Shillelagh polearm master7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Q: If the Knight grapples an opponent, and then swaps places with the Echo, does opponent teleport with them, or does the grapple end? (thanks … It is up the DM to determine if the Echo is more like a solid “object" or a "translucent image", both of which are used to describe the Echo.) Q: If an Echo is considered an object, can you paint it? (thanks … (I took a stab at answering in a previous post (as have others), but I’m open to other ideas.) Q: Can a Knight use a bonus action attack gain through the Polearm Master, Great Weapon Mater, or Crossbow Expert feats to make an attack from their Echo’s Space? I’d love to get your thoughts on if these should be added to the main FAQ and/or your answers to any of the questions. I’ve gathered the below additional questions from the thread so far. We'll fix it in a future printing! Sorry about the confusion." The text stating that intent is mysteriously missing from the book. Jeremy Crawford tweeted, “The intent is that you can't do anything with the Echo Knight's echo while using Echo Avatar, other than scout with it. Q: Can you teleport to an Echo that is 1000’ away using the Echo Avatar feature?Ī: No by RAI, a Knight cannot teleport while using an Echo Avatar. I think I covered teleporting to an Echo Avatar in the FAQ, but correct me if you think the answer is wrong. It's not immediately clear from reading the Manifest Echo and Echo Avatar that you could use Echo Avatar, move the Echo 30 feet every 6 seconds in ANY direction up to 1000 feet away, meaning that in this 10 minute window you see and hear through it's receptors and can move a grand total of 3000 feet if you don't stop moving the moment the ability triggers allowing a LOT of scouting in tall rooms/halls/areas AND at a whim you can swap places with it wherever it is, even if it's 1000 feet straight up Whether this is RAI is unclear at this time. "When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, or quarterstaff, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon.” But while the action is indeed a melee attack, a bonus actions is not part of the Attack action. The Polearm Master feat clearly grants a bonus action if an Attack action is made. “When you take the Attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action can originate from your space or the echo’s space. ![]() ![]() Manifest Echo specifically states that only attacks made using the Attack action can be can be made from an Echo’s space. An Echo Knight cannot use Manifest Echo to make an bonus action attack using Polearm Master through their Echo. Q: Bonus Action Attacks? Can a knight perform the PAM BA through the echo? I presume that it cannot perform the OOA on a creature entering the echo's space. So it breaks suspension of disbelief.Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures Nobody ever fielded regiments of quarterstavers on purpose, with or without shields. That's why staves are weapons of monks, peasants, woodsmen, and gentlemen defending themselves from brigands. A staff - quarterstaff or otherwise - is a weapon of convenience and social acceptability, not a weapon of war. That means they were carrying a weapon built for war, such as a spear. The historical reality is that nobody carried a shield unless they were going to war. Yes, you could in theory use a shield and then use a quarterstaff like a spear with no blade. Here, one of the narratives is that melee combat is generally confined to the forms and styles of combat consistent with historical Western or European martial arts prior to the 16th century as portrayed in the mass media of the late 19th century through to the modern day. It requires breaking the conceits of the narrative. Of course, mechanically, quarterstaff already invalidates both mace and greatclub, which really is stupid, but lots of people have problems with the 5e weapons table (e.g., why is "dart" still on the table instead of replacing it with throwing knife? Nobody knows what war darts are except war gamers!).īreaking suspension of disbelief doesn't require doing extraordinary things. Anything long enough to be versatile is automatically a quarterstaff. The club is basically the size of a belaying pin or truncheon only. Essentially, the game is making quarterstaff be a normal quarterstaff, and a bo staff, and a jo staff, and a dueling cane, and a baseball bat, etc. But you can't do that because the weapons table isn't granular enough to put cane on the table and be mechanically distinct (setting aside how many indistinct weapons are on the list, especially at martial level). The problem is that "quarterstaff" is portraying two weapons: dueling cane and quarterstaff. The problem with polearm master including quarterstaff is, at it's root, a problem with the weapons table. Yeah, I think we've covered this all before. ![]()
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