[RPG] Does the penalty to movement speed while grappling stack if you grapple two opponents

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In 5e, a player who is grappling has their movement speed halved. However, a player with two hands can grapple two opponents.

As the wording seems to indicate that the movement speed penalty applies due to the grappling status, does that mean that a player grappling two opponents is doubly penalized?

If so, how would it apply: is your speed reduced to 0 ([1 – 0.5] – 0.5), or a quarter of your regular speed ([1 / 2] / 2)?

Best Answer

It's reduced to a quarter of your regular speed

Moving a Grappled Creature. When you move, you can drag or carry the grappled creature with you, but your speed is halved, unless the creature is two or more sizes smaller than you.

So when you want to start dragging one creature, that will halve your speed. If your speed was 40 its now 20. In addition to dragging the first creature you want to drag a second creature, which again applies the halving, so your current speed of 20 is now 10.