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Can an Echo Knight fighter attack through their echo while using the Echo Avatar feature?
The description of the Echo Knight fighter's Echo Avatar feature says (EGtW, p. 183):
You can temporarily transfer your consciousness to your echo. As an action, you can see through your echo’s eyes ...
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Can a Dhampir echo knight's echo use vampiric bite to restore hit points to the echo knight?
The Vampiric Bite ability of the Dhampir race can be used as an attack, so RAW the Dhampir Echo Knight's Echo can bite. But would this be able to Empower the Echo Knight?
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How does the Battle Master fighter's Sweeping Attack maneuver interact with additional damage dealt on a "hit"?
How does the Battle Master fighter's Sweeping Attack maneuver work with extra damage, both rolled and static?
The description of the Battle Master fighter's Sweeping Attack maneuver states (PHB, p. 74;...
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Do I have to attack to use Extra Attack?
Do I have to attack to use Extra Attack? Or can I do something different with my action on my turn and use this feature to attack?
So for example, say I use Dash, Disengage, or Cast a Spell; can I ...
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Does Brace trigger when an enemy enters my echo's reach?
The subclass feature Manifest Echo explicitly covers attacking from the Echo's location when taking the Attack action or when taking a specific reaction:
When you take the Attack action on your turn, ...
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How does the altered Extra Attack feature of the Bladesinger (Tasha's Cauldron version) interact with Fighter's additional Extra Attacks?
As an example, a level 6+ bladesinger wizard/11+ fighter character takes the Attack action. Are they able to use a cantrip? How many attacks do they get?
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How does the Fighter's Interception style work against attacks with multiple damage types? [duplicate]
The Fighter's Interception fighting style reads:
When a creature you can see hits a target, other than you, within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the ...
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Does the fighter's Action Surge feature reset the free attack from the Gloom Stalker ranger's Dread Ambusher feature?
The Gloom Stalker ranger's Dread Ambusher feature states (XGtE, p. 41; emphasis added):
At the start of your first turn of each combat, your walking speed increases by 10 feet, which lasts until the ...
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when do I attack i can choose attack with offhand? [duplicate]
when do I attack an normal action i can choose attack with offhand?
looks a little weird an fighter dual wielder attack 4 times with one hand and just one with offhand
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Does attacking from your echo knight while hidden give you advantage/Reveal your position? [closed]
The title says it all.
If I'm a rogue/fighter multiclass, and I attack with my echo knight while hidden, does the attack have advantage?
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How does a Fighter's Extra Attack feature work?
The features bonus for a fighter leveling up to level 5 state that the character is bestowed with an Extra Attack.
Extra Attack states that:
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead ...
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If an Arcane Archer fighter misses with an Arcane Shot, does that expend a use of the feature?
For example; if a third level Arcane Archer fighter chose to fire a 'Bursting Shot' and missed the target, is one of his uses of the Arcane Shot class feature expended?
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How does the Battle Master Fighter's Sweeping Attack Maneuver work if you would have (dis)advantage only against the first target?
The Battle Master Fighter can choose the Sweeping Attack Maneuver which states:
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to damage another ...
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Can a level 20 Samurai fighter with the True Strike cantrip make 9 attacks in a turn, all with advantage?
The true strike cantrip can be cast as an action to grant yourself advantage on the first attack roll against the target on your next turn.
The Samurai fighter's Fighting Spirit feature description ...
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Can a 5th level fighter use a Extra Attack with a longbow?
I need a simple straight forward clarification. Can a fighter shoot a longbow twice in same turn using extra attack attained at 5th level?
page 72 of PHB says the fighter gets an extra attack during ...
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Can the additional attack from a Samurai fighter's Rapid Strike feature be made at advantage?
The Samurai fighter archetype (from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 31) gains the Rapid Strike class feature at level 15, which says:
If you [...] have advantage on an attack roll against one of ...
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Does the Cavalier fighter's usage limit on the Unwavering Mark feature apply to the creatures you can mark, or just the bonus attacks you can make?
Does the Cavalier fighter's usage limit on the Unwavering Mark feature apply to the creatures you can mark or just the bonus attacks you can make?
Basically I'm curious if just the attacks are ...
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How does the weapon attack as a bonus action mentioned in the Eldritch Knight's War Magic feature work?
How does the weapon attack as a bonus action mentioned in the Eldritch Knight's War Magic feature work?
As an example, if I have a longsword in my main hand and cast a cantrip (or higher-level spell, ...
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Does the Arcane Archer fighter's Curving Shot feature require you to see the second creature if you missed the first?
When you miss an attack as an Arcane Archer fighter, the Curving Shot feature (XGtE, p. 28) lets you use a bonus action to reroll that attack against another creature within 60ft of the first.
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Can a Fighter use his Extra Attack to draw a weapon as a free action?
The rules state:
You can also interact with one object or feature of the environment
for free, during either your move or your action. For example, you
could open a door during your move as you ...
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Action Surge question [duplicate]
The Player's Handbook says that Action Surge grants one additional action on your turn, once per short or long rest.
The Extra Attack section of the PHB says that at level 11 (for example) when ...
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How does the UA Sharpshooter fighter's Snap Shot feature interact with Extra Attack?
In an Unearthed Arcana, there is a fighter archetype: Sharpshooter.
At level 18, they gain the following ability:
Snap Shot
Starting at 18th level, if you take the Attack action on your first turn of ...
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Does reincarnating into a race with multiattack grant you bonus attacks if you're a fighter?
I'm a level 15 fighter and I have Extra Attack(2):
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
The number of attacks increases to ...
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If the Cavalier fighter's Strength changes, does the number of special attacks against marked creatures change as well?
The Cavalier fighter (Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 30) gets the Unwavering Mark ability which lets you mark a creature and states (emphasis mine):
In addition, if a creature marked by you ...
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Can a Battle Master fighter apply the Feinting Attack and Trip Attack maneuvers to the same attack roll?
Battle Master fighters (PHB, p. 73-74) can apply a number of maneuvers to their attacks, including Feinting Attack and Trip Attack.
Feinting Attack is a bonus action and uses one manoeuvre here, ...
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Does a fighter's Action Surge trigger Extra Attack?
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A player in my game will play a fighter with a greatsword. At 5th level he has Extra Attack and the option to use Action Surge. PHB p.72 states:
Action Surge. Starting at 2nd level, you ...
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Would a cantrip like firebolt count as an attack to be able to use Extra Attack? [duplicate]
I am currently a level 5 fighter going with Eldritch Knight in a campaign. My friend says that when I use a spell like firebolt to attack an enemy, it does not count as an attack and I cannot use my ...
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Can a creature that is frightened of you still try to attack you?
I was playing with a Fighter Battlemaster. I used the Menacing Attack and hit a creature. The creature failed the saving throw and became frightened of me.
The DM still had that creature attack me but ...
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How does the Oathbow's benefit to ranged attacks interact with the Arcane Archer fighter's Arcane Shot options Piercing/Seeking Arrow?
Part of the description of the oathbow magic item says:
When you make a ranged attack roll with this weapon against your sworn
enemy, you have advantage on the roll. In addition, your target gains
no ...
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Does Extra Attack stack with Haste?
At level 5 Fighters get the Extra Attack ability, allowing them to make more than one attack as part of an Attack action.
Haste also enables people to make additional attacks.
Do the extra attacks ...
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