Questions tagged [saving-throw]
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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If you cast a spell with a focus that increases your DC, does the DC drop if you stow the focus?
Some items increase the saving throw DC of spells cast using them or while holding them. For example the Rod of the Pact Keeper says:
While holding this rod, you gain a +[1-3] bonus to spell attack ...
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Are the result of enemy saving throws against player spells public knowledge?
In Pathfinder second edition, does a spellcaster know the result of an enemy's save against their spell?
The game rules make it clear that when a player makes a check, they don't always get to know ...
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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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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
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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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