Combat

Can you delay your turn and take it later in the round?. No. When it's your turn, you either do something or you don't. If you want to wait to act in response to something, take the Ready action. (See appendix C of the Player's Handbook.)

I have a readied action. Can I stop readying to take an Opportunity Attack? Or does the Ready action take a full-round commitment?. Think of the Ready action as a preparatory action rather than a commitment. By taking the Ready action, you're giving your character access to a tailor-made Reaction to use in a given circumstance. However, you're not bound to take that readied Reaction. As combat continues, you can decide to take this readied Reaction—or, if plans change, you can take any other Reaction you might have access to, such as an Opportunity Attack.

But remember that you have only one Reaction. Taking an Opportunity Attack means you won't be able to take that readied Reaction, so choose which Reaction you take carefully.

Can a Bonus Action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a Bard use a Bonus Action to grant a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast Healing Word?. No. Actions and Bonus Actions aren't interchangeable. In the example, the Bard could use Bardic Inspiration or Healing Word on a turn, not both.

Can a flying creature without the hover trait stay in one place while airborne, or does it need to move each round?. A flier that lacks the hover trait can stay aloft without moving each round.

Can you move through the space of a Prone enemy?. You can move through the space of an enemy only if that enemy (A) has the Incapacitated condition, (B) is a Tiny creature, or (C) is at least two sizes larger or smaller than you. The Prone condition doesn't override this.

Does travel pace apply to movement in combat or just when traveling?. The travel pace rule doesn't apply in combat.

If you have a feature like Cunning Action or Step of the Wind, can you take the Dash action more than once on your turn?. If you can take the Dash action as a Bonus Action, nothing in the rules prevents you from taking the Dash action with your regular action too. The same principle holds when you use a feature like Action Surge; you could use both of your actions to take the Dash action.

My Rogue/Wizard can get a Bonus Action to Dash by using Cunning Action, and I can cast Expeditious Retreat on myself to get a Bonus Action to Dash. Do I get two Bonus Actions to Dash?. No. You can take only one Bonus Action on your turn. If you have two or more ways to use a Bonus Action, you must choose which one (if any) you want to employ on your turn.

If you use the Help action to distract a foe, do you have to stay within 5 feet of it for the action to work?. No, you can take the action and then move away. The action itself is what grants Advantage to your ally, not your staying next to the foe.

If I'm hidden and become unhidden when I shoot an arrow at a target, does hiding again require an action?. Without a special ability, hiding in combat requires the Hide action.

If I use the Ready action to deal damage to someone who's moving, do I deny the target the rest of its movement?. Dealing damage to a moving target doesn't halt its movement unless the damage is accompanied by an ability that stops movement. Things like the Sentinel feat give you such an ability. Reducing a moving creature to 0 Hit Points is also usually an effective way to stop it!

Can you use the Ready action to take the Attack action on someone else's turn and then combine the Charger feat with it?. No. When you take the Ready action, you can either move up to your Speed or take a defined action as your Reaction. The Charger feat's Charge Attack benefit relies on both moving and taking the Attack action on the same turn.

For readying a spell or another action, does the target have to be in range?. Your target must be within range when you take a readied action, not when you first take the Ready action to ready it.

How does readying a spell work? Do you lose your spell slot if the trigger never occurs?. When you take the Ready action to ready a spell, you immediately expend any resources used to cast said spell, including any spell slot. You don't get any of these resources back if the trigger never occurs. See appendix C of the Player's Handbook.

Can a readied action occur during an enemy's triggering action, such as between its first and second attacks when it uses Multiattack?. A readied action occurs immediately after its trigger. If you defined the trigger as an attack, your action happens after that attack.

How does a Reach weapon work with Opportunity Attack?. An Opportunity Attack is triggered when a creature you can see moves beyond your reach. If you want to make an Opportunity Attack with a Reach weapon, such as a Glaive or a Halberd, you can do so when a creature leaves the reach you have with that weapon. For example, if you're wielding a Halberd, a creature that is right next to you could move 5 feet away without triggering an Opportunity Attack. If that creature tries to move an additional 5 feet—leaving your 10-foot reach—the creature then triggers an Opportunity Attack.

Can a Blinded creature make an Opportunity Attack?. An Opportunity Attack is triggered when a creature that you can see leaves your reach. If you can't see an enemy, you can't make an Opportunity Attack against it. Creatures with Blindsight are an exception to this rule, because that ability lets those creatures "see" within a certain radius.

Can an Opportunity Attack be used to make a grapple or a shove?. Yes. When you make an Opportunity Attack, one of your options is making an Unarmed Strike. You can still choose to use the Grapple and Shove options of this Unarmed Strike.

If a creature is Grappled, can it still attack and use its special abilities?. The Grappled condition limits movement, not attacks, spellcasting, and the like. That said, many grappling abilities, such as a Giant Octopus's Tentacles attack, also deliver effects like the Restrained condition.

Does a grapple or shove trigger a Battle Master Fighter's Riposte?. No. Many game effects specify triggering when you are hit or missed by an attack roll; the Grapple and Shove options of an Unarmed Strike don't use attack rolls.

However, many monsters have special attacks that can grapple or shove a creature as part of its effect on a hit. If such a creature misses a Battle Master Fighter with an attack roll, the Battle Master Fighter could then use Riposte.

Say I grapple you, then I have the Prone condition. Are we now Prone together?. No. A creature you're grappling isn't Prone if you have the Prone condition. You're now holding on to the creature while you are Prone.

Target at range caught in melee combat—does that target get some kind of cover, or do I get Disadvantage?. Your target has Half Cover if another creature is between you and the target.

Can damage be reduced to 0 by Resistance or another form of damage reduction?. Yes, it is possible to reduce damage to 0 but no lower.

A dragon uses a breath weapon against me. I succeed on the save, and I have Resistance to the damage. Do I take only one-quarter of the damage?. Yes, because Resistance is applied after all other general adjustments to damage. If you succeed on a save and still take damage, that damage is halved if you have the right Resistance.

Is the intent that only Melee weapon attacks can knock foes Unconscious, or can melee spell attacks as well?. If you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can knock the creature out. That melee attack isn't restricted to weapons. Even a melee spell attack can be used to knock a creature out.

Can a non-Battle Master attempt to disarm someone?. The Disarming Attack maneuver is designed for the Battle Master Fighter, but any character can try to disarm a foe. Such an attempt would fall under improvising an action not detailed by the rules and would be up to your DM to adjudicate.

Can I make an attack with a Light weapon, then draw a second weapon with my other hand and qualify to make the extra attack of the Light property?. Yes. The only requirement for the Light property's extra attack is that it's made with a different Light weapon.