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====== Dexterity ======

Dexterity measures agility, reflexes, and balance.
===== Dexterity Checks =====
A Dexterity check can model any attempt to move nimbly, quickly, or quietly, or to keep from falling on tricky footing. The Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Dexterity checks.

**Acrobatics.** Your Dexterity (Acrobatics) check covers your attempt to stay on your feet in a tricky situation, such as when you're trying to run across a sheet of ice, balance on a tightrope, or stay upright on a rocking ship's deck. The DM might also call for a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to see if you can perform acrobatic stunts, including dives, rolls, somersaults, and flips.

**Sleight of Hand.** Whenever you attempt an act of legerdemain or manual trickery, such as planting something on someone else or concealing an object on your person, make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check. The DM might also call for a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to determine whether you can lift a coin purse off another person or slip something out of another person's pocket.

**Stealth.** Make a Dexterity (Stealth) check when you attempt to conceal yourself from enemies, slink past guards, slip away without being noticed, or sneak up on someone without being seen or heard.

**Other Dexterity Checks.** The GM might call for a Dexterity check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following:
  * Control a heavily laden cart on a steep descent
  * Steer a chariot around a tight turn
  * Pick a lock
  * Disable a trap
  * Securely tie up a prisoner
  * Wriggle free of bonds
  * Play a stringed instrument
  * Craft a small or detailed object
===== Attack Rolls and Damage =====

You add your Dexterity modifier to your attack roll and your damage roll when attacking with a ranged weapon, such as a sling or a longbow. You can also add your Dexterity modifier to your attack roll and your damage roll when attacking with a melee weapon that has the finesse property, such as a dagger or a rapier.
===== Armor Class =====
Depending on the armor you wear, you might add some or all of your Dexterity modifier to your Armor Class.
===== Initiative =====

At the beginning of every combat, you roll initiative by making a Dexterity check. Initiative determines the order of creatures' turns in combat.
===== Hiding =====

The DM decides when circumstances are appropriate for hiding. When you try to hide, make a Dexterity (Stealth) check. Until you are discovered or you stop hiding, that check's total is contested by the Wisdom (Perception) check of any creature that actively searches for signs of your presence.

You can't hide from a creature that can see you clearly, and you give away your position if you make noise, such as shouting a warning or knocking over a vase. An invisible creature can always try to hide. Signs of its passage might still be noticed, and it does have to stay quiet.

In combat, most creatures stay alert for signs of danger all around, so if you come out of hiding and approach a creature, it usually sees you. However, under certain circumstances, the DM might allow you to stay hidden as you approach a creature that is distracted, allowing you to gain Advantage on an attack roll before you are seen.

**Passive Perception.** When you hide, there's a chance someone will notice you even if they aren't searching. To determine whether such a creature notices you, the DM compares your Dexterity (Stealth) check with that creature's passive Wisdom (Perception) score, which equals 10 + the creature's Wisdom modifier, as well as any other bonuses or penalties. If the creature has Advantage, add 5. For Disadvantage, subtract 5. For example, if a 1st-level character (with a proficiency bonus of +2) has a Wisdom of 15 (a +2 modifier) and proficiency in Perception, he or she has a passive Wisdom (Perception) of 14.

**What Can You See?** One of the main factors in determining whether you can find a hidden creature or object is how well you can see in an area, which might be lightly or heavily obscured\\ 
//Source:// SRD 2014\\ 
===== Contortion =====
 
A humanoid or humanoid-shaped creature can use its entire movement to move up to 5 feet through a gap or tunnel into which it’s too small to squeeze. While contorting in this way, a creature can’t make attacks, attacks against it are made with Advantage, and it automatically fails Dexterity saving throws. Even while carrying gear and wearing armor, a creature can enter a space listed on the chart below.\\ 
==== Table: Contortion ====
Size		Minimum Space
Tiny 		6 inches (or half the creature’s height, whichever is smaller) 
Small 		12 inches 
Medium 	18 inches 
Large 		3 feet 
Huge 		5 feet 
Gargantuan 	10 feet or larger

A creature that succeeds on a DC 15 Acrobatics check can enter a space half this wide. This check automatically fails if the creature is wearing medium or heavy armor or carrying a bulky object. The DM can decide that a certain space is more or less awkward to enter and requires a higher or lower DC.

A non-humanoid creature’s shape determines the space it can enter. For example, a Gargantuan snake might be able to contort into a space that a Large humanoid could enter.\\ 
//Source:// Level Up Dungeon Delver’s Guide

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