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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 6360876" data-attributes="member: 23716">I'm really not seeing the 'unclear' here in the quoted rules.  So far what I've seen seems pretty strait forward and clear.  FB, you seem to be reading some things into the rules that, quite frankly, aren't there.  Using the 'feature' again requires understanding what the 'feature' in question is: summoning the Pact Blade.  How anyone would interpret this to mean wielding the summoned weapon causes it to disappear is a little baffling to me.  Furthermore, just spelling out that you cannot use this feature to duel wield would not prevent you from summoning up a batch for your friends now would it?  This is why very proscriptive, spell-out-all-the-corner-cases rules tend to break down after a while.  Furthermore, as others have tried to point out, just because you summon the blade to your empty hand (singular) there is nothing in the rules quoted to prevent you from wielding the summoned weapon with both hands if appropriate.  I don't see the confusion here unless one subscribes to the belief that two handed weapons are too cumbersome to be even held in one hand, and even that is not something that derives from the RAW (as far as I know, I don't have the PHB).</blockquote>