Portent (2024)

FAQs

Does Portent negate disadvantage? ›

I'd like to clarify a point about the feature— it overrides advantage and disadvantage, but does not remove them. For example, if a rogue has disadvantage on an attack roll, a wizard can replace the dice rolls with their protecnt number, but the rogue still has disadvantage (for example, they can't use sneak attack).

The key phrase here is "before the roll." This means that the Divination Wizard can use the Portent ability after the d20 is rolled but before the outcome is determined.

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.

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.

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

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.

During the day, you can use your reaction to change the die of any Attack Roll or Saving Throw rolled near you to one of your Portent Dice. Each Portent Die can only be used once, and you lose your unused Portent Dice at the end of the day.

So you can use Lucky or Portent, but not both. RAW: Portent works on dice rolled before the outcome is decided. You don't need Lucky to “force” a foretelling number on any dice roll your “character sees”. The lucky feat works in the same way but simply forces a reroll instead of a set number.

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.

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.

Because a Divination Wizard is “seeing the future”, can they, using the Portent ability, overturn a Legendary Save? No, because a creature doesn't roll for their legendary save. They simply succeed.

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.

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

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.

Portent lets the diviner substitute a pre-rolled result for a roll. If used on the monster's saving throw, it is presumably used to force a failure. But it's exactly when a save is failed that Legendary Resistance can be used to succeed instead.

Because a Divination Wizard is “seeing the future”, can they, using the Portent ability, overturn a Legendary Save? No, because a creature doesn't roll for their legendary save. They simply succeed.

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.

When a player who has advantage on a d20-based roll, they roll twice and take the highest result. When they have disadvantage, they roll twice and take the lowest result. Multiple instances of advantage or disadvantage do not stack, and if a player has both advantage and disadvantage on the same roll, they cancel out.