House Rules

COMBAT

- We use group Initiative, not individual.
- The first person in marching order rolls (or first 2 for side-by-side).

Characters and opponents are unconscious at 0 hp, they must make death rolls at -10.
- Creatures are between -9 to -5 HP will lose 1 HP a minute unless they are stabilized (DC 10 Medicine).
- If you reach your negative maximum hit points you die instantly.
- Stabilized creatures or creatures with HP greater than -5 recover 1 HP per hour up to 1HP.
- Creatures at zero are unconscious for 1d20 minutes.

3. Conditions

Grappled
- Normal behavior - just prevents creature from moving
Restrained
- Restrained is a more restrictive control than grappled. To restrain a creature you must first grapple them and then successfully restrain them (2 actions).
- Physical restrictions may also cause a character to be restrained. (Tied up, handcuffed, etc.)
- Restrained characters cannot execute Somatic spell requirements.
- Characters that are restraining another cannot launch melee attacks.
Prone
- Someone who is crawling is effectively prone (half movement speed, advantage to hit within 5', disadvantage to hit outside of 5').

4. Special Attacks

Flaming arrows - for arrows to be flammable, they have to be prepared with strips of oil-soaked cloth beforehand.
- Attacks are made with disadvantage since the arrows are no longer as accurate, the cloth blunts the point, they are easier to dodge.
- Range is reduced to half since the arrows are heavier and less balanced.
- Lighting a flaming arrow takes a bonus action.
- A hit does an extra 1d4 flame damage to the target and if they are wearing flammable substances, the may go ablaze (DM's discretion)
- Flaming arrows are better utilized against stationary targets that are flammable - wooden buildings with thatched roofs, spilled oil flasks, etc.
Unarmed strikes are considered melee weapon attacks
Crit - a critical hit occurs when a player rolls a natural 20 on an attack roll, automatically hitting the target and allowing them to roll all the attack's damage dice twice (plus the normal damage modifier) for extra damage

RESTS

STEALTH

NON-COMBAT ACTIONS

Help
- Players using the help action stack any bonuses, so if 2 players with +2 strength help each other bend bars, they roll the check with advantage and +4
Searching for Secret Passages.
- A search takes 10 minutes to be effective. Players can do a 5 minute check at disadvantage.
- A 10 minute search may not be repeated for the same area.
- Players use investigation check to find secret passages. (not clear in the rules)
- A high roll may reduce the amount of time (DM's discretion)
- The DM may decide a random encounter check will happen during the search.
- A secret passage may be locked
  - Players use slight of hand check to pick locks successfully (not clear in the rules). Takes 1d6 minutes.
Searching for Traps
- A search for traps on a general area takes 10 minutes to be effective. Players can do a 5 minute check at disadvantage.
  - A high roll may reduce the amount of time (DM's discretion)
- A search for traps on an item takes 5 minutes to be effective. Players can do 3 minute check at disadvantage.
  - A high roll may reduce the amount of time (DM's discretion)
- A trap may be locked
  - Players use slight of hand check to pick locks successfully (not clear in the rules). Takes 1d6 minutes.

6. MAGIC

DEITIES

ATTACKS SHOULD BE IN THE FORM OF:

"I am doing X."
"I roll a 7, plus 4 for 11" OR "I roll an 11 TOTAL"

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