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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 8914843" data-attributes="member: 3987">"As a player I'd be, nah won't bother then, I guess I'll just shoot it with my bow. Does a 15 hit? No. Next."Which kind of proves Ruin Explorer's point.I mean you could do it with the 5E system, and if anything I think it is a step up from 3rd Ed where nearly everything had a rule for it. Or worse a later sourcebook would introduce a Feat to do something you use to be do anyway, but now it has a feat tax.All 5E says about falling is...A fall from a great height is one of the most common hazards facing an adventurer. At the end of a fall, a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 20d6. The creature lands <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/basic-rules/appendix-a-conditions#Prone" target="_blank">prone</a>, unless it avoids taking damage from the fall.It says nothing about landing on the back of a flying dragon...Officially in 5E the only ways to avoid fall damage, are magic or being a Monk. But Athletics is used for Jumping and really the lack of detail is an invitation for the DM to improvise using what does exist. So how I would do something like that...Sure you can drop down on the Dragon, it's 20ft below you so that's just movement. You can make and Athletics check to negate the fall damage DC15 or 2d6 damage. You land prone on it's back unless you make the DC in which case you can be sat astride it or surfer stance, whichever you think it cooler. You are point blank on it's back so can attack with advantage. Of course it will try to throw you off at the earliest opportunity. The dragon is too big for you to grapple but you can grab hold of its ridge spikes.</blockquote>

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