Does booming blade work if they attack?

No, You cannot combine attacks with the booming blade. Included in this action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against a single creature within the spell’s range.

Does fear trigger booming blade?

Booming blade requires the target to willingly move. Fear is not willingly, it’s forced.

Can booming blade be a bonus action?

No, you cannot make an off-hand attack with Booming Blade. Two weapon fighting lets you make an attack with your bonus action when you take the Attack action. Booming Blade is a spell, which requires you to have taken the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action.

How does booming blade work after being hit?

After being hit, the target does not get takebacksies. The opportunity attack was triggered by him leaving reach; if he chose to stay in the space, the opportunity attack would never have triggered, and if he did leave, Booming Blade’s secondary would trigger. There’s no middle ground.

What happens if a creature does not move to avoid the booming blade?

If the creature chooses not to move to avoid the booming blade damage then it isn’t moving away to provoke the opportunity attack. This means the attack/spell doesn’t happen because no opportunity attack happens because it didn’t move to provide the opportunity to attack.

What happens when the booming blade spell lands?

The creature elects to continue moving and moves to where it planned, taking the opportunity attack and also being affected by the secondary part of the booming blade spell. Whether the creature understands what has happened to it when the Booming Blade spell lands, and additionally whether it chooses to stop moving, is up to the DM.

What happens when you use warcaster with booming blade?

That`s it. We have a gish on the board, and some enemy tried to escape him provoking Opportunity Attack. With a Warcaster feat, the player performed booming blade. For that situation, the enemy choosed to move and got both primary and secondary damage – and that`s it.

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