(You can work out AC in this Dungeons & Dragons character creation guide) Doubling up - effects and hits points Wanted-style bullet or arrow-curving is out too, I’m afraid. There’s more bad news: second, if you want to ranged attack past another creature - whether friend or enemy - then your target will count as being in half cover and gain a +2 bonus to their AC and dexterity saving throws. Even if you feel like you’re channeling John Wick, bogies on your six (baddies behind you) will put you off that perfect shot.
First: if you are shooting and any enemy is adjacent to you (within 5ft), you make those attacks with disadvantage, no matter who you are targeting. Ranged players, we’re giving you a two-for-one special here. But they can also add their Jack of All Trades bonus to their initiative roll at the start of combat, adding a +1 at second level (and going up from there). Most bards will add this bonus to their usual skill checks - athletics, insight, animal handling and the like - with glee. This is a very specific rule but one that your bard player will be overjoyed to hear: we already know that, starting at second level, they can add half their proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check made that does not already include their proficiency bonus. But a natural 20 on a death saving roll means they gain one hit point and spring back into action as if nothing happened - no matter what else they rolled. Rolling a natural one on that check means two failures, meaning death is only one sub-par dice chuck away. Three failures (below a 10 on a d20, with no modifiers) and they’re brown bread three successes (a 10 or above), and they are ‘stabilised’, unconscious but on 0hp. When your character drops to zero hit points - and their merry dance with Death begins - you start rolling death saving throws.
So always check in with them and your group before ‘rules lawyering’. And in any case, the Rule of Cool may win out. So, to help spare your blushes, we’ve delved into the Forgotten Rules universe (next door to the D&D setting of the Forgotten Realms) to dig out the top ten Dungeons & Dragons 5E laws you may have un-remembered.Ī word of warning: your mileage may vary, and your dungeon master may well have their own ways of litigating some of these forgotten rules in clever, elegant or hilarious ways.
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It’s as natural as a one or a 20, then, that some of the roleplaying game’s trickier corners get forgotten between rollicking adventures whether that’s the exact unladen carrying capacity of your average commoner (300 pounds, impressively) or how to roll an attack (a d20? Are you sure?) Not many other tabletop RPGs require a central rulebook, two further compendiums and a scattering of supplements and designer updates to be current, nor bring with them a few decades’ worth of previous editions that have moved the goalposts since. Dungeons & Dragons 5E is a complicated game.