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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9849406" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Note: this applies to 2014 and Tales of the Valiant as well.For a long time, I've wondered as to the exact reasons why you cannot perform a Bonus Action ability as an Action.  I've had players ask me about doing this from time to time, and I never could figure out a reason why not to allow it, but I refrained from doing so because I was worried that it might break something by accident.Recently, Tales of the Valiant released the Player's Guide 2, which has a Talent (ToV-speak for Feats) that has no other function than to allow you to take a bonus action with your action (in contrast to many other Talents which have multiple bullet-pointed abilities), so once again I'm left with the question-Why doesn't 5e allow you to do this, exactly, and would it really be worth a hypothetical Feat to gain the ability?</blockquote>