It would be a cool visual to imagine a "van Helsing" type character weilding an Axe and a Crossbow. That sadly means an Artificer Battle Smith can't make two attacks with a Repeating Shot hand crossbow and bonus action attack (Two-Weapon Fighting) with a Returning Weapon handaxe, because both Weapons have to be Melee Weapons. If either weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon, instead of making a melee attack with it. You don't add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative. Two-Weapon Fighting (When you take the Attack action and attack with a light MELEE weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a DIFFERENT light MELEE weapon that you're holding in the other hand. Think that means the weapons can't be pre loaded before an attack. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is PART OF THE ATTACK (you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon)." The ammunition property states that "Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. So, since it really doesn’t make all that much difference many DMs allow the double wielding of hand crossbows for thematic reasons, even though it is technically less efficient than just using one. So technically, RAW, if you have the Extra Attack feature and are holding two Hand Crossbows then you can fire them both, and then must drop one to load the other to fire it as a Bonus Action, but if you only hold one then you can fire it three times (including bonus action) no problem. Since a Hand Crossbow is both of those things, if you fired it as part of the Attack action, then you can also fire it as a bonus action too.īut technically, RAW, if you are holding two Hand Crossbows you can fire them each once and then must drop or put away one of them to free a hand to load the other. In addition you can fire it as a bonus action on your turn if you have made an attack with a light, One-Handed weapon. If you have a Hand Crossbow and the Extra Attack class feature then you can also fire that more than once per turn as well. The Crossbow Expert feat let’s you ignore the loading property, but not the ammunition property which requires a free hand to load the weapons. With the Crossbow Expert feat you can only fire a Light Crossbow or a Heavy Crossbow more than once per turn if you have the Extra Attack class feature and only because the feat lets you ignore the loading property. The Heavy Crossbow has the ammunition, loading, and two-handed properties, and also adds the heavy property too. It has the ammunition, and loading, properties, as well as the two-handed property. The Light Crossbow is “light” in name only, it does not actually have that light weapon property. The Hand Crossbow has the light, ammunition, and loading properties. There are three different types of crossbow- crossbow, hand, crossbow, light, crossbow, heavy. Although- you would still have to sheath the sword after doing the sword attack to load the crossbow. So yes I would do a HB rule that states that Crossbow Expert allows you to load a weapon without using a free hand.Įdit: You can do the bonus action attack after a non-crossbow attack, I think the feat was actually supposed to be used with a sword in one hand and a crossbow in the other, hence why it doesn't really work with two hand crossbows. However, if you have two one-handed crossbows, you can only shoot twice and then you can't shoot anymore because you don't have two hands. You can do this because while the light handed crossbow requires two hands, your only holding one light crossbow so you have 2 hands. The feat allows you to shoot a single hand crossbow twice in a single turn, and then twice again on your next turn, etc. Note it does not say they need to be different crossbows. Read the feat- it allows you to shoot a hand-crossbow as a bonus action after making a attack. But only this feat allows firing two hand crossbows in one turn according to RAW. Unless this feat now means that you can reload on the same turn and fire it twice, which I don’t think it does. I guess you could shoot it, then drop it and pick up a second already pre-loaded crossbow and shoot that? Yes the hand crossbow has both the light property and what's basically the two-handed property. Read the ammunition property, "you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon". There is no free hand requirement for reloading. Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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