My Favorite House Rule in D&D 

You look a bit like KVN from Final Space...but you don't have his bothersome voice

I'd say the result is basically the same except in your version the character is back in the fray immediately, risking falling again before their turn comes but also getting back in combat one turn early ! Very similar solutions that can both work depending on your group's dynamic IMO

How would one stab a sword into a wall? Especially when free falling, as you'd have no force behind your swing, all it would do is push your character further from the wall, for two different reasons actually.

​@@josephsalomonerule of cool.

​@@josephsalomoneplot magic

⁠@@josephsalomoneThey stab it real hard.

In a long enough combat situation that could be literally true lmao 😂😂😂

⁠​⁠@@secularhuman5006​​⁠If we're going off of in-game time, a combat round is 6 seconds. There are 1800 seconds in 30 minutes, so this would require 300 rounds of falling. As mentioned in the short, a character falls 500 feet per round, so 300 rounds of falling comes out to 150,000 feet (28.4 miles/45.7 kilometers), which is five times the height of Mount Everest. If you ever play a game where that happens, please invite me!

@@andrewlance3898 They mean irl time, I imagine

Loki quote 👏👏👏

@@andrewlance3898 lol that would be crazy! 🤣🤣 i meant 30 minutes real time though lmao

"I'm not dying alone"

Krod is literally too angry to fall

If he’s a orc then he’s using the Orkish power of belief to levitate

He rolls a 20 and is temporarily suspended mid-air to prepare for the fall.

Nothing about this house rule changes how many feet a character falls over a duration of a round. Only when the fall happens in the round.

I was forced to learn calculus, I'm going to find a use for it!

Time to do some math

That is so me 😂

U talking about me? Because I've done exactly that. Just so u know, 500 ft in the 1st 6 sec of fall and then 1,000 ft fall every 6 seconds after that is slightly slower than real life but it's pretty damn close. I just pretend that D&D has a close but juuust slightly less gravity than Earth.

They call that chasm… “The complaints department.” 🫨🫨🫨

I was thinking the same thing. No more big open areas with lots of healing items. Now we have Cliffs, and Chasms. The new terrain module for 5e.

What? Why

​​@@robertw6162you are no longer in the Material plane. You are now in the Plane of Cliffs and Chasms. The patron god of this plane is the Inclined Plane.

I have struck a deal. I am now an Inclination Warlock.

but it then continues directly to "the rules for falling suck in D&D". It's a great loop!

@Kraznyk Yeah I know, but somehow I watched this in standard RU-vid instead of Shorts, so it didn't loop, it just ended!

To watch shorts as regular videos you just have to take the url (eg. using the share link) and replacing "shorts" with "video" (on the phone you have to do it in the browser but then you can choose "watch in app" and watch it as a regular video in the youtube app)

​@@qdaniele97or you can just put it on a playlist

​@@qdaniele97 On desktop there are browser extensions that do this for you too. Highly recommend to anyone, since shorts are especially awful on desktop

Fair trade lol

Or stop being a coward and allow players that were dumb enough to fight near a cliff that would cause max fall damage dice to learn a valuable lesson. If you don’t want your players falling off cliffs, don’t put them in your game. The falling rules are actually one of the more grounded in reality rules seeing as 500 is a close estimate of how far a person sized object would fall in earth’s gravity with moderate drag in 6 seconds.

@@ShiningDarknes your ridiculous. no other rule in dnd is as abrupt and stupid as instantly falling 500 feet the second you fall, this isnt a 'punishment' issue, its arbitrary and stupid, and doesnt mesh with the way the rules normally handle this sort of stuff. Especially because, Rules as written, you dont fall 500 feet in 6 seconds. you fall 500 feet the nanosecond you fall, even if its at the start of your turn. so, step off a cliff? you fall 500 feet, THEN you can take your action, movement, bonus action, Ect. does it *really* make sense to you to allow all that? to allow up to 500 feet teleportation?

​@@TranshumanMarissa You didn't read my comment, take those binders off and try again.

@@ShiningDarknes he read your comment. obviously the risk of massive damage isn't the part he's worried about.

I mean, the river Styx is just water in Greek mythology. Water that will kill you if you completely submerge in it... but water.

​@@MegaBanane9DND isn't Greek myth tho. Just uses the name pretty much

@@petermaximoff4598 then they should make up their own name 🤪

@@MegaBanane9 your kidding right? No media can be inspired by other forms of media? That's a horribly stupid take bud

​@@petermaximoff4598Media shouldn't rip names from other sources just to make itself popular. If you tell me I'm fighting Sisephus, I'm expecting the giy that moves a bolder to the top of a mountain only to start over again, not some random ass guy.

Cleaving: When a melee hit does more damage than necessary to kill the monster the additional damage can be dealt to another creature within melee range.

Rule of cool!

Within reason .. but then again this reason is in imagination so...

how do I save this short to a playlist?i need this in my life

Idk Kevin, what is it?!

Its actually a common mechanic in platforming video games

Wiley, even.

Some real Smash Bros energy there... ...but if they miss the ledge the second time they end up throwing themselves downward twice as hard. "GAME!!"

Local man literally too angry to fall

So it's the same kind of stand as Star platinum

On top of this I would say that it's kind of the players choice as to the breakdown of the fall. They can choose to be halfway down before they use their action. Just as long as if they have started the fall they understand that unless it doesn't make sense to they will either make the dex save once they stop falling or just fall prone and take appropriate damage if stopped. Also that they keep the fall time consistent. So if it's a massive cliff and you want to start the fall so you're out of range of the bbeg you jumped away from, you could choose to fall down 100 ft during your turn you jumped and started the fall, so that you are in range of your ally who is anchored into the side of the cliff 100 ft down. That's fine, as long as if nothing has stopped you you have moved the full fall distance by the start of your next turn. (this can lead to weird situations where it seems like someone who fell after you on the turn order can reach the lowest point before you, an issue if you're trying to avoid entering an AOE zone around another creature that will chase you off the cliff for example, but I feel that the table could come up with a fair way to deal with it. Like the AOE is in superposition during the round time it is falling. You are only inside of it if you choose to be and the timing that you entered it is up to you. But this one is so specific it's up to your table.)

​​@@HelicopterSharkf someone wanted to get really technical, they can divide the number of people on the initiative chart by 6 so they can put in little increments to the fall.

@@CosmicG777 I feel like that still makes it so that people are still doing things in an order within the 6 seconds. By game flow it's true but this whole topic is about more in world realism of everyone's 6 seconds is the same 6 seconds.

I kind of want to see a ttrpg, or at least a homebrewed af dnd in which each player writes an action on a piece of paper as well as the gm for monsters for combat, all parties reveal and any conflict is expanded upon, kind of like Yomi Hustle. May be hard to pull off, and it would be much more mathematical (Perhaps assigning independent speed values to preset moves, plays like the War card game), but I'm sure there's a group who could make it look fun.

@@titan1umtitan what you're looking for is known as "Greyhawk initiative" media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/UAGreyhawkInitiative.pdf well at least fairly close to it. It has it's merits but has the negative of it is very hard to get into a practical flow. Standard initiatives and action economy have the advantage of being a familiar pacing fairly quickly for players.

Ooh good point. Dnd combat time is... weird

I feel like that implies the exact opposite of what you said. Since everything is happening at the same time, multple people should be able to attempt saving the falling the character in one turn cylce.

@@josephblattert6311 there's not a great answer to this problem. Its just not realistic and thats okay. This system of combat necessitates it.

I never would let a character fall long distances (several 100ft) instantly, but whether it's flying with magic or actual wings, I'd still say a creature has to consciously do it, which means they need to START doing it. Throwing a grounded aarakocra off the cliff would mean they would need to do something to use their flight to quickly stop falling. Maybe an athletics check as a reaction or just for free.

Yeah, my group always has falling set as 60 feet per round. I don't know when the 500 feet per round thing came about, but that's stupid

@@c.j.g.3901 Because falling 500ft in 6 seconds is closer to reality than 60ft. People just like games feeling real. Now that I think about it I don't think I've been in a game where players fall from a large height. I can't contribute here.

@@dAWwr906You aren't falling 500 ft in 6 seconds though, you're falling 500 ft instantly. A full round is 6 seconds. Falling 500 ft in 6 seconds would mean you've fallen 500 ft by the time the initiative you're currently at rolls back around.

Even in my pathfinder campaign im in my dm splits it up of its far enough since you can use your actions to grab onto something, and a lot of us have things to help others ways to help others who are falling, so if it eas instant a lot of our stuff would be useless.

​@c.j.g.3901 60ft per round is the Feather Fall rate.

Double Jump sounds like something a Monk would get, ngl. Add that to Step of the Wind, lol.

This is why it's ok to let nat 20's fail sometimes, to let players know that some things really are just impossible.

He rolled a nat 20 on arm flaying

Literally says in the video that it’s called that lmfao

Nothing about this house rule changes how many feet a character falls over a duration of a round. Only when the fall happens in the round.

Yup. It's usually going to take either succeeding on a skill check (e.g. shooting a grappling hook at a ledge while freefalling), or spending a limited resource (e.g. casting misty step or levitate). And in combat, some very precious actions will have to be sacrificed.

It's definitely a good house rule, it allows for some adventure movie stunts which sounds fun

out of curiosity, why 40ft?

@@shieldgenerator7 my guess is a facsimile of acceleration. if your base movement speed is 30ft walking but you’re falling, you can fall faster than you can walk.

@@tyrant351 Laughs in tabaxi monk

Per the DMG, you fall instantly to the ground. Per XGtE, you fall in 500ft increments.

I think it's in reference to the movement rule and how you can only move x amount of feet in a turn. Apply that to falling and suddenly you have a 'distance falling per turn' based on your actual walking speed? I don't do cliffs often, but that's how I'd handle it.

What if they've already used their reaction? Then you're right back where you started.

@@Cortanakya Yes true, I thought of it as 'while you are aware of the abyss next to you, you need to think carefully what you want to do, or what you want to be able to react to'.