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<blockquote data-quote="TheWriterFantastic™" data-source="post: 6332921" data-attributes="member: 88534">It seems that the simplest way to illustrate it may be this:A character can, in a standard round, move and take an action.&nbsp; As exceptions to that rule, the character may also take one reaction and one bonus action each standard round under certain circumstances:Certain abilities, spells, or attacks that are reactions may be used when certain triggers are fulfilled, such as an opportunity attack triggered by an enemy leaving the character's threatened reach, or a feather fall spell triggered by the character or an ally falling.Other abilities, spells, or attacks that are bonus actions can only be used if its description specifies that it is a bonus action, such as the two-weapon fighting example using the bonus action for an off-hand attack, or a healing word spell using a bonus action for its casting, with each still allowing a regular action (the bonus action spell, however, restricts casting an additional spell with the regular action in that round).Basically -- all characters have movement, an action, a bonus action, and a reaction available for use in one round, but only movement and regular actions are used regularly in general circumstances, but reactions and bonus actions are only used in exceptional circumstances.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheWriterFantastic™, post: 6332921, member: 88534"] [FONT=century gothic]It seems that the simplest way to illustrate it may be this: A character can, in a standard round, move and take an action. As exceptions to that rule, the character may also take one reaction and one bonus action each standard round under certain circumstances: Certain abilities, spells, or attacks that are reactions may be used when certain triggers are fulfilled, such as an opportunity attack triggered by an enemy leaving the character's threatened reach, or a feather fall spell triggered by the character or an ally falling. [/FONT][FONT=century gothic]Other abilities, spells, or attacks that are bonus actions can only be used if its description specifies that it is a bonus action, such as the two-weapon fighting example using the bonus action for an off-hand attack, or a healing word spell using a bonus action for its casting, with each still allowing a regular action (the bonus action spell, however, restricts casting an additional spell with the regular action in that round). Basically -- all characters have movement, an action, a bonus action, and a reaction available for use in one round, but only movement and regular actions are used regularly in general circumstances, but reactions and bonus actions are only used in exceptional circumstances.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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