Prone (Condition)

This article is about the condition. For the status group, see Prone (status group).

Prone

• Can't move or take  Actions,  Bonus Actions, or  Reactions, and has  Disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity  Saving Throws.
• Attacks against a Prone creature have  Advantage if they're made within 3 m (10 ft) of the creature.
• A Prone creature must spend half its  Movement Speed to stand up.
• Falling Prone instantly ends Concentration.
• If a creatures falls Prone on its turn, the turn immediately ends.

 Prone, Unconscious

Properties

UID: PRONE

 Status groups: SG_Prone, SG_Condition, SG_Unconscious

 Loses duration: start of turn

 More properties:

• IgnoredByImmobilized
• InitiateCombat
• DisableOverhead

Sources of Prone

Indefinite duration

The following sources of Prone inflict the condition indefinitely. It can still be removed if the affected creature spends movement speed to get up. However, if the creature is unable to move (for example, due to  Ensnared,  Enwebbed,  Frightened,  Heavily Encumbered,  Maimed, or  Restrained), it remains Prone indefinitely.

• Water Whip: Knock Prone
• Trip Attack (Ranged)

Two turn duration

Two turns is the typical duration for a Prone effect. Since the duration of Prone ticks down at the start of the affected creature's turn, a 2-turn duration is effectively 1 round. The exact behaviour is as follows:

• At the start of the affected creature's turn, the remaining duration ticks down to 1 turn.
• If the affected creature can spend movement speed, it does so and stands up, and the remaining turn of Prone is removed.
  • If it cannot, it remains Prone and skips its turn. In this case, at the start of the following turn, the creature expends half of its movement speed (if able) and stands up, and Prone is removed.
• If Prone was caused by certain sources, such as  Brutal Leap,  Primal Stampede,  Reverberation, or  Throw, duration 1 cannot be increased to 2 before the condition has ended, which usually means not until the next turn. For some other sources, such as  Ice, a separate Prone condition with duration 2 can be applied.

The following sources have a duration of 2 turns:

• Adhesive Whip
• Backbreaker
• Bite (Sabre-Toothed Tiger)
• Boar Charge
• Brutal Leap
• Charge (Deep Rothé)
• Charge (Minotaur)
• Crushing Flight
• Deadly Leap
• Diving Strike
• Grounded Thunder Strike
•  Impulse Blast
• Ironbound Pursuit
• Lunging Bite
• Multiattack (Owlbear)
• Pounce
• Pounce (Alioramus)
• Pounce (Dilophosaurus)
• Pounce (Hook Horror)
• Primal Stampede
• Quake
• Relentless Lunge
• Reverberation
• Rolan's Thunderwave
• Rush (Boar)
•  Scar of the Sirocco
• Slam (Ansur)
• Slam (Grym)
• Slam (Ogre)
• Soil-Clogged Slam
• Stormheart Nova
• Strengthened Force Tunnel
• Topple the Big Folk
• Trephination
• Trumpet of Blasting
• Volatile Cluster

One turn duration

The following sources inflict Prone only for 1 turn. Since the duration of Prone ticks down at the start of an affected creature's turn, the condition ends even if the creature somehow lacks the movement speed required to stand up. Since creatures typically regain their movement speed at the start of their turn, this is only relevant if the creature is also afflicted with a movement-restricting condition.

• Absolute Consumption
• Break of Dawn
• Bulwark Rebuke
• Burrow (Badger)
• Crushing Flight (Owlbear Wild Shape)
• Destructive Wave
• Destructive Wave: Necrotic
• Destructive Wave: Radiant
• Enraged Throw
• Fist of Unbroken Air
• Flurry of Blows: Topple
• Forceful Throw
• Gale (class action)
• Grease
• Greasy Discharge
• Honeyed Paws
• Ice
• Improvised Melee Weapon
• Improvised Melee Weapon (Bonus Action)
• Legion of Bees: Mighty Knockback
• Main Hand Attack (Steel Watcher)
• Merciless Crush
• Multiattack (Flesh)
• Multiattack (Steel Watcher Titan)
• Off Balance
• Repelling Protocol
• Reprimand
• Sewage
• Shadowjaw Bite
• Shield Blow
• Slam (Brewer Zombie, tactician)
• Telekinetic Thrust
• Throat Punch
• Throw
• Thunderous Smite
• Topple
• Trip Attack (Melee)

Notes

• A character with the Athlete feat spends only 1.5 m (5 ft) of  Movement Speed to stand up.
• If a character falls Prone, ending their turn, another character acting on the same turn in initiative can use the  Help action to remove the Prone condition, effectively "un-skipping" that character's turn and allowing them to act normally. Concentration is still broken, however.
• Creatures use 50% of their available movement speed to stand up. So, knocking a creature Prone and reducing its movement speed below 50% does not prevent it from standing up and automatically skip its next turn.