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Shove

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Shove is a common Bonus Action that allows the user to shove an enemy, pushing them away (and possibly off ledges or into harmful effects).

Description

Try to push your target away.

Your success depends on your Athletics, and the target's Athletics or Acrobatics. You have Advantage Icon.png Advantage if you're Hidden Hidden or Invisible Invisible.

The shove distance depends on your Strength and the target's weight.

Properties

Cost:
Bonus action
Details:
 Range: 1.5 m / 5 ft

Notes

  • The target rolls either an Athletics or Acrobatics Skill Check, whichever is higher, to contest the attempt. The shoving creature, however, always rolls Athletics.
  • The weight of a target object and a creature's Strength score determine whether a shove attempt can be made in the first place. The condition is . The multiplier is 12 normally, 28.2 for Enlarged Enlarged creatures, and 5.1 for Reduced Reduced creatures.[1]
    • Smaller characters like gnomes do not receive penalties to max shove weights. The only modifier comes specifically from the Enlarge/Reduce effects. Even similar effects like Giant Form Giant Form do not affect the maximum shove weight.
  • Shove can also be used to rouse a creature from Sleeping Sleeping or help them shake off the effects of certain spells like Hypnotic Pattern Hypnotic Pattern.

References

  1. From the definition of CanShoveWeight() in Scripts/thoth/helpers/CommonConditions.khn.