DM Quick Reference Info

Actions

• Attack
• Cast a Spell or Cantrip
• Dash- double movement speed
• Disengage- no opportunity attacks for rest of turn
• Dodge- any attack rolls against you are disadvantage, and you have advantage on Dex saving throws.
• Help- can give advantage on an ability check or attack roll of an ally within 5ft.
• Hide- stealth check to become hidden.
• Ready- ready an action with a specific trigger, spells are cast and held, requiring your concentration.

Conditions

• Blinded- automatically fails checks that rely on sight, attack rolls against creature have advantage, and creature has disadvantage on attacking other targets
• Charmed- can not attack charmer, and charmer has advantage on charisma checks against target.
• Deafened- automatically fails ability checks that require hearing.
• Frightened- target has disadvantage on attack rolls while source of fear is within sight, and can not willingly move closer to source.
• Grappled- speed becomes 0.
• Incapacitated- can not take actions or reactions.
• Invisible- impossible to see without magical senses or aid. Advantage on stealth checks. Attack rolls against you have disadvantage, and attack rolls while invisible have advantage.
• Paralyzed- you are incapacitated, can't move or speak. Auto fail Dex and Str saving throws, Attack rolls against you have advantage, and any strike is an auto crit.
• Petrified- Target is turned to stone, is incapacitated, attack rolls against have advantage, auto fail Dex and Str saving throws, resistance to all damage, immune to poison and disease.
• Poisoned (drunk)- disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.
• Prone- can only crawl, disadvantage on attack rolls, other creatures have advantage on attacks within 5ft, or disadvantage if farther away.
• Restrained- speed becomes 0, attacks rolls against have advantage, your attack rolls have disadvantage, disadvantage on dex saving throws.
• Stunned- is incapacitated, can not move, and speak only faintly. Auto fails dex and str saving throws. Attack rolls against have advantage.
• Unconscious- is incapacitated, Auto fails dex and str saving throws. Any attack against auto crits.

Tracking DC’s

• Soft surface (snow) 10
• Dirt or Grass 15
• Bare Stone 20
• Each day passed +5
• Left a Trail -5

Cover

• Half Cover- gain a +2 to AC and Dex saving throws
• ¾ Cover- gain a +5 bonus to AC and Dex saving throws
• Full Cover- can not be targeted by a direct attack or spell.

Commons Skills and when to ask for rolls

• Perception- use of senses to hone in and gain additional information. giving general descriptions of what can be seen heard or touched do not require a check, only if they want to hone in and find additional information (ex, can hear voices on the other side of a door, check to hear exactly what is being said beyond a few words or identify a voice). Also can be used to avoid a surprise round from an ambush, peer through dense fog.
• Passive Perception- used as the DC for stealthed enemies to be to take them by surprise, or notice sight based clues (not giving the answer).
• Investigation- when players are looking for direction of where to go, and are giving a general investigation of the room or area for anything out of the ordinary. If the players pick a specific area to search or a specific action they are doing, no roll required (ex, investigating the room for something of note vs opening the desk drawers and searching for hidden compartments).
• Insight- can be used to size up an enemy, giving info on strengths, weaknesses, or in a social encounter what other skill or tactics will be most effective (ex, threatening, flattery, a personal weakness or soft spot).

Chase Sequence

• Roll initiative to determine movement order
• You can only Dash 3 times. Any more requires Con saving throw, DC increasing for each time. On failure, gain point of exhaustion.
• No opportunity attacks, must use an action to attack. Sentinel still applies.
• Have enemies throw obstacles, knock over carts and tables, and throwing back spells to help them escape.
• Make sure the enemy has things like counter spell or legendary resistances.
• Have a series of skill checks, try and vary which ones when possible.
• Difficult terrain can be a dense crowd

Perception checks VS stealth check to see if they lose their quarry when escaping through crowds, ducking through ally's, so on and so forth

DC Difficulties

• Very Easy- 5
• Easy- 10
• Moderate- 15
• Hard- 20
• Very Hard- 25
• Impossible- 30

Improvised Damage by level and severity 

Levels	set back	dangerous	deadly
1-4	1d10	2d10	4d10
5-9	2d10	4d10	10d10
10-16	4d10	10d10	18d10
17-20	10d10	18d10	24d10

Falling- 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10ft, with a maximum of 20d6.

Exhaustion

1. Disadvantage on ability checks
2. Speed halved.
3. Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws
4. HP max halved
5. Speed reduced to 0
6. Death