D&D Meta Thread

[Kashtan]

an interesting question - can we flank the bulette with a skeleton? can skeletons flank us with the bulette?
rn Nixie is flanking the bulette with a skeleton. if Cat moves 5ft NW she also flanks the bulette with a skeleton. letting that thing gain advantage by flanking us must be avoided. but i agree the skeletons can be helpful. their attacks are weak. too bad Yulya cant use animate dead yet.

also i didnt know necrotic dmg can awake undead.

lets take a step back and look at alternatives.
can we make the bulette attack skeletons instead of us?
can Cat also climb on top of it?

[Joy]

Yes, the condition of flanking, per my interpretation, is a distraction on the creature from two or more hostile creatures roughly opposing the target. However, I allow advantage on grappled targets, and the grappled targets get disadvantage but flanking will cancel that out.

Also yes, the bulette did lose his disadvantage because of flanking skeletons. He can't have advantage because of Alice's grapple.

Necrotic damage cannot awaken undead, but in this case it did. You did not supply the energy, mithril ore apparently does that, but your choice of flavor of damage resonated with them.

The bulette will attack whatever he wants.

Cat can also grapple it, but there is no additional effect other than the bulette will need to get both of them off to move normally; however, realism is sometimes used. Imagine the notion that a <100 girl can "grapple" a >2000 beast. Don't rely on vanilla hard and fast rules with me.

[Kashtan]

ok thx that clarifies a few things. can Alice shove it prone?

[Joy]

Let's just go with no, nor can she push it 5ft.