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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trainz" data-source="post: 433282" data-attributes="member: 2122">I know that the grapple situations have been discussed to death on EN World, and that some of you must roll your eyes when looking at a thread with the word grapple in it. That said...In our last game session, we suffered a near-TPK with a CR 10 Blue Dragon (we are 3 L 13 PC's). The two Fighters are dead and the Cleric fled. Now we where true resurrected, and have to go attack the beast again to retreive our gear (Diablo anyone ?). The members of B.A.D.D. must be proud reading this post <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />The main problem was the Dragon's  Bite and Claws that do an automatic grapple when they hit. He bit me, and I was stuck in his mouth, and the archer was grabbed in a claw. The dragon was aiming at the cleric with the archer in his paw in the line of fire, and boom, two guys with no save, and everybody affected by the breath weapon. I don't have a problem with this, it is plainly described in the MM. What I would like you guys to tell me, is clearly describe the grapple mechanics IN THIS SITUATION to make sure we didn't leave anything out that could have prevented this disaster...For example, did the dragon still threatened areas around him ? Was I prevented from attacking the dragon even if I was in his mouth (the picture on page 124 of the first printing PH suggests no...) ? When making opposed attack rolls to break the grapple, I can make 3 attacks (at -5 after the first), does the dragon also rolls 3 opposed rolls (in is there a -5 after the first) ?I would really like many clarifications on all these and any more that pops in your mind, because this situations often happen with many monsters (NOT only Dragons <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> )</blockquote>

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