Implementing and Tracking Portent Use (2024)

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How many times can you use Portent? ›

It's also worth remembering that your Diviner only has a few portents (3 at most) and can only use each once.

Portent is a Divination School Wizard feature that offers you glimpses into the future. You gain two random Portent Dice that you can use as a Reaction to substitute into Attack Rolls and Saving Throws rolled in range.

Portent is the level 2 ability for the divination school of wizards. At the end of each long rest roll 2 d20s and record them. Before the end of your next long rest you may replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check from any creature you can see with one of your rolls.

Not really. It's supposed to occur before a roll, but it's fiddly and annoying to prevent another player from rolling so you can declare a 20 portent roll, or to tell a DM that attack they're using is now a nat 1.

You can only portent a die roll *before* the roll, when the result is not yet known. Once it has been portented, the die is effectively rolled and the result is known, so you can no longer apply another portent to it. The first portent counts, and that's that.

No. Legendary Resistance means they automatically succeed the saving throw, there is no dice involved. So there's nothing that can be changed with Portent.

The wizard has to use their Portent before the dice are rolled the way it's written. That means it can't be used the way the Lucky feat is used where you get to see the result of the die roll first, you have to use Portent instead of rolling the dice. It also overrides disadvantage.

Including modifiers. You can hover your mouse over her roll to see the actual die rolls. The portent die of 11 is the actual d20. Then you need to add in modifiers on top of that 11.

Portent makes you replace only the d20 roll, not the final outcome. The description of ability checks in the rules says (PHB, p. 174): To make an ability check, roll a d20 and add the relevant ability modifier.

Known as 'Rule 0', the principle has existed throughout all of D&D's history, with varying wordings in official publication. In short, it states that the DM is the final arbiter of the rules; the world belongs to them and their players, and the rules of the world are created by them.

What is the 60 second rule in D&D? ›

A practice I find makes combat feel fast and intense, the 60 second rule makes it so players (not including the dm) only have 60 seconds to decide and act during their turn. In addition, other players are not allowed to interject. The DM tells a player when their time starts.

The golden rule of D&D is that the word of the DM is the final say on any matter when it comes to rules.

Rules Notes: 1) As I understand RAW, Portent only substitutes the die roll. So, any modifiers still get applied to it.

Player uses portent a saving throw to pass. Enemy has silvery barbs, can they use it on that same roll to force the player to reroll? My understanding is yes, since you're still making a roll, just using a pre-emptively rolled result.

Originally Answered: Can a character use a luck point to affect a roll that was replaced by a portent in D&D 5E? Yes. Portent has to be used before a die is rolled, not after.

You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 13th level and three times between long rests starting at 17th level.

Restoration portents do not stack nor do they consume adrenaline when used. Only one portent may be used at a time, although there is no limit to how many portents could be carried in inventory.