Hello, I was wondering if anyone has used a blanket or some form of obscurity in melee combat in exchange for simple buffs and debuffs. The reason I ask is because I have thought of a character who, instead or using a shield or a buff spell to impose certain advantages or disadvantages while in combat, used a blanket that he would wave in front of an enemy to obscure the enemy's vision and impose a disadvantage on attack throws. Essentially a matador fighter. I have thought it over and don't know how I or my DM would feel about it if we were to start a new campaign at a lower level with a character with a strategy like that. I would like to know all of your opinions to see if this is something worth pursuing or if you have managed to do something similar, how you went about it.
As an option, I'm playing a duelist who uses a cloak wrapped around his left arm and a rapier in the other one, which hearkens to a Spanish rapier and cloak fighting style. My DM let me refluff a cloak as a shield. Mechanically it's just a shield, so +2 AC, but I describe it as him using the cloak to snare attacks and obscure the outline of his body, making it harder to hit him. A finesse shield instead of the usual slab of wood and metal.
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
I'd throw in that the ability you're asking for is similar to Protection Fighting Style that martial classes have but used for yourself only instead of others.
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"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
I'd throw in that the ability you're asking for is similar to Protection Fighting Style that martial classes have but used for yourself only instead of others.
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has used a blanket or some form of obscurity in melee combat in exchange for simple buffs and debuffs. The reason I ask is because I have thought of a character who, instead or using a shield or a buff spell to impose certain advantages or disadvantages while in combat, used a blanket that he would wave in front of an enemy to obscure the enemy's vision and impose a disadvantage on attack throws. Essentially a matador fighter. I have thought it over and don't know how I or my DM would feel about it if we were to start a new campaign at a lower level with a character with a strategy like that. I would like to know all of your opinions to see if this is something worth pursuing or if you have managed to do something similar, how you went about it.
As a GM, I'd call that a use of the Dodge action in melee.
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As an option, I'm playing a duelist who uses a cloak wrapped around his left arm and a rapier in the other one, which hearkens to a Spanish rapier and cloak fighting style. My DM let me refluff a cloak as a shield. Mechanically it's just a shield, so +2 AC, but I describe it as him using the cloak to snare attacks and obscure the outline of his body, making it harder to hit him. A finesse shield instead of the usual slab of wood and metal.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Ophidimancer had a good idea.
I'd throw in that the ability you're asking for is similar to Protection Fighting Style that martial classes have but used for yourself only instead of others.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
That sounds like a cool idea!
Matador fighting style: have some buddies repeatedly stab the bad guy with spears offstage and then claim victory when it dies.