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• Blinded

  Condition

  Automatically fail any ability check that requires sight. Advantage on attacks against you and disadvantage on your attacks.

  Full description

  A blinded creature can't see and automatically fails any ability check that requires sight.

  Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.

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• Charmed

  Condition

  Can't attack the charmer or target the charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects. The charmer has advantage on any ability check to interact socially with the creature.

  Full description

  A charmed creature can't attack the charmer or target the charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects.

  The charmer has advantage on any ability check to interact socially with the creature.

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• Cover

  Object

  Cover can provide a bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws.

  Full description

  Cover	AC bonus	Dexterity saving throw bonus
  Half cover	+2	+2
  Three-quarters cover	+5	+5
  Total cover	Can't be targeted directly	Can't be targeted directly

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• Dash

  Action

  Gain extra movement equal to your speed for the current turn.

  Full description

  When you take the Dash action, you gain extra movement for the current turn. The increase equals your speed, after applying any modifiers. With a speed of 30 feet, for example, you can move up to 60 feet on your turn if you dash.

  Any increase or decrease to your speed changes this additional movement by the same amount. If your speed of 30 feet is reduced to 15 feet, for instance, you can move up to 30 feet this turn if you dash.

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• Deafened

  Condition

  Automatically fail any ability check that requires hearing.

  Full description

  A deafened creature can't hear and automatically fails any ability check that requires hearing.

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• Disengage

  Action

  Your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks for the rest of the turn.

  Full description

  If you take the Disengage action, your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks for the rest of the turn.

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• Dodge

  Action

  Until the start of your next turn, any attack roll against you has disadvantage if you can see the attacker, and you make Dexterity saving throws with advantage.

  Full description

  When you take the Dodge action, you focus entirely on avoiding attacks. Until the start of your next turn, any attack roll made against you has disadvantage if you can see the attacker, and you make Dexterity saving throws with advantage. You lose this benefit if you are incapacitated or if your speed drops to 0.

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• Exhaustion

  Condition

  Suffer from exhaustion. Effect depends on level.

  Full description

  Level	Effect
  1	Disadvantage on ability checks
  2	Speed halved
  3	Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws
  4	Hit point maximum halved
  5	Speed reduced to 0
  6	Death

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• Grapple

  Action

  Make a Strength (Athletics) check to grapple someone. Make a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to resist it.

  Full description

  When you want to grab a creature or wrestle with it, you can use the Attack action to make a special melee attack, a grapple. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

  The target of your grapple must be no more than one size larger than you and must be within your reach. Using at least one free hand, you try to seize the target by making a grapple check instead of an attack roll: a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the target's Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check (the target chooses the ability to use). You succeed automatically if the target is incapacitated. If you succeed, you subject the target to the grappled condition. The condition specifies the things that end it, and you can release the target whenever you like (no action required).

  Escaping a Grapple. A grappled creature can use its action to escape. To do so, it must succeed on a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check contested by your Strength (Athletics) check.

  Moving a Grappled Creature. When you move, you can drag or carry the grappled creature with you, but your speed is halved, unless the creature is two or more sizes smaller than you.

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• Grappled

  Condition

  Your speed becomes 0.

  Full description

  A grappled creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed.

  The condition ends if the grappler is incapacitated.

  The condition also ends if an effect removes the grappled creature from the reach of the grappler or grappling effect, such as when a creature is hurled away by the thunderwave spell.

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• Help

  Action

  Give one creature advantage on the next ability check it makes.

  Full description

  You can lend your aid to another creature in the completion of a task. When you take the Help action, the creature you aid gains advantage on the next ability check it makes to perform the task you are helping with, provided that it makes the check before the start of your next turn.

  Alternatively, you can aid a friendly creature in attacking a creature within 5 feet of you. You feint, distract the target, or in some other way team up to make your ally's attack more effective. If your ally attacks the target before your next turn, the first attack roll is made with advantage.

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• Hide

  Action

  Attempt to hide from enemies, make a Dexterity (Stealth) check.

  Full description

  When you take the Hide action, you make a Dexterity (Stealth) check in an attempt to hide, following the rules for hiding. If you succeed, you gain certain benefits, as described in the "Unseen Attackers and Targets" section later in this section.

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• Incapacitated

  Condition

  Can't take actions or reactions.

  Full description

  An incapacitated creature can't take actions or reactions.

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• Invisible

  Condition

  Can't be seen without the aid of magic or a special sense. Advantage on attacks and disadvantage on attacks against you.

  Full description

  An invisible creature is impossible to see without the aid of magic or a special sense. For the purpose of hiding, the creature is heavily obscured. The creature's location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves.

  Attack rolls against the creature have disadvantage, and the creature's attack rolls have advantage.

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• Jump

  Movement

  Long jump - move 10+ feet and jump a number of feet = your Strength score. Only half if standing still.
  High jump - move 10+ feet and jump a number of feet = 3 + your Strength modifier. Only half if standing still.

  Full description

  Long jump - move 10+ feet and jump a number of feet equal to your Strength score. When you make a standing long jump, you can leap only half that distance.

  High Jump - move 10+ feet and jump a number of feet equal to 3 + your Strength modifier. When you make a standing high jump, you can jump only half that distance.

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• Light & vision

  Reference

  Dim light = lightly obscured (disadvantage on sight Perception). Darkness = heavily obscured (effectively blinded).

  Full description

  Light	Visibility
  Bright light	Normal vision; most creatures see clearly.
  Dim light (shadows)	Lightly obscured area: disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
  Darkness	Heavily obscured area: a creature effectively suffers from the blinded condition when trying to see into it.

  Darkvision lets a creature treat darkness within range as dim light and dim light as bright light (it sees only in shades of gray).

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• Object Armor Class

  Object

  Objects have Armor Class. It depends on the material and size of the object.

  Full description

  Material	Armor Class
  Cloth, paper, rope	11
  Crystal, glass, ice	13
  Wood, bone	15
  Stone	17
  Iron, steel	19
  Mithral	21
  Adamantine	23

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• Object hit points

  Object

  Objects have hit points, Armor Class, and damage threshold. They can be destroyed.

  Full description

  Size	Fragile	Resilient
  Tiny	2 (1d4)	5 (2d4)
  Small	3 (1d6)	10 (3d6)
  Medium	4 (1d8)	18 (4d8)
  Large	5 (1d10)	27 (5d10)
  Huge	6 (1d12)	36 (6d12)
  Gargantuan	7 (2d6)	45 (7d12)

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• Paralyzed

  Condition

  Can't move or speak. Automatically fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws. Attack rolls against you have advantage.

  Full description

  A paralyzed creature is incapacitated and can't move or speak.

  The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

  Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

  Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature.

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• Petrified

  Condition

  Can't move or speak. Resistance to all damage. Automatically fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws. Attack rolls against you have advantage. Immune to poison and disease.

  Full description

  A petrified creature is transformed, along with any nonmagical object it is wearing or carrying, into a solid inanimate substance (usually stone). Its weight increases by a factor of ten, and it ceases aging.

  The creature is incapacitated (see the condition), can't move or speak, and is unaware of its surroundings.

  Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

  The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

  The creature has resistance to all damage.

  The creature is immune to poison and disease, although a poison or disease already in its system is suspended, not neutralized.

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• Poisoned

  Condition

  Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.

  Full description

  A poisoned creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.

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• Prone

  Condition

  You can only crawl or stand up. You have disadvantage on attack rolls. An attack roll against you has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of you. Otherwise, the attack roll has disadvantage.

  Full description

  A prone creature's only movement option is to crawl, unless it stands up and thereby ends the condition.

  The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls.

  An attack roll against the creature has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature. Otherwise, the attack roll has disadvantage.

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• Ready

  Action

  Prepare an action to trigger later in the round using a reaction.

  Full description

  Sometimes you want to get the jump on a foe or wait for a particular circumstance before you act. To do so, you can take the Ready action on your turn, which lets you act using your reaction before the start of your next turn.

  First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your speed in response to it. Examples include "If the cultist steps on the trapdoor, I'll pull the lever that opens it," and "If the goblin steps next to me, I move away."

  When the trigger occurs, you can either take your reaction right after the trigger finishes or ignore the trigger. Remember that you can take only one reaction per round.

  When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs. To be readied, a spell must have a casting time of 1 action, and holding onto the spell's magic requires concentration. If your concentration is broken, the spell dissipates without taking effect. For example, if you are concentrating on the web spell and ready magic missile, your web spell ends, and if you take damage before you release magic missile with your reaction, your concentration might be broken.

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• Resting

  Reference

  Short rest: 1 hour, spend Hit Dice to heal. Long rest: 8 hours, regain all HP and half your max Hit Dice.

  Full description

  Short rest. A period of downtime, at least 1 hour long. A character can spend one or more Hit Dice at the end of a short rest, up to the character's maximum number of Hit Dice (equal to the character's level). For each Hit Die spent, the player rolls the die and adds the character's Constitution modifier to it, regaining hit points equal to the total (minimum of 0).

  Long rest. A period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long. At the end of a long rest, a character regains all lost hit points and regains spent Hit Dice, up to a number of dice equal to half the character's total number of Hit Dice (minimum of one die). A character can benefit from only one long rest in a 24-hour period.

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• Restrained

  Condition

  Your speed becomes 0. Attack rolls against you have advantage. Your attack rolls have disadvantage. You have disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

  Full description

  A restrained creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed.

  Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.

  The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

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• Search

  Action

  Make a Wisdom (Perception) check to find something.

  Full description

  When you take the Search action, you devote your attention to finding something. Depending on the nature of your search, the DM might have you make a Wisdom (Perception) check or an Intelligence (Investigation) check.

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• Stunned

  Condition

  Can't move, can speak only falteringly, automatically fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws, attack rolls against you have advantage.

  Full description

  A stunned creature is incapacitated, can't move, and can speak only falteringly.

  The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

  Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

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• Suffocating

  Condition

  Hold your breath for a number of minutes equal to 1 + Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 seconds).

  Full description

  A creature can hold its breath for a number of minutes equal to 1 + its Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 seconds).

  When a creature runs out of breath or is choking, it can survive for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round). At the start of its next turn, it drops to 0 hit points and is dying, and it can't regain hit points or be stabilized until it can breathe again.

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• Travel pace

  Reference

  Fast pace gives -5 to passive Perception; slow pace lets you use stealth. Normal is the default.

  Full description

  Pace	Per minute	Per hour	Per day	Effect
  Fast	400 feet	4 miles	30 miles	-5 penalty to passive Wisdom (Perception)
  Normal	300 feet	3 miles	24 miles	—
  Slow	200 feet	2 miles	18 miles	Able to use stealth

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• Typical difficulty classes

  Reference

  Common DCs from Very easy (5) to Nearly impossible (30).

  Full description

  Task difficulty	DC
  Very easy	5
  Easy	10
  Medium	15
  Hard	20
  Very hard	25
  Nearly impossible	30

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• Unconscious

  Condition

  Can't move or speak, drop whatever you're holding, fall prone, automatically fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws, attack rolls against you have advantage, any attack that hits you is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of you.

  Full description

  An unconscious creature is incapacitated, can't move or speak, and is unaware of its surroundings.

  The creature drops whatever it's holding and falls prone.

  The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

  Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

  Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature.

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• Use an object

  Action

  Interact with an object, a magic item, a special ability or a feature of the environment.

  Full description

  You normally interact with an object while doing something else, such as when you draw a sword as part of an attack. When an object requires your action for its use, you take the Use an Object action. This action is also useful when you want to interact with more than one object on your turn.

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