Lucky 5e
19 March 2025 | Category Feats
Learn how you can get lady luck on your side! Learn how the Lucky feat works in D&D 5e and how to utilise this amazing feat.
What Is Lucky 5e?
Lucky is a feat that helps you tip the scales in your favour when you need it the most.
This feat gives you 3 luck points. You can spend these to reroll an attack roll, ability check, or a saving throw. You can also use it to influence an enemy’s attack roll against you.
How Does Lucky Work?
As mentioned before you have 3 luck points per long rest. This means that you will get 3 new ones after every long rest. You can spend it either on yourself or on your enemy. You cannot use your luck to make your party members more lucky.
You can spend your point after you have rolled your dice. But, before the DM explains the outcome, it is not a time travelling feat.
When you have spent your point and roll your d20 you can choose which die you use for the outcome. If you use a luck point but you roll lower than your initial roll, you can choose to disregard the new roll.
If more than one creature spends a luck point, the points cancel each other out.
Is Lucky Good?
Lucky is widely considered as one of the better feats out there. You can use the feat in so many creative ways to help you get what you want. This is because you can either help yourself or make it harder for your enemies to hit you. There are not many feats that have the ability to do both.
Lucky 5e Interactions
Lucky has some nice synergies with both having disadvantage and advantage
Disadvantage:
If you roll with disadvantage you can choose to re-roll either of the lower rolls. Using lucky in this instance only makes sense if you have already rolled one high role. So for example you roll a 15 and a 3, you can choose to re-roll the 3 and hope to get a higher number and then take the lower of the 15 and the new number.
Advantage:
If you roll with advantage you can do the same. But in this case it works both with two low rolls, or one low and one high roll. You can again choose one of the dice to reroll and then take the higher of the two.
As mentioned before, lucky does not interact well with other luck users. If an enemy has lady luck on their side as well, you will cancel each other out. But only if you both use it at the same time.
Learn more about all the feats you can choose in D&D 5e by taking a look at our Feats list
Lucky 5e FAQs
In the D&D community Lucky is often deeded a very strong choice. It is only limited by its number of luck points. If you as DM find that your players are too strong with this feat, you can choose to add additional encounters to your adventuring day to whittle this number down.
If you need help with coming up with encounters you can try our encounter generator.
Yes, death saving throws are still saving throws, meaning Lucky can be used to tip these scales in your favor. You cannot use luck on another creature’s death saving throws.
You can only use a luck point on any given roll once. The Lucky ability reads, “Whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can spend one luck point to roll an additional d20.” This means you cannot keep throwing your luck points at a problem until you succeed.
The lucky feat works almost the same as advantage, the main difference between the two is that you can choose to use Lucky after you have already seen your rolls. Even if you have advantage. It always stacks with your current roll situation.
No, you can only take this feat once, therefore you can only have a maximum of 3 luck points.
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