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<blockquote data-quote="Xeviat" data-source="post: 7178373" data-attributes="member: 57494"><p><strong>(Note, I accidentally typed "immediate action" instead of "reaction". Change that in the poll in your mind.)</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi everyone. I've building more and more homebrewed stuff recently, and I've encountered a question on which I'd like to hear your opinion. What do you think is more valuable: A bonus action or a reaction? Which carries more weight. For instance, if two spells were largely identical, but one was a bonus action and one was an reaction, which would you consider to be higher level? As an example, imagine if there was a spell alongside Shield which, as a bonus action, increased your AC until the start of your next turn. Would that be too weak for a 1st level spell?</p><p></p><p>Considering this requires both looking at the action itself and what you give up by using the action. When you use a bonus action, you can't use another bonus action; likewise, when you use an reaction, you can't use another reaction. For spells, things are further altered because bonus action spells do not let you cast spells with spell slots in the same round, but I don't want to worry about that rule for this discussion.</p><p></p><p>So what do you think? Which action is more heavily valued in the rules?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xeviat, post: 7178373, member: 57494"] [B](Note, I accidentally typed "immediate action" instead of "reaction". Change that in the poll in your mind.)[/B] Hi everyone. I've building more and more homebrewed stuff recently, and I've encountered a question on which I'd like to hear your opinion. What do you think is more valuable: A bonus action or a reaction? Which carries more weight. For instance, if two spells were largely identical, but one was a bonus action and one was an reaction, which would you consider to be higher level? As an example, imagine if there was a spell alongside Shield which, as a bonus action, increased your AC until the start of your next turn. Would that be too weak for a 1st level spell? Considering this requires both looking at the action itself and what you give up by using the action. When you use a bonus action, you can't use another bonus action; likewise, when you use an reaction, you can't use another reaction. For spells, things are further altered because bonus action spells do not let you cast spells with spell slots in the same round, but I don't want to worry about that rule for this discussion. So what do you think? Which action is more heavily valued in the rules? [/QUOTE]
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