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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6729720" data-attributes="member: 7006">Doesn't it simply come down to this... if you want to fire a hand crossbow twice in a round using your Action and a bonus action... you don't dual-wield two of them like you would a melee weapon, you simply take the Crossbow Expert feat and then you fire the single crossbow twice?Now, if you are asking about dual-wielding with a melee weapon *and* the hand crossbow... then yes, the rules preclude you from doing that more than once in the combat (without later sheathing the melee weapon to give you that hand free to reload).  It's assumed your first round uses an already loaded hand crossbow, so you can attack with the melee weapon with your Action and fire the hand crossbow with your Bonus action off-hand attack.  Next round, you would need to sheath the melee weapon using your free "use an object", reload the hand crossbow freely as part of the rule stating that loading a ranged weapon is a part of the action used to fire it, fire the crossbow with your Action, but then not having your melee weapon out anymore to dual-wield using your Bonus action.  But then in the third round, you'd load the crossbow and fire it using your Action, draw your weapon with your free "use an object" and then attack with the melee weapon using the Bonus action.  Basically... when you dual wield a melee weapon and a hand crossbow, you can attack with both every-other-round.</blockquote>