Rules as written the carpet is a moving platform and does not itself provoke attacks of opportunity.
Animated carpet 5e.
Likewise objects you animate are not the constructs in the monster manual and don t automatically gain the abilities in the descriptions there.
The gm chooses the size of a given carpet or determines it randomly.
A sheetlike animated object such as a carpet or tapestry can grapple an opponent up to three sizes larger than itself.
While it is grappling a creature the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it and the creature grappled by the rug takes the other half.
Antimagic susceptibility the rug is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field if targeted by dispel magic the rug must succeed on a constitution saving throw against the caster s spell save dc or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
You can speak the carpet s command word as an action to make the carpet hover and fly.
An animated object can have one or more of the following special abilities depending on its form.
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Damage transfer while it is grappling a creature the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it and the creature grappled by the rug takes the other half.
A carpet has no appendages to use for locomotion so it gets a flying speed of 30 feet.
Permanent animated objects being created by a different process don t follow the same rules of the spell.
Known rugs of smothering edit.
The rug is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field.
Activating the carpet requires an action telling the carpet to move on subsequent actions is a free action.
First of all a carpet that is animated by animate objects can in fact fly.
Mighty nein encountered a rug of smothering in the sutan residence.
References edit see d d.
A rug of smothering can grapple and suffocate any medium or small creature.
A sheetlike animated object such as a carpet or tapestry can grapple an opponent up to three sizes larger than itself.
Rugs of smothering can be made in various forms from a lavish carpet to a common rug.
Standing on the carpet and telling the carpet to move does not expend the users move action or allow for opportunity attacks.
Its speed is 30 feet if the objects lack legs or other appendages it can use for locomotion it instead has a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover.
Comparison to animated creatures in the monster manual or elsewhere.
The object makes a normal grapple check.
If targeted by dispel magic the rug must succeed on a constitution saving throw against the caster s spell save dc or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
The object makes a normal grapple check.
The rug is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field if targeted by dispel magic the rug must succeed on a constitution saving throw against the caster s spell save dc or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
Animated objects come in all sizes shapes.
While it is grappling a creature the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it and the creature grappled by the rug takes the.
