Can you cast green flame blade as an opportunity attack?

Second, neither green-flame blade nor booming blade works with Extra Attack or any other feature that requires the Attack action. Like other spells, these cantrips require the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action, and they can't be used to make an opportunity attack, unless a special feature allows you to do so.
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Can you use green flame blade as an attack of opportunity?

Rules as Written, No

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 green flame blade count as an attack?

Those two “Blade attacks” aren't attacks. They're cantrips, meaning a spell. As part of the spell, you are making an attack with a weapon.
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Can you cast green flame blade as a bonus action?

Sorcerers can pay 2 sorcery points to quicken green flame blade, granting them a pseudo-Extra Attack. Dual-wield the cantrip by taking the Attack action normally, then quickening green flame blade as a bonus action!
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Can you cast booming blade as an opportunity attack?

An attack of opportunity works because Dissonant Whispers forces the target to use its reaction to move out of range which is a valid AOO trigger. This is covered in the DMG. Warcaster allows you to cast booming blade as an AOO reaction because booming blade is a spell with a casting time of one action.
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CANTRIP #14: Green-Flame Blade (5E)

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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Can you cast a melee spell as an opportunity attack?

You can cast a spell at the time you would normally make an opportunity attack, but that spell is not itself an opportunity attack.
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How do you cast a green flame blade?

You use your action to cast and attack with Green Flame Blade, and if you hit with that, the primary target (only) gets the Thunderous Strike damage and effects. At the same hit, you can elect to use your Divine Smite using a spell slot.
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Can you stack green flame blade and booming 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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Can you dual wield and use green flame blade?

You cannot use two-weapon fighting with green-flame blade at all, as the bonus action off-hand attack requires you to take the Attack action first, but like I say, casting the cantrip uses a different action.
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Can green flame blade trigger sneak attack?

Assuming all the other conditions of sneak attack are met, then yes, the weapon attack from green-flame blade can trigger sneak attack.
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Can you use green flame blade on a pact weapon?

You can't use Green Flame Blade or Booming Blade with your pact weapon, as they now require a weapon worth at least 1sp, thus disqualifying any summoned weapon (except for magical weapons you have turned into your pact weapon), and since they have a listed cost, you can't use a focus in its' place.
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How does green flame blade work?

This is where the green flame comes in. On a successful hit, green fire roars up from your weapon, leaping to another target of your choice within five feet. The second creature then takes fire damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.
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Can green flame blade be twinned?

Green flame Blade can't be twinned

For a spell to be twinnable it needs to only target one creature. As clarified in the PHB errata: To be eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell's current level.
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Can you cast green flame blade with Shadow blade?

By RAW you cannot use Shadow Blade (SB) with the cantrips Green-Flame Blade (GFB) or Booming Blade (BB). These cantrips require that you use a melee weapon worth 1 silver piece and that you use that specific weapon for the attack.
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Can you smite on top of green flame blade?

The smite spells only require a bonus action (and the blades spells are cantrips), so there's no problem in casting both on the same turn.
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Can you use smite with green flame blade?

You use your action to cast and attack with Green Flame Blade, and if you hit with that, the primary target (only) gets the Thunderous Strike damage and effects. At the same hit, you can elect to use your Divine Smite using a spell slot. Note that you don't need hast for the other 3.
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Can you cast shillelagh and green flame blade?

Green-Flame Blade and Booming Blade are both cantrips, meaning you can cast one after Shillelagh and use its attack as part of GFB or BB.
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Does green flame blade work with shillelagh?

The green-flame blade spell works just the same with a shillelagh-ed weapon. The green-flame blade spell (SCAG, p.
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Do you need a free hand to cast green flame blade?

You can use the same hand for both the material and somatic component and since the weapon is the material component you don't need another hand free.
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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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Do opportunity attacks have to be melee?

Opportunity Attacks

To make the opportunity attack, you use your reaction to make one melee attack against the provoking creature. The attack occurs right before the creature leaves your reach. You can avoid provoking an opportunity attack by taking the Disengage action.
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Can you cast shield on an opportunity attack?

The use of the Shield spell is a Reaction that takes place on another creatures turn during the round, generally in response to some kind of action on their part (in Shield's case, attacking the caster). You can only use one Reaction per round of combat, and that includes Attacks of Opportunity as well.
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Can you use Thorn Whip as an opportunity attack?

Thorn Whip itself does not provoke opportunity attacks from the target since forced movement does not trigger reactions. However, forced movement may allow allies to take opportunity attacks if the target leaves their reach.
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Can I use my opportunity attack to grapple?

In 5E RAW, you cannot use an opportunity attack for a grapple attempt. The rules in the PHB are a wee bit ambiguous but a Sage Advice made it very clear - you need to be using the Melee Attack action in order to grapple, and you can only do that on your turn. (The workaround is to Ready a grapple attempt.)
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