Prone and Grappled

Guest 6801328 · Jun 24, 2019

How to interpret this?

If a creature is grappled its movement is zero.

If it is prone it must use half it's movement to stand up.

If it is both prone and grappled, does it have to break the grapple to stand up?

"Yes" interpretation: until it breaks the grapple it doesn't have any movement to spend on standing up.

"No" interpretation: half of zero is zero.

In favor of the "yes" interpretation is that a corollary to the "no" version is the weirdness that if it stands up first and then breaks the grapple it would get its full movement.

Dausuul · Jun 24, 2019

From the "Movement in Combat" rules: "You can't stand up if you don't have enough movement left or if your speed is 0."

BluejayJunior · Jun 24, 2019

If you are grappled and prone, you cannot stand up without first breaking the grapple. Even going with the "half of zero is zero" argument, you currently have 0 movement and therefore have nothing to spend in order to stand up.