DnD - Player Reference

## D&De5 Player Reference

### Movement (pg 182)
**Difficult terrain**. 1ft becomes 2ft of movement.  
**Climbing, swimming, crawling**. 1 extra ft of movement.  
**Long jump (run 10ft)**. Distance up to STR score.  
**Long jump (standing)**. Distance up to 1/2 STR score.  
**High jump (run 10ft)**. Distance up to 3 + STR modifier.  
**High jump (standing)**. 1/2 that (extend arms to add 1.5x height).

### Strength
**Carrying capacity**. 15 times your STR score in pounds.  
**Size and strength**. For each size above Medium, double the creature’s carrying capacity. For a tiny creature, halve.  
**Push, drag, or lift**. Weights up to twice your carrying capacity. While pushing or dragging weight in excess of your carrying capacity, your speed drops to 5ft.

### Actions in combat (pg 192)
- Attack.
- Cast spell.
- Dash. Additional movement up to your current speed.  
- Disengage. Prevents opportunity attacks.  
- Dodge. DIS on attacks for hostiles, ADV on DEX saves .  
- Help. ADV to target on next skill check or attack.  
- Hide. Do stealth check for success.  
- Improvise an unlisted action.
- Ready. Decide trigger and reaction including spells.  
- Search. Perception or investigation check.  
- Take bonus action if available.
- Use object.

### Combat (pg 195)
**Critical hit**. Roll damage dice twice, then add modifiers.  
**Melee attacks**. Combat within a 5ft reach.  
**Ranged attacks**. DIS on the attack roll when your target is beyond normal range but closer than long.  
**Ranged attacks in close quarters**. DIS on the attack roll if you are within 5ft of a hostile creature who can see you and who is not _incapacitated_.  
**Unarmed Strike**. 1 + STR modifier of bludgeoning damage.  
**Opportunity attack**. Uses reaction. Happens when a hostile creature moves out of your reach without disengaging. You gain an interrupting attack.  
**Two-weapon fighting**. 2 light weapon attacks, one as action, other as bonus action. Thrown weapons can be thrown. Only negative modifiers apply to bonus attack.  
**Grappling**. Attacker athletics vs target athletics or acrobatics. See _grappled_ condition.  
**Shoving a creature**. Attacker athletics vs target athletics or acrobatics. Knock the target _prone_ or push it 5 ft away.

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### Spell casting (pg 201)
**Spellcasting focus**. Can be used in place of costless material components. If holy symbol must be held or worn visibly.  
**Casting in armor**. Must be proficient in armor type worn.  
**Spell attacks**. d20 + proficiency + spellcasting.  
**Spell DC**. 8 + proficiency + spellcasting + special modifiers.  
**Covered target**. Target cannot be behind total cover. Area effect begins on near side of obstruction.  
 
### Spell components
**Verbal (V)**. Caster gagged or in area of silence can not cast a spell with verbal component.  
**Somatic (S)**. Caster must have one free hand to perform gestures for somatic component.  
**Material (M)**. Caster can use component pouch or spellcasting focus. Must have specific component to cast spell. Must have one hand free to access component.

### Spell duration
**Instantaneous**. Can not be dispelled.  
**Concentration**. If concentration is lost, spell ends. Moving and attacking do not interfere with concentration. Concentration ends on: voluntary decision, no action required, casting another concentration spell, being _incapacitated_ or killed, taking damage DC is max(10, half damage amount).

### Spell combining
Effects of different spells add together and duration overlaps. For same spells highest bonus wins and durations overlap.

### Hiding (pg 177)  
**In combat**. Must disengage first.  
**Actively looking**. Stealth vs perception.  
**Not looking**. Stealth vs passive perception.  
**Lightly obscured**. DIS on perception check.  
**Heavily obscured**. _Blinded_ condition.

### Cover (pg 196)  
**1/2 cover**. +2 AC and DEX saving throws.  
**3/4 cover**. +5 AC and DEX saving throws.  
**Total cover**. Can’t be targeted directly by attack or spell.

### Rest
**Short rest**. 1 hr, use HD to regain lost HP.  
**Long rest**. 8 hr, regain all HP, 1/2 max HD, all spell slots.

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### Conditions (pg 290)
**Blinded**. Fail any sight checks. You attack with DIS. Hostile has ADV.  
**Charmed**. Cannot hurt or attack charmer, charmer has ADV to social ability checks.  
**Deafened**. Fail any hearing checks.  
**Frightened**. DIS to ability checks and attacks while source of fear is in line of sight. Can’t move closer to source of fear.  
**Grappled**. Speed 0, ends when grappler _incapacitated_ or when moved out of reach of grappler from an effect.  
**Incapacitated**. Can not take actions or reactions.  
**Invisible**. _Blinded_ for others. You still make noise and tracks. You attack with ADV, hostile has DIS.  
**Paralyzed**. _Incapacitated_. Fail any STR and DEX saves. Hostile has ADV. All damage from within 5ft is critical.  
**Petrified**. _Incapacitated_. Your weight increases x10, unaware of surroundings. Hostile has ADV. Fail any STR and DEX saves, resist ro all damage, poison, disease.  
**Poisoned**. Attacks and ability checks have DIS.  
**Prone**. You attack with DIS. Hostile has ADV within 5ft, if over 5 ft then DIS. You can only crawl (1/2 speed), unless stand. Standing costs half of movement speed for round.    
**Restrained**. Speed 0, you attack with DIS and your DEX saves have DIS. Hostile has ADV.  
**Stunned**. _Incapacitated_. Hostile has ADV. Fail any STR and DEX saves.  
**Unconscious**. _Incapacitated_ and _prone_. Fail any STR and DEX saves. Hostile has ADV. All damage from within 5 ft is critical.

### Strength skills
**Athletics**. Physical power, climbing, jumping, swimming.

### Dexterity skills
**Acrobatics**. Balance, staying on feet on slippery surfaces or rolling after difficult jump.  
**Sleight of hand**. Delicate operations, lock picking, planting something, stealing, concealing.  
**Stealth**. Hide from sight in shadows, sneak past guard, move silently.

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### Intelligence skills
**Arcana**. Knowledge about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, the planes of existence, and the inhabitants of those planes.  
**History**. Knowledge about historical events, legendary people, ancient kingdoms, past disputes, and recent wars.
**Investigation**. Make deductions based on surroundings, look for clues, finding something in documents.  
**Nature**. Knowledge about terrain, plants and animals, the weather, and natural cycles.  
**Religion**. Knowledge about deities, rites and prayers, religious hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults.

### Wisdom skills
**Animal handling**. Calm down an animal, intuit an animal’s intentions. Control mount during a tricky maneuver.  
**Insight**. Detecting lies, predicting next move and intentions of a creature based on its body language, speech habits, and changes in mannerisms.  
**Medicine**. Stabilize dying companion, diagnose an illness, figure out wound origin.  
**Perception**. Detect the presence of something hidden, hear a conversation through a closed door, eavesdrop under an open window, or candlelight under a closed secret door.  
**Survival**. Follow tracks, hunt wild game, guide through frozen wastelands, identify signs that dangerous animals live nearby, avoid quicksand and other natural hazards.

### Charisma skills
**Deception**. Convincingly hide the truth, misleading others through ambiguity or outright lies. Fast talk a guard, con a merchant, pass yourself off in a disguise.  
**Intimidation**. Influence someone with threats, hostile actions, and physical violence. Pry information out of a prisoner, convince street thugs to back down.  
**Performance**. How well you can delight an audience with music, dance, acting, storytelling, or some other form of entertainment.  
**Persuasion**. Influence someone with tact, social graces, or good nature. Convince a chamberlain to let your party see the king, negotiate peace between warring tribes, or inspire a crowd of townsfolk.