So I was reading through XGE and noticed something about how the College of Swords abilities are worded and wanted to know if anyone else had seen this. Apart from using melee weapons as spellcasting focuses, none of the other abilities require a melee weapon. Does this mean you could use Blade Flourishes with a bow? (e.g. roleplay them as Trick Shots).
So I was reading through XGE and noticed something about how the College of Swords abilities are worded and wanted to know if anyone else had seen this. Apart from using melee weapons as spellcasting focuses, none of the other abilities require a melee weapon. Does this mean you could use Blade Flourishes with a bow? (e.g. roleplay them as Trick Shots).
Melee weapons are also required to make use of the fighting style chosen at 3rd level.
Considering he began his training at a circus, College of Swords would thematically be a great fit as well as demonstrate how skilled he is given the base features of the bard class. But soon after you'd want to multiclass into fighter and pick Arcane Archer to gain the various arcane shots (trick shots) to complete the character concept. Grabbing feats like martial adept and sharpshooter to further flesh out the character.
They seem to be the awesome ranged fighters. Aiming for crossbow expert, sharpshooter and elven accuracy one could use a hand crossbow. Swift quiver increase attacks to 4. The bard can also go for spells to get Advantage on attacks. With Blade flourish he can nova nicely with a steady bonus starting level 14...
Piggybacking on this question, can the slashing flourish hit only your original target and one other enemy, or more? I tried to use it when surrounded by three shadows and my dm said could only hit two of them, since it's written as "any other creature" as opposed to "any other creatures." I had figured that the use of the word "any" implied you could hit as many enemies that are within 5 feet of you as possible.
Piggybacking on this question, can the slashing flourish hit only your original target and one other enemy, or more? I tried to use it when surrounded by three shadows and my dm said could only hit two of them, since it's written as "any other creature" as opposed to "any other creatures." I had figured that the use of the word "any" implied you could hit as many enemies that are within 5 feet of you as possible.
I would agree with your DM, "any other creature" means a singular creature.
So I was reading through XGE and noticed something about how the College of Swords abilities are worded and wanted to know if anyone else had seen this. Apart from using melee weapons as spellcasting focuses, none of the other abilities require a melee weapon. Does this mean you could use Blade Flourishes with a bow? (e.g. roleplay them as Trick Shots).
It seems so. The wording says "weapon attack".
However, as a player, I would always use swords, for the flavour of it.
Jeremy Crawford has said this is intentional. You can use these abilities with bows.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.
The best way to play Hawkeye?
They don't require melee weapon attacks, and you can even use them with unarmed strikes
They seem to be the awesome ranged fighters. Aiming for crossbow expert, sharpshooter and elven accuracy one could use a hand crossbow. Swift quiver increase attacks to 4. The bard can also go for spells to get Advantage on attacks. With Blade flourish he can nova nicely with a steady bonus starting level 14...
The blade of 2nd edition had following features if I remember correctly:
1. Weapon display that worked like negative inspiration
2. Ambidextrous that reduced twf penalties
3. Defensive or offensive blade "dance" which either added armor or allowed you to scare enemies away
4. And called shot that allowed you to reduce penalties with any ranged attacks vs special body parts.
So a mix of melee and ranged was always part of the blade kit
Piggybacking on this question, can the slashing flourish hit only your original target and one other enemy, or more? I tried to use it when surrounded by three shadows and my dm said could only hit two of them, since it's written as "any other creature" as opposed to "any other creatures." I had figured that the use of the word "any" implied you could hit as many enemies that are within 5 feet of you as possible.
Fair enough, thanks!
"Any other creature" in Slashing Flourish means any other eligible creature—could be one or more."