I read a rule quite some time ago about being able to hit 2 creatures with one attack using a quarterstaff as long as both creatures are within 5ft, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I read it. I asked my DM about it not too long after, and he said he wasn't aware of that rule/mechanic, and because I couldn't find where I had originally read it, I just let it go. But just a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that it's in the attack description on my character sheet on roll20, but i'm quite certain that I had originally read it in one of the rule books.
I'm playing as a monk, if that matters at all, but I haven't taken any feats that include that ability.
Does anyone know where this rule/mechanic is listed in the any of the books?
Are you talking about Extra Attack that you get as a 5th level monk? You get to make two attacks as part of the Attack Action but it doesn’t have to be two different opponents. Or do you have Polearm master feat and thinking of the bonus action attack with the opposite end of the staff?
There used to be a mechanic in earlier editions, I think it was a feat, where you could attack multiple adjacent creatures. I want to say, if you killed one, you could keep going as part of the same attack. It let mid to high level fighters just now through kobolds and such. But it wasn’t weapon specific. In this edition, they’re nothing like that. It’s basically the options thri-kreen warrior describes.
I think the first ability of the Great Weapon Master feat, which lets you use a bonus action to attack again after killing a creature, is supposed to roughly emulate cleave too. They don't need to be adjacent and it's not part of the same attack, but it's sort of there.
I read a rule quite some time ago about being able to hit 2 creatures with one attack using a quarterstaff as long as both creatures are within 5ft, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I read it. I asked my DM about it not too long after, and he said he wasn't aware of that rule/mechanic, and because I couldn't find where I had originally read it, I just let it go. But just a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that it's in the attack description on my character sheet on roll20, but i'm quite certain that I had originally read it in one of the rule books.
I'm playing as a monk, if that matters at all, but I haven't taken any feats that include that ability.
Does anyone know where this rule/mechanic is listed in the any of the books?
Are you talking about Extra Attack that you get as a 5th level monk? You get to make two attacks as part of the Attack Action but it doesn’t have to be two different opponents. Or do you have Polearm master feat and thinking of the bonus action attack with the opposite end of the staff?
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There used to be a mechanic in earlier editions, I think it was a feat, where you could attack multiple adjacent creatures. I want to say, if you killed one, you could keep going as part of the same attack. It let mid to high level fighters just now through kobolds and such. But it wasn’t weapon specific.
In this edition, they’re nothing like that. It’s basically the options thri-kreen warrior describes.
Cleave, and greater cleave. They don’t exist in 5e though.
In the DMG under Combat Options there are rules for cleaving through an enemy to hit another: (https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/dungeon-masters-workshop#CleavingthroughCreatures).
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I think the first ability of the Great Weapon Master feat, which lets you use a bonus action to attack again after killing a creature, is supposed to roughly emulate cleave too. They don't need to be adjacent and it's not part of the same attack, but it's sort of there.
This would be the horde breaker feature for the hunter ranger.
That’s a really watered down version. But yeah.