for example, my idea for my current characters fighting style is this: Cast magic stone on 3 pebbles as bonus action and use action to fire one, then on my next turn, use both my action and bonus action to fire the other 2. Would my FeyLock be able to do this? What about casting shelehleh (PoT) and swinging a quarterstaff, then twice the next turn?
(or do l have to be a class that gets extra attack, like fighter, monk ect?)
Short answer: unless the dm lets me, the answer is no. (heres hopeing l get a chill dm)
You can only attack with your bonus action if a spell or feature says you can. In this case magic stone and shillelagh both follow the rules for normal weapon attacks and require the attack action.
All creatures have an Action, Movement, free item interaction, and Reaction. A creature only has a Bonus Action if they are granted one or more, and they can only use their BA for the specific things listed.
No; you can only take the attack action as a bonus action if there is something in your class allowing it, such as how the domain of war cleric is allowed to make a weapon attack as a bonus action. However, Magic Stone is unique in that it is defined as a spell attack, and not a weapon attack, so arguably, even then you wouldn't be able to discharge all of your magic stones by yourself that quickly if you were a class given weapon attacks as a bonus action. A wizard of the bladesong when they get their multi-attack feature is perhaps one of the only characters to be able to do this, as they are explicitly allowed to make a cantrip spell attack as one of their attacks in their attack action, so it could be argued they could throw a magic stone along with making a weapon.
However,if you are serious about this strategy of discharging your magic stones quickly, the answer gets real simple: get three underlings to hang out near you, use your action to, instead of making the attack action, hand out the stones to your followers, who will then make ranged spell attacks for you using your statistics (as magic stone explicitly does; it doesn't matter who throws the stone, it matters who casts the spell when it comes to casting modifiers). Arguably, you could also throw one and then just hold them out for the other two and they could pick one up as the free "equip weapon" action, requiring only two followers. Of course, your underlings can get blown up as a group, but this is a gimmick and if you, say, stage an uprising among the commoner populace or charm them, underlings are cheap and bountiful. Or: be a necromancer and animate undead to throw rocks for you. It doesn't matter how non-dexterous they are, they're using your stats to throw. In the case of your party encountering physical-attack-immune things, giving them the stones would also be a good idea if they do not have any magic attack options themselves. This is where the power of Magic Stone lies: you can pass out limited magic ammunition, essentially. While 60 feet attacks (20/60) are not great, slings are also simple weapons, cheap, and don't weigh anything, so you can get a quick upgrade to making it a little bit more viable. Also, very few things are immune or even resist magical physical damage types, so it's not a bad idea for even your 1-attack-action caster to take since they'd be only making one spell attack anyway and if fire damage was going to be resisted or immune, well, so be it.
For shillelagh, since the quarterstaff is simply rendered magical and enables you to use your casting modifier on attack rolls, but doesn't reclassify attacks made with the quarterstaff as a spell attack, anyone who has more than one weapon attack can swing a shillelagh as many times as they want, but shillelagh does not grant additional attacks to anyone. You cannot use the strategy described above for magic stone as a shillelagh will cease to be magical the moment it leaves your hands, and can only be rendered magical once it re-enters your hands. Warlocks are able to use shillelagh to a degree if they take the prerequisites to obtain a druidic spell since a magic weapon is a magic weapon, and you can still use a magic weapon to make green-flame blade and booming-blade attacks, while also gaining the ability to make a magical opportunity attack without taking the war caster feat to get booming blade or green-flame blade as an opportunity attack.
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for example, my idea for my current characters fighting style is this: Cast magic stone on 3 pebbles as bonus action and use action to fire one, then on my next turn, use both my action and bonus action to fire the other 2. Would my FeyLock be able to do this? What about casting shelehleh (PoT) and swinging a quarterstaff, then twice the next turn?
(or do l have to be a class that gets extra attack, like fighter, monk ect?)
Short answer: unless the dm lets me, the answer is no. (heres hopeing l get a chill dm)
You can only attack with your bonus action if a spell or feature says you can. In this case magic stone and shillelagh both follow the rules for normal weapon attacks and require the attack action.
All creatures have an Action, Movement, free item interaction, and Reaction. A creature only has a Bonus Action if they are granted one or more, and they can only use their BA for the specific things listed.
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No; you can only take the attack action as a bonus action if there is something in your class allowing it, such as how the domain of war cleric is allowed to make a weapon attack as a bonus action. However, Magic Stone is unique in that it is defined as a spell attack, and not a weapon attack, so arguably, even then you wouldn't be able to discharge all of your magic stones by yourself that quickly if you were a class given weapon attacks as a bonus action. A wizard of the bladesong when they get their multi-attack feature is perhaps one of the only characters to be able to do this, as they are explicitly allowed to make a cantrip spell attack as one of their attacks in their attack action, so it could be argued they could throw a magic stone along with making a weapon.
However, if you are serious about this strategy of discharging your magic stones quickly, the answer gets real simple: get three underlings to hang out near you, use your action to, instead of making the attack action, hand out the stones to your followers, who will then make ranged spell attacks for you using your statistics (as magic stone explicitly does; it doesn't matter who throws the stone, it matters who casts the spell when it comes to casting modifiers). Arguably, you could also throw one and then just hold them out for the other two and they could pick one up as the free "equip weapon" action, requiring only two followers. Of course, your underlings can get blown up as a group, but this is a gimmick and if you, say, stage an uprising among the commoner populace or charm them, underlings are cheap and bountiful. Or: be a necromancer and animate undead to throw rocks for you. It doesn't matter how non-dexterous they are, they're using your stats to throw. In the case of your party encountering physical-attack-immune things, giving them the stones would also be a good idea if they do not have any magic attack options themselves. This is where the power of Magic Stone lies: you can pass out limited magic ammunition, essentially. While 60 feet attacks (20/60) are not great, slings are also simple weapons, cheap, and don't weigh anything, so you can get a quick upgrade to making it a little bit more viable. Also, very few things are immune or even resist magical physical damage types, so it's not a bad idea for even your 1-attack-action caster to take since they'd be only making one spell attack anyway and if fire damage was going to be resisted or immune, well, so be it.
For shillelagh, since the quarterstaff is simply rendered magical and enables you to use your casting modifier on attack rolls, but doesn't reclassify attacks made with the quarterstaff as a spell attack, anyone who has more than one weapon attack can swing a shillelagh as many times as they want, but shillelagh does not grant additional attacks to anyone. You cannot use the strategy described above for magic stone as a shillelagh will cease to be magical the moment it leaves your hands, and can only be rendered magical once it re-enters your hands. Warlocks are able to use shillelagh to a degree if they take the prerequisites to obtain a druidic spell since a magic weapon is a magic weapon, and you can still use a magic weapon to make green-flame blade and booming-blade attacks, while also gaining the ability to make a magical opportunity attack without taking the war caster feat to get booming blade or green-flame blade as an opportunity attack.