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What beasts have the lowest Con, Wis, and Cha saves?
Suppose you have a target you absolutely need to fail a particular saving throw, and you've gotten a wand of polymorph to help improve your odds. Examples:
a single dose of an expensive poison or a ...
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Is an additional saving throw required if the corresponding ability score changes?
Examples:
A fighter is fighting a dragon. The dragon uses its Frightful Presence action. The fighter, who has a Wisdom score of 15, succeeds on the DC 16 Wisdom saving throw. It is then the party ...
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Does D&D have any sort of interaction that affects Constitution saves similar to how Evasion affects Dexterity saves?
If I remember correctly, D&D 5e has a class feature for multiple classes called Evasion, where your Dexterity saves prevent all damage on a successful save and still stop half of the damage if you ...
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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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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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Are there any practical reasons for choosing proficiency in Intelligence saving throws?
Are there any practical reasons for choosing proficiency in Intelligence saving throws?
It was suggested to me to take the Resilient feat (PHB, p. 168):
Choose one ability score. You gain the ...
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What is the narrative difference between a Charisma and Wisdom saving throw?
Relatively few spells in D&D 5e require a Charisma saving throw, and when they do it's often difficult to describe the in-game reasons for why they require such a throw.
One of my players told me ...
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If I have a saving throw proficiency does that also mean I am proficient in the ability?
Take for example, if my character is a Barbarian, one of her saving throw proficiencies is Strength. Does this mean that if she needs to perform a "Strength Check" I can add her proficiency bonus to ...
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Why do Expert monsters get Will saves instead of Reflex?
The Starjammer SRD page about building monsters has a chart for Expert creatures. That chart claims that expert creatures should have good Will saves instead of Reflex. Why would that be? Expert style ...
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What determines the ability used for a saving throw?
I'm new to D&D. I was reading about save throws in the Player's Handbook and saw this:
To make a saving throw, roll a d20 and add the
appropriate ability modifier. For example, you use your
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What roll is appropriate for hiding pain?
Say a character is in agonising pain through torture, and they try to hide it to appear strong to the torturer: what roll should that be?
I was thinking it would be a Will save, but I can't match it ...
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How are Constitution-based checks and saves differentiated in these circumstances?
The Constitution ability (PHB 177) lists tasks like the following, in which the DM might ask for Constitution checks:
Hold your breath
March or labor for hours without rest
Go without sleep
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What can I do to improve my clerical spell DCs?
I am currently playing a level 6 Dwarven Cleric in Pathfinder, and I'm in a considerable bind. My cleric of Grundinnar (LG/domains of Good/Community) is part of a group consisting of a Ranger with ...
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How to protect a Cha-based caster against Feeblemind?
Feeblemind requires an Int save: on a fail, the target's Intelligence and Charisma are set to 1. This pretty much destroys any Int or Cha-based caster, but the fact that the latter have low Int (and ...
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