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In D&D 5e there are some monsters that have traits such as "Whenever this creature is hit by a melee attack, the attacker takes 1d6 damage." This is usually because for example the creature has spikes or is particularly hot. I was wondering how you handle killing blows on such creatures. Would...

If you grapple a prone enemy and fly up in the air, does the enemy remain prone or is that status automatically removed?

Was curious what people think about this situation: A character is midair, no walls, floor or ceiling anywhere near him. He casts Levitate on himself. I feel the text on Levitate is very confusing. Does the trait you cannot move unless you can grip onto a surface also apply when you cast it...

Another fun rules question: A Warlock with Dark One's Blessing (heals when reducing enemy hit points to 0) reduces the hit points of a creature to 0 which has an ability like Shrapnel Explosion (deals 6d6 damage when its hit points reach 0). In which order is the damage and healing applied...

Simple rules question: If you are within 5ft of a creature that has Fire Shield active and you hit it with a Spiritual Weapon, do you take damage?

So the rules cover two cases: Pushing the mount and knocking the rider prone. Why do they not cover the "push the rider off the mount" case? If that doesn't yield a saving throw as well, what's the point, as you can always just target the rider instead of the mount to get around the saving...

Let's say there's a cult and several of the cultists and mercenaries that were hired don't have any language in common. Do you just make them unable to communicate with each other, other than via handsigns? But how do they made deals or issue commands? Or would you just think "anybody joining a...

So I was just wondering how to determine if PCs can communicate with a creature. Each creature has a list of languages it can speak, but what if the PCs don't have any of these in common? The player's handbook says that many languages are just different accents of the same language, but it...

I was just wondering how you handle it when the module says that a villain escapes when he is about to lose the battle, but actually has no means to escape combat-mechanics-wise (grappled, etc.). Would you just force it and just override any combat rules and switch to narration mode or just let...

Hi, I'm just curious how other DMs would rule the following situation: The combat takes place in a heavily obscured area (e.g. Fog Cloud). One person has tremorsense, the other person does not. As per sage advice clarification we know that Tremorsense also counts as seeing someone. The rules...

Let's say it was established that climbing something requires a successful DC 10 Athletics check and the PC failed that check during combat. Would you allow the PC to roll again on the same turn when he uses the Dash action to retry?

Did anyone ever make a table out of which material each weapon is by default (if not specified/established otherwise)? I'm soon to come into the situation where I need to tell weapons made of metal apart from the others. Need a neutral opinion / table.

One of my players asked this and I was surprised I couldn't find anything about it online: Gentle Repose requires copper pieces to be places on the corpse's eyes and only works as long as they aren't removed. But what if the target doesn't have any eyes? What if you cast it on a steak? My...

I was wondering what balanced handling for the Fear spell would be, especially the part about dropping what your holding. I found several discussions on disarming but none of fear, but it's quite similar. The core question seems to be "Can you pick up an item in an enemy's space as your free...

Hi all, I need some pointers on this. Elemental Evil has quite some background story to it and I was wondering if all of that is revealed in the later chapters of the Princes of the Apocalypse adventure path. I ask this because I'm wondering what I can tell my players early on and what should...

The fire elemental has the following trait: Now one of my players has the idea to push another enemy into the fire elemental or through the fire elemental. And I wonder how that would work out. It seems the "burning" is only triggered when the fire elemental actively moves into a creature's...

Let's say a paladin fights a rogue. The rogue keeps hiding. The paladin uses the ready action and defines "When the rogue comes out of hiding to attack, I cast Command "Approach" on it." The rogue fails the wisdom saving throw. Questions: 1. Is the attack of the rogue still executed? 2. Can...

Some skills refer to an attacker. For example Uncanny Dodge says it applies when you can see the attacker. This makes me wonder who the attacker is in case of some spells like Spiritual Weapon. Let's say the spellcaster is unseen but the spectral weapon is right next to the rogue, can he apply...

So this seems to be a mystery to me and all my players and we would really love to know the answer: What are those white lines extending from the Dellmon Ranch on the map?

The spell's descriptions says that: 1. The steed has the statistics for a riding horse 2. Only the person the steed was summoned for can ride it That leaves room for interpretation whether the steed can only be used to ride it or it behaves just like a normal riding horse for anything other...