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    Tripping Rules For D&D 5e

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    This document summarizes rules for knocking opponents prone in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, including using shoves or the Fighter's Trip Attack maneuver. It explains that shoves involve a contested check to knock opponents up to one size larger prone. Trip Attack allows expending a superiority die to make an opponent large or smaller make a Strength save or fall prone. Being prone gives enemies advantage and the prone creature disadvantage on attack rolls and requires movement to stand up.

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    This document summarizes rules for knocking opponents prone in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, including using shoves or the Fighter's Trip Attack maneuver. It explains that shoves involve a contested check to knock opponents up to one size larger prone. Trip Attack allows expending a superiority die to make an opponent large or smaller make a Strength save or fall prone. Being prone gives enemies advantage and the prone creature disadvantage on attack rolls and requires movement to stand up.

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    This document summarizes rules for knocking opponents prone in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, including using shoves or the Fighter's Trip Attack maneuver. It explains that shoves involve a contested check to knock opponents up to one size larger prone. Trip Attack allows expending a superiority die to make an opponent large or smaller make a Strength save or fall prone. Being prone gives enemies advantage and the prone creature disadvantage on attack rolls and requires movement to stand up.

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    Tripping Rules For D&D 5e

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    This document summarizes rules for knocking opponents prone in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, including using shoves or the Fighter's Trip Attack maneuver. It explains that shoves involve a contested check to knock opponents up to one size larger prone. Trip Attack allows expending a superiority die to make an opponent large or smaller make a Strength save or fall prone. Being prone gives enemies advantage and the prone creature disadvantage on attack rolls and requires movement to stand up.

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    T RIPPIN B ALLS FOR F UN AND P ROFIT

    T HE 5 TH ED . T RIP A TTACK B EING P RONE


    In 5th ed. resolving trip attacks is pretty simple. The ba- Being on the ground is a sucky place to be when pe-
    sics are laid out in the section on shoving folks around, ople are trying to stab you. About the only nice thing
    since if you win a shove you can knock your opponent about being prone is that people who are trying to shoot
    prone. Like grappling there are some size limitations. you have disadvantage. In all other cases - yuck! While
    prone:
    SHOVE
    A prone creatures only movement option is to
    Using the Attack action, you can make a special melee crawl, unless it stands up and thereby ends the con-
    attack to shove a creature, either to knock it prone or dition.
    push it away from you. If youre able to make multiple
    attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls.
    of them.
    The target of your shove must be no more than one An attack roll against the creature has advantage
    size larger than you, and it must be within your re- if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature. Ot-
    ach. You make a Strength (Athletics) check contested herwise, the attack roll has disadvantage.
    by the targets Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acro-
    batics)check (the target chooses the ability to use). If Well thats no good. How do you get of of being prone?
    you win the contest, you either knock the target prone Well to stand up it:
    or push it 5 feet away from you.
    . . . costs an amount of movement equal to half your
    The only real tweak in this comes from the Fighters speed. For example, if your speed is 30 feet, you must
    combat maneuver Trip Attack which states spend 15 feet of movement to stand up. You cant stand
    up if you dont have enough movement left or if your
    speed is 0.
    TRIP ATTACK
    To move while prone, you must crawl or use magic
    When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can such as teleportation. Every foot of movement while
    expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the tar- crawling costs 1 extra foot. Crawling 1 foot in difficult
    get down. You add the superiority die to the attacks terrain, therefore, costs 3 feet of movement.
    damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it
    must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, So while it isnt completely pants (no longer provoking
    you knock the target prone. an attack of opportunity to stand up), it isnt exactly a trip
    to the land of milk and honey.
    Instead of making a contested roll as you do with a
    shove, the target of the Fighters Trip Attack simply needs
    to make a strength save. The DC of this save is set by the
    players maneuver save DC of (8 + proficiency level +
    strength or dexterity modifier). If they are large or smal-
    ler and fail this save, they fall down and are prone, as if
    they lost the shove contest. This is really the only weird
    statement. With a shove you can knock a creature prone
    as long as it is up to one size class larger than you, but
    trip attack specifies a size of large or smaller. This really
    would only be an issue if the Trip Attack user finds some
    way of increasing their size class. I tried to find a clari-
    fication on it from Mike Mearls, but have been unable to
    do so thus far.

    T RIPPIN B ALLS FOR F UN AND P ROFIT


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