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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6843906" data-attributes="member: 16814">I'm wondering if it's worth the clarification, but here goes anyway.You don't get a bonus action on your turn, you can take up to 1 bonus action, if available.  I recognize that's sounds like a distinction without a difference, but it's a subtle but important point.  If you don't have a class feature or circumstance that gives you a bonus action, you don't have a bonus action.  Example: a 1st level fighter doesn't have a bonus action granted by his class.  Assuming his race doesn't grant one either, the fighter just flat out won't have a bonus action on his turn.  If he decides to wield two light weapons, though, doing so now grants him a bonus action attack if he take the attack action during his turn (he can take the attack action after the bonus action, just so long as he takes it -- timing isn't strict in this case).  He can choose to take that bonus action or not as he wants to.  If he doesn't take that action, he doesn't have a bonus action on his turn.  If one of his weapons is dropped, he also loses the choice to take the bonus action.  If he gains a bonus action from another source while dual wielding, he can choose which to take (or none at all), but can take, at a maximum, only one bonus action on his turn.Bonus actions are entirely conditional -- they don't exist unless you have an ability or circumstance that grants one, so it's strictly improper to say that you have 1 bonus action on your turn.  You may have up to 1 bonus action on your turn, but that's determined by circumstance and not something you just get on your turn.Sorry, it's definitely a nit picked, but I found it helped me better understand the turn structure when it was explained to me this way.  Maybe it will for you, as well.</blockquote>

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