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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6628018">In this case it's me the DM granting the feature &quot;you may use a bonus action to make a check&quot; to certain monsters.I disagree, though my table has loosened up bonus action to work more like &quot;minor action&quot; of previous editions.&nbsp; I find the rules around bonus action to be fairly unclear at times with the text meandering back and forth between &quot;you may use a bonus action&quot; to &quot;you gain a bonus action&quot;.&nbsp; Some of the abilities infer that you now have access to a bonus action in which you may do this select thing, others seem to imply that you may do this select thing as a bonus action if something else grants you one.So we just simplify it to say, you always have a bonus action, but you can only do X or Y as a bonus action when it would otherwise not be if you have a feature that allows you to do so.In a &quot;rulings not rules&quot; edition, if the rules don't explicitly state something, I take that as a place where the DM gets to decide.&nbsp; The rules don't explicitly state you DONT have a bonus action, so I make a call.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6628018"] In this case it's me the DM granting the feature "you may use a bonus action to make a check" to certain monsters. I disagree, though my table has loosened up bonus action to work more like "minor action" of previous editions. I find the rules around bonus action to be fairly unclear at times with the text meandering back and forth between "you may use a bonus action" to "you gain a bonus action". Some of the abilities [I]infer[/I] that you now have access to a bonus action in which you may do this select thing, others seem to imply that you may do this select thing as a bonus action [I]if[/I] something else grants you one. So we just simplify it to say, you always have a bonus action, but you can only do X or Y as a bonus action when it would otherwise not be if you have a feature that allows you to do so. In a "rulings not rules" edition, if the rules don't explicitly state something, I take that as a place where the DM gets to decide. The rules don't explicitly state you DONT have a bonus action, so I make a call. [/QUOTE]

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