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<blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 7454183" data-attributes="member: 23716"><p>The feature in questions allows you to forgo <em>one</em> of your attacks, <em>when you take the attack action</em>, to allow your familiar to attack <em>once</em>:</p><p></p><p><em>"Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one attack of its own."</em></p><p></p><p>So I would say that if you have an ability that allows you to make more than one attack as part of an attack action, you would still only be able to forgo one of them to allow the familiar to attack once. This ability does not seem to be able to grant multiple attacks to familiars. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Casting Eldritch Blast, with one beam or many, is a Cast a Spell Action, not an Attack action. Granted, you get to make one or more ranged spell attack rolls as part of resolving the spell, but it is not an Attack Action and you would not be able to forgo one of your blasts to allow your familiar to attack. Now if you were casting something like Green Flame blade, where you make a melee attack as part of the action used to cast the spell, it would be more confusing, but, IMHO, you would still not be able to use this to allow your familiar to attack with the Chain Pact Warlock feature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gadget, post: 7454183, member: 23716"] The feature in questions allows you to forgo [I]one[/I] of your attacks, [I]when you take the attack action[/I], to allow your familiar to attack [I]once[/I]: [I]"Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one attack of its own."[/I] So I would say that if you have an ability that allows you to make more than one attack as part of an attack action, you would still only be able to forgo one of them to allow the familiar to attack once. This ability does not seem to be able to grant multiple attacks to familiars. Casting Eldritch Blast, with one beam or many, is a Cast a Spell Action, not an Attack action. Granted, you get to make one or more ranged spell attack rolls as part of resolving the spell, but it is not an Attack Action and you would not be able to forgo one of your blasts to allow your familiar to attack. Now if you were casting something like Green Flame blade, where you make a melee attack as part of the action used to cast the spell, it would be more confusing, but, IMHO, you would still not be able to use this to allow your familiar to attack with the Chain Pact Warlock feature. [/QUOTE]
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