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<blockquote data-quote="skelso" data-source="post: 3996945" data-attributes="member: 54189"><p>I'll give you the question first:</p><p></p><p>Is there any situation, feat combination or precedent for a character making both melee and ranged attacks in the same round?</p><p></p><p>In my campaign, I have a player (Dwarven Fighter 4) using two dwarven waraxes. He's taken the necessary feats to make doing so fairly successful: Weapon Focus, Two-weapon fighting, oversized two-weapon fighting, and weapon specialization. He has asked me if it's possible for him, when using the two-weapon fighting feat to make one of those attacks a ranged attack, if say, he drops the opponent in front of him and wants to use his second attack to throw the other ax at an opponent out of his reach.</p><p></p><p>At this point, I've said no. Throwing an improvised weapon is a standard action (with a -4 attack penalty) and therefore not really combinable with the full attack action. He then asked if there are feats that would let him accomplish it.</p><p></p><p>It seems to me that if he had both the two-weapon fighting and rapid shot feats, logically he could chunk the off hand axe with his other hand in the same round he meleed with his on-hand. The only reason he couldn't is because, well, it's against the rules.</p><p></p><p>I'd like to hear if there are some hard rules on this. Thanks for reading!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skelso, post: 3996945, member: 54189"] I'll give you the question first: Is there any situation, feat combination or precedent for a character making both melee and ranged attacks in the same round? In my campaign, I have a player (Dwarven Fighter 4) using two dwarven waraxes. He's taken the necessary feats to make doing so fairly successful: Weapon Focus, Two-weapon fighting, oversized two-weapon fighting, and weapon specialization. He has asked me if it's possible for him, when using the two-weapon fighting feat to make one of those attacks a ranged attack, if say, he drops the opponent in front of him and wants to use his second attack to throw the other ax at an opponent out of his reach. At this point, I've said no. Throwing an improvised weapon is a standard action (with a -4 attack penalty) and therefore not really combinable with the full attack action. He then asked if there are feats that would let him accomplish it. It seems to me that if he had both the two-weapon fighting and rapid shot feats, logically he could chunk the off hand axe with his other hand in the same round he meleed with his on-hand. The only reason he couldn't is because, well, it's against the rules. I'd like to hear if there are some hard rules on this. Thanks for reading! [/QUOTE]
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