If you are only armed with a single hand crossbow and you take the attack action with it. Can you use a bonus action to make a second attack with it using the crossbow expert feat?
'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.'
Given that a hand crossbow is a one-handed weapon, and it does not say 'a different' or 'another one-handed weapon' I would say yes, you could. Given it has the loading quality, you would either need a free head to load it as an incidental to fire it, or just have two crossbows (demon hunter style).
That is actually the intent. They worded it in a way that allows shenanigans in case any were discovered, but RAW it is only useful for making multiple hand crossbow attacks.
So with the crossbow expert you also ignore the loading qualities of crossbows your proficient with. So that it would seem you can fire it twice or more per tunn. You would get shots equal to your attacks as an action and then 1 additional if you use your bonus action. So a Ranger Hunter at 5th level with crossbow expert would get 2+1+1 or 4 shots a turn. 2 as your normal action attack, 1 against another target within 5ft. Of your first target and then 1 as a bonus action....
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If you are only armed with a single hand crossbow and you take the attack action with it. Can you use a bonus action to make a second attack with it using the crossbow expert feat?
'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.'
Given that a hand crossbow is a one-handed weapon, and it does not say 'a different' or 'another one-handed weapon' I would say yes, you could. Given it has the loading quality, you would either need a free head to load it as an incidental to fire it, or just have two crossbows (demon hunter style).
That is actually the intent. They worded it in a way that allows shenanigans in case any were discovered, but RAW it is only useful for making multiple hand crossbow attacks.
So with the crossbow expert you also ignore the loading qualities of crossbows your proficient with. So that it would seem you can fire it twice or more per tunn. You would get shots equal to your attacks as an action and then 1 additional if you use your bonus action. So a Ranger Hunter at 5th level with crossbow expert would get 2+1+1 or 4 shots a turn. 2 as your normal action attack, 1 against another target within 5ft. Of your first target and then 1 as a bonus action....