Can booming blade be used as an opportunity attack?

Interpretation 1: because the opportunity attack is when the target is moving, booming blade's secondary damage immediately triggers, unless the target can no longer move, such as due to Sentinel.
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Can I use booming blade as a reaction?

Warcaster allows you to cast booming blade as an AOO reaction because booming blade is a spell with a casting time of one action. This is covered in the feat description. Booming blades initial thunder damage works fine, because it occurs with the attack on the target, this is covered in the spell description.
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Can you make opportunity attacks with flame blade?

Flame Blade has a specific action that uses a melee spell attack. It is not an attack action. An attack of opportunity only requires a melee attack, not the attack action, so that does not immediately disqualify it.
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Does booming blade count as an attack?

This really isn't a case of "making peace with it", though. Casting Booming Blade uses the "Cast a Spell" action, not the Attack Action. It is only "as part of the action used to cast this spell" do you get 1 melee attack, which is not the same as taking the Attack Action.
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Can you make a melee spell attack as an opportunity attack?

Can you use a melee spell attack to make an opportunity attack? You can't if the spell attack is created by casting a spell. When a creature triggers an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against it.
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Can you draw a weapon as part of an opportunity attack?

100% correct: a weapon cannot be drawn as part of an opportunity attack, despite the fact that a weapon can be drawn as part of an attack roll (even on a reaction). Let me explain: A weapon can be drawn as part of an attack (not the Attack action) once per turn.
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Is booming blade a melee spell attack?

First, each of [booming blade and green-flame blade] involves a normal melee weapon attack, not a spell attack, so you use whatever ability modifier you normally use with the weapon. (A spell tells you if it includes a spell attack, and neither of these spells do.)
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Can you use booming blade on a attack of opportunity 5E?

Re: Booming Blade and Opportunity Attacks

1) Booming Blade would trigger after your AoO, since if it triggered before, they'd be out of range. 2) It was after, so you'd only get one trigger of Booming Blade.
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Does booming blade let you attack twice?

"Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks."
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Can booming blade be used with sneak attack?

Precision is "when you make a melee attack", so it clearly is legal. Tripping says "when you hit a creature with a weapon" which again is legal. So both of them can be used when you cast Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade, and Sneak Attack also works with these spells.
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Can you stack booming blade and green flame blade?

Since as a rogue you can only cast one cantrip per turn you would not be able to cast two cantrips. An EK fighter with action surge or a sorcerer with quickened spell could cast two cantrips however they would be either Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade not both on one swing.
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Does Echo Knight provoke Opportunity attacks?

The Echo Knight counts as an object much like bigby's hand. As it is an object and not a creature it cannot provoke opportunity attacks. The rule for opportunity attacks reads: “You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach.”
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Does Shadow blade count as a weapon?

Unlike most Shortswords, Shadow Blade is classed as a Simple weapon and not a Martial weapon. While this weapon can be dipped in most cases, it cannot be Dipped in Fire.
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Can you quicken a booming blade?

Yes, you can quicken booming blade and cast it at a bonus action. (You can also twin it with twinned spell and attack two targets that are in range.)
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Can you use booming blade with unarmed strike?

And, technically, spells such as booming blade and green-flame blade require a melee weapon as a material component. But unarmed strikes can count as weapon attacks. This is more a quirk of game terminology, however, than a reflection of what's actually being used by the character.
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Does booming blade work with Warcaster?

attack roll, the spell's range is doubled." Booming Blade works fine with War Caster.
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Can you cast 2 cantrips with extra attack?

Fighter's "Action Surge" allows you to gain a second action, which you could use to cast a cantrip/leveled spell (but that is two actions and two castings) The New Bladesinger Classes extra attack feature allows you to cast a cantrip as one of your extra attacks, but you can't use that to cast two cantrips.
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Can I cast booming blade as a bonus action?

Yes, you can quicken booming blade and cast it at a bonus action. (You can also twin it with twinned spell and attack two targets that are in range.) Yes, you can then grapple the target with your action.
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Can you smite off of booming blade?

As part of the spell, you make a melee attack with a weapon. Divine smite is proc'd when you hit a creature with a melee attack with a weapon. So, yes.
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Does booming blade work with pact weapon?

The material component for Booming Blade is a weapon that's worth at least 1 sp. RAW: Yes. A Pact Weapon is considered to have the value of the weapon it becomes, whereas the weapon created by Shadow Blade is composed of "gloom", which has no value.
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Can you bonus attack after booming blade?

When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand.
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Do multiple booming blades stack?

Does the extra damage from Booming Blade stack if the spell is cast twice on the same target in D&D 5E? No, the rules of 5e are such that you can't stack two of the same effect, whether from the same person or multiple people, beneficial or detrimental.
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Can I sneak attack on an opportunity attack?

No matter how many attacks a D&D 5e rogue can make, Sneak Attack can only be used on one in their turn. However, the 'once per turn' rule is very specific. Rogues can add Sneak Attack damage to attacks made on other turns, such as opportunity attacks with their reaction.
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Can you opportunity attack an invisible enemy?

You can make an opportunity attack only against creatures that you can see. Opportunity attacks are triggered by a creature you can see leaving your reach. A creature who is invisible can't be seen so they don't trigger opportunity attacks.
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Does pushing attack trigger opportunity of attack?

No. This is addressed in the rules for Opportunity Attacks which states: "You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction."
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