Just follow a few easy steps.
- Declare your making a melee attack with a weapon you’re proficient with that has the Heavy property.
- Declare you’re using Great Weapon Master for the attack.
- Subtract -5 from your Attack Modifier.
- If you hit, roll the weapon’s damage die or dice normally.
- Add your normal damage modifier.
Can you use great weapon master on a reaction?
Yes, you can use Great Weapon Master on an opportunity attack. As you say, making an opportunity attack is still an attack. To make the opportunity attack, you use your reaction to make one melee attack against the provoking creature.
Can great weapon master stack?
No you do not have more than one bonus action per round. Great weapon master gives you one additional attack as a bonus action. If you have said bonus action, you can use it once (you can’t have more than one bonus action on a turn).
What are the conditions for Great Weapon Master?
Specifically, the Great Weapon Master feat allows you to use a bonus action to make a melee attack if either of the following conditions are true: 1 You make a critical hit with a melee weapon 2 You reduce an enemy to 0 hit points with a melee weapon More
When to use the Great Weapon Master feat?
Part of the Great Weapon Master feat (PHB, p. 167) says: 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. I quiet don’t understand what is meant by one, the critical hit or the melee weapon ?
Can you use frenzy and Great Weapon Master at the same time?
You can’t use the bonus action attack from Great Weapon Master and Frenzy in the same turn, for example. You have to pick which you wish to use (perhaps a bad example given they both do the same thing: allow you to make an attack; but point is you can’t make two bonus action attacks, only one).
What makes a great weapon master in 5e?
Great Weapon Master: A free bonus action attack on a kill/crit is great. The ability to increase your damage by decreasing your accuracy is awesome (if somewhat situational)! Many monsters in 5E have a low AC but high HP; this allows you to take advantage of that.
