D&D (5e): Grappling a Creature
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2017
- This video demonstrates and explains how to grapple a creature in the game of dungeons & dragons 5e.
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Thank you so much for your video. Everyone else just read the player's handbook but you're the only one that actually used a real example with numbers. I now understand how this works. Thank you again, you just gained a new subscriber.
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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)
when i take the tavern brawler feat, can I attack, grapple as a bonus action and attack again with the extra attack?
Yes.
@@HowtoRPG I had tavern brawler and and I am a new player I did not knew the power of grappling even more so as a barbarian XD
@@Pokemanking12 Welcome to the game :)
@@HowtoRPG thanks been reading up in things I got I can do in game from the books and also looking outside the box
@@HowtoRPG like in a video that was talking about slasher, crusher and piercer feat, I say rp wish any of these feats can be us by anyone weapon if it meets the requirements , like piecer can be us by a barbarian with a great axe as long it have a shape point in the center of the head or bottom of the great axe
I'm consistently surprised there aren't more questions about the battle maps you display. You might consider adding those kinds of details to the video description box. Or not. Either way, thanks for the info.
Thank you. I have videos on my maps. Some of the maps I have displayed do not have videos on them, so maybe I should do that in the future.
What about a suplexes is that a grapple or a bonus move like a feat sorry (never played but interested) also can it work like a clinched in kickboxing (knee or elbow strikes) or dirty boxing (like toe stamp to headbutt/shoulder bash)?
Escaping a grapple costs you 1 action. You can use Athletics or Acrobatics vs. your enemies Athletics to see if you break free.
I have done a video on the topic of escaping a grapple.
th-cam.com/video/EaPg54kggp0/w-d-xo.html
Hi again Fred, just wondering, are there any disadvantages to the person being grappled? I wouldn't seem right for a monster to be able to successfully loose an arrow, if he had a fighter grabbing onto his arm(for example). Is really the only things that happens is the grappled creature can't move?
Carl Crowley You are correct. Restrained is the stronger condition that takes grappled to the next level.
Thanks again, Fred! I assume you would have to successfully grapple before you could try and restrain? In that case, would you use the same procedure again, as detailed in this video?
You need the Grappler feat to restrain a creature.
great vid.
I like it
Thank you.
Also on the rug of smothering, it doesn’t explain how the victim would die of suffocation. Does it only taken2d6 + 3 damage per round so it could take a while? Or are there rules for suffocation?
There are rules for suffocating on page 183 of the PHB. It takes a while to suffocate, 30 seconds to 6 minutes, possible more.
Is there a benefit for being a larger size, so in other words, is it harder for a halfling to grapple a half-orc than a half-orc trying to grapple a halfling? (Ability scores being equal.)
Nothing is stated in the PHB rules, so no. If you are the DM, you could use disadvantage or advantage. Also see the sidebar "Grappling Rules for Monsters" in the Monster Manual (p. 11).
As a monk, can I choose to use Dex instead of Str for initiating Grapple?
Can you attack a creature that you are currently grappling?
Yes, if the attack requires only one hand.
@@HowtoRPG thanks mate
Grappling is ridiculously underpowered without the grappler feat. I thought grappling would be cool with a 18 strength char vs a 8 strength warlock. Ended up the warlock being still abel to normally cast and attack me, dealing 36 dmg in one round at level 4 lol. 5e is so dumb for melee classes
I don't have an issue with the grappling rules, but it would be hard to accept if you understood and liked the 3.5 rules.
attempting to escape takes an action, so punish them while they're grappled and make then *want* to use their action to escape
So you can only grapple on Action or Extra Attacks, but you can't do it in Bonus Action?
Correct.
Unless you hold the Tavern Brawler feat and succeed in an unarmed attack, then you can
You can only replace one multi attack with grapple attack. You can not grapple attempt multiple times in the same round
Multi-attack and extra attack work differently. You can make multiple attempts at grappling in the same turn. See below,
www.sageadvice.eu/2015/06/03/how-many-grapples/
Sorry, a lot of rambling incoming and I'm certainly not the first person to think of this, but:
Grappling halves your moving speed and you can grapple with two appendages at the same time. Does that mean the movement speed is 0 or is it a quarter?
Also, Aarakocra can fly and as far as I have researched, carrying while flying is the same as carrying while walking, so strength * 15. So, if we take an Aarakocra monk, the flight speed is 50 ft., halved by grappling someone, doubled again using a ki point for dash, so again 50 ft. Is it possible to grapple a foe (say, up to 150 pounds for a monk with 10 STR), fly upwards, dashing to 50 ft. and just... drop them? Falling damage is 1d6 for every 10 ft. (up to 20d6), so 5d6 for 50 ft., plus the creature lands prone.
I know this would depend on several unusual things happening (for starters, having enough STR + Athletics to even grapple in the first place as a monk) but in theory, the monk could have a background containing athletics (Outlander seems to fit the Aarakocra) and start dropping Goblins at level 2!
Thanks in advance for reading this convoluted mess.
I'll answer your first question. Using one or two hands to grapple has no affect that is different, by core rules. A DM can rule differently if they want.
@@HowtoRPG thanks for taking the time
@@gerolindenberg8017 You are welcome :)
a bit late but i dont think an aarakocra could fly away. If carrying was a viable method of "escape" than someone with high strength could just pick up their grappler most of the time
If I have a 10-foot reach can I grab someone and hold them five feet away from my?
Yes. What your getting confused by is the silly reach rules in 3.5e, that made no sense.
For anyone with experience for homebrew races, I have a question. I'm trying to make a chameleon race, and if it hits a small enemy with its tongue, it will pull it into its maw, and grappling it. But I still don't understand this grapple mechanic. Like, can you do other actions while grappling someone, can they do dmg to you and any other useful details. I have tried to understand this ability for half an hour but I still don't get it.
What you are describing is beyond the core rules.
@@HowtoRPG But isn't grappling part of the core rules? I'm kind of a newbie so I wouldn't know
@@reficul4535 Grapple is part of the core rules, but the additional ideas you present require a feat and DM rulings.
Does a nat 20 auto grapple or beat grapple or does the number still need to be higher?
Example grappler rolls a 19 plus 5 gets 24
Target rolls 20 plus 3 gets 23
Does the grappler win due to higher number or does target shake them off just cuz of a nat 20
Context: having a rough time with a dm that just abuses nat 20 for their benefit and just says what I'm trying to do is impossible with my nat 20s... I said I pushed a box block our path, not a Boulder just a wooden box, not only did I move the box it slid back into Place and made rocks fall on us in the cave... Not exactly a crit success if I didn't move it out of the way and we got debris and rocks falling on us.
Rolling a natural 20 on a D20 to automatically hit a target only applies to attack rolls. Skill, ability checks and saving throws don't get automatic success on a natural 20.
Can i cast a spell if im grapled?
Yes, unless the game Master rules differently.
If the rules state you may use one of your two attacks then I'd say his interpretation is wrong and only one attempt could be made, otherwise it would read "one or both attacks may be used for the grapple action" anyone have thoughts on that?
Just read the sage advice Compendium.
I'm developing custom rules for grappling in my D&D 5e campaigns. The summary is that grappling works normally, but I'm adding to the system. Currently, you need only one free hand and get what many consider to be a lackluster amount of control. My addition is to have a two-handed grapple, requiring two free hands that are then bound for the duration of the grapple. You make the same Athletics vs Athletics/Acrobatics check only, if you're successful with a two-handed grapple, the target is restrained. Normal rules then apply from here. Major redesign for the Grappler feat as well as adjustment to the Restrained condition to apply to casters as well as martial classes. Lay me some thoughts, fellow nerds.
Can the changes be made without rewriting the Grappler feat and the Restrained condition?
When I clicked on this video, I was kind of hoping to hear a few examples of why someone would choose to grapple from an experienced player. As is, I learned from reading the comments below that grapple only reduces an enemies movement to 0 while grappled and reduces your movement by half. Additionally, there is a grappler feat that applies the restrained condition on the target, which does more things (not clear on what those are with opening a players handbook). Do you think you could put a little focus on this kind of information for future videos you make and a little less on the basic math? Still happy I checked out the vid and I get that some people need to see that math written out to understand, but I would be much more interested in checking out the rest of your videos if there were at least a few examples of why this mechanic useful.
An example I can think of would be for your shove video where you spent about 3 minutes doing the math over and over. Instead, you could have highlight the math behind the increase in percent chance to hit a prone enemy for a high damage party member and the core rule books math on fall damage for shoving someone off a ledge, ect. I hope this comment comes off as someone trying to give some positive criticism rather than anything negative.
From what I have seen if you went from a grapple and did a shove the opponent will be prone and will have disadvantage on all attacks, my dwarven fighter has learnt the ability of grapple and pin so from a grapple I can make a pin attempt where I will get advantage on all battles and the opponent will have disadvantage still and can't get up. It's a way of overpowering and dealing more damage if you have an adventure with a good strength score.
You could also drag them to a cliff edge and shove them over the end to kill them. I did wish the video went into more details about the size comparisons as examples
If I grapple a mage from behind then can I try to stop him from using spells
Grappling a Mage is not Restraning the caster of spells. Restraning requires more feats, abilities or something more.
The main reason why my players refuse to use grappling is the fact that opponents that shouldn't be able to easily escape a successful grapple manage to leave break free without a problem. As an incentive I made it so that after the initial check, you can only break free with Athletics afterwards. I Believe that to be fair as STR players sacrifice dex saves for what is essentially roleplay. Also its quite upsetting when you have a player make a grapple build, and Kobolds and goblins just slip out of their grasp.
You could always just give a grappled creature disadvantage.
@@HowtoRPG I dislike the "fudge rolls" answers. Doing it too much puts you in a bad habit. Also, DND as a system fails at rewarding creative choices unless you min max. A player once really wanted a demon hunter like in Diablo, dual. Wielding Hand crossbows. According to DnDs loading mechanic, the player cannot do that due to needing a free hand. I gave the person 2 options. Easy option was a family heirloom magic item that basically removes the loading property issue and some minor bolt recovery magic, or he could start of with regular gear and try to develop a new crossbow that actually can actually handle one handed loading. Being a good sport she avoided the lvl 1 magic item cheese. It completely changed her roleplay from being your usual Legolas style Ranger to an Elven Woman refusing to listen to tradition and facing the technological advances of the sword coast. On top of that, to revitalise her family Fletching business, she also dreams of developing a better Array of ranged weapons and have the name Luodea be known throughout the lands. So in her journey, she hunts beasts and forages lands for useful materials, while studying with craftsman from Bryn Shander to Baldurs Gate. As a result, she would carry concept prototypes into battle of which the first 3 or so malfunctioned, until she perfected her craft. After some classic "you betrayed our way" family interactions, she used her Gold to create her own shop in Yartar, and "Harleens Easy Game" fletchers shoppe got quite famous.
Bending rules beyond "ok. You did it" has fantastic results
what can you do with grapping a target, wasnt very helpful sorry all it did was say i have to roller higher no matter what
That is all this video is meant to do. There are other videos that explain more.
th-cam.com/video/6pUwl4u3_Bg/w-d-xo.html
Is this real? Why not just make a strength saving throw ? It makes more sense and you don’t have to use 2 skills you don’t even have .*
This is just game mechanics for D&D 5e, it is correct. Everyone has these 2 skills. You can always house rule if you are the DM.