Isn't this obvious? If you're using your action to control the hand, you're definitely not using your action to attack with a net. Right?
If you are dropping it yourself, though, you do not need to use your action to control the hand. It does not disappear simply because you do nothing with it that round and you do not need it out at all if you are dropping the net yourself.
If you are dropping it yourself, though, you do not need to use your action to control the hand. It does not disappear simply because you do nothing with it that round and you do not need it out at all if you are dropping the net yourself.
I feel like you're trying to clarify something - but I don't get it. You want to use your hands, and direct a Mage Hand, and that's not possible at the same time.
I only now realised that the OP talks about an arcane trickster, which can in fact use a bonus action to control the hand. Even so, I'm still sure it's a fairly terrible idea. I mean it looks great on paper, but there's no attack that isn't an attack, and so now you're using a net as a melee weapon - to me, that makes it improvised - and the only advantage you have is that you have a third hand with barely enough strength to hold down a magpie.
To me, this attack should be resolved as a grapple check vs the strength of the mage hand. I mean, points for creativity - but like I said, I feel it's a fairly terrible idea.
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
If you are dropping it yourself, though, you do not need to use your action to control the hand. It does not disappear simply because you do nothing with it that round and you do not need it out at all if you are dropping the net yourself.
I feel like you're trying to clarify something - but I don't get it. You want to use your hands, and direct a Mage Hand, and that's not possible at the same time.
I only now realised that the OP talks about an arcane trickster, which can in fact use a bonus action to control the hand. Even so, I'm still sure it's a fairly terrible idea. I mean it looks great on paper, but there's no attack that isn't an attack, and so now you're using a net as a melee weapon - to me, that makes it improvised - and the only advantage you have is that you have a third hand with barely enough strength to hold down a magpie.
To me, this attack should be resolved as a grapple check vs the strength of the mage hand. I mean, points for creativity - but like I said, I feel it's a fairly terrible idea.
I think there is a basic misunderstanding here. I am not advocating for any of this. I was trying to explain the targeting (and physics) issues in having the Mage Hand drop a net.
A grapple is still an attack, so even an Arcane Trickster's mage hand cannot do that.
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If you are dropping it yourself, though, you do not need to use your action to control the hand. It does not disappear simply because you do nothing with it that round and you do not need it out at all if you are dropping the net yourself.
I feel like you're trying to clarify something - but I don't get it. You want to use your hands, and direct a Mage Hand, and that's not possible at the same time.
I only now realised that the OP talks about an arcane trickster, which can in fact use a bonus action to control the hand. Even so, I'm still sure it's a fairly terrible idea. I mean it looks great on paper, but there's no attack that isn't an attack, and so now you're using a net as a melee weapon - to me, that makes it improvised - and the only advantage you have is that you have a third hand with barely enough strength to hold down a magpie.
To me, this attack should be resolved as a grapple check vs the strength of the mage hand. I mean, points for creativity - but like I said, I feel it's a fairly terrible idea.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
I think there is a basic misunderstanding here. I am not advocating for any of this. I was trying to explain the targeting (and physics) issues in having the Mage Hand drop a net.
A grapple is still an attack, so even an Arcane Trickster's mage hand cannot do that.