Switching between Melee & Missile Attacks

[Samothdm]

This came up in our session yesterday afternoon...

Our 12th level dwarf fighter has a special throwing hammer weapon which he uses for both melee and missile attacks. During his full-attack action, he used the hammer as a melee weapon and killed his opponent on his first attack, and then cleaved-through (using the Cleave Feat) to the next guy and ended up killing that guy, too (both were already pretty damaged). For his second attack, he wanted to throw his hammer at another opponent who not with melee range.

The DM was not sure if this switching of weapon uses (from melee to missile) should be allowed during the same round. We couldn't find anything in the PH or DMG that said that you could or couldn't do this, and I didn't see it in the FAQ (although I'm at work and haven't had time to scour through it).

Anyone deal with this before?

 

[Kaji]

I've not had it happen before but I see no reason not to allow it.

 

[Hypersmurf]

With the Rapid Shot feat, he could even melee attack with his first and second attacks (and the Cleave), and then throw the hammer... as long as he took a -2 penalty on every attack.

-Hyp.

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

That's one of the advantages of a weapon melee weapon that can also be thrown. Otherwise, the dwarf could still do this but he'd need to drop the non-throwable weapon and quickdraw another weapon in order to do so.