Can you sneak attack green Flame Blade?

To Enable Sneak Attacks as a Rogue Rogues lacking Extra Attack face a quandary – their best feature, Sneak Attack, only works once per turn. Green flame blade neatly solves this by pairing Sneak Attack with bonus fire damage.
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Does green flame blade allow extra attack?

No. Green Flame Blade and Booming Blade are spells that take an Action to cast, and you make a single attack with a weapon as part of the casting of the spells. The only exception is bladesinger wizard's extra attack that they get at level 6 which allows one of the attacks to be a cantrip.
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Can you target yourself with green flame blade?

Choose yourself as the target of GFB's secondary damage and take 1d8+4 fire damage. Use your reaction to cast Absorb Elements at 3rd level and resist that damage (which your ice shield takes).
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Can a booming blade trigger a sneak attack?

Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade are cantrips that require melee weapons and can trigger Sneak Attack. Given that a Rogue only makes one attack with their action, they lose out on nothing by casting these instead of attacking.
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Does green flame blade count as a melee weapon attack?

And yes, the SA compendium is a source of official rulings. 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.
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CANTRIP #14: Green-Flame Blade (5E)

Can you use green flame blade with unarmed strike?

A consequence of this ruling is that Rules as Intended, a Paladin can smite on an unarmed attack, which counts as a melee weapon attack but not an attack with a melee weapon. However you can't use an unarmed attack for Booming blade or Green flame blade.
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Can you dual wield and use green flame blade?

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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What are the rules for sneak attack?

Sneak Attack

The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon. You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.
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Can I sneak attack with Shadow blade?

For rogues specialized in illusion magic and enchantment spells, shadow blade is a perfect fit. Its thrown property allows an Arcane Trickster to use Dexterity for both the attack and their devastating Sneak Attack damage. And with the advantage granted in dim light, landing Sneak Attack is almost guaranteed.
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What damage type is a sneak attack?

Sneak attack allows a rogue to deal additional damage when certain criteria are met during an attack. The damage starts at 1d6, scaling all the way to 10d6 when they reach twentieth level. There is no specific type of damage that sneak attack deals, so it does not fall under vulnerability or resistance rules.
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Can you use a green flame blade on one person?

Booming blade can be twinned through metamagic, but not green flame blade as that spell targets more than a single creature.
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Can you cast green flame blade with war caster?

Applying this to our spells: Green-Flame Blade now works with War Caster, since you are no longer compelled to target a second creature.
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Does green flame blade work with a reach weapon?

The Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade spells both have a range of 5'. This makes those spells far less effective for characters using them with reach (either using a reach weapon or as a Bugbear with extended reach, or both!).
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Does green flame Blade do damage to the first target?

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.
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Can you green flame Blade a 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 attack with flame Blade as a bonus action?

You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a scimitar, and it lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade, it disappears, but you can evoke the blade again as a bonus action. You can use your action to make a melee spell attack with the fiery blade.
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Can you stack booming blade with sneak attack?

So both of them can be used when you cast Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade, and Sneak Attack also works with these spells. That is, you can stack them. Note, not all Maneuvers do this - Commander's Strike for example says when you take the Attack action, so it can not apply when you cast either of these spells.
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Does sneak attack work with thrown daggers?

- Currently, while you can use it as ranged attack, this only applies for bows and crossbows but it left out throwing daggers, an staple of rogues. (Also you can't throw daggers with your offhand).
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How many times can you uncanny dodge?

Since you are only allowed one reaction per round, you are allowed this feature once per round, barring other special effects or features which would grant an additional reaction. You have to choose which attack's damage you want to reduce, so it cannot be used against multiple attacks.
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Is a dagger a finesse weapon?

For example, if you throw a handaxe, you use your Strength, but if you throw a dagger, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the dagger has the finesse property.
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How much damage does a green flame blade do?

Green-flame blade adds your spellcasting ability modifier to the second-target damage (so most likely 1d8+4 at 5th level) and booming blade does an extra 1d8 (scaling normally; 2d8 to 5th level) if the target moves within one round.
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Can you use shillelagh and green flame blade?

Do your prebattle ritual of casting Shillelagh on your quarterstaff and cast Searing Smite and Hexblades curse on your target. On your turn, you will attack with your staff, using Green-Flame Blade and/or Booming Blade and activate your Searing Smite.
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How to use a green flame blade?

Roll to attack as normal, and your target suffers your weapon's standard damage and effects if you hit. 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.
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