Quick (heh heh) question about Quickdraw

[Kai Lord]

Pop quiz hot shots. You have the Quickdraw feat, a bow, a sword, and three attacks per round. Can you make your first attack with your bow, then switches weapons (free action) and hack with your sword, then switch AGAIN and fire another shot from your bow, all in the same round?

Enquiring Peerless Archers want to know....

 

[Dalamar]

Edit - Ack, read the question thoroughly before answering next time.
Personally, I would say that you could use two attacks on the other weapon and one on the other. But you would neet to drop the previous weapon as sheathing is still a move-equivalent action.

 

[Kai Lord]

Edit - Ack, read the question thoroughly before answering next time.
Personally, I would say that you could use two attacks on the other weapon and one on the other. But you would neet to drop the previous weapon as sheathing is still a move-equivalent action.

So you think the two attacks with the same weapon would have to be consecutive? Does someone want to jump in if they know exactly what is intended in the rules?

To take it one step further, what if that same guy with the three attacks had a sword, a bow, and a handaxe? Could he attack with all three weapons in one round?

 

[AuraSeer]

What he said. Sheathing weapons is a move-equivalent action, even if you have Quickdraw. If you want to swap weapons as a free action, the old one ends up on the ground at your feet.

[Edited to clarify

You could fire the bow (an attack), then put it away (move-equivalent), and then quickdraw the sword (free action). But because you took a MEA, you only get the one attack.

OR, you could: fire the bow (attack #1), drop the bow (free action), quickdraw the sword (free action), swing the sword (attack #2), drop the sword (free action), quickdraw the axe (free action), and attack with the axe (attack #3). That leaves you with the axe in your hand, and the sword and bow on the floor.

 

[KarinsDad]

Quickdraw is not Quicksheath.

You cannot do the first example unless you had two bows.

You can do the second example: use bow, use sword, use handaxe.

 

[TiQuinn]

Pop quiz hot shots. You have the Quickdraw feat, a bow, a sword, and three attacks per round. Can you make your first attack with your bow, then switches weapons (free action) and hack with your sword, then switch AGAIN and fire another shot from your bow, all in the same round?

Enquiring Peerless Archers want to know....

You could, if your DM lets you. It's not exactly clear when you take your free actions, but it does say in the PH that the number and kinds of free actions you can take are determined by the DM. Personally, I'd say the switching back part might be a bit much. I like the idea of firing off a shot with a bow, and then completing the full attack with a sword though!

 

[kreynolds]

Re: Re: Quick (heh heh) question about Quickdraw

You could, if your DM lets you.

I could also perform 57 coup de grace's as a free action if my DM let me, but that's not really a valid argument, now is it?

Sheating the weapon is what gets ya' here, but if you just drop the weapon, that's different.

 

[mikebr99]

What is stopping you from firing the bow, letting go of the string, pulling out a sword with the string hand (and quickdraw), attacking with the sword, dropping the sword, attacking with the bow?

[edit]geez... I'm getting close to that magic number.

 

[Kibo]

Re: Re: Re: Quick (heh heh) question about Quickdraw

I could also perform 57 coup de grace's as a free action if my DM let me, but that's not really a valid argument, now is it?

Sheating the weapon is what gets ya' here, but if you just drop the weapon, that's different.

But in that case you wouldn't have Princess Mononoke backing you up . Depending on the sword it might not be too unreasonable to fire and arrow, swing the sword and fire an arrow.

 

[DarkJester]

Here is a follow up question.

If a ranger has ambidexterity/two weapon fighting, quick draw and rapid shot, can he start with his bow, fire twice (rapid shot) drop bow,quick draw swords and attack with them?

What if he has multiple attacks from bab, can he take first normal attack with the bow, then rapid shot with it, change weapons and take second normal attack with his sword, and get an offhand attack?