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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6620933" data-attributes="member: 6787503">No, the relevant rule, as I suggested up-thread, is Crossbow Expert, specifically the third bullet. It allows you to attack with the hand crossbow as a bonus action while using a one-handed weapon for your main attack. This is different from two-weapon fighting in that your main weapon doesn't need to be light, and also, as you've noted, the feat allows you to do this with a non-melee weapon. The light designation is given to tell us that the hand crossbow is suitable for this purpose.Removing light would make the hand crossbow unsuitable for the use described in the third bullet of Crossbow Expert. Alternatively, taking the word "melee" out of two-weapon fighting would allow hand crossbows to be used in two-weapon fighting, which would nerf the feat, and which doesn't seem to be the intention.</blockquote>