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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7797760" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>Thanks. Yeah, sure can.</p><p></p><p>For creative reactions, I often use the "click rule" for traps allowing PCs to react right when the trap is triggered. </p><p></p><p>Another example was when the party was ascending a plateau using switchbacking exposed stone trails & rickety wooden walkways up to an aarakocra monastery, some 500+ feet up. At the time, no one in the party had <em>feather fall. </em>I realized that falling the full distance for a failed check would be un-fun. So I drew up a list of "falling reactions" tailored to the scenario. </p><p></p><p>[SPOILER]</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Drop prone at last minute (#1): </strong>Realizing you’re not going to make the jump/climb, drop prone at the last minute, clutching the walkway’s edge for dear life. You take no falling damage, but you drop anything in your hands and have psyched yourself out, suffering disadvantage on any Athletics or Acrobatics checks for the rest of the ascent.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Fall into ruined cliff structure (#2-5): </strong>Fall 2d4 x 10 feet and roll 1d6 on Ruined Cliff Structures table. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Grab an aarakocra (#3-5): </strong>Make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the aarakocra’s +2 Dexterity (Acrobatics); on a success, you stop your fall by grappling it, on a failure you and the aarakocra fall 2d4 x 10 feet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Grab a vine (#1-3): </strong>Make a DC 12 Dexterity save. On a success you grab a vine and take no damage! However, roll on d6 on Vines of Chult table to determine what you grab. On a failure, you fall 3d4 x 10 feet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Land on lower walkway (#1-5):</strong> Fall 30 feet, make a DC 12 Constitution save or crash through the walkway and fall an extra 2d4 x 10 feet to another walkway below, losing one item at random which falls to the ground.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Scream for help (#3-5): </strong>Yell out for a kindly aarakocra to save you!</li> </ul><p>[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>I've also seen a creative use of <em>absorb elements </em>(reaction) to suck carrion crawler venom spewing into an underground stream into the wizard/rogue's rapier – this was also an example of creative upcasting.</p><p></p><p>For impromptu forced movement, I often take creative liberties with natural 20's or 1's on attacks and saves, as well as with how players narrate their kills. Usually, this involves monsters being forcibly moved or knocked off edges when they're at low hit points. I had a pirate NPC who was knocked prone end up clinging to the sail's boom, which another PC used to their advantage by twisting the steering wheel, causing the boom to swing out over the ocean as part of an Intimidation check to capitulate the pirates' surrender.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7797760, member: 20323"] Thanks. Yeah, sure can. For creative reactions, I often use the "click rule" for traps allowing PCs to react right when the trap is triggered. Another example was when the party was ascending a plateau using switchbacking exposed stone trails & rickety wooden walkways up to an aarakocra monastery, some 500+ feet up. At the time, no one in the party had [I]feather fall. [/I]I realized that falling the full distance for a failed check would be un-fun. So I drew up a list of "falling reactions" tailored to the scenario. [SPOILER] [LIST] [*][B]Drop prone at last minute (#1): [/B]Realizing you’re not going to make the jump/climb, drop prone at the last minute, clutching the walkway’s edge for dear life. You take no falling damage, but you drop anything in your hands and have psyched yourself out, suffering disadvantage on any Athletics or Acrobatics checks for the rest of the ascent. [*][B]Fall into ruined cliff structure (#2-5): [/B]Fall 2d4 x 10 feet and roll 1d6 on Ruined Cliff Structures table. [*][B]Grab an aarakocra (#3-5): [/B]Make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the aarakocra’s +2 Dexterity (Acrobatics); on a success, you stop your fall by grappling it, on a failure you and the aarakocra fall 2d4 x 10 feet. [*][B]Grab a vine (#1-3): [/B]Make a DC 12 Dexterity save. On a success you grab a vine and take no damage! However, roll on d6 on Vines of Chult table to determine what you grab. On a failure, you fall 3d4 x 10 feet. [*][B]Land on lower walkway (#1-5):[/B] Fall 30 feet, make a DC 12 Constitution save or crash through the walkway and fall an extra 2d4 x 10 feet to another walkway below, losing one item at random which falls to the ground. [*][B]Scream for help (#3-5): [/B]Yell out for a kindly aarakocra to save you! [/LIST] [/SPOILER] I've also seen a creative use of [I]absorb elements [/I](reaction) to suck carrion crawler venom spewing into an underground stream into the wizard/rogue's rapier – this was also an example of creative upcasting. For impromptu forced movement, I often take creative liberties with natural 20's or 1's on attacks and saves, as well as with how players narrate their kills. Usually, this involves monsters being forcibly moved or knocked off edges when they're at low hit points. I had a pirate NPC who was knocked prone end up clinging to the sail's boom, which another PC used to their advantage by twisting the steering wheel, causing the boom to swing out over the ocean as part of an Intimidation check to capitulate the pirates' surrender. [/QUOTE]
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