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Is a Blade Pact Warlock proficient when wielding their pact weapon in an improvised fashion?
The Pact of the Blade Warlock is proficient with their pact weapon while they wield it. Suppose that a Blade Pact warlock is wielding a longsword as their pact weapon (either because they created a ...
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Improvised weapons and proficiency
I would like to know if I utilize “use an object” on an acid vial or alchemist’s fire and they are treated as improvised weapons with the respective range attack up to 20 feet, can I add my ...
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Can I use a spiked shield in my primary hand as a weapon? If so, does it count as a simple or martial weapon?
Can any humanoid PC use a Spiked Shield in their 'primary hand' as a Weapon?
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Is it a Simple or Martial Weapon?
The Lizardfolk entry in the MM (p. 204) has a statblock that includes the ...
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Does the Tavern Brawler feat grant proficiency when the character is not proficient otherwise?
This is a bit challenging to phrase, so I'll use an example.
A human wizard with the Tavern Brawler feat gets fed up with a unruly Gnome and snaps off a heavy gate post to stab him with. The DM ...
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When throwing a melee weapon without the thrown property is the proficiency bonus still added to the attack?
The rules for improvised weapons state that you can throw a melee weapon even if it does not have the thrown property for 1d4 damage:
If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack, or ...
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Is there a way to become proficient in using a Spiked Chain as a non-improvised weapon?
The spiked chain was an exotic reach weapon in D&D 3.5, but is absent from D&D 5e. The use of such a weapon (probably) falls under using improvised weapons.
Is there such a way for a ...
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Does proficiency with improvised weapons also give proficiency with some actual but very simple weapons (like a club)?
This is a question related to a very specific situation : I had an idea about an unorthodox build for an ape animal companion. Animals only have melee attacks by default, and even the rules mention ...
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