Timeline for Can you combo attacks with the Booming Blade cantrip?
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 18:32 | history | edited | V2Blast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 18:08 | comment | added | V2Blast | (And as others have already stated, booming blade and green-flame blade are spells that involve a melee weapon attack as part of the spell, but they still use the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action. This is confirmed by the official ruling in the Sage Advice Compendium, which is written by the lead rules designer of D&D 5e. You're not the only one to be confused by the difference between an "attack" and an "Attack action".) | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | V2Blast | Welcome to RPG.SE! Take the tour if you haven't already, and check out the help center for more guidance. I have edited out the overly aggressive language. In addition, your other "answers" intending to comment on this one have been deleted by the community, because they are not actually answers. | |
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:49 | comment | added | Xirema | A counterpoint would be a feature like the Paladin's Divine Smite, which only requires "when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack" (PHB). Note it does not say "with the Attack Action, it only says Melee Weapon Attack. Therefore, Divine Smite is perfectly valid to use with Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade. But because Extra Attack and Two-Weapon Fighting require the Attack Action, they can not. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:46 | comment | added | starchild | The references to "@everyone" position this answer as a response to other answers. A strong answer stands on its own - arguing for a position rather than against others. Consider editing to remove these references and remove the oppositional tone. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:45 | comment | added | Xirema | The reason this answer is incorrect is because you're confusing 'Attack' and 'Attack Action'. Two-Weapon Fighting says "When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon..." (PHB 195), and Extra Attack (for all classes that have it) reads "you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn." (PHB, varies). Spells like Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade do indeed make attacks, and are attacks; but they do not involve taking the 'Attack Action'. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:33 | comment | added | Mark Wells | BB specifies that you make the attack roll as part of the action to cast the spell. In almost every case that's going to be a Cast a Spell action, not an Attack action. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:24 | comment | added | Motication | Thank you for linking that Raj, i see its written by Jeremy Crawford. Cool. hes contradicting himself. As he also wrote the PHB. He never said the Making attack action section of the PHB was wrong. Hes simply making an exception to his own rule because of how powerful BB/GFB would be based of RAW. They need to make a new version of DND already, clean up some of this RAI stuff. | |
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:15 | comment | added | Raj | @Motication Booming Blade does not work with Extra Attacks or anything else that explicitly requires the Attack action. Perhaps this is unclear in the Player's Handbook, but it's stated very clearly in the errata: dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/rules-answers-april-2016 | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | Raj | @Motication rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/105781/… | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | Carcer | @Motication the problem is that the writers of the PHB also say this: "Booming Blade doesn't now allow an offhand weapon attack (two-weapon fighting) because it's not an Attack Action? | That's correct." As V2Blast has pointed out in other comments here, there is a distinction between the "Attack action" and "an attack", which is clearly intended by the authors of the game. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:00 | comment | added | Motication | Simply Stating facts. And PS: its LITERALLy not my interpretation, the writers of the PHB clearly understood that confusion could spark so they made the line "If there's ever any question whether something you're doing counts as an attack, the rule is simple: if you're making an attack roll, you're making an attack." to simplify things | |
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 16:33 | history | answered | Motication | CC BY-SA 4.0 |