Hi there, I was wondering if it was possible to use Entangle to kill a creature. I wanted to use this for my backstory, and possibly in a session, but I want it to be realistic. Like, Could I Entangle a creature and then use the vines and roots to strangle them?
Only if the environment they're stuck in is killing them, and Entangle is simply keeping them there. Maybe entangle someone in a grove of evil strangler vines or something? Or entangle someone trying to get out of quicksand? Or stuck in a poisonous fog? Etc.
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Only if the environment they're stuck in is killing them, and Entangle is simply keeping them there. Maybe entangle someone in a grove of evil strangler vines or something? Or entangle someone trying to get out of quicksand? Or stuck in a poisonous fog? Etc.
Or if they get restrained somewhere with rising water (flood, tide, etc).
Entangle by itself doesn’t kill, you need a secondary effect to kill with. Folks have given you a couple, let me add a third - I had a party use entangle to prevent a black dragon from escaping its lair by casting it on the seaweed in the pool it’s escape route was in. That gave the party the 2 rounds they needed to finish it off.
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Hi there, I was wondering if it was possible to use Entangle to kill a creature. I wanted to use this for my backstory, and possibly in a session, but I want it to be realistic. Like, Could I Entangle a creature and then use the vines and roots to strangle them?
Thanks!
Not as written, no.
Not in actual combat as written, but as a backstory element as a result of a miscast or wild magic etc it could be possible with DM's approval
Only if the environment they're stuck in is killing them, and Entangle is simply keeping them there. Maybe entangle someone in a grove of evil strangler vines or something? Or entangle someone trying to get out of quicksand? Or stuck in a poisonous fog? Etc.
I'm probably laughing.
It is apparently so hard to program Aberrant Mind and Clockwork Soul spell-swapping into dndbeyond they had to remake the game without it rather than implement it.
Or if they get restrained somewhere with rising water (flood, tide, etc).
Entangle by itself doesn’t kill, you need a secondary effect to kill with. Folks have given you a couple, let me add a third - I had a party use entangle to prevent a black dragon from escaping its lair by casting it on the seaweed in the pool it’s escape route was in. That gave the party the 2 rounds they needed to finish it off.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.