[RPG] How does the Harengon’s Rabbit Hop racial trait interact with the Jump spell

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If my level 2 ranger casts the Jump spell on our harengon monk, does his jump distance from his Rabbit hop racial ability tripled as well?

Rabbit Hop. As a bonus action, you can jump a number of feet equal to five times your proficiency bonus, without provoking opportunity attacks. You can use this trait only if your speed is greater than 0. You can use it a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

And here is the Jump spell:

You touch a creature. The creature's jump distance is tripled until the spell ends.

RAF it obviously works, because a rabbit jumping crazy distances is hilarious, but I'm interested if it works RAW or RAI.

Best Answer

This should work.

When the jump spell says "jump distance", it is most obviously referring to the rules for long jumps in chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook:

Jumping

Your Strength determines how far you can jump.

Long Jump. When you make a long jump, you cover a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing long jump, you can leap only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement.

This is how you determine your "jump distance", and this is what jump was originally referring to. Now, Rabbit Hop provides a completely different jumping mechanic, but it does provide a method of calculating a "jump distance":

you can jump a number of feet equal to five times your proficiency bonus

So while this isn't the "jump distance" the jump spell was originally referring to, as Rabbit Hop was published some seven years after the jump spell, it is still a "jump distance" - it tells you how far you can jump.

It is important to note that while conventional jumping expends your available movement, using Rabbit Hop does not use your available movement, and can even be used if you have no remaining movement this turn (and your speed is not 0).

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