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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 7671342" data-attributes="member: 59506">No, I don't think that's right.First, this sage advice column said nothing about not being able to load if you're holding a shield or another weapon.As DM in my games, I have no problem envisioning someone pulling a little hand crossbow bolt out of its quiver or pouch with a couple of fingers, and even placing it in the crossbow and cocking it.  That's what the crossbow expert feat means, you are Expert at loading very quickly and very agilely.  It's also certainly not outside the realm of reality for a player to have their extra ammunition stored on the inside of their shield.Ruling not Rules, but I think the clarifications earlier about somatic components opens this up to the same ruling.The same as being able to load, I don't believe this makes rapier+xbow verboten.And dual-wielding is not out either.  What's out is re-shooting both hand-crossbows in the same round, and repeating round after round.  You can potentially get three-attacks in one round: shoot your loaded right-hand hand-crossbow with an attack, shoot your loaded left-hand hand-crossbow with an extra-attack, reload one of them using your Crossbow Expert Feat and shoot again using a bonus action.Next round, however, all you're going to be able to do is shoot twice with one of them, simply because you need that hand (whether holding a shield or weapon, or not) to do your Expertly Fast reload.  And you can still attack with that rapier.</blockquote>

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