D&D 5R: Water Movement & Combat

The 5E rules for aquatic encounters were smeared over a number of locations and generally left me with a lack of useful understanding.  The result was I avoided encounters in the water so I could avoid the puddle of rules that defined aquatic encounters.  

The 5R rules have made pretty big changes.  I'll dive into how it is defined to work in the newest iteration of the rules in this post.  As usual, I'll copy teh relevant rules snippets into this post, after I walk through what I think the rules mean to me and my games.

D&D 5R: Grappling What Are The Rules Anyway?

 Grappling, in my experience, has long been a mess as far as the rules go.  It's just been hard to remeber the rules and to use them at appropriate times.  Often it is easier to just swing a weapon at a target rather than use the sometimes amazing grappling technique.

In D&D 5E 2014 (known as 5E to me), there was an opposed challenge to start a grapple which repeated.  No big deal other than having to figure out what ability each particpant was using make a pair of rolls add mods and compare.  Well that's all changed in D&D 5R 2014 (known as 5R herein).

D&D 5R: Drawing & Stowing Weapons -- Dueling and Two Weapon Fighting Simultaneously?

In an earlier post, Four Attacks per Turn at Level 5. Yes! Really?, I looked at the hash that the 5R rules created with two weapon fighting.  This is a related, but much simpler topic: How does drawing and stowing weapons work and can a character benefit from dueling feat (use only one weapon) and Duel Wielder / Two-Weapon Fighting Style in the same round?

I'll gather the rules snippets that apply and link a relevant video but first, I'll get to the conclusion and an example. 

TLDR: Each attack can be accompanied by stowing -or- drawing a weapon (two with two weapon fighting feat) before -or- after the actual attack. It is possible (and bizarre) for a character to benefit from who has the Duel Wielder / Two-Weapon Fighting Style and the Dueling feat in the same combat round.

D&D 5R: Four Attacks per Turn at Level 5. Yes! Really?

 It appears that Wizards has managed to make a real hash out of two weapon fighting in the 2024 rules.  I'll link some relevant videos that discuss the issues, gather the rules snippets that apply and give my understanding of what they mean, especially (and likely only) to my table below. 

TLDR: It seems possible for a character who has the Dual Wielder Feat and is using light weapons to attack twice with what used to be referred to as an off-hand weapon.