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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8723155" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Three things.</p><p>1. The fact that the game constantly danced around whether or not you "have" an action or bonus action, which can be spent on certain things, or whether you simply "can take" an action and a bonus action. The circumlocution genuinely confused me until I realized they were trying to have their cake and eat it too, particularly because they frequently fail to use that circumlocution consistently.</p><p>2. The fact that there is no relationship whatsoever between bonus actions and "regular" actions. Why is it I cannot do do two things that are both bonus actions in the same round, that is, using my "regular" action to take a bonus action in addition to using my bonus action for that purpose? This has never been adequately explained to me by anyone. Particularly egregious because there are in fact some actions which can also (in some contexts) be bonus actions, so there's no clear separation between them (e.g. a Quickened <em>fire bolt</em> is a bonus action, while <em>fire bolt</em> normally is a "regular" action, so you CAN sometimes do the same thing with both your "regular" action and bonus action. Or how Cunning Action lets Rogues Dash as a bonus action, while still being able to Dash as a "regular" action if they wish.)</p><p>3. The fact that there are Actions and there are actions, and some actions are Actions and others are Bonus Actions and others are something that rides along while you perform some other Action/Bonus Action without you specifically doing anything, and some are Free Actions or even Non-Actions. This bit was particularly confusing because it meant the game was using literally one single word to refer to "anything you can do in combat (and often many things outside it)" and, at the same time, the narrow category of "stuff that is a big deal to do and isn't a Bonus Action, Free Action, etc." I here have used the capitalization to distinguish the former (lowercase-a "action," which is anything you can attempt, more or less) from the latter (uppercase-A "Action," which is things like Cast A Spell or Attack), but nothing in the game helps cleanly differentiate the two, and as shown above one is often forced to insert a clarifying adjective like "regular" to indicate Actions as opposed to Bonus Actions etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8723155, member: 6790260"] Three things. 1. The fact that the game constantly danced around whether or not you "have" an action or bonus action, which can be spent on certain things, or whether you simply "can take" an action and a bonus action. The circumlocution genuinely confused me until I realized they were trying to have their cake and eat it too, particularly because they frequently fail to use that circumlocution consistently. 2. The fact that there is no relationship whatsoever between bonus actions and "regular" actions. Why is it I cannot do do two things that are both bonus actions in the same round, that is, using my "regular" action to take a bonus action in addition to using my bonus action for that purpose? This has never been adequately explained to me by anyone. Particularly egregious because there are in fact some actions which can also (in some contexts) be bonus actions, so there's no clear separation between them (e.g. a Quickened [I]fire bolt[/I] is a bonus action, while [I]fire bolt[/I] normally is a "regular" action, so you CAN sometimes do the same thing with both your "regular" action and bonus action. Or how Cunning Action lets Rogues Dash as a bonus action, while still being able to Dash as a "regular" action if they wish.) 3. The fact that there are Actions and there are actions, and some actions are Actions and others are Bonus Actions and others are something that rides along while you perform some other Action/Bonus Action without you specifically doing anything, and some are Free Actions or even Non-Actions. This bit was particularly confusing because it meant the game was using literally one single word to refer to "anything you can do in combat (and often many things outside it)" and, at the same time, the narrow category of "stuff that is a big deal to do and isn't a Bonus Action, Free Action, etc." I here have used the capitalization to distinguish the former (lowercase-a "action," which is anything you can attempt, more or less) from the latter (uppercase-A "Action," which is things like Cast A Spell or Attack), but nothing in the game helps cleanly differentiate the two, and as shown above one is often forced to insert a clarifying adjective like "regular" to indicate Actions as opposed to Bonus Actions etc. [/QUOTE]
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