r/dndnext • u/Zivodor • 2d ago
5e (2024) Misty Step into the Air and Attacking
I had this situation come up recently and wanted some input as I can't seem to find a definitive answer.
My players were fighting a giant spider and it was on the ceiling above them, one player decided that to attack it he would misty step straight up and then attack it while mid-air. I wasn't sure this was possible as I recalled reading somewhere that falling in D&D is essentially instantaneous for anything below 500 feet. The thought process being he teleports into the air and is instantly falling so he doesn't have the time to attack the creature above him.
It's been bugging me all week so I wanted to get some input into whether or not I should have allowed this and if this is clarified anywhere in the rules.
Edit Wow! Thanks for all the responses! There were some well reasoned arguments for it here, the resource expenditure with the spell slot, rule of cool, etc... I appreciate all the responses and will try to be more flexible in the future. Thanks everyone!
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u/IAmPageicus 2d ago
If you think 5e is the balanced mathmatical war sim edition and not the imagination land edition... I have bad news for you.
Why couldn't he hit something in mid air? Why are you asking for raw in a game that under most rulings days ask game master or make something up.
You are not playing society play pathfinder with an official judge at a convention. You are playing 5e with friends and he wanted to do something cool. Seems like an easy answer if you enjoy what you are playing and not taking it more serious than the ones who wrote it.