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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8031167" data-attributes="member: 6801845">From Xanathar's Guide to Everything: Flying Creatures and Falling A flying creature in flight falls if it is knocked <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/basic-rules/appendix-a-conditions#Prone" target="_blank">prone</a>, if its speed is reduced to 0 feet, or if it otherwise loses the ability to move, unless it can hover or it is being held aloft by magic, such as the <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/fly" target="_blank">fly</a> spell. If you’d like a flying creature to have a better chance of surviving a fall than a non-flying creature does, use this rule: subtract the creature’s current flying speed from the distance it fell before calculating falling damage. This rule is helpful to a flier that is knocked <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/basic-rules/appendix-a-conditions#Prone" target="_blank">prone</a> but is still conscious and has a current flying speed that is greater than 0 feet. The rule is designed to simulate the creature flapping its wings furiously or taking similar measures to slow the velocity of its fall. If you use the rule for rate of falling in the previous section, a flying creature descends 500 feet on the turn when it falls, just as other creatures do. But if that creature starts any of its later turns still falling and is <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/basic-rules/appendix-a-conditions#Prone" target="_blank">prone</a>, it can halt the fall on its turn by spending half its flying speed to counter the <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/basic-rules/appendix-a-conditions#Prone" target="_blank">prone</a> condition (as if it were standing up in midair). </blockquote>

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