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Throw is a common Action that allows the user to throw certain Weapons, Consumables, environmental objects, and even other creatures.
Description
Throw a character or item from the world or your inventory.
Your Strength affects how much weight you can throw. Heavier items deal more damage.
The damage of weapons with the thrown property is the same as the weapon's melee damage.
Properties
- Cost:
- Action
- Damage:
- Normal weapon damage
- Details:
- Attack roll
- Range: 18 m / 60 ft
Range for picking up objects from the ground is AoE: 1 m / 3 ft (Radius)
- Damage:
- If the thrown object or creature is over half the target's weight, the target will be knocked back 2 m / 7 ft.[note 1]
- If the thrown object or creature is heavier than the target, the target will become (no saving throw). [note 1]
- A thrown creature will always land (no saving throw).
Condition: Prone
Duration: 1 turn
- Can't move or take Actions, Bonus actions, or Reactions, and has Disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
- Attacks against a Prone creature have Advantage if they're made within 3 m / 10 ft of the creature.
- A Prone creature must spend half its Movement Speed to stand up.
- A character with the Athlete feat spends only 1.5 m / 5 ft of Movement Speed to stand up.
Notes
- A creature can throw items and other creatures weighing up to kg[1]. For example, with a Strength score of 18, the weight limit for Throw is Weight: 64.8 kg / 129.6 lb.
- It requires a Strength of at least 20 to pick up a normal humanoid ( Weight: 75 kg / 150 lb).
- Triggers .
- Can be done as a free attack after triggering Extra Attack.
- Berserker Barbarian has an improved throwing ability called .
- Throw counts as a ranged unarmed attack.
- The feat improves throwing.
- Thrown objects and creatures will take falling damage if thrown from a sufficient height.
- Bound weapons of an Eldritch Knight, while receiving the Returning property when bound, will not receive the Thrown property if they don't already have it. This results in them not doing their full damage including any and all Elemental damage effects both from the weapon and other sources, such as from the Everburn Blade, Flawed Helldusk Gloves and Charge-Bound Warhammer.
Footnotes
References
- ↑ From the definition of
CanImprovisedWeaponWeight()
inScripts/thoth/helpers/CommonConditions.khn
.