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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9154098" data-attributes="member: 2525">I think I've interpreted it correctly. You can in fact do the somatic portion with the crossbow in that hand as a material component, but you cannot also fire the crossbow while doing the somatic component in that hand. I assume because the somatic component requires you to move that hand, in this case with the material component waving around with it, in a specific pattern, which isn't the pattern needed to hold it steady and aim and fire a crossbow bolt. Regardless, you cannot perform both somatic components and hold and fire a crossbow in two hands even if the material component is the crossbow itself. Because the key issue here isn't the material component aspect. It's that you need two hands to hold the crossbow, and also you need one hand free to do the somatic component, even if you're allowed to wave an ordinary material component around in that free hand. It's "free" for that use of material components, but not "free" for that use of an item with the two handed weapon property, for a spell requiring both to happen simultaneously.As far as I am aware no Sage Advice has commented on this issue either. So AT BEST you could say you think about it differently than I think about it and we're not positive either way.</blockquote>