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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7771085" data-attributes="member: 6799649">But there IS a general rule that you can take your bonus action whenever you like, as soon as you actually have a bonus action. That, combined with complete silence on whether or not actions are divisible, leaves us only with 'take the bonus action when you like' rule.Not a valid answer.It cannot be that you have not 'taken the Attack action' so you haven't generated the bonus action shield shove, but you have 'taken the Attack action' so you can't take a different action.It's a game rule, not an unresolved quantum probability. We are looking in the box! We can see if the cat is dead or alive! It is one or the other! 'Taking the Attack action' involves, according to PHB p192: "With this action, you make one melee or ranged attack." Therefore, as soon as you say you are 'taking the Attack action' and have resolved that attack it is certain that you have, in fact, 'taken the Attack action' at this point. You have generated that bonus action shield shove.With Extra Attack, you can attack twice. You are not required to attack twice.If I have Extra Attack, and attack once, but choose not to make a second attack, have I not 'taken the Attack action' as described in the rules? Am I barred from doing anything else ever that requires an action or bonus action because I am still in the middle of my Attack action? Do I have to attack a nearby innocent child because I've killed all the baddies before I am allowed to misty step over the chasm to get to the BBEG?</blockquote>

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