The reason why the casting time is Bonus Action is so that you don't have to waste your regular Action casting the spell. IOW, Shillelagh is does not need to be cast before combat to be useful. Attacking with your now-enchanted staff still takes your regular Action.
And to be pedantic, a quarterstaff is not a light weapon, so what you describe would break the rules of two-weapon fighting anyway. At best, if you carried two clubs, you could enchant one of them with Shillelagh. Then use your Attack action to attack with one of them and your Bonus Action to attack with the other, if you didn't have anything else to do with your bonus action.
Scratch that, cast Shillelagh on a club, and wield a scimitar in your other hand, you nutty two-weapon fighting melee druid you. (You probably want a shield in that other hand though.)
I wasn't trying to break the game. I was just trying to understand the logistics of the idea behind Shillelagh as a cantrip. I am finding some of the wording in the PHB confusing.
ok, well Shillelagh is a spell that enchants a weapon (and the weapon must be a club or quarterstaff.) Beyond that, all the usual rules of weapons apply, including the rules for two weapon fighting.
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Can a druid strike with a quarterstaff and then again with his shillelagh as a "bonus action"? I am confused by the way the text reads.
Shillelagh is not a separate thing. You enchant your Quarterstaff with the spell so you can wield it with your spellcasting stat instead of STR.
I've never encountered a forum where I got this many "talking to a wall" impressions as this one...
The reason why the casting time is Bonus Action is so that you don't have to waste your regular Action casting the spell. IOW, Shillelagh is does not need to be cast before combat to be useful. Attacking with your now-enchanted staff still takes your regular Action.
And to be pedantic, a quarterstaff is not a light weapon, so what you describe would break the rules of two-weapon fighting anyway. At best, if you carried two clubs, you could enchant one of them with Shillelagh. Then use your Attack action to attack with one of them and your Bonus Action to attack with the other, if you didn't have anything else to do with your bonus action.
Scratch that, cast Shillelagh on a club, and wield a scimitar in your other hand, you nutty two-weapon fighting melee druid you. (You probably want a shield in that other hand though.)
I wasn't trying to break the game. I was just trying to understand the logistics of the idea behind Shillelagh as a cantrip. I am finding some of the wording in the PHB confusing.
ok, well Shillelagh is a spell that enchants a weapon (and the weapon must be a club or quarterstaff.) Beyond that, all the usual rules of weapons apply, including the rules for two weapon fighting.