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Polearm Master: Bonus Attack

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Polearm Master: Bonus Attack is a passive feature provided by the Polearm Master Feat. When attacking with a polearm, you can also attack with a Bonus action.

Description

When attacking with a Glaives Glaives, Halberds Halberds, Pikes Pikes[note 1] Quarterstaves Quarterstaves, or Spears Spears, you can use a Bonus Action to attack with the butt of your weapon.

This attack does [See: Bugs]

How to learn

Granted by the feats: Polearm Master

Bugs

  • The attack roll granted by this ability uses the same ability modifier as the primary attack, but the damage roll is known to often use Dexterity.
  • Does not add bonus damage from sources other than the ability modifier (often Dexterity is used, see above). Additional damage from sources such as Hunter's Mark, Divine Favour, Great Weapon Master, Rage and many more will not be applied to the PAM bonus attacks. Other damage bonuses such as Hex and Divine Smite do apply their bonus damage to the PAM bonus attack.

Footnotes

  1. It's not stated in-game but Polearm Mastery works with Pikes too. Polearm Master is coded to work with any weapon that is tagged as a SPEAR or STAVE (quarterstaffs), and weapons with Extra Reach (Glaives, Halberds and Pikes)