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For questions about attacks. An attack is generally defined as an action to cause damage or some other debilitation, though specific RPGs may define the term more specifically.

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Trying to figure out most attacks per turn [closed]

I have a fighter with two weapon fighting and extra attack and the crossbow feat. With this combo can I attack 6 times? The way it is written two weapon fighting means I could have a short sword in ...
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Can a character forego one of their attacks if they have only one?

Warlocks who have Pact Of The Chain feature have an ability that reads as such: Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one ...
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Which ability checks are rolled for a shove attack?

I've been looking at the shoving rules. I'm slightly confused on the 'contested' wording and which skills are rolled. The rules say: Instead of making an attack roll, you make a Strength (Athletics) ...
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Can I make attacks non-lethal?

Sometimes my party is being incredibly stupid, and it makes me want to punch them in game for being stupid. An example of this is trying to use a party member as a live test subject for a mushroom ...
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Precisely when can/must the two weapon fighting bonus action and attack occur? [duplicate]

Complicators: "When", "Take", Composite condition + Extra Attack, Simultaneous events. Contrast: Immediately after (flurry of blows) When you take the Attack action and attack ...
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Does the Keenness of the Stone Giant feat's Stone Throw receive the ability mod to damage?

Pretty straightforward question-- the Keenness of the Stone Giant grants the ability "Stone Throw": Stone Throw. As a bonus action, you can take a rock and make a magical attack with it. ...
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Do Vampires have to make an attack roll in order to bite a willing target?

A Vampire's Bite action is described as: Bite. (Bat or Vampire Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing creature, or a creature that is grappled by the vampire, ...
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Is There Synergy With Primal Savagery and Grappler?

The grappler feat states that You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature you are grappling. And Primal Savagery states you Make a melee spell attack against one creature within 5 feet of ...
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How many melee attacks can a character make on turn one in D&D 5e? [duplicate]

I once spent close to 8 hours doing in-depth research on all the subclasses available to find this out for a level 12 character, and managed to find a build that could make 14 attacks on turn 1 ...
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Does Adamantine Armor protect your silver cord on the Astral Plane?

When using the spell astral projection, you gain a vulnerability: If your silver cord is severed, you die: If the cord is cut--something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that ...
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Can slam attacks be used to make attacks of opportunity and deliver at-will spell-like abilities? [closed]

Two questions. Can a creature with a slam attack use it whenever they are able to make an attack of opportunity? Can a creature with a slam attack deliver a at will spell-like ability with the slam ...
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Can you use Favored Foe multiple times on the same creature?

In D&D 5e (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything), if I hit a creature and use the Favored Foe feature to mark it and deal additional damage, would I be able to stop concentrating on the initial mark and ...
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Is there any reason to use the Battle Master fighter's Precision Attack maneuver before the attack roll?

The Battle Master fighter's Precision Attack maneuver states the following (PHB, p. 74): When you make a weapon attack roll against a creature, you can expend one superiority die to add it to the ...
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Devise a Stratagem and Swipe

With Swipe you can attack 2 enemies, Devise a Strategem (DaS) lets you know the result in advance against one enemy, how do these work together? option 0; does not work at all Devise a Stratagem says: ...
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Will using a weapon not as intended (improvised) still generate "on-hit" effects?

I found this question asking whether a net as a melee weapon would still trigger the restrained condition: Can you make a Melee Weapon Attack with a Net?. The highest voted response suggested that ...
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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?

Monk's Ki feature Flurry of Blows is defined like this (PHB, page 78): Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus ...
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Clarification on semantics around melee attacks

The game uses various ways of describing a physical melee attack: Melee Weapon Attack melee attack with/using a weapon attack with/using a melee weapon, or attack with/using a weapon (without the ...
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Can a Gnoll Pack Lord target itself for Incite Rampage?

Incite Rampage (Recharge 5���6). One creature the gnoll can see within 30 feet of it can use its reaction to make a melee attack if it can hear the gnoll and has the Rampage trait. A Gnoll pack lord ...
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Can a creature chose different targets for each attack on a turn using information about the outcome of previous attacks? [duplicate]

A 4th-level ranger with a light melee weapon each hand and the Two Weapon Fighting fighting style can make 2 attacks in a turn (1 with the Attack action for the first hand, 1 as a bonus action for the ...
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Does Assurance bypass the MAP?

I was watching a YouTube channel that does P2E builds this morning. This one was for a grappler-type character, and it mentioned taking Assurance to avoid the Multiple Attack Penalty. That seems like ...
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Recursive combined probability for triggering a bonus attack?

I'm trying to determine the average damage per round for a homebrew fighting style, so that I can compare it to other types of combat choices, and see if thing will remain balanced, when we introduce ...
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Striking nothing

The core of this question is: Does pathfinder 2e include a mechanism to trigger "on strike" effects without a target in RAW? By hitting the ground, angrily shaking your fist at a cloud while ...
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Can a Devil variant of the Fiendish Spirit summoned by the Summon Fiend spell grapple a creature and also use its Hurl Flame action with multiattack?

Premise Can a Devil variant of the Fiendish Spirit summoned by the Summon Fiend spell perform a Grapple as one of its attacks on its turn, and also use its Hurl Fire ranged spell attack? Per the ...
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Can I shove a creature away from me in a particular direction?

This is related to this question, where it was a second question of mine. Let's say my party wants to walk across a narrow, straight, 5 ft wide bridge, but a pesky foe blocks the way RAW, I can use ...
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How does Form of the Beast work with the Two-Weapon Fighting?

When my Beast Barbarian reaches level 5, with one hand empty and the other holding a dagger, after making two claw attacks plus an extra attack, can I then use a bonus action to attack with the dagger ...
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Are a Beholder's Legendary Action Eye Rays Also Bound to the "Reroll Duplicates" Rule?

This is a balancing question as I am currently in the middle of homebrewing a Beholder-esque monster and I'm trying to use the Beholder's stat block as a template for how my new monster's challenge ...
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What are some use cases for attack rolls that target a location? [closed]

In D&D 5e, a location is effectively a space in a place or a point on a map, as opposed to constituting a discrete object (a location can be a point in midair, for instance). They are defined ...
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Does a Swords Bard's extra damage count as damage that the original attack inflicts for Vampiric Bite's HP gain and roll bonus?

I know that Slashing Flourish, and the rest of the options, deal extra damage to the original target, but I'm asking if the damage it deals to creatures of your choice within 5 feet of you counts as ...
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What attack table do we use to resolve a thrown weapons attack?

I cannot find in the rules what table should be used to resolve attacks when done with a thrown weapon. For example, if a character throws an axe at an enemy, should AT-1 (1-handed slashing) or AT-4 (...
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Are an Onyx Dog’s attacks magical? [duplicate]

The figurine of wondrous power is a magic item, and therefore by the definition in the SAC, magical in a game-mechanical sense, i.e. activating it would not work in an antimagic field, detect magic ...
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