D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion

[DrJawaPhD]

Personally I feel that so long as you can't duplicate a bonus action, there's no major issue. Being able to use the same BA twice might cause issues, especially an attack feature like Spiritual Weapon or Flaming Sphere.

If using a Spiritual Weapon or Flaming Sphere twice is better than using your Action like a normal person, you have a realllllllly bad character build and ought to rethink things

 

[W'rkncacnter]

honestly if my players asked if they could take a bonus action as an action i'd probably allow it so long as they're aware it's a house rule.

 

[Stormonu]

When I first started playing 5E, I let players convert bonus actions to actions. Didn't have any problem with it in our game.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

A while ago I made a house rule that you may be able to take a bonus action in place of an action with DM approval. Yeah that's pretty wishy-washy for a "rule", but I think it will usually be perfectly fine--except for the rare occasion it isn't--so I didn't want it just to be allowed by default.