If one side of the fight clearly has advantage (from Pack Tactics, a clutch entangle, Fairie Fire, or any other number pf AOE spells), it’s in the other side’s interest to cast something like Fog Cloud or Darkness to force everyone who is affected to roll straight. Well, given what we just went over about advantages and disadvantages cancelling each other out no matter how many are on either side, Fog Cloud essentially evens the playing field. Soooo what the hell would anyone cast Fog Cloud for, if the advantage and disadvantage it offers automatically cancel each other out? What this means is that even if you’re attacking a blind, prone, entangled enemy with a help action from an ally, if there’s even one reason for you to have disadvantage on the attack (let’s say you’re in a Fog Cloud), it cancels all the reasons you’d have advantage. Either you have advantage/disadvantage or you don’t. Instances of them don’t stack up.”Īdvantage and disadvantage cancel each other regardless of the number of things that give either of them to you. Jeremy Crawford, the principal rule designer of Dungeons and Dragons, stated in a tweet on Mathat “advantages and disadvantages cancel each other regardless of the number of things that give either of them to you. At least not if you’re following RAW and RAI, that is (because we all know Rule Zero AKA what the DM says goes, can trump anything I - or Wizards of the Coast for that matter - ever write). “They already have advantage from Pack Tactics, right? So shouldn’t that mean that I have two reasons for advantage, and only one reason for disadvantage, so I’d end up with normal advantage?” “But what about my summoned Direwolves?” The Druid might ask. These two ultimately cancel each other out, resulting in the Fighter (and anyone else attacking someone in the Fog Cloud) rolling straight. However, because her target is also blinded, she has advantage on the attack against that blinded enemy. Given that our Fighter friend here is blinded by Fog Cloud, she has disadvantage on attacks. He was right in front of me, and he’s blinded too, right?” “Okay, so I try to hit the Sorcerer with my sword anyway.
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