No, the shove cannot be taken before the attack. The first bullet of the Shield Master feat is: If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. Jeremy Crawford has changed the rules on this recently.
Can you deal damage with a shield 5e?
There are no rules for specifically attacking with a shield. There are two options you could use: improvised weapon and unarmed attack.
Can a shield master take a bonus action before an attack?
For Shield Master, that means the bonus action must come after the Attack action. You decide when it happens afterward that turn No, it can’t. You can’t take the bonus action attack before the Attack action, because the bonus action attack is conditional upon you taking that action.
When do you use the shield Master feat?
So when you take the Attack action you have to use ALL the attack action BEFORE you get the bonus action feature. So, the 20th level Fighter with the Shield Master feat has to use all 4 attacks in the Attack Action BEFORE the Shield Master bonus action becomes available to knock an opponent back or prone.
Can the Shield Push be taken before or after the attack action?
As with most bonus actions, you choose the timing, so the Shield Master shove can come before or after the Attack action. He has, however, reversed this in a post made this week. Clarification about bonus actions: if a feature says you can do X as a bonus action if you do Y, you must do Y before you can do X.
Can You charge an opponent with a shield in 5th edition?
Everyone agrees that characters should be able to charge an opponent with a shield and shove them to the ground. There’s two ways to get this done in 5th Edition D&D: You can do this normally by using one of your attacks to make a shove attack. The Shield Master feat allows you to to this by tapping into your bonus action.
