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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9709876" data-attributes="member: 6790260">And I understand it to mean you can only fire it one time during the round, regardless of which action you use. If you use an action, that's your one and only use of that hand crossbow during that round. You could not use it a second time in that round, no matter what action (regular, Bonus, or Reaction) you attempt.Worth noting, way back when, Crawford had previously clarified (in 5.0) that you did in fact need the Crossbow Expert feat in order to fire the same light crossbow once with an action, and then separately later with a Bonus Action. It's not the same edition, so it is possible they changed their minds on this...but it would be unusual for them to suddenly flip to a massively more favorable interpretation. Especially because the wording of the 5.5e "Loading" property is identical in all rule-related aspects, it simply deletes the fluffy lead-in text. It begins (italicized text deleted in 5.5e): "Because of the time required to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece..." Everything from "[Y]ou can fire..." onward is identical.Edit: And, in fact, that tweet answer was actually added to the official Sage Advice compendium. So it doesn't even have the stigma of "Crawford tweets aren't ~~canon~~ official". It really was the official rule back in 5.0.:Does Crossbow Expert let you fire a hand crossbow and then fire it again as a bonus action? It does! Take a look at the feat’s third benefit. It says you can attack with a hand crossbow as a bonus action when you use the Attack action to attack with a one-handed weapon. A hand crossbow is a one-handed weapon, so it can, indeed, be used for both attacks, assuming you have a hand free to load the hand crossbow between the two attacks.You needed to have Crossbow Expert to even be capable of firing a hand crossbow through two different types of actions. That seems to still be true in 5.5e; none of the relevant wording has changed.Consider: you take the Attack action. Done. Then, after that, your hypothetical...call it "Quickdraw Artist" feature, which allows you to make a single ranged weapon attack roll at any time once before the end of your turn, if you have at any point during your turn already made a ranged weapon attack. "Quickdraw Artist" explicitly does not require an action, Bonus Action, nor Reaction. It simply happens.</blockquote>

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