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Mastery of Advanced Weapons requires military training and skill. To use any of the special properties or the Weapon Mastery properties of the Polearm, you must take the Advanced Weapon Proficiency
Bone Devil (Polearm Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
two attacks: one with its hooked polearm and one with its sting.
Hooked Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Hooked Polearm"} to hit, reach 10
ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d12 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d12+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Hooked Polearm","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature
Polearm Master
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You gain the following benefits:
When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite
feats
Player’s Handbook (2024)
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Strength or Dexterity 13+)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Dexterity or Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Pole
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Polearm Master You gain the following benefits: When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Polearm Master Can I add my Strength modifier to the damage of the bonus attack that Polearm Master gives me? Yes. For the feat’s bonus attack, you add your ability modifier to the attack roll, as
, might break the general rule by telling you not to add your ability modifier to the damage. Polearm Master doesn’t have such a rule.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Polearm Master Can I add my Strength modifier to the damage of the bonus attack that Polearm Master gives me? Yes. If you have the feat and use the Attack action to attack with a glaive, halberd, or
rule by telling you not to add your ability modifier to the damage. Polearm Master doesn’t have such a rule. Does Polearm Master let me make an opportunity attack against a target that is being forced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Polearm Master General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Strength or Dexterity 13+) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Dexterity or Strength score by 1, to a maximum
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Polearm Master (p. 168) A second sentence has been added to the first benefit: “This attack uses the same ability modifier as the primary attack.” Both instances of “or quarterstaff” have been changed to “quarterstaff, or spear.”
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
an object.
Unusual Nature. The foresworn doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The foresworn makes three Spectral Polearm attacks.
Spectral Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +8
;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spectral Polearm"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d6+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Spectral
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, particularly the gythka (a two-handed polearm with a blade at each end) and a light thrown weapon called a chatkcha (a flat, triangular wedge with three serrated blades). Gythkas typically have shafts
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy.
Thri-kreen often use weapons of their own design, particularly the gythka (a two-handed polearm with a blade at each end) and a light thrown weapon called a
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
sapient species, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy.
Thri-kreen often use weapons of their own design, particularly the gythka (a two-handed polearm with a blade at each end) and a light thrown
Monsters
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Dark Devotion. The monk has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.Hooked Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Hooked
Polearm"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Hooked Polearm","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the target is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Hoplite (pg. 47) “Piercer,*” has been added before “Polearm Master” in the Feats entry.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
in combat with their claws, bone devils also wield hooked polearms made of bone, which they use to subdue enemies before striking with their venomous tails. VARIANT: BONE DEVIL POLEARM
Some bone
devils have the following action options.
Multiattack. The devil makes two attacks: one with its hooked polearm and one with its sting.
Hooked Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Hoplite Fighting Style: Defense, Thrown Weapon Fighting* Maneuvers: Brace,* Lunging Attack, Parry, Precision Attack Feats: Athlete, Grappler, Piercer,* Polearm Master, Sentinel, Shield Master With
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
piercing weapon (the devil’s hooked polearm) and has a deep, poisoned wound in his chest (caused by the bone devil’s stinger). A search of the body yields nothing of value. 47b. Dealing with the Bone
Devil Devil. Beyond the illusory wall waits a bone devil armed with a hooked polearm (see the “Variant: Bone Devil Polearm” sidebar in the “Devils” entry in the Monster Manual).
Statue. A raised stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Actions
Multiattack. The foresworn makes three Spectral Polearm attacks.
Spectral Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
logical feats for Karrnathi warriors; Polearm Master or Shield Master are also appropriate, depending on personal preference. The Dead. Undead soldiers have served in Karrnath’s armies for decades
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
. To interact with creatures of other sapient species, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy. Thri-kreen often use weapons of their own design, particularly the gythka (a two-handed polearm with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
a smaller version of a bone devil’s hooked polearm (see the sidebar in the “Bone Devil” section in the Monster Manual), typically disguised as a staff or tool: Hooked Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +3
polearm on another target. In addition, each group of five monks is led by an elder monk. These are cult fanatics that have outfitted their polearms with laser weapons secured from the monastery’s stores of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Training General Medium Armor Master General Moderately Armored General Mounted Combatant General Musician Origin Observant General Piercer General Poisoner General Polearm Master General Protection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
feet away with a polearm (which has a reach of 10 feet), instead of 5 feet away? Would you still be able to use Sneak Attack? The 5-foot limitation in Sneak Attack is unaffected by the reach of a weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
-handed polearm with a blade at each end. A chatkcha is a flat, triangular wedge with three serrated blades (a light thrown weapon).
A thri-kreen armed with a gythka and chatkchas gains the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
deals damage. The Grapple and Shove options of an Unarmed Strike do none of these things. If I cast Shillelagh on my Quarterstaff and have the Polearm Master feat, does the bonus attack use a d4 or a
d8 for damage? The benefit from Polearm Master applies to the opposite end of the weapon and always uses a d4 for damage rather than the weapon’s normal damage die. This is true for a Quarterstaff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
. The intent is the blade vanishes when you let go of it (that’s one of the meanings of the word “drop”). If I cast shillelagh on my quarterstaff and have the Polearm Master feat, does the bonus attack
use a d4 or a d8 for damage? The benefit from Polearm Master applies to the opposite end of the weapon and always uses a d4 for damage rather than the weapon’s normal damage die. This is true for a