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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7580315" data-attributes="member: 6976536">There's nothing that says it doesn't work, and if you really want to give up all of your attacks to make one attack that has less chance to hit and does less damage than using a real weapon, as a DM I'm certainly not going to stop you. I'm also not going to make combats easier on you just because you choose to make dumb maneuvers. There's plenty of ways to explain a net doing damage, and mechanically this is just a bad idea so if you're really into it, go for it.The way I like to use a net is on a EK archer who has crossbow expert and sharpshooter. She has her familiar do a help to get advantage on the attack, throws a net, and if it hits follows up with a bonus action -5/+10 hand crossbow attack at advantage, then action surges for another two -5/+10 crossbow attacks at advantage. That's much more RAW (the 'familiar goes on your initiative' isn't technically RAW but is a common change to speed up combat), and much more effective. Leaving an enemy restrained and doing over 50 damage in the first round is not too shabby for a 5th level character.Here's another example of &quot;I'm not going to stop you from making your character weaker&quot; - you're going to spend a feat and give up using a weapon in order to make a good ability less effective. If you skipped knocking the enemy prone, they'd be restrained by the net, which gives all of your allies advantage on attacks. When you knock them prone, you give your ranged allies disadvantage on attacks and give no benefits that restrained doesn't already give you. Actually there is another way - Crossbow Expert removes the disadvantage for attacking an enemy within 5'. A crossbow wielder who gets sharpshooter and crossbow expert is also a net expert by accident.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7580315, member: 6976536"] There's nothing that says it doesn't work, and if you really want to give up all of your attacks to make one attack that has less chance to hit and does less damage than using a real weapon, as a DM I'm certainly not going to stop you. I'm also not going to make combats easier on you just because you choose to make dumb maneuvers. There's plenty of ways to explain a net doing damage, and mechanically this is just a bad idea so if you're really into it, go for it. The way I like to use a net is on a EK archer who has crossbow expert and sharpshooter. She has her familiar do a help to get advantage on the attack, throws a net, and if it hits follows up with a bonus action -5/+10 hand crossbow attack at advantage, then action surges for another two -5/+10 crossbow attacks at advantage. That's much more RAW (the 'familiar goes on your initiative' isn't technically RAW but is a common change to speed up combat), and much more effective. Leaving an enemy restrained and doing over 50 damage in the first round is not too shabby for a 5th level character. Here's another example of "I'm not going to stop you from making your character weaker" - you're going to spend a feat and give up using a weapon in order to make a good ability less effective. If you skipped knocking the enemy prone, they'd be restrained by the net, which gives all of your allies advantage on attacks. When you knock them prone, you give your ranged allies disadvantage on attacks and give no benefits that restrained doesn't already give you. Actually there is another way - Crossbow Expert removes the disadvantage for attacking an enemy within 5'. A crossbow wielder who gets sharpshooter and crossbow expert is also a net expert by accident. [/QUOTE]

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