Does booming blade count as a melee 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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Is booming blade considered a melee weapon attack?

Booming Blade: You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack... Divine Smite: As part of the spell, you make a melee attack with a weapon.
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What counts as a melee attack?

Used in hand-to-hand combat, a melee attack allows you to attack a foe within your reach. A melee attack typically uses a handheld weapon such as a sword, a warhammer, or an axe. A typical monster makes a melee attack when it strikes with its claws, horns, teeth, tentacles, or other body part.
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Does booming blade count as an action?

Booming Blade is a spell, which requires you to have taken the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action.
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Does Flame Blade count as a melee weapon?

Flame Blade is a level 2 evocation spell. This spell allows spellcasters to summon a fiery scimitar in their free hand that sheds bright light. Casters can make a melee weapon attack with the blade to deal Fire damage to enemies.
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Should you use Booming Blade or Extra Attack? D&D5e

Are mantis blades considered melee?

Cyberpunk 2077 mantis blades are a special cyberware melee weapon that you can have installed in your arms from certain Ripperdocs, assuming you have the money and street cred to pay for it.
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Do sword kills count as melee kills?

Kills with the sword still don't count as melee kills.
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How does booming blade work?

"You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn."
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Does booming blade deal damage?

Booming Blade's regular bonus damage applies only if the target moves willingly. Otherwise, it does normal attack damage.
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Is throwing a dagger a melee attack?

Despite it being thrown, it's still a melee weapon.
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How do you calculate melee attack in 5e?

Melee weapons with proficiency The basic attack bonus formula for melee weapons your PC is proficient in is: Strength (STR) Modifier + Proficiency Bonus. In other words, all you need to do is add their STR modifier to their proficiency bonus, and that's their attack bonus.
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Do claws count as melee weapons?

Claws is an item class of one-handed melee weapons that require intelligence and dexterity, have a moderately high base critical strike chance, high base attack speed and have a x Life gained for each Enemy hit by Attacks or x% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Lifes implicit modifier.
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Does booming blade use your spell attack?

If I cast a booming blade, do I add my spell attack modifier to the roll in D&D 5E? No… you get your mele attack modifier for the attack.
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Does booming blade work with great weapon fighting?

But what about the bonus action attack from GWM? Booming Blade takes your action and the melee attack is part of the spell casting. You still have your bonus action left to use. It would not carry the Booming Blade rider, but you would still have your attack as a bonus action.
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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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Does booming blade work with push?

Hit an enemy with booming blade then push them. If they want to get back into melee, then they take the secondary damage. Figured best ways to do this are either by going artillerist. sword bard, or warlock.
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Does booming blade work with natural weapons?

You can't use natural weapons, conjured weapons, or improvised weapons. And since the spell says you make a melee attack, you can't pick a thrown melee weapon and throw it for the spell.
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Is booming blade loud?

I'd say it makes about as much noise as any other standard combat action, like smacking someone in metal armor with a metal sword. It's not stealthy, but it's no more audible than general combat. Thunder damage replaced earlier editions Sonic damage.
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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 booming blade be a bonus action?

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.
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Can you cast two cantrips in one turn?

Well, yes. You can't cast two spells of 1st-level or higher in the same turn, but you can cast as many cantrips as you have actions for. If you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher - or a cantrip - as a bonus action, you can still cast a cantrip as your action.
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Do gravity hammer kills count as melee kills?

Sword and hammer kills have their own medal separate from melee kills.
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Does hammer count as melee damage?

Tools such as pickaxes, drills, axes, chainsaws, and hammers inflict melee damage and can be used as melee weapons, but are far weaker than actual melee weapons of corresponding tiers.
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What is the most painful melee weapon?

Pain is entirely subjective. However, the macuahuitl could incapacitate an opponent and so prolong their suffering. The macuahuitl is a flat wooden club with obsidian blades embedded into its sides. It was used by Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs.
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