lukelightning
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Because being knocked supine would just lead to confusion.
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Because being knocked supine would just lead to confusion.
"Prone" means "in a position that prevents you from flying and incurs all other penalties associated with the prone condition." If the most logical way to describe that is laying on your back, then that's probably the best way to explain it.
ExploderWizard
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Why?
Have you ever seen a bird lying on its back try to take off from that position? It actually makes sense to me that they'd have to "stand up" first.
A Prone Parrot
The Norwegian Blue prefers kipping on it's back.
Not everything in D&D needs wings to fly. Magical flight is, well, magical. A creature can just float around and defy the hell out of gravity. All of sudden a creature that can float in space at will has to "get up" after lying down?
Flipguarder
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Yup that's what prone means.
Why in God's name is it any more logical for a beholder to float from lying down than it can't immediately and has to be in a certain position to float?
Why in God's name is it any more logical for a beholder to float from lying down than it can't immediately and has to be in a certain position to float?
Not necessarily, it just has to take a moment to right itself/clear its head/re-establish the focus of will required to fly/whatever other bit of flavorful description the DM feels best fits the creature's nature and the penalties associated with the condition labeled "prone."
Pbartender
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Right. Technically, you can knock a Gelatinous Cube "prone"... How can you tell? It's a cube!
Of course, the last time one of my players did it, I described it as the Cube wiggling and jiggling uncontrollably like a jello mold dropped on the table. It took the Cube a moment to "stand up" by way of damping down on the vibrations.
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