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<blockquote data-quote="painted_klown" data-source="post: 7048877" data-attributes="member: 6785485"><p>Hello all, </p><p></p><p>I haven't played 5th edition for a long while now (sadly) and have decided to brush up on the rules a bit, just because I think it's fun to at least read the books, even if I can't play. In doing so, I was reading the combat rules again, and had an interesting thought in regards to two weapon fighting. This also raised a few questions for me, and I am hoping someone can confirm or clarify my thoughts. </p><p></p><p>Page 195 of the Player's Handbook is talking about gaining an extra attack if you are using two light weapons and you use the attack action in combat. I assume this does not matter what class you play as it doesn't seem to be tied to any specific class(es). So, I came up with an idea.</p><p></p><p>As Clerics are proficient with all simple weapons, I am thinking that I could arm him/her with two Handaxes and attack twice. First attack being (attack roll, assumed successful), then "1d6+STR modifier" and the second attack being (attack roll, assumed successful), then "1d6" only, with no STR modifier. Is that correct?</p><p></p><p>My second question also revolves around Handaxes (or any thrown weapon for that matter). If I Use my first attack to hit a goblin next to me and he goes down, and then I throw my second axe at another goblin (who doesn't go down) and that second goblin gets killed by the fighter on his/her (fighter's) turn, can I then go over to the dead goblin and retrieve my thrown axe? </p><p></p><p>If this is possible and done during combat, I would also guess that doing so would use my action?</p><p></p><p>Apologies for the silly questions, I just want to make sure I am understanding all of this correctly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="painted_klown, post: 7048877, member: 6785485"] Hello all, I haven't played 5th edition for a long while now (sadly) and have decided to brush up on the rules a bit, just because I think it's fun to at least read the books, even if I can't play. In doing so, I was reading the combat rules again, and had an interesting thought in regards to two weapon fighting. This also raised a few questions for me, and I am hoping someone can confirm or clarify my thoughts. Page 195 of the Player's Handbook is talking about gaining an extra attack if you are using two light weapons and you use the attack action in combat. I assume this does not matter what class you play as it doesn't seem to be tied to any specific class(es). So, I came up with an idea. As Clerics are proficient with all simple weapons, I am thinking that I could arm him/her with two Handaxes and attack twice. First attack being (attack roll, assumed successful), then "1d6+STR modifier" and the second attack being (attack roll, assumed successful), then "1d6" only, with no STR modifier. Is that correct? My second question also revolves around Handaxes (or any thrown weapon for that matter). If I Use my first attack to hit a goblin next to me and he goes down, and then I throw my second axe at another goblin (who doesn't go down) and that second goblin gets killed by the fighter on his/her (fighter's) turn, can I then go over to the dead goblin and retrieve my thrown axe? If this is possible and done during combat, I would also guess that doing so would use my action? Apologies for the silly questions, I just want to make sure I am understanding all of this correctly. :) [/QUOTE]
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