It says in the Thrown Weapon Fighting style that you can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as a part of the attack action. Would you say an Eldritch Knight fighter could summon and then throw a weapon as a single action if they take this fighting style?
No. summoning the weapon as an EK is a bonus action, so it would not work as part of the attack action. If you’re thinking of being 5th level and getting 2 attacks, some DMs may allow you to throw it, bonus action summon it back, and then throw it again. I know I would allow it. Of course, then you’re standing there with no weapon. And the next round, you’d need to open with the summon and could only throw once. So it’s not too great of a tactic. Now at level 11, you could not throw, summon, throw and summon a second time, because you only gave the one bonus action, so you can only summon once per round.
Having a friendly artificer in the party (or multiclassing 2 lvls into Artificer or bribing your DM to drop a weapon like it) would help a lot: returning weapon makes any thrown weapon come back to your hand after attacking and gives you a +1 magical bonus. It solves the 2 issues throwing peeps have: needing a lot of weapons and hard to overcome physical resistance consistently.
It says in the Thrown Weapon Fighting style that you can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as a part of the attack action. Would you say an Eldritch Knight fighter could summon and then throw a weapon as a single action if they take this fighting style?
There's no trigger on the bonus action to summon a weapon, so a thrown handaxe, for example, could be recalled and thrown an additional time. But you can also just keep drawing and throwing handaxes, daggers, or darts.
As a fighter your probably going to want a lot of thrown ammunition anyway, you can easily throw a weapon with your bonus action as well as your action, and with the fighting style you can draw ammunition for each extra attack, Unless you have a special throwing weapon, throwing more weapons with your bonus action is going to beat summoning your weapon back.
In fact, at early levels you'll probably want two weapon fighting so you can use an ability modifier on two attacks, and get thrown weapon fighting later when you need to draw more than two weapons. Having Dual Wielding feat later might help too unless you want to stick to hand axes.
It says in the Thrown Weapon Fighting style that you can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as a part of the attack action. Would you say an Eldritch Knight fighter could summon and then throw a weapon as a single action if they take this fighting style?
As a DM I'd be up for letting this happen
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It says in the Thrown Weapon Fighting style that you can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as a part of the attack action. Would you say an Eldritch Knight fighter could summon and then throw a weapon as a single action if they take this fighting style?
No.
summoning the weapon as an EK is a bonus action, so it would not work as part of the attack action.
If you’re thinking of being 5th level and getting 2 attacks, some DMs may allow you to throw it, bonus action summon it back, and then throw it again. I know I would allow it. Of course, then you’re standing there with no weapon. And the next round, you’d need to open with the summon and could only throw once. So it’s not too great of a tactic.
Now at level 11, you could not throw, summon, throw and summon a second time, because you only gave the one bonus action, so you can only summon once per round.
Ok.
Having a friendly artificer in the party (or multiclassing 2 lvls into Artificer or bribing your DM to drop a weapon like it) would help a lot: returning weapon makes any thrown weapon come back to your hand after attacking and gives you a +1 magical bonus. It solves the 2 issues throwing peeps have: needing a lot of weapons and hard to overcome physical resistance consistently.
There's no trigger on the bonus action to summon a weapon, so a thrown handaxe, for example, could be recalled and thrown an additional time. But you can also just keep drawing and throwing handaxes, daggers, or darts.
As a fighter your probably going to want a lot of thrown ammunition anyway, you can easily throw a weapon with your bonus action as well as your action, and with the fighting style you can draw ammunition for each extra attack, Unless you have a special throwing weapon, throwing more weapons with your bonus action is going to beat summoning your weapon back.
In fact, at early levels you'll probably want two weapon fighting so you can use an ability modifier on two attacks, and get thrown weapon fighting later when you need to draw more than two weapons. Having Dual Wielding feat later might help too unless you want to stick to hand axes.
As a DM I'd be up for letting this happen