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Does a fighter's Action Surge trigger Extra Attack?

To answer your other question am I missing something? You might be. This feature is crucial for fighters to scale up with the rest of your players. It might seem powerful, but remember it's really ...
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Do you get the benefits of Oversized Weapons with Path of Giant?

The class feature description has everything you need to know. The feature description for Giant Stature is complete - you don’t have to look elsewhere to learn its effects: While raging, you gain ...
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How does the altered Extra Attack feature of the Bladesinger (Tasha's Cauldron version) interect with the Eldritch Knight Fighter's War Magic feature?

This should work @ThomasMarkov presents the premise that casting a cantrip as part of your extra attack is distinctly separate from taking the Cast a Spell action. I agree. However, we arrive at ...
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Does the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver damage increase by 1d6 each attack?

You add 1d6 to each attack that hits Attacks rolls are explained on p. 195 of the PHB (emphasis mine): When you make an attack, your attack roll determines whether the attack hits or misses. To make ...
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Does the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver damage increase by 1d6 each attack?

1d6 extra damage on each hit, noncumulative When it hits The phrase "when it hits" is used at least twice in the PHB, once when describing how the Strength modifier is applied to weapon ...
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Epic Holy Strike and its applicability to Unarmed Strikes

'...both as a ** manufactured weapon and a natural weapon ** for the purpose of spells and effects ' indicate that the character's hands are now weapons and Holy Strike modifiers applied as such. ...
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Epic Holy Strike and its applicability to Unarmed Strikes

The use of the term "wielding" in connection with weapons does not exclude unarmed strikes. Of course, from a "language-logic-point-of-view" something that you wield should be ...
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Epic Holy Strike and its applicability to Unarmed Strikes

Up to the DM There is no explicit defintion in the rules what counts as "wiedling" a weapon. I can see two different lines or reasoning, one for, and one against unarmed strikes counting as ...
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Does my Tree Ghost Totem Warrior barbarian have to choose the bear totem animal every time?

You can pick other Spirit Totems at higher levels The SCAG says about the Totem Spirit (p. 121): If you follow the Path of the Totem Warrior from the Player's Handbook, you have access to the options ...
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Does my Tree Ghost Totem Warrior barbarian have to choose the bear totem animal every time?

Nothing in the new options presented in Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide obliges to take the same spirit at 6th and 14th levels. The options presented in Table "Uthgardt Totems" are available ...
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When stacking Energy Substitution and Energy Admixture of the same energy type, can Mastery of Elements be used to maintain different energy types?

You can, but you don’t need to. Neither Energy Substitution nor Energy Admixture negates any damage; it’s not clear what you mean when you worry about “negating the bonus damage from Energy Admixture,”...
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For the artificer's Magical Tinkering feature, do you need to touch the object with your tool?

The Artificer is a quirky class. If you play it as written, it has some very strange mechanics. Here, for example, it is you doing the touching, while the tool acts as a kind of material component. ...
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For the artificer's Magical Tinkering feature, do you need to touch the object with your tool?

You just need to touch it The artificer's Magical Tinkering feature says (TCoE, p. 11): You've learned how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have thieves' ...
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For the artificer's Magical Tinkering feature, do you need to touch the object with your tool?

RAW there is no need to touch it with the tool, and you must touch it yourself The language on how you accomplish the task is vague to the point that I suspect they kept it that way intentionally: To ...
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