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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7295206" data-attributes="member: 1465">Personally I think it helps me to keep in mind the simultaneous nature of everything you do on your turn.On my turn, I think my PC is taking her action at the same time she's moving, and a bonus action is also taken together with both, and with talking or doing other minor things. If you don't play in ToTM mode, it may become necessary to specify the order of them, but it's more like an artifact to help the description and the adjudicating.The game needed "bonus actions" to be defined rather because of the "not more than 1 at a time" rule, than because of a true need for an addition to the action economy. I agree with Mearls that they aren't strictly needed, but I don't think he could easily pull off the design of a whole game with lots of abilities meant to be usable on top of your main action, without the design trick which is a bonus action. The verbosity of the game would probably get out of hands.Reactions are also there for specific gaming reasons: they definitely wanted opportunity attacks, readying, and counterspell being in the game, as well as a few specific spells (Feather Fall being the one most needing a special rule). So the designers were looking for a unified rule to cover different things for simplicity.The "free" object interaction rule is perhaps the most fuzzy. In some parts of the text it even sounds like you should already count attacking with a weapon as interacting with it, while in general it seems the RAI was to allow you to interact with another object beyond the weapon used to attack. But then, is an arrow a separate object from a bow or not? I don't think the game says you to treat them as a single object, but it does explicitly allow you to draw ammunitions as part of attacking, thus removing the practical issue. But perhaps technically this doesn't remove the fact that you are in fact interacting with many objects at once, so you may not necessarily be allowed to interact with yet one more object.In addition, the object interaction rule seems concerned with the number of objects rather than with the number of interactions. You are free to draw and sheath and and draw the same weapon as many times you want, and maybe end up handing it to another character too, but you are forbidden to switch between weapons.A practical example:[video=youtube;zX2NZS-EqJ4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX2NZS-EqJ4[/video]</blockquote>

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