Well again yes the ticks was just a fabrication to try and show different ways of seeing how they have placed additional restrictions on BA spells as not inexplicable - a way of them saying its six pounds of action in a five pound bonus sack.
1. Why is Misty Step "more restricted" than fireball? because that is how they chose to represent that limitation.
Like i have said, i would myself have no problem allowing you to cast Misty as a 1A and then surge fireball using your bonus action up for grabs for non-spell use and your reactions free. You used an example where dash is being used presumably by a character who can dash as a bonus action - and such a character can **still** dash as a normal action as well as using it as a bonus action - a flexibility blocked from BA casting time spells for some reason i myself do not understand.
I do not think anybody is arguing how good the rule is or that it is anything but an odd and quirky restriction with definite inconsistencies in what it allows and what it disallows.
But, what at least seems to be true about it is it seems this latest "confirmation" keeps to what the restriction says in the books, that casting a bonus action limits what spell can be cast on your turn to a 1 action cantrip as opposed to what some others had been ruling which was that action surge ended that restriction by giving you an additional action still on your same turn.
2. This latest bit is also consistent with how sneak attack works. The extra action from surge does not somehow lift the "in your turn" limit for sneak.
1. This is just saying that it is that way because it is, but it isn't 6 pounds of action in a five pound sack unless bonus actions spells do more or are slower than regular action spells. I compared dimension door to misty step for a reason. The more powerful teleportation spell that takes longer to cast still allows a creature to use their reaction. Everything else being equal, the "faster" spell lets you do less. There are a myriad of examples of how this does not make sense: flame strike vs healing word, meteor swarm vs any bonus action spell, using wish to change a bonus action spell to a regular action so that reaction spells suddenly work again, etc., but I have not yet seen how the bonus action spell rule as it currently is helps the game by restricting what a creature can do with a reaction or action surge.
2. This is a comparison of two very different concepts. Sneak Attack says you can only use it once per turn and is contained within itself: it does not affect another rule. The bonus action spell interferes with other features: it turns off reaction spells and changes what is allowed by Action Surge.
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