5e House Rules

Home brew or house rules for my 5e games

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Recharge

When something is expended roll to see if it can be re-used.

Poison Breath (Recharge 5–6).

This ability available on the Young Green Dragon. The dragon has this available at least once. Once used the DM rolls a d6. If it lands 5 or 6 then it has recharged for another use.

This is also seen with multi-charge wands with wording similar to “when you use the final charge roll a d20, on a 1 the wand is destroyed”

I initially encountered this mechanic on creatures in 5e as a way to limit their abilities without causing the DM to track so many different resource states.