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This is clarified in the Sage Advice Compendium: What does “melee weapon attack” mean: a melee attack with a weapon or an attack with a melee weapon? It means a melee attack with a weapon. … Similarly, “ranged weapon attack” means a ranged attack with a weapon. …

You can't take the bonus-action attack before the Attack action, because the bonus-action attack is conditional upon you taking that action. … You can't take the bonus-action attack before the Attack action (in which you attack with a one-handed light weapon), because the bonus-action attack is conditional upon you taking that action. …

If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. … If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. …

The only requirement for the feature is that you "make a melee attack" against a creature on your turn; it doesn't specify that the attack has to hit (or miss), so it doesn't. … As a sidenote, Fancy Footwork doesn't even require an attack roll, since it doesn't mention hitting or missing; it just says you need to make a melee attack against a creature. …

Ranged weapon, melee attack If you use a weapon in a way contrary to its design (melee attack w/ a ranged weapon), see "Improvised Weapons" (PH, 147). DM's call. Improvised dagger then? … weapon, so the attack would follow the rules for improvised weapons. …

talk about targeting an object, is it implied that it's an unattended object, or it possible to target someone's armor/shield directly with an attack in an attempt to damage/break it? … Negating worn armor for the low cost of one weapon attack seems incredibly powerful. You'll be happy to know that few things in the game do this. …

target has cover against an attack or other effect on a grid, choose a corner of the attacker’s space or the point of origin of an area of effect. … If three or four of those lines are blocked but the attack can still reach the target (such as when the target is behind an arrow slit), the target has three-quarters cover. …

The key is that mirror image does not simply make the attack miss you; it causes the attack to target one of the illusory duplicates instead. … However, Redirect Attack takes effect when "a creature misses you with a melee attack roll". …

If you cast eldritch blast and your first beam reduces the target to 0 HP, you can use a bonus action to move your hex to another target before you make the attack for your second beam. … Rules designer Jeremy Crawford reiterated this fact in an unofficial tweet from May 2018 (after some people were confused by an earlier tweet meant to indicate that bonus actions dependent on the Attack …

The half-orc's Savage Attacks trait says (emphasis mine): When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra … Thus, by the same logic, Savage Attacks also requires an attack with a weapon - so unarmed strikes don't count. They're melee weapon attacks, but are not made with a weapon. …

The only bonus-action attack they can do is through Two-Weapon Fighting, which any class can use: When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, … If you’d like to attack with a weapon and punch someone on the same turn, you can do so easily with the Extra Attack feature. And that combo is even easier for you if you’re a monk. …

C (the succubus) can't directly attack A (the eladrin), but C's previous command to B still stands The charmed condition on its own is pretty limited in what it does: A charmed creature can't attack … If the succubus commands a charmed target to attack an ally, the charmed target follows that order. The succubus (C) can Charm B, and then (assuming B fails the save) command B to attack A. …

Can a ranger move between the attack rolls of the Whirlwind Attack feature? No. Whirlwind Attack is unusual, in that it’s a single attack with multiple attack rolls. … In most other instances, an attack has one attack roll. …

The attack portion of the javelin of lightning follows the normal rules for an attack with a javelin, and it can be done as part of the Attack action. … In short, it's a single attack within the Attack action, and follows the corresponding rules. …

additional attack twice that round: once for each Attack action. … If you're able to make that additional attack on the Attack action, and you hit, you do 1d8 extra damage with that attack. If the additional attack misses, you don't do the extra damage. Simple. …