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<blockquote data-quote="mlooney" data-source="post: 4390897" data-attributes="member: 65283">He's holding the bow in his left (or off hand, assuming right handed character) hand.&nbsp; He may or may not have an arrow in his right.&nbsp; He drops the arrow (free action, see page 267 PHB) and quick draws his sword and smacks the monster with an OA.&nbsp; He will have to use a minor action to put the sword back next turn, but loading a Long Bow is a free action, so that's no big deal.&nbsp; I would allow this in my game, in fact the RAW seem to imply that this sort of thing is what it was made for.&nbsp; With Quickdraw, drawing the weapon is part of the attack action.You are already holding it in your off hand,in normal use&nbsp; The &quot;on&quot; hand is holding the string/arrow and doing the aiming thing, when you're using it in a normal way, so, yeah, no need to drop it.A bow isn't an two handed weapon like say a great sword is.&nbsp; It's a weapon that is held in the left hand (i.e. off hand) while the right hand (i.e. on hand) does fiddly bits with arrows and strings.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no reason why you couldn't temporally hold the bow in the left hand while slashing about with a sword in the right hand.&nbsp; Now, of course, you can't fire the bow while holding the sword, hence the need of a minor action to put the sword back where it belongs before using a free action to load the bow again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlooney, post: 4390897, member: 65283"] He's holding the bow in his left (or off hand, assuming right handed character) hand. He may or may not have an arrow in his right. He drops the arrow (free action, see page 267 PHB) and quick draws his sword and smacks the monster with an OA. He will have to use a minor action to put the sword back next turn, but loading a Long Bow is a free action, so that's no big deal. I would allow this in my game, in fact the RAW seem to imply that this sort of thing is what it was made for. With Quickdraw, drawing the weapon is part of the attack action. You are already holding it in your off hand,in normal use The "on" hand is holding the string/arrow and doing the aiming thing, when you're using it in a normal way, so, yeah, no need to drop it. A bow isn't an two handed weapon like say a great sword is. It's a weapon that is held in the left hand (i.e. off hand) while the right hand (i.e. on hand) does fiddly bits with arrows and strings. There is no reason why you couldn't temporally hold the bow in the left hand while slashing about with a sword in the right hand. Now, of course, you can't fire the bow while holding the sword, hence the need of a minor action to put the sword back where it belongs before using a free action to load the bow again. [/QUOTE]

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