Could I use telekinesis to control a sword and attack with it?

[Bibtato]

So I have been thinking about playing a pact of the blade warlock with the great old one on my next campaign. Could I not use telekinesis on a sword and send it flying at a person?

[StoicLeaf]

Sure, why not?

[Ivor_The_Mad]

Yep, no rules against it.

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I personally as a DM (maybe not a good one), would count it as a improvised attack because its a sword being thrown at a person so I would treat it as such but if it were a spear or a dart or something I would allow a normal weapon attack more or less.

[Laserlight]

I can't imagine why you'd want to use a L5 spell, one of your limited number of spell slots, and your action every round to make one melee attack per round, when you could just cast an attack cantrip. But if you were at my table, I'd say "Sure, go ahead!"....with an evil grin.

[beargryllz]

Instead of throwing a sword at a person, why not throw *the person* 500 feet vertically and watch them splatter a minute later?

[Asmotherion]

Sometimes it's not so much if you could, but more if you should.

Well, unless your DM allows you to Quallify for a melee Weapon attack each round for the purposes of Booming Blade through your Spellcasting Stat... That is an interesting combination indeed. Not that it's necesserally better than actually using Telekinesis/A Cantrip individually, but it's definitelly better than just a weapon attack.

An other interesting "trick" would be the above, and "quallify" for booming blade by using the biggest object you can lift with Telekinesis, actually looking kinda like a weapon (a statue for example). Slam it on the target and make it go boom. Optionally grab it with your hands to make it "tactile telekinesis", and look like you actually lifted the object yourself.

[LeonBH]

You can't, but even if you could, why would you?

[Avigor]

If your DM is lenient enough to allow telekinesis to do damage like that despite RAW not incorporating damage for striking a creature with an object, use catapult instead and add the 3d8 (+1d8 per spell level) bludgeoning to the weapon's damage while converting the attack into a Dexterity saving throw that if the first target makes it, anything else in a line beyond it has to attempt the save as well (technically, the RAW doesn't allow you to add a flying weapon's damage to catapult but if your DM will allow it that could get ludicrously powerful) or take the hit.

I've actually done something similar once with some acid, stacked the bludgeoning and the acid damage. Biggest single target damage I've ever done from a single first level spell.

[Specter]

For the same spell slot, Animate Objects could animate up to 8 daggers - so there's that.

[Toofey]

Man, I would sure let you, that's cool!

RAW I don't see it, but clearly this should be allowed and should offer spell attack with the magic sword bonus because it's a pretty expensive use of resources to do something cool.