Uncanny Dodge says, "when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack". My question is, what quantifies "attacker that you can see"? For context, my rogue was facing attacker in melee, on attackers next turn the attacker moves behind my rogue and says my rogue can't use uncanny dodge to half attack, since my rogue can't see attacker. Does being behind my rogue count as can't see attacker?
unless your DM is using a facing rule. (which i believe can have other effects) What it means is something that is invisible or they are in darkness or another heavily conconcealed area that basically makes you blind so you can't defend against it, or other things like that.
Got into a situation where DM said I could not use UD against a Black Dragon's Acid breath since is wasn't an attack roll that was made to apply the damage. Is that the case, or does that still constitute an attack? Unclear.
Uncanny dodge is meant as what the name literally is. The dodge was uncanny and able to minimize damage to yourself. You see someone pointing a gun at you and you attempt to jump to the side causing it to only graze you type of stuff. On the dragons breathe maybe it's you managing to get on the ground and the dragon aimed high so you only got a little on your back or legs or something.
Got into a situation where DM said I could not use UD against a Black Dragon's Acid breath since is wasn't an attack roll that was made to apply the damage. Is that the case, or does that still constitute an attack? Unclear.
"Hits you with an attack" refers to an attack roll that beats your AC.
Fireball or dragon breath does not hit you, it "subjects you to an effect" at which point you may be able to make a saving throw to mitigate the damage. However, if you were 7th level, Evasion means you would take half damage on a fail and none on a success from that Acid Breath.
Got into a situation where DM said I could not use UD against a Black Dragon's Acid breath since is wasn't an attack roll that was made to apply the damage. Is that the case, or does that still constitute an attack? Unclear.
"Hits you with an attack" refers to an attack roll that beats your AC.
Fireball or dragon breath does not hit you, it "subjects you to an effect" at which point you may be able to make a saving throw to mitigate the damage. However, if you were 7th level, Evasion means you would take half damage on a fail and none on a success from that Acid Breath.
That isn't what that term means, if they meant an attack roll they would have said "Hits you with an attack roll". "Attack" broadly means any offensive action that does damage/requires an attack roll.
No, scatterbraind is right, an attack is a specific term in 5e, “hits you with an attack” is clear, and “hits you with an attack roll” does not mean anything, the dices don’t roll and crush you in the game world. ;p
Unless you're fighting cloud giants who play Papers and Paychecks.
That's basically what we decided as well. The "effect" was basically the key term. Since there was no actual attack roll, UD didn't apply. It was straight damage with a Dex save to avoid 1/2 (which I unfortunately failed)
That's basically what we decided as well. The "effect" was basically the key term. Since there was no actual attack roll, UD didn't apply. It was straight damage with a Dex save to avoid 1/2 (which I unfortunately failed)
Thanks, all!
Which is the exact situation that Evasion applies to, by it's own wording, by the way. Dexterity saves for half damage, instead of attacks (which are based upon attack rolls).
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Uncanny Dodge says, "when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack". My question is, what quantifies "attacker that you can see"? For context, my rogue was facing attacker in melee, on attackers next turn the attacker moves behind my rogue and says my rogue can't use uncanny dodge to half attack, since my rogue can't see attacker. Does being behind my rogue count as can't see attacker?
unless your DM is using a facing rule. (which i believe can have other effects) What it means is something that is invisible or they are in darkness or another heavily conconcealed area that basically makes you blind so you can't defend against it, or other things like that.
Got into a situation where DM said I could not use UD against a Black Dragon's Acid breath since is wasn't an attack roll that was made to apply the damage. Is that the case, or does that still constitute an attack? Unclear.
Uncanny dodge is meant as what the name literally is. The dodge was uncanny and able to minimize damage to yourself. You see someone pointing a gun at you and you attempt to jump to the side causing it to only graze you type of stuff. On the dragons breathe maybe it's you managing to get on the ground and the dragon aimed high so you only got a little on your back or legs or something.
"Hits you with an attack" refers to an attack roll that beats your AC.
Fireball or dragon breath does not hit you, it "subjects you to an effect" at which point you may be able to make a saving throw to mitigate the damage. However, if you were 7th level, Evasion means you would take half damage on a fail and none on a success from that Acid Breath.
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That isn't what that term means, if they meant an attack roll they would have said "Hits you with an attack roll". "Attack" broadly means any offensive action that does damage/requires an attack roll.
Unless you're fighting cloud giants who play Papers and Paychecks.
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That's basically what we decided as well. The "effect" was basically the key term. Since there was no actual attack roll, UD didn't apply. It was straight damage with a Dex save to avoid 1/2 (which I unfortunately failed)
Thanks, all!
Which is the exact situation that Evasion applies to, by it's own wording, by the way. Dexterity saves for half damage, instead of attacks (which are based upon attack rolls).