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Thread: Simple RAW 3
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Q71: Does the champion's improved critical mean that an attack automatically hits on a 19 or 20 in addition to the bonus damage?
I'm used to 3.5 where I'm pretty sure the weapon properties that could increase crit-range didn't grant the auto-hit but I can't find a place that clarifies it in the PHB. I assume it does grant the auto-hit but I want to be sure.
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Q72: A character may use Alchemist's Fire 'as an action' but throwing it requires the user to 'make a ranged attack'. It is not listed as a weapon with the thrown property, but says it should be treated 'as an improvised weapon' for purposes of the ranged attack.
May a character throw multiple flasks on a turn by using the Attack action with the Extra Attack class feature or a Bonus action through Two-Weapon Fighting? Alternatively, may a Thief throw a flask as a Bonus action by 'Using An Object' with the Fast Hands class feature?
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It's all there in your quote.
You make a ranged attack, it is treated as an improvised weapon, and it requires your action.
Just like every other improvised weapon attack, you take the Attack action to execute the attack. If you have Extra Attack then one or more of your attacks may be with an improvised weapon, and alchemist's fire is no exception to the normal improvised weapon rules.
Unless the rogue's Fast Hand feature lets you make an attack, that ability cannot be used to make an attack with an improvised weapon.
Two-weapon fighting requires actual weapons, so TWF is incompatible with objects that are not weapons, and the definition of 'improvised weapon' is 'a non-weapon object'. If it was a weapon then it wouldn't need to be improvised.
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This is false.
A72: An attack does not always use the Attack action. Since Alchemist's Fire says you must use your action to use it, that's the action you make: the "Use an Object (Alchemist's Fire) action" if you will. As part of that action you make a single ranged weapon attack treating the vile as an improvised weapon, similar to how an Opportunity Attack uses a single attack but not the Attack action.
Now as for whether or not the vial that contains the alchemist's fire could be used as an improvised weapon as part of the Attack action using the improvised weapon rules, and what its properties would be: yes it can be used as an improvised weapon in the Attack action but what its properties are is up to the DM. A DM could fairly rule that the vial is solid enough that it only does bludgeoning damage similar to a light hammer when used in the Attack action. (Therefore implying using the regular alchemist's fire action would require taking time to throw it just right.) A DM could also fairly rule it works the same either way.Last edited by Puh Laden; 2017-02-16 at 11:54 AM.
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A 72 (cont) I think there's enough ambiguity here that this deserves its own thread so as not to derail the RAW thread. I'll link it here.
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Can the spell Telekinesis be twinned by a Sorcerer's Twinned Spell Metamagic?
If so, are there any special limitations on retargetting?
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Telekinesis p280 PHB
Twinned Spell p102 PHB
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Q74: If you shove a friendly creature, could it willingly fail the contest and accept the 5ft movement?
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Q75: Antitoxin can be consumed as part of 'interacting with objects around you' (similar to drinking 'all the ale in a flagon') in addition to taking a Move and an Action, since its description does not state it requires an action to do so, right?
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If a Monk uses his Deflect Missiles ability to catch and throw back a munition like an arrow, what is the damage of the said munition thrown? I understand the Monk can use is Martial Arts damage anyway, but that may be an interesting point at low level. Do we simply use a 1d4 damage like for an improvised weapon?Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protčgent la France.
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A76: I think the RAW suggest thrown ammunition does 1d4 damage for non-monks. This seems too good to me since recognized weapons like daggers with the thrown property may only do that much. I guess that is where the proficiency bonus is meant to make a difference, and possibly the character's ability modifier...
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Q77: Does an improvised weapon, which isn't ruled by the DM as treated like some other weapon, apply the character's ability modifier to damage rolls? What about an "object that bears no resemblance to a weapon" (PHB pg. 148) that deals 1d4 damage?
Chapter 7: Using Ability Scores says that your Strength/Dexterity modifier is added to attack & damage rolls when attacking with a melee/ranged-or-finesse weapon.Last edited by GGambrel; 2017-02-19 at 09:26 AM. Reason: adding commas
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Q78: If a monster's Stealth check equals the Passive Wisdom (Perception) of a PC when attempting to calculate Surprise at the beginning of a combat, what occurs?
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A 78 When two opposed checks tie, the situation remains unchanged. Interpret that as you will, but it seems to me that they were unaware of each other before the encounter so the stealthed goblin would remain undetected.
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Q 79: Can you take Spell Sniper feat if only spell you know is a cantrip from a racial trait? E.g. High Elf with Booming Blade?
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A 79 The pre-requisite says "the ability to cast at least one spell", so that would suggest that you can take the feat.
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Q 80: Shou human are yellowish-bronze in hue on PHB. Shou is like a chinese, right? So Japan is like what? I realy don't know what I can put on my character sheet. What is D&D Wa ethnic?
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Q81: On page 182 of the PHB in the section on "Noticing Threats" under "Activity While Traveling," there is the suggestion that "the DM might decide that only those characters in the back rank have a chance to hear or spot a stealthy creature following the group." Would this mean that if a hostile creature snuck up on a traveling group that party members not in the back rank are automatically surprised if combat begins or is the passive check to "Notice Threats" not the same check used to determine surprise?
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Q 82 An arcana cleric takes greenflame blade as part of his 1st level feature, at 8th level (the level they get potent spellcasting) does it deal 1d8+WIS on the initial hit and 1d8+2(WIS) to the secondary target or only 1d8+WIS to the secondary?
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A81: Since "the DM might decide..." it seems within the purview of the DM to also decide whether the front rank is automatically surprised or not. The scenario described might allow the stealthy creature to maintain line of sight to the back rank, but not the front rank, such that the front rank would never be able to see the creature.
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A77:You only add the Modifier if you are proficient with the weapon, so unless you have the Tavern Brawler feat, you don't add the Modifier
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R77 Can you give a citation on that, please?
The section of the PHB/SRD dealing with damage rolls just says "When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier - the same modifier used for the attack roll - to the damage." with no mention of requiring proficiency to make that happen and the section on Weapon Proficiency says that "Proficiency with a weapon allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with that weapon. If you make an attack roll using a weapon with which you lack proficiency, you do not add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll." Neither mention proficiency affecting the damage roll.
Unless I see a citation that said otherwise, I would rule that you add your strength modifier to the damage roll for an improvised weapon because it fits the damage roll rule I quoted. (It also passes the logic test: it's hard to imagine that getting hit with a chair by a 300 lb. mountain of muscle wouldn't deal more damage than being hit with the same chair by a frail old man who can barely lift it.)Last edited by Lord Il Palazzo; 2017-02-23 at 04:28 PM.