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=== Advantage / Disadvantage === | === Advantage / Disadvantage === | ||
In various situations, a creature can have Advantage or Disadvantage on an Attack Roll, Saving Throw, or Ability Check. | In various situations, a creature can have Advantage or Disadvantage on an Attack Roll, Damage Roll, Saving Throw, or Ability Check. | ||
Advantage simply means that you make the roll twice, and use the higher result. Disadvantage | Advantage simply means that you make the roll twice, and use the higher result. Disadvantage means you use the lower result. | ||
Advantage and Disadvantage can cancel each other out. | Advantage and Disadvantage can't stack. In other words, you never roll more than twice. Also, they cancel each other out, no matter how many sources of Advantage or Disadvantage you have. For instance, even if you have three sources of Advantage, and only one source of Disadvantage, they still cancel out each other completely, so you have neither. | ||
Examples of situations that grant Advantage: | Examples of situations that grant Advantage: | ||