I was right about Shield Master

[TwoSix]

No problem. I'll just shout your voice back to normal.

 

[pukunui]

That is precisely what that tweet says. You must use the attack action before you can use the bonus action shield master provides. Doesn’t get much more clear than this

Yeah, but why are you crowing about it now, when JC made that clarification months ago? Is this just you being extremely late to the party, or have the rest of us missed something that JC said more recently?

 

[Charlaquin]

Grammatically it does, narratively, however...

I mean, you could say the same of Barkskin. Generally, the trend has been that the grammatically natural reading is the intended one, according to Jeremy Crawford’s Twitter.

 

[Mistwell]

I just wanted to say I was right about Shield Master and it's timing.

Are you a time traveller? Are you lost in time? Is your internet connection so slow that you posted this at the beginning of the year and it only now finally was submitted? [For those curious, the OP is commenting on a tweet from over 5 months ago...for some strange reason.]

 

[Yunru]

That is precisely what that tweet says. You must use the attack action before you can use the bonus action shield master provides. Doesn’t get much more clear than this

Actually, it doesn't. It says you have to take the Attack action first. It doesn't say you have to make the attacks first.


You take the Attack action, which lets you make an attack/attacks. You have taken the Attack action, so you can use your Bonus action to shove, so you do.
Nothing changes.

I mean, you could say the same of Barkskin. Generally, the trend has been that the grammatically natural reading is the intended one, according to Jeremy Crawford’s Twitter.

Which is why I consider nothing he says to be official until it makes it into a book or errata.

 

[FrogReaver]

Yeah, but why are you crowing about it now, when JC made that clarification months ago? Is this just you being extremely late to the party, or have the rest of us missed something that JC said more recently?

I plead the 5th

 

[FrogReaver]

Are you a time traveller? Are you lost in time? Is your internet connection so slow that you posted this at the beginning of the year and it only now finally was submitted? [For those curious, the OP is commenting on a tweet from over 5 months ago...for some strange reason.]

Yes to all of the above

 

[BookBarbarian]

Yeah, but why are you crowing about it now, when JC made that clarification months ago? Is this just you being extremely late to the party, or have the rest of us missed something that JC said more recently?

If only FrogReaver's post timing was as up to snuff as JC's Shieldmaster Timing.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I was right about Shield Master before, and I'm still right about it now.

Jeremy Crawford was right before but now he's wrong

 

[Salamandyr]

So...how many things does this break?

It doesn't exactly break shield master--it's still useful to knock someone down for everyone else's sake, even if it's much less useful for the shield master (and while it makes sense from a reading perspective, the power now makes far less sense from a strategy/fighting perspective).