Something that came up in my campaign over a year ago is still bugging me, maybe people here have some opinions.
The situation: Thunderwave blasts a bad guy off the top of a tall tower. The bad guy uses his reaction to cast Feather Fall. As a reaction (after taking a hit reducing him to low HPs), the bard who casts it wants to leap off and grab the falling enemy to evade the other enemies outnumbering the party on top of the tower.
How would you resolve? Would it even work, if he hung on? OR would they both plummet?
In this case, I talked the player out of it, by indicating sure, he could try that, but if he failed to grab the falling enemy (dice), or the enemy wrestled him off (more dice), his L3 character was pretty much roadkill with a 120ft drop on low HPs.
The bard was KOd next round. The party were captured, but soon freed and the campaign continued, although the character in question died shortly afterwards and the player quit soon after that, when his replacement ranger refused to accept how 'Hail of Thorns' is supposed to work...but I digress...
The situation: Thunderwave blasts a bad guy off the top of a tall tower. The bad guy uses his reaction to cast Feather Fall. As a reaction (after taking a hit reducing him to low HPs), the bard who casts it wants to leap off and grab the falling enemy to evade the other enemies outnumbering the party on top of the tower.
How would you resolve? Would it even work, if he hung on? OR would they both plummet?
In this case, I talked the player out of it, by indicating sure, he could try that, but if he failed to grab the falling enemy (dice), or the enemy wrestled him off (more dice), his L3 character was pretty much roadkill with a 120ft drop on low HPs.
The bard was KOd next round. The party were captured, but soon freed and the campaign continued, although the character in question died shortly afterwards and the player quit soon after that, when his replacement ranger refused to accept how 'Hail of Thorns' is supposed to work...but I digress...