D&D 5E Does anyone else feel like the action economy and the way actions work in general in 5e both just suck?

[fearsomepirate]

Doing something like throwing sand in somebody's face is covered in the section on Contests in Combat. You wouldn't be amiss to have a contested Sleight of Hand v. Acrobatics check, with the consequence being that the enemy is blinded until the end of your turn.

 

[Undrave]

The heavy armor bit is with the use of a feature or something similar. Its still nonsense.

There's a Warlock invocation in a UA that lets you magically don armour by touching it.

 

[Oofta]

There's a Warlock invocation in a UA that lets you magically don armour by touching it.

I believe there's also some magic armor that does it.

 

[Oofta]

Doing something like throwing sand in somebody's face is covered in the section on Contests in Combat. You wouldn't be amiss to have a contested Sleight of Hand v. Acrobatics check, with the consequence being that the enemy is blinded until the end of your turn.

But what if my PC has a fake flower that squirts water in the face of his opponent? It's not covered in the rules because the system is broken! #BADWRONGFUN

 

[Undrave]

I believe there's also some magic armor that does it.

Maybe that armour normally requires an action and the OP remembers it being okay'd as a use of Fast Hands?

 

[Oofta]

Maybe that armour normally requires an action and the OP remembers it being okay'd as a use of Fast Hands?

Or he's just mistaken and refuses to admit it. Crawford has stated that you can't use fast hands to drink a potion because it's "using magic" so I doubt he would say that magic armor qualified. Personally I ignore potion rule and if you can chug a beer using fast hands you can drink a potion. I don't remember if the ruling was just a tweet or not.

 

[fearsomepirate]

But what if my PC has a fake flower that squirts water in the face of his opponent? It's not covered in the rules because the system is broken! #BADWRONGFUN

I also find the "well I'll just have a gang of children do this" arguments weird. How exactly did you convince a bunch of 7-year-olds to go charging at a cloud giant, anyway?

 

[Undrave]

Or he's just mistaken and refuses to admit it. Crawford has stated that you can't use fast hands to drink a potion because it's "using magic" so I doubt he would say that magic armor qualified. Personally I ignore potion rule and if you can chug a beer using fast hands you can drink a potion. I don't remember if the ruling was just a tweet or not.

Yeah it's a bit weird. Do you have to like... say a magic word before using a potion?

I also find the "well I'll just have a gang of children do this" arguments weird. How exactly did you convince a bunch of 7-year-olds to go charging at a cloud giant, anyway?

Candies?

 

[Oofta]

I also find the "well I'll just have a gang of children do this" arguments weird. How exactly did you convince a bunch of 7-year-olds to go charging at a cloud giant, anyway?

Tell them it's really just a giant power puff girl that wants to give them candy?

EDIT: Ninja'd surprisingly!

 

[fearsomepirate]

Crawford occasionally makes rulings that are real head-scratchers. I suppose issuing interpretations on rules you wrote several years ago is like telling somebody what you were thinking when you wrote some code back in 2015.