Weapon drawing and stowing is much more flexible now, and is clarified as part of the attack action: Unequipping a weapon includes sheathing, stowing, or dropping it. Yes, the relevant rules regarding free interactions are as follows:
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You can draw or stow a single weapon for free, per round, as a part of an action or movement.
They previously mentioned that the the various two weapon, throwing weapon, and drawing/stowing rules ended up worded this way because they found it was the easiest way to make.
If you need to draw or stow more than one weapon in a round, you need to use your. You can either equip or unequip one weapon. If you equip a weapon before an attack, you don’t need to use it for that attack. You do so either before or after the attack.
Do the new rules now allow for having a whip on your person which would then give you an attack of opportunity range of. Unequipping a weapon includes sheathing, stowing, or dropping it. you can equip or unequip a weapon, either before or after the attack, and if you equip it before an attack it does not. equipping and unequipping weapons.