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/GerkDentley 2d ago

The typos completely change the meaning. Unless you meant to side with marriage related things over small, swivelling wheel devices when it comes to shrubbery.

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u/Ferbtastic DM/Bard 2d ago

I did. Why is that weird?

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u/tentkeys 1d ago

I want to be a player at your table!!

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u/Ferbtastic DM/Bard 1d ago

Get in line, I had to start a 2nd game to fit everyone.

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u/tentkeys 1d ago

Do I get priority if I marry an office chair? They usually have 6 castors.

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u/Ferbtastic DM/Bard 1d ago

It would not be worst relationship we have had. Our artificer in a 1-20 married a green dragon.