Dash

Condition: Dash

Overview edit

Dash is a basic, common action available to almost every creature.

Details edit

Stacking dashes edit

Dashing multiple times in a turn is possible with additional actions from features like  Action Surge or  Haste or by using bonus action dashes like  Cunning Action: Dash. When dashing multiple times, the movement bonus from  Dash stacks additively rather than multiplicatively. For example, a character with 9 m / 30 ft movement speed who dashes twice gets 9 m / 30 ft bonus movement speed added twice for a total of 27 m / 90 ft (a 3x multiplier) rather than doubling the movement speed twice (which would be a 4x multiplier). Similarly, dashing three times applies a movement speed multiplier of 4x, not 8x.

Dashing more than three times in a turn has no effect. Subsequent dashes simply do not add any additional movement speed.^[1]

The special dash-like action  Click Heels does stack multiplicatively with normal dashes. That is, dashing and using Click Heels doubles movement speed, and then doubles it again for a 4x multiplier. Dashing three times and using Click heels increases movement speed by 8x. The order of the dashes and Click Heels does not matter and the total movement speed increase is the same.

Dash variants edit

Aside from the base Dash action available to every creature, there are a number of special, cheaper dash actions available to certain classes or under certain conditions.

 Click Heels - Dash-like bonus action granted by the  Boots of Speed.
 Cunning Action: Dash - Bonus action dash available to rogues at level 2.
 Dash (bonus action) - Bonus action dash from  Expeditious Retreat or  Rage: Eagle Heart. Note that even though the initial cast of Expeditious Retreat grants  Dash, it does not count as a dash action for certain interactions.
 Step of the Wind: Dash - Bonus action dash available to monks at level 2. This action also requires a  Ki Point.

Related items edit

The following items trigger an effect when using Dash:

 Boots of Arcane Bolstering - Grants two turns of  Arcane Charge
 Fleetfingers - Grants a free, special  Jump action
 Linebreaker Boots - Grants three stacks of  Wrath
 Springstep Boots - Grants three stacks of  Momentum
 The Speedy Lightfeet - Grants three  Lightning Charges

These items also trigger when using any of the dash variants. Other movement actions such as  Charger or  Primal Stampede do not count as dashes for these items.

Related features edit

 Aspect of the Beast: Stallion - Receive temporary hit points with the  Dash condition. Note that this does not work with Click Heels since that grants a distinct condition ( Click Heels).

References edit

↑ The way Dash is coded, subsequent dashes replace the normal DASH condition with DASH_STACKED after the second dash and DASH_STACKED_2 after the third dash. This does not support stacking dash beyond the third time so any additional dashes have no effect.

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[1] The way Dash is coded, subsequent dashes replace the normal DASH condition with DASH_STACKED after the second dash and DASH_STACKED_2 after the third dash. This does not support stacking dash beyond the third time so any additional dashes have no effect.

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