D&D 5E (2014) Thoughts on bonus action potions?

[Clint_L]

Healing Potions have a weight in the adventuring gear table of 1/2 lbs. Also in the item description. Of course some.if that can be the glass, but the glass is not 7/8 of the whole weight.
The DMG part speaks about potions in general. But the weight for healing g potions is specific. And in D&D 5e specific beats general rules.

That would be mostly the container, which is presumably pretty durable. We know the amount of the potion: one ounce.

You aren’t drinking the potion and eating the container, just doing a shot.

Not that i could care less about the realism argument. We follow the current rule (drinking a potion yourself as a bonus action) because it works better, in my experience. Which is why it became a de facto house rule long before 2024.

 

[pawsplay]

Since nobody as brought it up, and there is a lot of discussion going on about how much you can drink...

The 2014 PHB includes "drink all the ale in a flagon" as one of the examples of a free object interaction.

That's how you know D&D was invented in Wisconsin.

 

[Seramus]

(Just for completeness, #2 most common was doing something with Inspiration,

#2 most common around here was a free feat at 1st level.

That's a little muddier now with 5.5 starting you with an Origin Feat though.

Alternately, you could have
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Those magic tiles are suspiciously similar to Dueling Cards. Whip them out, activate your trap card, etc.

 

[Blue]

#2 most common around here was a free feat at 1st level.

It's not uncommon around these parts either. Just more people doing something about 2014 Inspiration, even if it's just to ignore it and house rule it out.

For those who kept it, things cross-pollinated and eventually stabilized on it could be used for a reroll (though you could still do advantage if you wanted, useful for Sneak Attack), plus adding to the social contract that players could nominate other players for Inspiration so it wasn't all on the DM to notice. Between granting more often and it being a reroll so it couldn't be forgotten it made a big different.