@Yardiff You can't refute what I say, so you abuse the laugh button instead? Classy.
The way I have always read the Shield Master feat from the PHB has been that the feat gives you an attack that must be a shove during your attack action and doing this uses your bonus action.
I believe my interpretation of the PHB makes more since, helps players more, then what the so called 'officials' say.
I laugh because you ignored the first line of my post to continue to talk about RAW, which my post wasn't talking about.
So two things. First, if a post isn't intended to be humor, laughing at it is an abuse of the laugh button on this site. Second, when you said you were changing how bonus actions are viewed, I thought you were talking about trying to change people perceptions. Your last line "think about it" seemed to go in that direction. My bad for not understanding exactly what you were saying. Had you just posted a response like this one instead of abusing the laugh button, though, I could have let you know this a few posts ago.
So, since you are changing bonus actions to be a part of the action process for your game, does that mean that there are no ways to get bonus actions for use outside of an action in your game?
The way I have always read the Shield Master feat from the PHB has been that the feat gives you an attack that must be a shove during your attack action and doing this uses your bonus action.
I believe my interpretation of the PHB makes more since, helps players more, then what the so called 'officials' say.
They CAN be discreet actions on their own but don't HAVE to be.
Please cite the text in the PHB that supports this idea. You can do what you like at your table, but this stuff isn’t really adding anything to the discussions about RAW.
To be fair, I did ask him how it would work in his game.