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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7353615" data-attributes="member: 6818233">My RAI for these RAW examples is simple, regardless of what Crawford has ruled on before. A statement that starts with &quot;If&quot; allows you to do the secondary action any time in the round after you attempt the &quot;If&quot; qualifier, or primary action. A statement that starts with &quot;When&quot; allows you to do the secondary action immediately after the required action. And at no time is the secondary action ever allowed to happen before the primary action.Well, that was sort of a side track, so to your original proposal. Like others, I would only allow a character to benefit from both styles if one of their classes provided extra attacks. You basically need two standard attack actions available to pull this off. And that is assuming that sheathing or drawing a weapon remains a free action. I just do not see any other way by RAW to use both attack styles in a single combat round.Something else to think about is what if you have a double weapon that is also a light melee weapon? There are plenty of real world examples of these that are not in the 5E rules that could become a loophole weapon for these styles being used together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7353615, member: 6818233"] My RAI for these RAW examples is simple, regardless of what Crawford has ruled on before. A statement that starts with "If" allows you to do the secondary action any time in the round after you attempt the "If" qualifier, or primary action. A statement that starts with "When" allows you to do the secondary action immediately after the required action. And at no time is the secondary action ever allowed to happen before the primary action. Well, that was sort of a side track, so to your original proposal. Like others, I would only allow a character to benefit from both styles if one of their classes provided extra attacks. You basically need two standard attack actions available to pull this off. And that is assuming that sheathing or drawing a weapon remains a free action. I just do not see any other way by RAW to use both attack styles in a single combat round. Something else to think about is what if you have a double weapon that is also a light melee weapon? There are plenty of real world examples of these that are not in the 5E rules that could become a loophole weapon for these styles being used together. [/QUOTE]

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