Magic Items

Using a Magic Item

A magic item’s description explains how the item works.
Handling a magic item is enough to give a character
a sense that something is extraordinary about the
item. The identify spell is the fastest way to reveal an
item’s properties. Alternatively, a character can focus
on one magic item during a short rest, while being in
physical contact with the item. At the end of the rest, the
character learns the item’s properties, as well as how
to use them. Potions are an exception; a little taste is
enough to tell the taster what the potion does.

Some magic items require a creature to form a bond
with them before their magical properties can be used.
This bond is called attunement, and certain items
have a prerequisite for it. If the prerequisite is a class,
a creature must be a member of that class to attune
to the item.

Attuning to an item requires a creature to spend
a short rest focused on only that item while being in
physical contact with it (this can’t be the same short rest
used to learn the item’s properties). This focus can take
the form of weapon practice, meditation, or some other
appropriate activity. If the short rest is interrupted, the
attunement attempt fails. Otherwise, at the end of the
short rest, the creature gains an intuitive understanding
of how to activate any magical properties of the item,
including any necessary command words.

An item can be attuned to only one creature at a time,
and a creature can be attuned to no more than three
magic items at a time. Any attempt to attune to a fourth
item fails; the creature must end its attunement to an
item first. Additionally, a creature can’t attune to more
than one copy of an item. For example, a creature can’t
attune to more than one ring of protection at a time.
A creature’s attunement to an item ends if the creature
no longer satisfies the prerequisites for attunement, if
the item has been more than 100 feet away for at least
24 hours, if the creature dies, or if another creature
attunes to the item. A creature can also voluntarily end
attunement by spending another short rest focused on
the item, unless the item is cursed.

Reminder, you can change everything (except for your name) about your PC until 4th level.

Bugbear hides behind a closed door in a room while friends get involved in a fight with the PC's outside. It readies an action to attack anyone that opens the door. Melee outside ends. Fighter kicks in the door (fully expecting a problem). Does the bugbear get a reaction attack? Does the figther? In what order?

There are a bazillion ways you could rule this depending on the exact details.

1) The Fighter enters and the Readied action goes off, so the bugbear gets an attack and then back to normal initiative
2) The Fighter enters in a way that Surprises the bugbear, so he can't take a reaction until his first turn
3) Combat ended and is starting over, the Bugbear is laying in wait so gets Surprise
4) Combat ended and is starting over, the fighter busts in unexpectedly and gets surprise.
5) No one gets surprise
6) probably more....

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you gain the ability to use Wild Shape on your turn as a bonus action, rather than as an action.

Circle Forms
The rites of your circle grant you the ability to transform into more dangerous animal forms. Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Wild Shape to transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as 1 (you ignore the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must abide by the other limitations there).

When you transform, you assume the beast’s hit points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit
point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious.

If it bothers you that much, Ryssa would take the sword.

"Sometimes you want to get the jump on a foe or wait for a particular circumstance before you act. To do so, you can take the Ready action on your turn, which lets you act using your reaction before the start of your next turn.

First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your speed in response to it. Examples include "If the cultist steps on the trapdoor, I'll pull the lever that opens it," and "If the goblin steps next to me, I move away."

When the trigger occurs, you can either take your reaction right after the trigger finishes or ignore the trigger. Remember that you can take only one reaction per round.

When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs. To be readied, a spell must have a casting time of 1 action, and holding onto the spell's magic requires concentration. If your concentration is broken, the spell dissipates without taking effect. For example, if you are concentrating on the web spell and ready magic missile, your web spell ends, and if you take damage before you release magic missile with your reaction, your concentration might be broken."

As a reaction, the triggered action goes AFTER the trigger occurs. The only way this makes sense is that if a goblin peers around the corner, the trigger for Jaliera is the "move" portion of the goblin's action which means she gets her reaction BEFORE the goblin fires.

Vision reduced helps when we're dealing with ambush snipers: They can't shoot what they can't see. The psychological impact of the door burning also helps, especially if they're planning to pincushion any lump of muscle that barges its way in.