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For questions about saving throws, often used in RPGs such as D&D to refer to a set of defensive traits based on a character's own ability to avoid the brunt of damage, resist control, endure through some force, and struggle against death.
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Do you reroll things like bless and bardic inspiration with indomitable?
Me and my group remember a rule that says you only reroll the d20 in every situation where you reroll something but I can not find that rule.
Indomitable says,
Beginning at 9th level, you can reroll ...
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How to fail a saving throw?
Other than in the 2024 rules, in D&D 5e 2014, you cannot choose to fail a saving throw. But sometimes you want to.
Some spells or effects like polymorph take this into account, by allowing you to ...
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How to make the weather matter?
I'd like to implement some way to reward characters who take efforts to protect themselves from bad weather. I am not talking about blizzards, sub-freezing arctic temperatures, or blistering heat, for ...
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Can a sorcerer use Twinned Spell to cast the Blindness spell at its base level and target a single creature?
From my current understanding, the rules specifically state that spell effects don't stack. However, a target caught in the area of two different spells is still required to make a save for both ...
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Is there an error in the new Carrion Crawler stat block?
I just received my copy of the new MM the other day. The new Carrion Crawler stat block has this ability
Paralyzing Tentacles. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 12, one creature the carrion crawler can see ...
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Saving throws when under certain conditions
Do certain conditions affect certain saving throws?
For example, if a creature is prone, and restrained and a wizard casts fireball, there is a dexterity saving throw required to half damage. But ...
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Do you always have to make two saves for the new sleep spell?
The new version of sleep says:
Each creature of your choice in a 5-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Incapacitated condition until ...
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Does a successful save against web count as "breaking free"?
The web spell, like many spells that impose the restrained condition, has an initial save to avoid the effect and a subsequent check to overcome the effects of a failed save.
However, the spell also ...
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Can Silvery Barbs be used against a saving throw that succeeded due to Legendary Resistance?
Given that silvery barbs has a casting time of:
1 reaction, which you take when a creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself succeeds on an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw
I ...
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Does the Rogue's Evasion cost a reaction?
My 12th-level rogue was attacked by an opponent with a pike and then (bonus action) Flame Burst. DM said I could use Uncanny Dodge (a reaction) to halve the pike damage, but even though I saved on the ...
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Do the D&D 5e 2024 rules let you choose to fail a saving throw?
The new Path of the World Tree Barbarian subclass has a feature called "Branches of the Tree" which states that, as a reaction, you can teleport a creature within 30' of you to a space ...
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Can you use the Monster's of the Multiverse Hobgoblin's Fortune from the Many feature multiple times on the same saving throw?
I noticed that the hobgoblin as it appears in MotM has a feature where it could gain a bonus to saving throws dependent on how many allies are near you (feature quoted below). The problem is that this ...
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Is removing the frightened condition the same as making a successful saving throw when it comes to immunity from the effect?
The party is fighting a narzugon. In addition to the three attacks per round that it makes, its statblock states that it also uses its Terrifying Command ability:
Each creature within 60 feet of the ...
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Can you opt to fail a saving throw?
Can you opt to not roll a saving throw (or more generally a check against DC), thereby automatically failing it? For example, if one of your allies wants to shove you to reposition you, you normally ...
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Does Beguiling Twist's repeat saving throw trigger Beguiling Twist?
Fey Wanderers get an ability called Beguiling Twist which reads:
(...) whenever you or a creature you can see within 120 feet of you succeeds on a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, ...
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