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5e Rules: Reactions

There is a special action type that happens outside of a character’s regular Combat Round. This is called a Reaction, and it happens, as the name suggests, when someone else’s action triggers a certain condition. In most cases, characters only get one...

5e Rules: The Combat Round

There are three elements to a person’s combat round: movement, an action, and a possible bonus action. These are three separate elements and generally do not interact with each other, unlike in some previous D&D systems, where if you took extra attacks, it would...

5e Rules: Actions

On a player’s turn, there are a few things their character can do. A character only ever gets 1 action in a round (with a few exceptions: the Fighter’s Action Surge / The Haste Spell / etc.). In additions to actions a character can move up to their speed...

5e Rules: Advantage & Disadvantage

When a creature has advantage or disadvantage on a roll, then they roll two D20s. For advantage, they take the better of the two rolls. For disadvantage they take the worse of the two rolls. Any other modifiers are then added to the roll as normal. This could...