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spears and greatswords are only piercing and slashing damage respectively, so based just off of rules alone, you can't deal bludgeoning damage by whacking something over the head with a spear or greatsword or something.

also, what's stopping someone from using Wish to cast Wish 2 twice, then 2 more times for each of those 4 Wishes, then 2 more times for those 8 Wishes, etc. to reduce odds of Wish failing, and then cast Fireball, like, 128 times over until they literally just drop the SUN on an enemy? like, why not?

Very simple reasons for both. For the first one, that’s not the primary use of the weapon. You aren’t going to use a great sword as a blunt weapon, because that’s not what it’s designed for. That would be an improvised weapon. For the second one, you can only use wish to replicate a spell of the 8th level or lower and wish is a 9th level spell 

Also, you can do the first one. It would be an improvised weapon, and would deal 1d4 damage.

Build: Hunter Ranger 11/ Fighter 2/ Sorcerer 6

• Ranger's features: Horde Breaker, Volley

• Sorcerer's features and spells: Quickened Spell, Scorching Ray, Haste

• Fighter: Action Surge

• Feats: War Caster, Magic Initiate (Eldritch Blast)

• Caster Level: Eleven (5 from Ranger, 6 from Sorcerer)

• Action: Volley. "You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 ft of a point you can see within range." In a grid, this means you can choose a space as the center, and count two spaces from there to the up/down and left/right directions. This forms a cross that is 5 squares tall and 5 squares wide, which already contains 9 squares. If we count the diagonals as well, we can cover the tiles to the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest of the center square; we can also get the "Knight squares," or the ones you can reach by going two squares in one direction and one square in the perpendicular direction. There's 4 of the first and 8 of the second, adding up to 21 squares in total that is within range of your Volley. This counting rule uses the DMG Variant in DMG 252 where diagonals are measured as 10ft every other square, and 5ft otherwise; without the variant, we can cover 25 squares.

  • Side Note: If you went up against packed Tiny-sized enemies, each 5ft x 5ft area can fit 4 creatures in 2 dimensions. This means a single Volley would allow 84 attacks (100 without the variant).

  • Side Note 2: If they are flying Tiny creatures and the center point was in the air, and we were able to cover a full sphere, a sphere with a 10 foot radius can contain 81 cubes, or 324 flying Tiny creatures. You can work this out by 3D symmetry: all the cubes in a larger 3x3x3 cube are in range of Volley, and 9 cubes on top of each face of the larger cube would also be in range due to the diagonal movement rule (and there are 6 faces); without the variant, we are looking at a 5x5x5 cube, for a total of 125 cubes in range. Against flying Tiny creatures, we can reach 500 of them this way.

• Horde Breaker: after you make your first attack, you can attack a different creature within 5 feet of the first attack's target. This is one more attack.

• Action Surge: Use Volley a second time, adding 21 more attacks.

• Haste Action: Make one more attack.

• Bonus Action: Quickened scorching ray at level 6. At this level, scorching ray will make 7 attacks.

• Reaction: Trigger an Opportunity Attack with War Caster and cast eldritch blast, adding a further 4 attacks.

All in 6 seconds, of course.

If I don't move and just unarmed strike in my turn, that's 6 seconds it takes for me to punch someone. It should take less than a second.

Also, the peasant railgun, in which commoners pass a spear or arrow to the person in front of them as their turn, and a row of thousands of people do that. Now, that technically all happened within 6 seconds and it traveled a very long distance so the speed causes it to immense damage and instantly kill almost anything it hits.

yeah, that first one is basically anime logic, where characters have a full blown convo while one of them is throwing a singular punch that misses anyway

my party got an airship and i am planning to just drop 50 cannonballs on the BBEG's base. by drop I mean pick up and drop on the base