



While weapons don’t usually require an action to draw, as the Use an Object action states that So the question becomes whether or not a shield is an item that you “hold” or is in your “grasp.” To answer that, we have two more points to consider: When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can it to drop one item of your choice that it's holding. The entry on the disarm variant rule states thatĪ creature can use a weapon attack to knock a weapon or another item from a target's grasp.Īnd the entry on the battlemaster’s disarming attack lets you We have, effectively, three points of information.
