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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6332568" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think that you can't allow that, because you get the bonus action only as a specific ability from class/feat/spell/race that says "you can do X as a bonus action". So how could you generally allow someone to turn an action into a bonus action? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It would mean to grant anybody such bonus action in every turn.Rather, I wonder if there will be a FAQ about converting a bonus action into a normal action. It's probably a corner case, but for example a Cleric casting Healing Word (a bonus action), can she cast it also as a normal action? If she's not actually using her normal action this turn, then it's irrelevant. But what if she has another ability X that grants a bonus action? By the rules, she can't take 2 bonus actions in the same turn, and the intent of such rule is to prevent too many action in a round (max 2). What if she is not taking her normal action, but wishes to cast Healing Word and use X? That would mean technically 2 bonus actions but 0 normal actions. By the RAW, it's not possible, however by the intent this may be acceptable, since it's still 2 actions (and stuff you can do with bonus actions is so far typically less or equal to the stuff you can do with your main action). This is what I mean by converting a bonus action into a normal action.</blockquote>

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