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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8763915" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Most my groups have made it a bonus action (action to administer it to someone else). It works fine either way. Fundamentally the impact of healing potions is relatively limited because they are a consumable that is (by suggested prices) expensive for what it does and ultimately up to the DM to decide the plentifulness of. If you are making them better in your campaign, by letting them work as a bonus action, just make them a little scarcer and/or pricier. In fact, since they are a consumable item I consider it potentially less a matter of houseruling general rules than a matter of homebrewing item content to decide that potions work with action or bonus action, or that some work with one but others the other. Perhaps WotC should just include both action potions and bonus action potions in the game.I prefer bonus action potions because it makes potions (of all sorts) more likely to actually get used and makes for more interesting turns, and hence (with suitable balancing) a better game.</blockquote>