Is polearm master good 5e?

The Polearm Master Feat is perfectly good by itself, but when you combine it with one or two other Feats or abilities, the results are staggeringly good.

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Does a spears work with polearm master?

The Polearm Master feat's benefits work with spears and quarterstaffs, whether or not you're wielding those weapons with two hands. The feat contains no requirements about hands. Följaktligen, does polearm master work with tridents? Cool, I cut 5' off the handle to turn it into spear so it works with polearm master. "You find a +3 Trident" Cool, I break two tines off to turn it into a spear so it works with polearm master.

Does polearm master work on your turn?

You've learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes. You gain the following benefits: On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with one, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action. Is polearm master worth? Polearm Master's a strong pick because when you're wielding a glaive or halberd, which has the second highest damage die in the game, a d10, it gives you a d4 bonus action attack that also does your strength modifier in damage and even better still, whenever an enemy enters your 10' reach, it triggers an opportunity

Is a halberd an axe?

The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants. It is very similar to certain forms of the voulge in design and usage. The halberd was usually 1.5 to 1.8 metres (5 to 6 feet) long. Med detta i åtanke, does a quarterstaff work with polearm master? Thanks! The Polearm Master feat doesn't require the quarterstaff to be wielded with two hands.

Man kan också fråga does polearm master work with echo knight?

With the Echo Knights echos, do they get the benefits of Sentinel and Polearm master? Sentinel WOULD function, as you are still the source of the opp attack. Polearm Master would not, as that feature of the Echo specifies moving AWAY from you. Med detta i åtanke, does shillelagh affect polearm master? Think of it this way; Shillelagh changes the damage die of the weapon to a d8, but polearm master does not use the damage die of the weapon it uses its own special damage die regardless of the weapon being used.

Därefter, why does polearm master not include pike?

Pikes are very cumbersome. Jeremy Crawford confirms in this tweet that pikes are not meant to be included as they are too unwieldy. It makes sense: pikes were often twice or thrice as long as their wielder, and as such it would be impossible to swing it around as a part of a chain of attacks.