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<blockquote data-quote="Maestrino" data-source="post: 7832264" data-attributes="member: 7015644">Ah, I see they Sage Adviced this one. However, their wording still isn't airtight:Two-Weapon Fighting (under melee attacks, not the fighting style, not the feat) says &quot;When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand.&quot;It says when you take the attack action you can use a bonus action. It doesn't say you can use a bonus action if you have not already used one on your turn. I'd even read it to mean that if you have spells and want to cast healing word as a bonus action, then attack with your action, you'd still get the off-hand attack, because it's automatically granted. I'd argue that the specific rule for two-weapon fighting trumps the general cap on bonus actions.If they really want to eliminate the controversy they need to add a sentence in the PHB like &quot;NOTE: Action Surge does not grant a second bonus action off-hand attack for two-weapon fighting.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maestrino, post: 7832264, member: 7015644"] Ah, I see they Sage Adviced this one. However, their wording still isn't airtight: Two-Weapon Fighting (under melee attacks, not the fighting style, not the feat) says "When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand." It says [I]when[/I] you take the attack action you [I]can use a bonus action.[/I] It doesn't say you can use a bonus action if you have not already used one on your turn. I'd even read it to mean that if you have spells and want to cast healing word as a bonus action, then attack with your action, you'd [I]still[/I] get the off-hand attack, because it's automatically granted. I'd argue that the specific rule for two-weapon fighting trumps the general cap on bonus actions. If they really want to eliminate the controversy they need to add a sentence in the PHB like "NOTE: Action Surge does not grant a second bonus action off-hand attack for two-weapon fighting."[I][/I] [/QUOTE]

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