That means that while yes, you "can" dual-wield hand crossbows and get your bonus attack that way, you not only don't have to but also shouldn't because then, as others have noted, you don't have a free hand for reloading. You can use your hand crossbow to make a bonus action attack (after reloading it with your free hand, which due to the same feat is not an action for you). Is a hand crossbow a one-handed weapon? Yes.ĥ. Did you use it attack with your hand crossbow? Yes.ģ. "When you use the Attack action and attack with a one handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are holding."Ģ. In 5e, if you have a hand crossbow in hand and the Crossbow Expert feat, you can fire the same crossbow once with your Attack action and then again with your Bonus action. The kind of important thing that everyone here seems to be missing is you don't actually have to dual-wield hand crossbows to get the bonus action attack. Larian probably hasn't coded dual crossbows yet so it's a bit wonky rn haha. Dual wielding pose looks cool in the character sheet but it led to some. I cheated to give myself 2 hand crossbows. The upshot is that you can fire it moreįull disclosure. That you have enough ammunition and you have a hand freeīut that does change the fact that you need a free hand to reload. More than once with a feature like Extra Attack, provided What does that all mean for a hand crossbow? It meansĬrossbow Expert makes it possible to fire a hand crossbow Included in the attack and therefore doesn’t require its ownĪction and doesn’t use up your free interaction with an object on your turn. Second, the act of drawing the ammunition is ![]() ![]() That is, extracting with your hand-the ammunition fromĪ container. “Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or otherĬontainer is part of the attack.” The sentence tells us two Sentence in the definition of the ammunition property: To dig deeper into this point, take a look at the following Hand crossbow isn’t going to load itself (unless it’s magical You to have a bolt to fire from the hand crossbow, and the ![]() Limited, however, by the fact that the weapon has the ammunition property (PH, 146). Than once if you have a feature like Extra Attack. Property (PH, 147) of the hand crossbow if you’re proficient with that weapon. The first benefit of the feat lets you ignore the loading "Do the first and third benefits of Crossbow Expert turnĪ hand crossbow into a semiautomatic weapon? The feat does not change the fact that you need a free hand to reload. When you use the Attack action and attack with a one handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are holding.īut dual wielding hand crossbows, with crossbow expert, and sharpshooter on a fighter is one of the most OP builds you can make in 5e. Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls. you ignore the loading property of crossbows There's a feat in 5e called crossbow expert where: So would you have to take a couple of turns to unequip reload, requip, unequip, reload, reequip? Seems SO not worth the effort.
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