Questions tagged [attack]
For questions about attacks. An attack is generally defined as an action to cause damage or some other debilitation, though specific RPGs may define the term more specifically.
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Which ability checks are rolled for a shove attack?
I've been looking at the shoving rules. I'm slightly confused on the 'contested' wording and which skills are rolled. The rules say:
Instead of making an attack roll, you make a Strength (Athletics) ...
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Can I make attacks non-lethal?
Sometimes my party is being incredibly stupid, and it makes me want to punch them in game for being stupid. An example of this is trying to use a party member as a live test subject for a mushroom ...
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Precisely when can/must the two weapon fighting bonus action and attack occur? [duplicate]
Complicators: "When", "Take", Composite condition + Extra Attack, Simultaneous events.
Contrast: Immediately after (flurry of blows)
When you take the Attack action and attack ...
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Does the Keenness of the Stone Giant feat's Stone Throw receive the ability mod to damage?
Pretty straightforward question-- the Keenness of the Stone Giant grants the ability "Stone Throw":
Stone Throw. As a bonus action, you can take a rock and make a magical attack with it. ...
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Do Vampires have to make an attack roll in order to bite a willing target?
A Vampire's Bite action is described as:
Bite. (Bat or Vampire Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing creature, or a creature that is grappled by the vampire, ...
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Is There Synergy With Primal Savagery and Grappler?
The grappler feat states that
You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature you are grappling.
And Primal Savagery states you
Make a melee spell attack against one creature within 5 feet of ...
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How many melee attacks can a character make on turn one in D&D 5e? [duplicate]
I once spent close to 8 hours doing in-depth research on all the subclasses available to find this out for a level 12 character, and managed to find a build that could make 14 attacks on turn 1 ...
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Does Adamantine Armor protect your silver cord on the Astral Plane?
When using the spell astral projection, you gain a vulnerability: If your silver cord is severed, you die:
If the cord is cut--something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that ...
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Can slam attacks be used to make attacks of opportunity and deliver at-will spell-like abilities? [closed]
Two questions.
Can a creature with a slam attack use it whenever they are able to make an attack of opportunity?
Can a creature with a slam attack deliver a at will spell-like ability with the slam ...
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Can you use Favored Foe multiple times on the same creature?
In D&D 5e (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything), if I hit a creature and use the Favored Foe feature to mark it and deal additional damage, would I be able to stop concentrating on the initial mark and ...
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Is there any reason to use the Battle Master fighter's Precision Attack maneuver before the attack roll?
The Battle Master fighter's Precision Attack maneuver states the following (PHB, p. 74):
When you make a weapon attack roll against a creature, you can expend one superiority die to add it to the ...
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Devise a Stratagem and Swipe
With Swipe you can attack 2 enemies, Devise a Strategem (DaS) lets you know the result in advance against one enemy, how do these work together?
option 0; does not work at all
Devise a Stratagem says:
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Will using a weapon not as intended (improvised) still generate "on-hit" effects?
I found this question asking whether a net as a melee weapon would still trigger the restrained condition: Can you make a Melee Weapon Attack with a Net?. The highest voted response suggested that ...
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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?
Monk's Ki feature Flurry of Blows is defined like this (PHB, page 78):
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus ...
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Clarification on semantics around melee attacks
The game uses various ways of describing a physical melee attack:
Melee Weapon Attack
melee attack with/using a weapon
attack with/using a melee weapon, or attack with/using a weapon (without the ...
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