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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7532403" data-attributes="member: 71699">Here's a quick attempt to improve the wording...Fighting With Two Weapons<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">When you take the Attack action and attack with a melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand. Both weapons must be light, or one of them must be a dagger.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alternatively, if another feature or spell lets you use a bonus action to attack a creature with a weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can attack it one extra time with a different one-handed weapon that you're holding in the other hand.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Don't add your ability modifier to the damage of any bonus or extra attacks made this way, unless that modifier is negative. If any of the weapons used have the thrown property, you can throw them instead of making a melee attack with them.</li>
</ul>It's all a bit clunky because what you are trying to do is complicated. Some notes...I think the generality of &quot;Both weapons must be...&quot; satisfactorily casts itself back over the whole of &quot;When you take... etc&quot;. I take it that you intend the one-handed weapons for the second element &quot;Alternatively... etc&quot; to possibly be ranged and/or not Light. Correct? For this reason, the other provisos are stacked at the end, to cast back over all the foregoing. (And I'll stay silent on whether opening that up to any weapon is a good idea.) A possible ambiguity as I have it is that someone might think the &quot;bonus action to attack&quot; attack in the &quot;Alternatively...&quot; element is the same as &quot;bonus... attacks made this way&quot;, when of course it isn't. I hoped &quot;made this way&quot; would clue to &quot;made due to this feat and not for some other reason&quot; or whatever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7532403, member: 71699"] Here's a quick attempt to improve the wording... [U][B]Fighting With Two Weapons[/B][/U] [LIST] [*]When you take the Attack action and attack with a melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand. Both weapons must be light, or one of them must be a dagger. [*]Alternatively, if another feature or spell lets you use a bonus action to attack a creature with a weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can attack it one extra time with a different one-handed weapon that you're holding in the other hand. [*]Don't add your ability modifier to the damage of any bonus or extra attacks made this way, unless that modifier is negative. If any of the weapons used have the thrown property, you can throw them instead of making a melee attack with them. [/LIST] It's all a bit clunky because what you are trying to do is complicated. Some notes... I think the generality of "Both weapons must be..." satisfactorily casts itself back over the whole of "When you take... etc". I take it that you intend the one-handed weapons for the second element "Alternatively... etc" to possibly be ranged and/or not [I]Light[/I]. Correct? For this reason, the other provisos are stacked at the end, to cast back over all the foregoing. (And I'll stay silent on whether opening that up to any weapon is a good idea.) A possible ambiguity as I have it is that someone might think the "bonus action to attack" attack in the "Alternatively..." element is the same as "bonus... attacks made this way", when of course it isn't. I hoped "made this way" would clue to "made due to this feat and not for some other reason" or whatever. [/QUOTE]

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