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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7422984" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>The ruling on War Magic is in the Sage Advice Compendium. The original ruling appears in the 2016 version of the compendium. Here it is:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Does the “when” in the Eldritch Knight’s War Magic feature mean the bonus attack comes after you cast the cantrip, or can it come before?</strong> The intent is that the bonus attack can come before or after the cantrip. You choose when to take a bonus action during your turn, unless the bonus action specifies when it must take place (PH, 189).</p><p></p><p>But in the 2017 version, the ruling was changed to this:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Does the “when” in the Eldritch Knight’s War Magic feature mean the bonus attack comes after you cast the cantrip, or can it come before?</strong> The bonus action comes after the cantrip, since using your action to cast a cantrip is what gives you the ability to make the weapon attack as a bonus action. That said, a DM would break nothing in the system by allowing an Eldritch Knight to reverse the order of the cantrip and the weapon attack.</p><p></p><p>This change established that words like <em>when</em> and <em>if</em> specify the timing of a bonus action, which has now been clarified to apply to Shield Master as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 7422984, member: 6787503"] The ruling on War Magic is in the Sage Advice Compendium. The original ruling appears in the 2016 version of the compendium. Here it is: [INDENT][B] Does the “when” in the Eldritch Knight’s War Magic feature mean the bonus attack comes after you cast the cantrip, or can it come before?[/B] The intent is that the bonus attack can come before or after the cantrip. You choose when to take a bonus action during your turn, unless the bonus action specifies when it must take place (PH, 189).[/INDENT] But in the 2017 version, the ruling was changed to this: [INDENT][B] Does the “when” in the Eldritch Knight’s War Magic feature mean the bonus attack comes after you cast the cantrip, or can it come before?[/B] The bonus action comes after the cantrip, since using your action to cast a cantrip is what gives you the ability to make the weapon attack as a bonus action. That said, a DM would break nothing in the system by allowing an Eldritch Knight to reverse the order of the cantrip and the weapon attack.[/INDENT] This change established that words like [I]when[/I] and [I]if[/I] specify the timing of a bonus action, which has now been clarified to apply to Shield Master as well. [/QUOTE]
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