Oath of the Crown paladins have the 7th-level feature Divine Allegiance (SCAG, p. 133). If someone within 5 feet of the paladin takes damage, Divine Allegiance lets the paladin use their reaction to take that damage instead. What if this damage is from an attack that kills the target if they're r...

There are a few effects in D&D 5e that cause a creature to die without regard to its hit points. One of them is the exhaustion condition, which has the effect of "Death" on a character that suffers level 6 of exhaustion. Another is the spell Power Word: Kill, which causes a creature to "die insta...

When casting Hellish Rebuke is the creature that receives the damage the one that cast the Warding Bond or the one that attacked the creature that cast the Warding Bond? Both could be said to have damaged you since the damage could not exist without both of them. Warding Bond is the spell that ac...

In another question, I was considering the mechanics of siege weaponry (and Spelljammer's ship-to-ship weapons, more to the point). I considered use of the faerie fire spell as a way to gain advantage on the attack rolls: Any attack roll against an affected creature or object has advantage if th...