I don't think this is intended, but as far as I know, there's no rule about having to hold the weapon for a light attack in your other hand, so from my understanding of RAW, you could do this:
Begin with shield and light weapon (say scimitar with nick)
1. Do your main attack
2. Stow your scimitar as a part of that attack
3. Draw, say, a shortsword as a part of the nick attack
4. Attack with the shortsword as a part of the same attack
You don't even need nick, as you can use you Free Object Interaction to draw the weapon, or get Dual Wielder and use that feat's extra weapon stowing, and if you have dual wieldeer you could get 4 attacks at level 5, or 3 attacks at level 4, all with a shield, right?
This feels unintended and a bit overpowered to me, but it could be done, right? Am I missing something?
This was brought up when the 24 version first came out. As I recall the argument came down to, while it may be RAW, good luck finding a DM who will allow you to do it.
And even the RAW part needs to ignore the general rule of good faith interpretation of the rules.
This feels unintended and a bit overpowered to me, but it could be done, right? Am I missing something?
No, you have the right of it. It's not that big of a deal, but my usual players are pretty chill so I am fine with allowing it. From the base weapon itself, this is about an extra 3.5 (No Two-weapon Fighting style) to 8.5 damage per round, possibly more depending on if it's a magic weapon or other effects like Hex. I'm not worried about it.
I don't think this is intended, but as far as I know, there's no rule about having to hold the weapon for a light attack in your other hand, so from my understanding of RAW, you could do this:
Begin with shield and light weapon (say scimitar with nick)
1. Do your main attack
2. Stow your scimitar as a part of that attack
3. Draw, say, a shortsword as a part of the nick attack
4. Attack with the shortsword as a part of the same attack
You don't even need nick, as you can use you Free Object Interaction to draw the weapon, or get Dual Wielder and use that feat's extra weapon stowing, and if you have dual wieldeer you could get 4 attacks at level 5, or 3 attacks at level 4, all with a shield, right?
This feels unintended and a bit overpowered to me, but it could be done, right? Am I missing something?
This was brought up when the 24 version first came out. As I recall the argument came down to, while it may be RAW, good luck finding a DM who will allow you to do it.
And even the RAW part needs to ignore the general rule of good faith interpretation of the rules.
No, you have the right of it. It's not that big of a deal, but my usual players are pretty chill so I am fine with allowing it. From the base weapon itself, this is about an extra 3.5 (No Two-weapon Fighting style) to 8.5 damage per round, possibly more depending on if it's a magic weapon or other effects like Hex. I'm not worried about it.
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