Stormonu
Legend
Float or not, once it pops, you're going under...A propos of nothing, but... does it float?
Float or not, once it pops, you're going under...A propos of nothing, but... does it float?
With that ratio of mass to surface area, water should support it. If the people inside can run fast enough, they might even get it moving across the surface.A propos of nothing, but... does it float?
Ooh... Now I'm imagining a new sort of tourney competition, with knights tilting at each other in big transparent force balls!With that ratio of mass to surface area, water should support it. If the people inside can run fast enough, they might even get it moving across the surface.
now Im wondering what happens to the other PCs when a 20ft force bubble goes rolling across the battlefield.Dragon could still roll you downhill into something unpleasant to get out of - a river, over a cliff, etc. Or bat you around with its tail. I don't imagine bouncing around inside the globe would be all too pleasant, especially if it comes to an abrupt halt.
<Edit> With it being mentioned it's a 20-foot sphere, it might be possible to catch the dragon in it, though you'd have to be damn lucky or somehow immobilize it first so it would automatically fail the Dex save.
20 feet across - it has a 10 foot radius.
Mind you, a 20 foot sphere weighing only 1 pound is pretty much in scale with a party balloon in terms of size-to-weight ratio - maybe even lighter. The dragon should be able to punt that thing fifty feet up with one talon swipe, and then just keep on blowing it further upwards with wing buffets.
That depends on the DM really. Xanathar's makes it clear that readied actions happens AFTER the triggering condition is resolved.Not necessarily.
A readied action is not based on the opponent taking an action, but on a "perceivable circumstance". So, arguably, "If the dragon takes a big inhale (the common depiction is a big inhale, and then an exhale of breath weapon), I set off a bead of force on myself" is probably an acceptable readied action, but at the point where it is too late for the dragon to call off his breath.
It can be picked up, but the bubble is 10 feet across. You have to be BIG to have that kind of arm span. A gargantuan dragon might do it, but a large one probably cannot, and a huge one might not.
More importantly, as the dragon takes off with the bubble, it provokes attacks of opportunity.
Xanathar's makes it clear that readied actions happens AFTER the triggering condition is resolved.
XGtE Page 5I'm going to need a quote or at least a cite for what section of the book that is in. I don't see it.
"Ready
Sometimes you want to get the jump on a foe or wait for a particular circumstance before you act. To do so, you can take the Ready action on your turn, which lets you act using your reaction before the start of your next turn.
First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction...."
(Emphasis mine)
In the most simple of terms, consider a hidden character with a crossbow ready to act as a sniper: "I ready my action to shoot at anyone who comes in the door." Certianly, the target doesn't get to complete their entire declared movement before that shot goes off, does it? And movement isn't even an action!