Does divine smite work with thrown weapons?

when you hit a creature with a melee attack with a weapon…”, which means that you can’t use Divine Smite with a thrown weapon, as it isn’t a melee attack.

Can a paladin Smite with an improvised weapon?

The only requirement for a Divine Smite is that you hit with a melee weapon attack. So if your DM decides that this is a melee weapon attack, you can use Divine Smite with it. If they decide anything else, you can’t.

Can a paladin Smite with a ranged weapon?

Conversation. Chris C. Hey @JeremyECrawford me and my friend were having a conversation and cant figure out if there is a mechanical reason to why Paladins can only Smite on melee attacks and not ranged.

Does divine smite count as a magic weapon?

Is it fueled by the use of spell slots? Does its description say it’s magical? If your answer to any of those questions is yes, the feature is magical. Divine Smite says “you can expend one spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon’s damage.”

Can you smite with a thrown dagger?

A dagger is a melee weapon, so any attack made with it is an “attack with a melee weapon”, but you can use that dagger to make a “melee weapon attack” at 5ft, or a “ranged weapon attack” by throwing it. Smites like this can only be used with a “melee weapon attack”, not an “attack with a melee weapon”.

Can Paladins smite with their fists?

Can a paladin use Divine Smite when they hit using an unarmed strike? No. Divine Smite isn’t intended to work with unarmed strikes.

How does improvised weapons work?

Improvised Weapons Often, an Improvised Weapon is similar to an actual weapon and can be treated as such. For example, a table leg is akin to a club. If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee Attack, or throws a melee weapon that does not have the thrown property, it also deals 1d4 damage.

Is an improvised weapon a weapon?

Improvised Weapons are not a subset of Melee or Ranged Weapons, but they are Weapons.

Can Paladins use ranged weapons 5e?

You can pick up any bow or crossbow as paladins have proficiency in all simple or martial weapons, but as you observed they are not really effective weapons for you.

Does improved divine smite stack with divine smite?

In other words, Improved Divine Smite doesn’t replace Divine Smite and doesn’t prevent you from using them together. That’s all it’s saying in the part you have emphasised.

Does divine smite count as weapon damage?

The maximum is on all the extra radiant damage that Divine Smite adds to your normal weapon damage, necessarily including the first 2d8 (emphasis mine): […] you can expend one paladin spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon’s damage.

Does Antimagic stop divine smite?

For the same reasons Anti-Magic Field would not disable the ki’s monk RAW (altough it uses the weave), Divine Smite would not be disabled. All magic relies on the Weave (PH 205) and AMF prevents magic from working, so nothing that uses the Weave works in an AMF.

Can a Paladin use divine smite with a thrown weapon?

Can a paladin use the Divine Smite feature with a thrown weapon? A paladin’s divine smite says (PHB. 85), “…when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack…”, which I’m seeing two ways to interpret. “A melee attack with a weapon”, so as long as it’s a melee attack and you’re using a weapon smite away.

How do you use divine smite in 5e?

Divine Smite is an ability available to Paladins in Dungeons & Dragons 5e. Starting at Level 2, whenever you successfully hit with a melee weapon, you may choose to expend a single spell slot. Doing so will deal additional radiant damage on the attack. The amount of damage for a 1st-level spell slot is 2d8.

What is divdivine Smite?

Divine Smite is an ability available to Paladins in Dungeons & Dragons 5e.

Is divine Smite an attack with a melee weapon?

Not an attack with a melee weapon. So no. Lyxen is correct. Two alternatives to Divine Smite that do work with ranged weapon attacks are Branding Smite and Banishing Smite. To clarify there are four kinds of attacks: melee weapon attack, ranged weapon attack, melee spell attack, ranged spell attack.