Questions tagged [helping]
For questions about actions taken in-game by one character to assist another.
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Does Order of the Dragon's Aid grant expanded uses of Aid Another?
Does the Order of the Dragon ability Aid Allies allow you to grant a different bonus than would normally be allowed by the Aid Another rules?
At 2nd level, whenever an order of the dragon cavalier ...
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Can a character provide help with a Persuasion check?
In page 175 of the player's handbook under section Working Together it reads:
Sometimes two or more characters team up to attempt a task. The character who's leading the effort--or the one with the ...
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Are there any Official/UA magic items intended for use in a mass support role?
More precisely, magical items that are capable of assisting allies. The goal is the ability to choose multiple targets in a turn, rather than only one. An example item would be the Banner of the Krig ...
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Can multiple characters create an advantage using teamwork?
The rules on invoking aspects state:
You can invoke multiple aspects on a single roll, but you cannot invoke the same aspect multiple times on a single roll.
Does this mean you can only benefit from ...
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Can a whisper protect a crewmate from the supernatural terror consequence of a compelled spirit?
Under STRESS & THE SUPERNATURAL it is specified
A close encounter with a spirit or demon is a harrowing experience. By
default, the standard effect is to either paralyze a person with fear
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Does the Help Action reveal the location of a Hidden and Invisible creature?
Let's say I have a Pact of the Chain imp who is invisible and takes the Hide action to gain extra protection (harder to direct attack rolls to an unknown location). Then, he uses the Help action. Is ...
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Can a collective of creatures add their Strength together to move or lift a heavy object?
I know about group checking, but for a collective push, pull, or lift, it would make more sense to me that the Strength of each character is added together, even if fractions of the originals, to the ...
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How does the Hobgoblin's Fey Gift from "Monsters of the Multiverse" interact with rules regarding the Help Action
The hobgoblin player race from "Monsters of the Multiverse" has an ability called Fey Gift which allows you to take the Help action as a bonus action and which reads (in part):
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Are Multiple Party Members Automatically "Helping" with Passive Skills?
Inspired by this question: Can the Help action raise a passive skill?
and to grab the relevant section for Passive Skills
A passive check is a special kind of ability check that doesn’t involve any ...
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Can the Help action raise a passive skill?
Other threads have (more or less) established that the passive versions of skills (there are only three in RAW) define a baseline result. RAW says that advantage grants a +5 to passive skills. The ...
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Can multiple summoned creatures Help multiple allies gain Advantage through one verbal command? [duplicate]
If a player's character summons N creatures, say for example 10 Giant Centipedes using Giant Insect, and immediately uses his free action to verbally command them en masse to use their Help Action to &...
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Cooperative Magic Question
I've been thinking on Cooperative Magic in order to get that cinematic feeling of the frontliners defending the casters in clutch situations and big scale magic retinues on a battlefield. It could ...
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Is there a limit to how many allies can use the help action, to help you in combat?
I have three attacks this round. Let's assume I have access to many tiny free thinking minions who obey my command, but don't require an action to do so on my part.
Can each minion use the ready ...
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Is the Help action an example of, or an exception to, Working Together?
The Help action is described in Chapter 9 of the PHB (emphasis mine):
You can lend your aid to another creature in the completion of a task. When you take the Help action, the creature you aid gains ...
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Rogulock: Pact Of Chain and Sneak Attack [duplicate]
I am building a rogue-warlock multiclass in 5e DnD and I have a question. I am using Pact of the Chain and I chose an imp familiar. If I remember correctly, an imp can cast Invisiblity infinitly. And ...
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