D&D 5E Can I use action surge in the middle of another action (between attacks when attacking with extra attack)?
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ezo
Hero
Not at all IMO. Actions are not "discrete" in that sense.
Saying a PC is taking the Attack action means they are attacking on their turn. That's all. With Extra Attack, they can attack twice, instead of only once, during their turn.
Their turn (or an action taken) isn't over just because they start a new action via Action Surge, Haste, or whatever. A PC (or creature) has finished its turn when it has no action resolution left and no movement left. Until those two things happen, it can still "do something" on its turn.
Saying a PC takes the Attack action enables them to make one (or possibly more) attacks. Using Action Surge to take the Attack action again is simply adding to the number of attacks the PC can make during their turn.
There is SO much more about D&D that the rules can't cover then what they can, that by saying "because they don't tell us we can, it must mean we can't" the game would be horribly restricted.
A simple rule: Until an action is resolved completely, new actions cannot be taken. If you do take a different action, any unresolved benefits of your previous action are wasted. (This would be a "general" rule, so specific rulings on features, moving between attacks, reactions, etc. would be fine, of course.)
With such a rule, you would be completely validated. And issues around Shield Master, Two-Weapon Fighting, some spells, etc. would be settled definitively.
However, no such rule exists in 5E... So such things have to be decided by each DM for themselves. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with your interpretation, either, except when you claim it is "RAW", which it blatantly isn't.
In this case, "take an OA" means "be targeted by an OA."
FrogReaver
The most respectful and polite poster ever
They are if you trigger one for an enemy.
Well if it says you can interupt extra attack with a reaction, please provide where it says this "explicitly".
That is not true an AOO can come on anyone's turn.
It does not say this anywhere in the rules.
Further this would mean if I dodge and then action surge attacks at me are no longer at disadvantage .... since the old action is over.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Then it's not relevant. The enemy's OA specifically interrupts the turn of the person being attacked. Specific beats general.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
You keep doing this. Unless something is explicitly written, it is not RAW. Therefore it is not RAW to allow action surge to work like you ask in the OP.
This is wrong per RAW. Dodge does not last until your next action. It lasts until your next TURN. The both actions are in the same turn if you use action surge.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Rarely, but again not relevant since OAs specifically interrupt the action being performed and then the action resumes where it left off.
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