Does booming blade count as a 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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What counts as a melee weapon 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 a melee spell attack count as a weapon attack?

It does not apply because a spell attack is not an unarmed strike.
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Does flame blade count as a melee weapon attack?

Flame blade has you make a spell attack (emphasis added): You can use your action to make a melee spell attack with the fiery blade.
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Can you use 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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Does booming blade count as a melee attack?

Both booming blade and green flame blade require you to make a melee attack with a weapon as part of the spell. Both Divine Smite and most Smite spells are applicable on a melee weapon attack.
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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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Does Shadow blade count as a weapon attack?

There are no mechanical requirements other then only being able to use the weapon one-handed for Blade Singing - further, Shadow Blade creates a single handed sword of shadow that counts as a melee weapon and is used with an attack action.
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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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Do mantis arms count as 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 natural attacks count as weapon attacks?

Are natural weapons considered weapons? Things designated as weapons by the rules, including natural weapons, are indeed weapons. In contrast, unarmed strikes are not weapons. They are something you do with an unarmed part of your body.
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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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Is a thrown melee weapon a melee weapon attack?

Thrown weapons are not range weapons. they are melee weapons being thrown.
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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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Is a lightsaber considered a melee weapon?

Various orders and organizations also had their signature weapon. The most familiar examples included the Jedi and the Sith, who extensively used the lightsaber, one of the most versatile and powerful melee weapons ever known.
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Can I attack while grappling?

D&D: Can you attack with a weapon when you grapple? Certainly. It's easy to mischaracterize grappling as its close cousin, restrained. A grappled target isn't restrained; you're just engaged with the creature in a way that it can't adequately move away.
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Can you use booming Blade and shadow blade?

Though since shadow blade dissipates when the caster lets go, it would have no value. But, they could be hired as a mercenary because of their shadow blade, giving it the technical value that would allow booming blade to be cast.
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Can you turn Shadow Blade into a pact weapon?

The key things are that shadow blade never counts as a pact weapon or as a hex warrior weapon so you can never use charisma with it. This means the hexblade has to use strength or dexterity to attack with a shadow blade and not charisma.
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Can Pact of the Blade summon any weapon?

You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it (see chapter 5 for weapon options). You are proficient with it while you wield it. So, this cannot be any weapon.
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Does green flame blade count as a weapon attack?

Yes. Because of the wordings Green Flame Blade can be seen as: two different actions in one action slot, a spell causing a melee attack in the same action, or a bonus bonus action of sorts.
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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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Is Flame Blade a weapon?

Flame Blade is a magical, conjured variant of the Scimitars family of weapons. It is a martial melee weapon wielded in one hand. It adds the user's spellcasting modifier to its attack roll; Wisdom if summoned as a Druid spell, and Charisma if summoned by a Mephistopheles Tiefling using their subrace trait.
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Can booming blade be counterspelled?

Booming Blade is a magically enhanced melee attack. There is no logic behind having a counterspell prevent the melee attack component.
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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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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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