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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6541389" data-attributes="member: 13009"><p>It has been established by the game designers that the timing of the bonus action doesn't matter as long as the trigger is met on your turn. For example you can use your off hand melee attack vs the enemy adjacent to you as a bonus action, move, make your attack action, open a door, move again. </p><p></p><p>So you could take your bonus action attack with the hand crossbow before the attack with the one handed weapon.</p><p></p><p>Example.</p><p>Turn order: While holding a single hand crossbow and using a shield.</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bonus Action attack with the loaded hand crossbow.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Move 10'</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Attack action with the same hand crossbow, reloading as part of the attack action, as per rules under ammunition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Move some more.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Use your free interact with object for the turn to load the hand crossbow so it is ready for your next turn.</li> </ol><p></p><p>Turn order: While holding two hand crossbows, assuming both are unloaded for some reason.</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Interact with object for free and load off hand crossbow</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Attack with main hand crossbow, loading is part of the attack action.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bonus action attack with off hand crossbow.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Repeat next turn.</li> </ol><p></p><p>Hand crossbows are not two-handed weapons, it never states anywhere in the rules at all or even applies that you need two hands to reload one. If people have a hard time imagining reloading the crossbow one handed, I would look to over the top action movies for inspiration, you tube videos of one handed people doing amazing tasks, or just try and use your imagination and think that might be a brace of bolts and cocking mechanism on the characters hip maybe built into the holster for the pistol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6541389, member: 13009"] It has been established by the game designers that the timing of the bonus action doesn't matter as long as the trigger is met on your turn. For example you can use your off hand melee attack vs the enemy adjacent to you as a bonus action, move, make your attack action, open a door, move again. So you could take your bonus action attack with the hand crossbow before the attack with the one handed weapon. Example. Turn order: While holding a single hand crossbow and using a shield. [LIST=1] [*]Bonus Action attack with the loaded hand crossbow. [*]Move 10' [*]Attack action with the same hand crossbow, reloading as part of the attack action, as per rules under ammunition. [*]Move some more. [*]Use your free interact with object for the turn to load the hand crossbow so it is ready for your next turn. [/LIST] Turn order: While holding two hand crossbows, assuming both are unloaded for some reason. [LIST=1] [*]Interact with object for free and load off hand crossbow [*]Attack with main hand crossbow, loading is part of the attack action. [*]Bonus action attack with off hand crossbow. [*]Repeat next turn. [/LIST] Hand crossbows are not two-handed weapons, it never states anywhere in the rules at all or even applies that you need two hands to reload one. If people have a hard time imagining reloading the crossbow one handed, I would look to over the top action movies for inspiration, you tube videos of one handed people doing amazing tasks, or just try and use your imagination and think that might be a brace of bolts and cocking mechanism on the characters hip maybe built into the holster for the pistol. [/QUOTE]
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