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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 7671469" data-attributes="member: 59506">As DM, if you were to sheathe your melee weapon while engaged in melee combat (in a situation that would require you to take the Disengage Action to avoid an Opportunity Attack), my ruling would be that you trigger an Opportunity Attack.As a certain Dark Lord of the Sith once said: You are unwise to lower your defenses.In your example above, if you are moving from target to target to make your melee attacks, you haven't accounted for taking Disengage Actions (or the movement).The Crossbow Expert Feat eliminates disadvantage for making a ranged attack within 5 feet of a hostile creature.  It does not eliminate the need for Disengaging, or make you immune to Opportunity Attacks.I think that the Rules as Intended mean that when in melee combat, you have to actively maintain your melee engagement or use the Disengage Action to leave your threatened square.  As long as you are in that threatened square your opponent is attacking.  You can't just sheathe your weapon while somebody is in your face attacking you with a melee weapon; at least if you don't want to give them a free shot at you that is.</blockquote>