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Message: <blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7039647" data-attributes="member: 6777696">Having to declare reckless attack before using the shield bash would be lame. Odds are, the shield bash will go through (because you're a barbarian and if the fight has any consequence, you're probably raging and so you have advantage and most things have a lower average athletics score than AC), so you wouldn't take the guaranteed disadvantage for the 20% chance that you might miss your shove. So you'd just use reckless attack less, because it doesn't seem worth the risk. That seems less fun than, "oh, crap, I tried to push him with my shield but he didn't fall over, so, screw it, caution to the wind, let's get reckless on this sucker." So, since the rules are vague on the subject and one outcome seems more fun and not unbalancing, I'd go that way.As to the question not intended to be asked, would you get advantage on a shield bash from reckless attack? Nah. Because a shove is an ability check, I'd say that precludes it from being an "attack". It just seems fair, because there are effects (like Rage) which specifically target ability checks, and other effects which specifically target attack rolls. You don't get to be both. Of course, it will probably not come up very often because, again, Rage.</blockquote>