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Returning 35 results for 'that hits'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Critical Hits When you score a Critical Hit, you deal extra damage. Roll the attack’s damage dice twice, add them together, and add any relevant modifiers as normal. For example, if you score a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Critical Hits When you score a Critical Hit, you deal extra damage. Roll the attack’s damage dice twice, add them together, and add any relevant modifiers as normal. For example, if you score a
Critical Hits
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When you score a critical hit, you get to roll extra dice for the attack's damage against the target. Roll all of the attack's damage dice twice and add them together. Then add any relevant modifiers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Monsters and Critical Hits A monster follows the same rule for critical hits as a player character. That said, if you use a monster’s average damage, rather than rolling, you might wonder how to
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This suit of armor is reinforced with adamantine, one of the hardest substances in existence. While you’re wearing it, any Critical Hit against you becomes a normal hit
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Protective magical frost surrounds you. You gain 5 Temporary Hit Points. If a creature hits you with a melee attack roll before the spell ends, the creature takes 5 Cold damage. The spell ends early
Spells
Player’s Handbook
ammunition needed for each attack. Each Arrow or Bolt created by the spell deals damage like a nonmagical piece of ammunition of its kind and disintegrates immediately after it hits or misses.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This magic weapon deals an extra 2d6 damage to any creature it hits. This extra damage is of the same type as the weapon’s normal damage.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
and deals an extra 1d4 damage of the chosen type when it hits.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. If you use a level 5–6 spell slot, the bonus to attack rolls increases to +2, and the extra damage
Spells
Player’s Handbook
against them. In addition, when a Fiend or an Undead hits an affected creature with a melee attack roll, the attacker must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or have the Blinded condition until the end of its next turn.
Feats
Player’s Handbook
Fighting Style Feat (Prerequisite: Fighting Style Feature)
When a creature you can see hits another creature within 5 feet of you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to reduce the damage
Spells
Player’s Handbook
is real.
Each time a creature hits you with an attack roll during the spell’s duration, roll a d6 for each of your remaining duplicates. If any of the d6s rolls a 3 or higher, one of the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
appears nocked and ready to fire. An arrow produced by this weapon deals Force damage instead of Piercing damage on a hit, and it disappears after it hits or misses its target. Until it disappears, the
ranged attack against a creature, you can try to restrain the target instead of dealing damage to it. If the arrow hits, the target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or have the Restrained
Spells
Player’s Handbook
you choose. The warm shield grants you Resistance to Cold damage, and the chill shield grants you Resistance to Fire damage.
In addition, whenever a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
attack using this weapon hits a creature. That creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 2d10 Poison damage and have the Poisoned condition for 1 minute. The weapon can’t be used this way again until the next dawn.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
hits and an extra 3d8 Thunder damage to objects it hits that aren’t being worn or carried.
The weapon has the following additional properties.
Clap of Thunder. As a Magic action, you can strike
Spells
Player’s Handbook
As your attack hits or misses the target, the weapon or ammunition you’re using transforms into a lightning bolt. Instead of taking any damage or other effects from the attack, the target takes
Spells
Player’s Handbook
it drops returns to normal size at once. A thrown weapon or piece of ammunition returns to normal size immediately after it hits or misses a target.
Enlarge. The target’s size increases by one
Monsters
Monster Manual
. Trigger: A creature the goblin can see hits it with an attack roll. Response—Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 13, the triggering creature. Failure: The attack misses instead.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, your target gains no benefit from Half Cover or Three-Quarters Cover, and you suffer no Disadvantage due to long range. If the attack hits, your sworn enemy takes an extra 3d6 Piercing damage.
While your sworn enemy lives, you have Disadvantage on attack rolls with all other weapons.
Feats
Player’s Handbook
a Finesse weapon and another creature hits you with a melee attack, you can take a Reaction to add your Proficiency Bonus to your Armor Class, potentially causing the attack to miss you. You gain this bonus to your AC against melee attacks until the start of your next turn.
Monsters
Monster Manual
roll it makes during the current turn. If that attack hits, the target takes an extra 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Deadly Aim", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
the Thrown property with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.
If the attack hits, the weapon unleashes a thunderclap audible out to 300 feet. The target and every creature within 30
Monsters
Monster Manual
and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At Will: Mage Hand, Minor Illusion, Prestidigitation 1/Day Each: Major Image, Project ImageWarding Charm. Trigger: A creature hits the
Monsters
Monster Manual
5 feet of itself that isn’t being worn or carried. The touch destroys a 1-foot Cube of the object.Reflexive Antennae. Trigger: An attack roll hits the rust monster. Response: The rust monster uses Antennae.
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Fist", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage.Protection. Trigger: An attack roll hits the wearer of the guardian’s amulet while the wearer is within 5 feet of
Feats
Player’s Handbook
.
Guardian. Immediately after a creature within 5 feet of you takes the Disengage action or hits a target other than you with an attack, you can make an Opportunity Attack against that creature.
Halt. When
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Corrosive Form. A creature that hits the pudding with a melee attack roll takes 4 (1d8
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This weapon or piece of ammunition is made of adamantine, one of the hardest substances in existence. Whenever this weapon or piece of ammunition hits an object, the hit is a Critical Hit.
Weapons
Feats
Player’s Handbook
this benefit, you must be riding it, and neither of you can have the Incapacitated condition.
Veer. While mounted, you can force an attack that hits your mount to hit you instead if you don’t have the Incapacitated condition.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
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CR None (XP 0; PB equals your Proficiency Bonus)
Traits
Heated Body (Metal Only). A creature that hits the spirit with a melee attack or that starts its turn in a grapple with the spirit
Spells
Player’s Handbook
attack hits or misses, the spirit can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Fiery Strike (Devil Only). Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. or range 150 ft. Hit: 2d6 + 3 + the spell’s level Fire damage.
Spells
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
For the duration, an inky aura surrounds one creature you touch. The target has Advantage on Death Saving Throws, and once per turn, when a creature within 5 feet of the target hits it with a melee attack roll, the attacker takes 2d4 Necrotic damage.
Magic Items
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wielding this shield.
The shield has 4 charges. While holding it, when a Large or smaller creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack roll
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
. Immediately after a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, you can make an Opportunity Attack against that creature.
Versatile Merc. When you finish a Long Rest, choose a skill in which you have proficiency. You have Expertise in that skill until you finish your next Long Rest.