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I would like to create a level 8 warrior with 4 crossbow attacks:
Level 5 warrior - 2 attacks
- Crossbow, Hand - Light property (Could make the third attack due to the Light property with a second Crossbow, Hand).
- Crossbow feat - Allows a fourth attack using the bonus action adding the modifier.
My question is that the property test describes Shortsword and Dagger, but I believe it's an example of different weapons and not just different types of weapons. Please help me, as this is a question from my group.
How are you getting the fourth attack?
I'm assuming by Warrior you mean Fighter and by Crossbow feat you mean Crossbow Expert.
With 2 attacks per action, you could fire the first hand crossbow and then fire the second one ignoring loading using crossbow expert
Then because both are light weapons, you could make a Bonus action attack with whichever one you didn't just fire.
But there's no fourth attack
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You would have 4 attacks at level 11, not 8.
Davyd's right. Also Natrel summarized it nicely in a 5e thread that it was resurrected for 5.5e:
EDIT: ninja'd by Plaguescarred! He's right too :)
So I would have 2 attacks due to the warrior's level 5 status and a third attack with a second crossbow because of the light property, without needing to use the bonus action?
No, the Light property attack uses the bonus action. That's stated explicitly in the description of the Light property in the rules.
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Estou considerando um guerreiro level 8. A besta possui propriedade leve, posso realizar um terceiro ataque com uma segunda besta por conta da propriedade como parte da ação atacar correto?
A Fighter 8 can do the following on it's turn:
No, you can't. As I said, the Light property attack requires you to use a bonus action. It is not part of the Attack action.
pronouns: he/she/they
I think they're confusing the Light property with the Nick property
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Agora ficou claro, obrigado pessoal.
Glad to help!
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
That combo includes the Crossbow Expert feat, am I right? To "... ignore the Loading property ..." and to "... load a piece of ammunition into it even if you lack a free hand ..."
I'd like to add a couple of SAC answers about this topic, if they're useful for Charizarde:
Yes i figure that's what Charizarde means when saying ''Crossbow feat - Allows a fourth attack using the bonus action adding the modifier.''
Huh? Is that I new addition? Wasn't this quite a point of contention in the early stages of the "weapon juggling" debates some months ago?
IIRC this Q&A was there when new SAC came up in April 2025
Sage Advice and Errata for the New Core Rules is Live | Dungeons & Dragons
Well, the first time I remember that answer from the 5.5e SAC being shared was in this thread:
The first errata release for the new core rulebooks came out on April 16, 2025, but the updated SAC for 5.5e was released on April 30, 2025 (jl8e's post is from that date, indeed)