The rules for Difficult Terrain stipulate:
You move at half speed in difficult terrain— moving 1 foot in
Difficult Terrain costs 2 feet of speed
while rules for standing up from prone:
Standing up takes more effort; doing so costs an amount of movement
equal to half your speed.
Is the act of standing up RAW "movement", such that in difficult terrain, it costs the entirety of your movement? And, would that mean that reducing a creature's speed (with a spell like Slow, for example) precludes them from being able to stand up in this situation?
Best Answer
Difficult terrain does not affect standing up from prone.
The rules for difficult terrain state:
"Move" and "moving" here are referring to the rules for movement and position:
The distance travelled when standing up from prone is 0 feet, so you "move" 0 feet when standing up from prone. Since you move 0 feet when standing up from prone, difficult terrain does not impose any additional penalties when standing up.
It is worth noting that this question was answered in version 1.14 of the Sage Advice Compendium, but was removed without comment for version 2.0: