Level Up (A5E) Actions in Combat

[Morrus]

In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, we've tweaked combat to give it a little more variety. We have flexible types of initiative, world actions, fatigue, and a few new tactical positioning elements like back-to-back, or pulling from below.

We've also modified combat actions slightly. Here's some of them.

Additionally, any character can use a Basic Maneuver. While these are effectively 0th-degree combat maneuvers, these do not cost exertion, and do not require you to have access to combat maneuvers.

 

[Stalker0]

Main updates I noticed. Grapple doesn’t necessarily halve your speed for moving other creatures, it depends on weight.

shove clarified how pushing off a precipice works.

 

[tetrasodium]

As someone who has seen a tabaxi rogue literally named barry allen at my table, I love that straight line keeping sprint within the realm of physics adjacent at worst

 

[thelordofthemorning]

I'm mostly happy with the disarm changes, as the ones from the O5E DMG were horrendously abusable, (a wizard, or really any PC, could easily disarm most monsters including fighter types, because even a wizard is likely proficient with the weapon they are using, but few monsters were proficient in skills).

 

[Anselm]

I'm not sure if opportunity attacks work similarly to O5E but I wonder if the "Fall Back" reaction trigger them either from other adjacent creatures or the creature pressing the attack.

 

[VenerableBede]

If I understand this correctly, Press the Attack applies to ranged attacks as well? I don't see anything that limits it to melee attacks.

 

[Jmarso]

Question (I'm sure it was explained elsewhere, previously): What is 'maneuvering DC' and how is it calculated?

 

[VenerableBede]

Question (I'm sure it was explained elsewhere, previously): What is 'maneuvering DC' and how is it calculated?

If I remember correctly from the playtest, it's calculated the same way as spell DCs: 8 + PROF + relevant modifier (DEX or STR)

 

[Stalker0]

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As someone who has seen a tabaxi rogue literally named barry allen at my table, I love that straight line keeping sprint within the realm of physics adjacent at worst

One slight confusion, it says when I sprint X times I start making checks, but how spread out are those? Could I sprint once a minute and never make a check? Is it that many before a short rest?

 

[Masha]

One slight confusion, it says when I sprint X times I start making checks, but how spread out are those? Could I sprint once a minute and never make a check? Is it that many before a short rest?

From the phrasing I believe you sprint any amount of times and whenever you stop sprinting for at least 1 minute, the counter resets. That said, these are turn-based actions. Realistically a DM wouldn't allow excessive sprinting outside of combat. The whole 6 second turns thing and the stuff you do is considered action under high adrenaline. Outside of combat normal travel speeds should apply.