D&D 5E Hadozee Gliding

[Stormonu]

Okay, hadozees have an interesting glide ability. However, I'm uncomfortable with one section of it, as I can see it prone to abuse. I'm in favor of a rewrite of it. Quoting the original text below:

Glide. If you are not incapacitated or wearing heavy armor, you can extend your skin membranes and glide. When you do so, you can perform the following aerial maneuvers:

• You can move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot you descend in the air, at no movement cost to you.
• When you would take damage from a fall, you can use your reaction to reduce the fall’s damage to 0.

My initial rewrite:

You can glide up to 60 feet a round. For every 5 feet you move horizontally, you descend 1 foot. You can continue gliding as long as you have the vertical space to do so. If you wish to land, you must be at least 3 feet (or half your character height?) above the ground level to not land prone. If you land as part of your movement, your speed is reduced by 1 foot for every 2 feet you spend gliding.

Hopefully, this should prevent the hop-charging barbarian. It should still allow hadozee characters to glide down from a tree, land and move a few feet to do other things. It should also allow the hadozee character to jump from cliff ledge to ledge, drop down a bit and land on the ground and get (a bit) closer to an enemy, without it being over the top.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Just in general, no one actually moves just 1 foot in D&D, so... for every 25 feet, you descend 5?

Also, totally allowing hop-charging monkee-barian, which is the most important part.

 

[jgsugden]

My fix: You can move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot you descend in the air. The first 30 feet horizontally has no movemet cost to you, but each additional foot counts against your movement as per normal.

 

[Stormonu]

@jgsugden that would work for most situations, but what if the hadozee wants to do a "power dive" or partial dive as part of their gliding?

 

[Weiley31]

WoTC: Oh goodness, thank Ao we keep bounded accuracy in check, and nothing gets broken.

Player: What about the Hadozee's gliding and the Thri-Kreen's Chameleon Carapace for Thri-Kreen Monks?

WoTC:

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Thri-Kreen's Chameleon Carapace for Thri-Kreen Monks?

It's no different from lizardfolk, who have been in the game for ages, is it?

 

[James Gasik]

Now if you're talking about Tortle Monks...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Now if you're talking about Tortle Monks...

I don't see any issues with tortle monks. There isn't really any advantage in being able to dump dexterity or wisdom. You can have lousy initiative and ability save DCs, in exchange for a few more hp and being better at athletics.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

On the Hadozee, one way of thinking about this is if you are playing on 5 foot grid squares, if you are within 5 feet of the ground you are ON the ground (since you have to occupy your cube) and therefore cannot glide.

 

[Stormonu]

Out of curiosity, what's wonky with the Thri-Kreen chameleon carapace?