you can use your bonus action to attempt to grapple creatures. You have advantage on your grapple check if you are flanking the creature you are trying to grapple. Also, when you grapple a creature, they suffer from the restrained condition. Additionally, you don't suffer movement penalties from grappling a creature. After you have grappled a creature, you can attempt to drag them away from the fight. If you want to remain unnoticed, you will need to roll a stealth check. you can perform special grapple actions that require two free hands.
Kidnap. As an action, you can use two free hands to attempt a grapple on a suitable creature your size or smaller. Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, cannot cast spells that require somatic components, and it also cannot speak or cast spells that require verbal components if it needs to breathe. Your speed is not halved when dragging or carrying a creature grappled in this way. In addition, you can free one of your hands at any time by switching to a normal grapple.
Strangle. As an action, you can use two free hands to attempt a grapple on a suitable creature that has a neck thin enough for your hands or a garrote to wrap around. You have disadvantage on the initial grapple check if you cannot Sneak Attack the target. Until this grapple ends, the target is choking and can't speak or cast spells that require verbal components if it needs to breathe. While 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. In addition, the condition ends if you let go of the target with either hand at any time or dash.
If a creature you are grappling has no allies within 15ft, you gain the following effects: They have disadvantage on breaking out of the grapple, You can still use your sneak attack for the next minute even if they get out of your grapple, as long as you don't have disadvantage, and You can attack twice against that creature, though you can only use your sneak attack on the first attack.
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