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What are some use cases for attack rolls that target a location? [closed]
In D&D 5e, a location is effectively a space in a place or a point on a map, as opposed to constituting a discrete object (a location can be a point in midair, for instance). They are defined ...
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If you're mounted and forced to make a melee attack, do you attack your mount?
I'm a new DM running a 5e combat encounter in which the NPC attacker is mounted on a Riding Horse.
One of the players' characters has just cast Confusion, which indicates that
Each creature in a 10-...
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Can a conga line of creatures cursed by the same Shield of Missile Attraction transport ammunition instantaneously across the globe?
Let's say I have a single Shield of Missile Attraction:
Whenever a ranged weapon attack is made against a target within 10 feet of you, the curse causes you to become the target instead.
Let's say I ...
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Does Fire Bolt require that you can see the creature in order to target it? [duplicate]
Fire Bolt makes no mention of seeing the creature in order to target it in the spell text . Fire Bolt says "creature or object within range". Ray of Frost has very similar language - no ...
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Can you grapple or shove a non-creature?
The rules for grappling and shoving clearly apply to creatures:
Grappling. When you want to grab a creature or wrestle with it, you can use the Attack action to make a special melee attack, a grapple....
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Can the Fathomless warlock's Tentacle of the Deeps be attacked?
I started playing a Lurker in the Deep warlock (from UA: Sorcerer and Warlock), and have now updated it to a Fathomless warlock (TCoE, p. 72) due to the recent update.
In a session, we encountered a ...
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How does the Hunter ranger's Horde Breaker feature interact with the Mounted Combatant feat's ability to redirect an attack to the rider?
Roger is a Hunter ranger that has chosen the Horde Breaker option for the Hunter's Prey class feature (Player's Handbook, p. 93):
Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can ...
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Can I choose to forgo an attack roll when still targeting a creature? [duplicate]
Suppose you use a spell like steel wind strike which allows you to target up to five different creatures and at the end of the spell you are allowed to teleport into 5ft of any of those targets. Now ...
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What range is used to determine the target of the attack made by the creature affected by a Spectator's Confusion Ray?
The Spectator has an Eye Ray option, Confusion Ray, that says:
[The target] uses its action to make a melee or ranged attack against a randomly determined creature within range.
Unlike the spell ...
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Can a Hunter ranger, can the Horde Breaker feature target a creature within 5 feet of any target attacked that turn, or only the most recent target?
I play a Hunter ranger using longbow attacks in a D&D 5e game. I'm trying to understand how the Horde Breaker feature works.
Say there are two targets within 5 feet of each other in one area (...
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Can the Deathlock Mastermind's Grave Bolts be used to attack a single target twice?
In Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (p. 129), the Deathlock Mastermind has the following attack:
Grave Bolts. Ranged Spell Attack: +6 to hit, range 120 ft., one or two targets. Hit: 18 (4d8) necrotic ...
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What are all the ways to damage more than one creature in a single attack? [closed]
The slow spell states:
[...] Regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn [...]
I realized that one way around this ...
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Can the Guiding Bolt spell be aimed at an invisible target?
Most spells state that the target must be something you can see. for example the magic missile spell says:
Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range.
But recently I ...
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Is there a penalty for switching targets?
I'm playing a fighter with the Two-Weapon Fighting fighting style. Several times in the game tonight, I killed my target with my first attack, and so I wanted to use my bonus attack to go at one of ...
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If an attacker targets a creature with the Sanctuary spell cast on them, but fails the Wisdom save, can they choose not to attack anyone else?
The Sanctuary spell reads:
[...] any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature must choose a ...
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Does the Hunter ranger's Stand Against the Tide feature require the new target to be within reach of the first enemy?
The Hunter ranger's 15th-level feature, Superior Hunter's Defense, lets them choose one of three features to gain at that level. One of these options, Stand Against the Tide, says:
When a hostile ...
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If a creature fails the save against the Sanctuary spell, does "choosing a new target" let it move and retry the attack against the new target? [duplicate]
The sanctuary spell description says:
You ward a creature within range against attack. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell must first ...
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Are there any issues with creating creatures that can make multi-target melee attacks?
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Looking through plus-sized creatures in the 5e Monster Manual, I am unable to find any monsters that can target more than one creature with a single melee attack. I would think that a ...
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Can a charmed person harm their charmer with Burning Hands?
If a creature is under the condition Charmed, can they cast the spell Burning Hands and orient the cone such that their charmer is within the area of effect?
The argument I've seen for "yes" is that ...
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Is it possible to hit multiple enemies with a two-handed weapon?
My players want to hit multiple enemies with two handed weapons, like cleave, but I can't find anything in the rules. The most I've given them so far is on a critical roll; They can hit the enemies if ...
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If a creature attacks a target warded by Sanctuary but fails the save, do they lose the attack/spell if there is no other target immediately in range?
Take a simple scenario as an example:
A cleric casts sanctuary
An enemy wielding a spear attempts to make a melee attack at the
cleric with his spear
The enemy fails his Wisdom save, and thus can't ...
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Who gets hit by a melee attack when you have the Mounted Combatant feat and the Sanctuary spell is active on you?
For this scenario, assume a level 11 Monk with the Mounted Combatant feat (and riding a mount).
If a creatures attacks the Monk, and the attacker fails his/her save, the next eligible target (assuming ...
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Does Mirror Image affect spells that have no attack roll?
I have two questions concerning the mirror image spell.
If I am under the effect of mirror image and was targeted by a spell like blight, do I roll a 1d20 to determine whether myself or an image was ...
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Can You Punch/Grapple Ethereal Creatures?
DMG page 48 Border Ethereal: Normally, creatures in the Border Ethereal can't attack creatures on the overlapped plane, and vice versa. A traveler on the Ethereal Plane is invisible and utterly silent ...
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Does the DM choose the target for monster attacks?
Pretty much what the title says. Say 4 goblins attack the party of adventurers, who do the goblins attack? Can each goblin attack a different target?
I guess in case of characters that fall ...
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Is Flurry of Blows limited to one target?
Monks get the Flurry of Blows ability as part of the Ki feature at 2nd level (PHB, p. 78):
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed ...
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