can Minor Conjuration create a copy of a book, complete with all its text, if the wizard hasn't seen all the text?
- Can a School of Divination wizard on the Ethereal Plane use Portent on a creature that the wizard can see on the Material Plane?
- For a wizard to cast a ritual spell contained in their spellbook, do they need to read from the book or use it as part of the ritual?
- Backgrounds
- Can you have more than one background?
- Equipment
- Does heavy armor reduce Dexterity saving throws or ability checks other than Stealth?
- If you attack with a shield—most likely as an improvised weapon—do you keep the +2 bonus to AC?
- Multiclassing
- Are ability score improvements class-level dependent, rather than total level?
- Would a temporary stat bump fulfill a multiclass prerequisite, or does the base score have to meet the requirement?
- When multiclassing, do you get the cantrips from all your classes?
- Do you gain proficiency in more saving throws when multiclassing?
- Can a barbarian/cleric use spiritual weapon to attack while raging, if it is cast before entering rage?
- Can a barbarian/fighter (Battle Master) use maneuvers while raging?
- Can a rogue/monk use Sneak Attack with unarmed strikes?
- A wizard multiclasses into Wild Magic sorcerer. Do spells cast from their spellbook trigger Wild Magic Surge if they are on the sorcerer spell list, or do they have to gain them from sorcerer to trigger?
- Feats
- Charger
- If you have the Charger feat, can you make your charge attack when your mount takes the Dash action?
- Crossbow Expert
- Is it intentional that the second benefit of Crossbow Expert helps ranged spell attacks?
- Do the first and third benefits of Crossbow Expert turn a hand crossbow into a semiautomatic weapon?
- Does Crossbow Expert let you fire a hand crossbow and then fire it again as a bonus action?
- Dual Wielder
- Can my character wield two heavy weapons if she has the Dual Wielder feat?
- Elemental Adept
- Is Elemental Adept the only feat you can take more than once?
- Great Weapon Master
- With the Great Weapon Master feat, do you have to take the bonus action immediately, or could you move and then use it on the same turn?
- Lucky
- How does the Lucky feat interact with advantage and disadvantage?
- Magic Initiate
- If you're a spellcaster, can you pick your own class when you gain the Magic Initiate feat?
- If you have spell slots, can you use them to cast the 1st-level spell you learn with the Magic Initiate feat?
- Polearm Master
- Can I add my Strength modifier to the damage of the bonus attack that Polearm Master gives me?
- Does Polearm Master let me make an opportunity attack against a target that is being forced to approach me?
- Savage Attacker
- Does the Savage Attacker feat work with unarmed strikes?
- Does the benefit of the Savage Attacker feat apply to additional effects like the rogue's Sneak Attack or the paladin's Divine Smite?
- Sentinel
- Does the attack granted by the third benefit of the Sentinel feat take place before or after the triggering attack?
- How does the Sentinel feat work against an enemy that has Fancy Footwork or the Mobile feat?
- Shield Master
- The Shield Master feat lets you shove someone as a bonus action if you take the Attack action. Can you take that bonus action before the Attack action?
- Tough
- Does the Tough feat have an effect for a druid while in beast form?
- Ability Checks
- Are attack rolls and saving throws basically specialized ability checks?
- Can you get a critical hit on an ability check? For example, on a grapple attempt, does a critical win, or the highest number?
- Is a 1 on an ability check an automatic failure?
- If you cast the hex spell and choose Strength as the affected ability, does the target also have disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws that use Strength?
- Does the bard's Jack of All Trades feature apply to attack rolls and saving throws that don't use the bard's proficiency bonus?
- When you make a Strength (Athletics) check to grapple or shove someone, are you making an attack roll?
- Adventuring
- Is there a hard limit on how many short rests characters can take in a day, or is this purely up to the DM to decide?
- Are extradimensional spaces, such as a demiplane or the space created by rope trick, considered to be on a different plane of existence?
- How do I tell if something in the game is magical?
- What's an example of an effect that can reduce exhaustion?
- Is there a way to get lost Intelligence back, such as after an intellect devourer zeroes it?
- What happens after 20th level? Is there a cap to character levels?
- The frightened condition says "while the source of its fear is within line of sight." Does that mean you have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks even if the source is invisible but you have a clear line to its space?
- Does casting a spell while taking a short rest interrupt the rest?
- Combat
- Does surprise happen outside the initiative order as a special surprise round?
- Surprise rules work for two opposing sides. What happens with surprise when a third group of combatants sneaks up, hidden from the melee, and ambushes?
- If a wizard casts a spell like fireball during a surprise round, do the enemies get disadvantage on their saving throw?
- Can you delay your turn and take it later in the round?
- I have a readied action. Can I stop readying to take an opportunity attack? Or is ready a full turn commitment?
- Can a bonus action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a bard use a bonus action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast healing word?
- Can a flying creature without the hover trait stay in one place while airborne, or does it need to move each round?
- Can you move through the space of a prone enemy?
- Does travel pace apply to movement in combat, or just when traveling?
- If you have a feature like Cunning Action or Step of the Wind, can you take the Dash action more than once on your turn?
- My rogue/wizard can get a bonus action to Dash by using Cunning Action, and I can cast expeditious retreat on myself to get a bonus action to Dash. Do I get two bonus actions to Dash?
- If you use the Help action to distract a foe, do you have to stay within 5 feet of it for the action to work?
- If I'm invisible and I become visible when I shoot an arrow at a target, does hiding again require an action?
- If I use the Ready action to deal damage to someone who's moving, do I deny the target the rest of its movement?
- Can you use the Ready action to take the Dash action on someone else's turn and then combine the Charger feat with it?
- For readying a spell or other action, does the target have to be in range?
- How does readying a spell work? Do you lose your spell slot if the trigger never occurs?
- Can a readied action occur during an enemy's triggering action, such as between its first and second attacks when it uses Multiattack?
- How do I know which ability modifier to use with an attack roll and its damage roll?
- What does "melee weapon attack" mean: a melee attack with a weapon or an attack with a melee weapon?
- How does a reach weapon work with opportunity attacks?
- Can a blinded creature make an opportunity attack?
- Can an opportunity attack be used to make a grapple or a shove?
- When you use two-weapon fighting, can you draw and throw two weapons on your turn?
- With two-weapon fighting, can I use both attacks (normal and bonus) to shove a creature?
- If a creature is grappled, can it still attack and use its special abilities?
- Is the grappling rule in the Player's Handbook usable by a handless creature?
- Does a grapple or a shove trigger the Tempest cleric's Wrath of the Storm or a Battle Master's Riposte?
- Say I grapple you, then I drop prone. Are we now prone together?
- Target at range caught in melee combat—does that target get some kind of cover or do I get disadvantage?
- Can damage be reduced to 0 by resistance or another form of damage reduction?
- A dragon uses a breath weapon against me. I succeed on the save, and I have resistance to the damage. Do I take only one-quarter of the damage?
- Is the intent that only melee weapon attacks can knock foes unconscious, or can melee spell attacks as well?
- Are attacks with a net always made with disadvantage?
- Can a non-Battle Master attempt to disarm someone?
- Are natural weapons considered weapons?
- Can I make an attack with one weapon, then draw a second weapon with my other hand and qualify to use two-weapon fighting?
- Spellcasting
- Can a spellcaster cast spells off-target to minimize damage to party members from a spell like shatter?
- Can permanent magical effects be dispelled? Or are they no longer considered magical effects once permanent?
- Do spellcasters have to learn a ritual version of a spell apart from the normal version, or are they the same?
- Can spellcasters prepare spells not all at once, but prepare spells at various times in the day?
- Do you always know when you're under the effect of a spell?
- If I'm concentrating on a spell and I cast another spell that requires concentration, when does my concentration on the first spell end?
- Spell Attacks
- Is a touch range spell considered a melee attack for purposes of subduing foes rather than killing?
- Can spell attacks score critical hits?
- When casting a spell that affects multiple targets, such as scorching ray or eldritch blast, do I fire one ray or beam, determine the result, and fire again? Or do I have to choose all the targets before making any attack rolls?
- Can a spell with an attack roll be used as the attack in the Attack action or as part of the Extra Attack feature?
- Can you use a melee spell attack to make an opportunity attack?
- Some spells (like eldritch blast) target a creature. Some others (like fire bolt) target objects too. Does this mean that I can't attack the door with eldritch blast?
- Does a melee spell attack count as a melee attack for Touch of Death?
- Spell Level
- What level is a spell if you cast it without a spell slot?
- Casting Time
- Is there a limit on the number of spells you can cast on your turn?
- Does the rule on casting a bonus action spell apply when you take a bonus action granted by a spell?
- Can you cast a reaction spell on your turn?
- Does casting a spell as a ritual require concentration if the spell doesn't normally require it?
- Components
- Does a spell consume its material components?
- If a spell's material components are consumed, can a spellcasting focus still be used in place of the consumed component?
- What's the amount of interaction needed to use a spellcasting focus? Does it have to be included in the somatic component?
- Duration
- If you're concentrating on a spell, do you need to maintain line of sight with the spell's target or the spell's effect?
- If I have 10 temporary hit points and I take 30 damage from an attack while concentrating on a spell, what is the DC of the Constitution save to maintain my concentration?
- Can a spellcaster dismiss a spell after casting it?
- Specific Spells
- Can I cast animate dead on the humanoid-shaped corpse of an undead creature such as a zombie or a ghast?
- Does casting animate objects during a time stop spell end the time stop?
- Can you extend the duration of armor of Agathys by gaining more temporary hit points?
- How does barkskin work with shields, cover, and other modifiers to AC?
- Does the blinding smite spell deal extra radiant damage on every successful attack I make while I'm concentrating on the spell, or only on the first one?
- Is the chill touch spell intended as a way of foiling any creature that has Regeneration?
- Using 5-foot squares, does cloud of daggers affect a single square?
- Can a creature under the effect of compelled duel teleport more than 30 feet away from the caster?
- Is the damage dealt by a beast from conjure animals considered magical?
- Can conjure animals summon a swarm?
- When you cast a spell like conjure woodland beings, does the spellcaster or the DM choose the creatures that are conjured?
- Does counterspell target the caster or the spell you're trying to counter?
- If a wizard with Inured to Undeath spends Hit Dice to raise the hit point maximum of a homunculus created by the create homunculus spell, does it still decrease the wizard's hit point maximum?
- Can you cast darkness with a higher-level slot to end a spell of 3rd level or higher that creates light?
- If the damage from disintegrate reduces a half-orc to 0 hit points, can Relentless Endurance prevent the orc from turning to ash?
- What happens if a druid using Wild Shape is reduced to 0 hit points by disintegrate? Does the druid simply leave beast form?
- Can you use dispel magic to dispel a magical effect like a vampire's Charm ability or a druid's Wild Shape?
- Can you use dispel magic on the creations of a spell like animate dead or affect those creations with antimagic field?
- Can you ready dispel magic to stop another spell from taking effect?
- Can dispel magic end globe of invulnerability?
- If dispel magic targets the magical effect from bless cast by a cleric, does it remove the effect on all the targets?
- Can the familiar you conjure with the find familiar spell use the Help action to grant you advantage on your attack roll?
- Does the familiar of find familiar count as an ally for the purposes of Sneak Attack?
- When you dismiss the familiar you conjure with the find familiar spell to its pocket dimension, can it take any objects it's wearing or carrying with it?
- Can a spell such as fireball go past its 20-foot radius if the point of origin is set in an enclosed space that's less than 40 feet across?
- If I'm a cleric/druid with the Disciple of Life feature, does the goodberry spell benefit from the feature?
- Can you use green-flame blade and booming blade with Extra Attack, opportunity attacks, Sneak Attack, and other weapon attack options?
- When a creature successfully saves against guardian of faith and takes 10 radiant damage, how much damage does that count against the total amount of damage the spell can deal? Is it 20 because that's how much it dealt or 10 because that's how much the target took?
- For the spell hail of thorns, does it last for the initial attack or as long as you maintain concentration?
- Can the extra action granted by haste be used to activate a magic item?
- Does the heroes' feast spell grant immunity to poison damage or just the poison condition?
- Do the temporary hit points from heroism accumulate each round?
- If the heroism spell is cast on a character that is already frightened, does it remove the frightened effect?
- Does the extra damage from hex only apply if there is an attack roll?
- Since resting identifies magic items, and the identify spell doesn't spot curses, what is the role of the identify spell?
- What happens when a jump spell gives a creature a jump distance greater than its walking speed?
- Can you use a shield with mage armor?
- Does Unarmored Defense work with a spell like mage armor?
- I find it confusing that the mage armor spell is named that when it doesn't count as armor
- Can an object created with minor illusion move? For example, a wall sliding down a corridor?
- Could minor illusion create a fog cloud? If so, would shooting an arrow through it cancel the illusion?
- Misty step doesn't say the caster can bring worn or carried equipment with them. Are they intended to leave everything, including their clothes, behind?
- Does moonbeam deal damage when you cast it? What about when its effect moves onto a creature?
- What happens to objects brought inside and left inside Mordenkainen's magnificent mansion when the spell ends?
- Does planar binding summon the creature to be bound, or is that done separately?
- Can you concentrate on a spell while transformed by polymorph?
- Does a willing creature under the effects of polymorph have to take the mental stats of the new form?
- If a creature under the effects of polymorph takes enough fire damage to revert to its true form and that form has fire resistance, does the true form take the full remaining damage or only half due to resistance?
- Can a creature under the effects of polymorph have other spell effects on them, or are those game statistics also replaced by the those of the beast form?
- What happens if I'm polymorphed or Wild Shaped into a creature with fewer than 100 hit points and then I'm targeted by power word kill?
- What kinds of things count as "nonmagical trinkets" for prestidigitation?
- If you grapple or shove an enemy creature, does that end a sanctuary spell cast on you?
- Can I hand a shadow blade to another PC?
- If I cast shillelagh on my quarterstaff and have the Polearm Master feat, does the bonus attack use a d4 or a d8 for damage?
- If a spellcaster is affected by slow and takes two turns to finish casting a spell, what happens if their target has moved out of range or out of sight?
- The stinking cloud spell says that a creature wastes its action on a failed save. So can it still use a move or a bonus action or a reaction?
- Do the effects of storm of vengeance stack? Or do the effects change each turn?
- Is the sentence of suggestion in the suggestion spell the verbal component, or is the verbal component separate?
- The wording in Tasha's hideous laughter implies that the incapacitated effect applies only if the target is made prone. Is this right?
- If you are affecting a target with telekinesis and an ally put you inside Otiluke's resilient sphere, can you continue affecting the target or other targets with the existing telekinesis spell?
- If two creatures are under the effect of tether essence and they are both damaged by an area effect such as a dragon's breath, do they each take the damage twice?
- Can I use unseen servant to act as an ally when using a class feature like Sneak Attack?
- Whenever you cast wish, do you always have a 33 percent chance of never casting it again?
- Monsters
- Is natural armor considered light armor?
- Does natural armor cap a creature's Dexterity bonus?
- A monster is immune to damage from nonmagical bludgeoning weapons. Does it still take damage from falling?
- What actions can monsters use to make opportunity attacks? Are Multiattack and breath weapon actions allowed?
- The bite attacks of ghouls and ghasts don't appear to have proficiency bonus added in. Intentional or mistake?
- The Monster Manual says gnolls speak Gnoll, but the Player's Handbook doesn't mention that language. What is correct?
- Does a monster with at-will spellcasting ability mean it can cast a spell as an action or as a bonus action?
- If a monster makes a melee attack that uses its Dexterity modifier, is it considered to have used a finesse weapon?
- The Monster Manual notes that a Mezzoloth exhales toxic fumes that can choke and kill whole groups of creatures. However, its cloudkill is listed under Innate Spellcasting. Because of that, would a paladin's Aura of Warding resist it?
- Is the breath weapon of a dragon magical?
- Does the movement from a dragon's Wing Attack legendary action draw attacks of opportunity if it moves out of reach?
- Does a creature with Magic Resistance have advantage on saving throws against Channel Divinity abilities, such as Turn the Faithless?
- Do air, fire, and water elementals suffer any penalties for fighting or using skills while they are squeezing into a space that's 5 feet wide or less?
- Can an earth elemental grapple with a creature and then pull it underground and leave it there to die?
- Does the lich's Disrupt Life ability affect animated objects and other constructs?
- If a shadow rolls a critical hit, does it reduce the target's Strength by 2d4, as well dealing the extra necrotic damage?
- Since game features of the same name don't stack, does that mean a target can't be affected by a shadow's Strength Drain more than once between rests?
- Is a vampire affected by hold person or calm emotions?
- Is there a limit to the number of creatures a vampire can charm at once?
- How does a monster's Leadership ability work?
- Does a gauth's Devour Magic eye ray end a creature's attunement to an attuned magic item the ray affects?
- Can a creature that burrows grapple a target and drag them into the ground by burrowing?
- Can a hydra use Reactive Heads to make multiple opportunity attacks against one creature at the same time when it provokes?
- Magic Items
- Can potions be administered to unconscious characters as an action?
- If a potion doesn't duplicate a spell, does it require concentration?
- For the hat of disguise, how do I set the spell save DC for disguise self ? Does the wearer have to be a caster?
- Which is correct in the Dungeon Master's Guide, the rule for scrolls or the rule for a spell scroll?
- Do the AC bonuses from a ring of protection and bracers of defense stack?
- Do magic weapons give you a bonus to attack and damage rolls?
- My fighter attacks a creature with a magical longbow and nonmagical arrows. Is the attack magical?
- Are magic weapons with the thrown property (javelins and the like) assumed to return to their owner after being thrown?
- If a rogue with the Assassinate feature uses a vorpal sword, isn't the surprise attack an instant kill?
- Would an elf get a saving throw versus a philter of love as it's a charm? The description implies there is no save
- Does the ring of the ram use spell attacks or weapon attacks?
- When using a rope of entanglement, do I keep holding one end in my hand, or does the entire rope wrap around the target?
- Can a sphere of annihilation enter a Leomund's tiny hut?
- Can you gain the magical bonus of a +2 shield if you are holding the shield without taking an action to don it?
- If a character hits a monk with a dwarven thrower and the monk uses Deflect Missiles, does the hammer return to the attacker first, or can the monk catch it?
- Rules Questions
- Recent books include monster stat blocks—like the dragon blessed in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons and the Silverquill apprentice in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos—that contain actions designated as spell attacks, rather than weapon attacks. What was the motivation for adding this type of action to the game?
- Is a spell attack a spell?
- When a monster casts a spell without using spell slots, how do I know the spell's level?
- Can the silvery barbs spell in Strixhaven affect Legendary Resistance?
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