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Can an Otherworldly Steed use a readied action while acting as a controlled mount?
The Otherworldly Steed
functions as a controlled mount while you ride it.
The restrictions on a Controlled Mount’s actions are explicitly limited to the rider’s turn:
The Initiative of a controlled ...
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How to create fixed time effect?
I'm creating a device for a character. It is a temporal stasis grenade. When thrown, it affects everyone in the area, freezing them in time temporarily. The types of duration in M&M don't include ...
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How can an Infernal without sorcery bring a battle group of demons to Creation in 3E?
I am looking for a way for an Infernal to bring a battlegroup (possibly a large battlegroup) from Malfeas to Creation to help enact their vengeance.
There are some fairly easy ways to do this with ...
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Can a controlled mount escape a grapple? (2024)
A grappled creature can use its action to escape.
A controlled mount can take only three action options: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge.
If a creature grapples a controlled mount can the mount attempt to ...
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Can a controlled mount escape a grapple? (2014)
A grappled creature can use its action to escape.
A controlled mount can take only three action options: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge.
If a creature grapples a controlled mount can the mount attempt to ...
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Non-random character generation in Mothership [closed]
I want to start a Mothership campaign and I want it to be a little bit more focused on PC's backgrounds. So, they need backgrounds, and they need characters, corresponding these backgrounds.
I have a ...
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What game design function do artifacts play in AD&D 2ed? [closed]
Artifacts in D&D have existed since Eldritch Wizardry and originally seemed to be intended to be tempting objects of power for players to acquire or, at least, prevent their enemies from acquiring....
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How does Fast Grab works with the Grab Action move?
The Grab action requires the attacker to perform an attack check and, if successful, the target must make a resistance check (Strength or Dodge) against the attacker's Strength or grab effect ranks. ...
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Traits and persistent damage
Imagine a Witch used Elemental Betrayal [fire] on an enemy:
When you Cast this Spell, choose air, earth, metal, fire, water, or wood . The target gains weakness 2 to that trait.
Now someone hits ...
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Does Branch Pounce require you to resolve falling damage to function?
While looking up potential feats for future level-ups, I came across the Branch Pounce feat and had a few thoughts about how it might work with flying characters.
For the sake of example, say a party ...
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Detect Magic spell and suppressed magic items
Let's suppose a Conclave Dryad (Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, p. 194) uses its Suppress Magic trait:
Suppress Magic (Recharge 5-6). The dryad targets one magic
item it can see within 120 feet of it....
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Can a Sorcerer speak another spell's verbal components while using Subtle Spell?
Subtle Spell allows a Sorcerer to cast a spell without the verbal component and I was imagining a situation where the Sorcerer starts casting a subtle spell but while casting the spell he speaks the ...
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Does the War Caster feat, which gives advantage on concentration checks, also apply to the Trickery Cleric's Invoke Duplicity feature?
I wanted to know whether the War Caster feat, which gives advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on a spell, would also apply to the Trickery Cleric's Channel Divinity: ...
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How does Circle Magic (Expand option) interact with Flaming Sphere?
Can the Circle Magic - Expand option be used on the Flaming Sphere spell and what would it increase?
The rules for Circle Magic state:
Expand. When you cast a spell that creates an area of effect, ...
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What is magic item rarity good for with homebrew items?
We have lots of questions about homebrew magic items, and about what their rarity should be, or if they are balanced for their intended rarity. However, as Is item rarity really tied to how powerful ...