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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asgorath" data-source="post: 7570334" data-attributes="member: 6921966">Would you mind providing an example of a bonus action that does have specific timing, and explaining how it differs from Shield Master?  I'd like to understand how you're interpreting that part of the bonus action rules.<a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/995064841214676994" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/995064841214676994</a>"Today's clarification makes it so that you can trust your book more than ever before, since I've now eliminated an illogical ruling that actually seeded doubt about the book's text."I don't think there are any inconsistencies here.  JEC replies to a question on Twitter about Shield Master in 2015 and says "sure, you can shove whenever you like!" without actually reading the rules and then promptly forgets about it.  Years later, someone points out that this ruling is bad, so he clarifies how bonus action timing is supposed to work and reverses his previous bad ruling.I'm just trying to understand how you're reconciling the fact he's come out and said "hey that 2015 tweet was bad, I was wrong, here's how bonus action timing and Shield Master are supposed to work", including adding a question about Shield Master to the Sage Advice Compendium (the source of official rulings about rules questions).  It's one thing to just not use the rule as intended at your table, but you seem to be arguing that his ruling is simply incorrect and the 2015 tweet is how the rule is supposed to work.  Is that not the case?</blockquote>

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