![]() ![]() When you want to grab a creature or wrestle with it, you can use the Attack action to make a special melee attack, a grapple. The most likely candidates are grappling the creature, pulling it toward you, or tripping it to knock it prone. Unfortunately for your character, if we look in the rules for the kind of things you could conceivably do to an enemy using a grappling hook, we see that they all require rolling some kind of strength check. You can reasonably expect the DM to either ask you for an attack roll (without proficiency) or some kind of ability check in order to use the grappling hook against an enemy in the way you describe, assuming they decide it's even possible. The example given is in fact very similar to what you're asking about: improvising the use of something that's not a weapon to interfere with an enemy in some way. You roll the damage die (or let the player do it), and the game continues. ![]() You might decide that it deals 1d4 fire damage and imposes disadvantage on the monster’s attack rolls until the end of its next turn. If the Strength check is successful, you then determine how a face full of hot coals affects the monster. You might tell the player to make a Strength check, while mentally setting the Difficulty Class (DC) at 15. How you determine the outcome of this action is up to you. For example, a player might want his or her character to hurl a brazier full of hot coals into a monster’s face. The rules don’t account for every possible situation that might arise during a typical D&D session. The introduction to the DMG gives some guidance on how the DM should adjudicate improvised actions (note: because this is the DMG, "you" refers to the DM): When you describe an action not detailed elsewhere in the rules, the DM tells you whether that action is possible and what kind of roll you need to make, if any, to determine success or failure. Anything you could do to an enemy with a grappling hook would probably require a strength checkĪs far as I know, there are no specific rules for using a grappling hook against an enemy in the way you describe, which means that you would be improvising an action, as described in the rule for actions in combat:
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