You can take only one bonus action on your turn, so you must choose which bonus action to use when you have more than one available. You otherwise don’t have a bonus action to take. You can take a bonus action only when a special ability, spell, or other feature of the game states that you can do something as a bonusĪction. The Cunning Action feature, for example, allows a rogue to take a bonus action.

Various class features, spells, and other abilities let you take an additional action on your turn called a bonus action. This would, in my opinion, explicitly grant the Bonus Action to any character/class who is Two-Weapon Fighting.Īfter thorough review does it boil down to application of the rules-as-written and determining a house-rule to apply in our campaign? You receive a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand. The alternate interpretation would be the rules under Two-Weapon Fighting, perhaps it should be written So in the case of a Rogue the Bonus Actions granted under Cunning Action allow for specific actions (none of which are attack). My interpretation of the PHB Reference rules below is that although any class/character can technically wield a weapon in their off-hand, only those who have been granted a Bonus Action for which no explicit bonus action have been defined would be allowed to actually attack. Once I got home I reviewed the PHB and various RPGStack and Reddit but couldn't find a concrete answer. At the completion of our gaming session I contested the application of the Two-Weapon fighting rules as it seemed unbalanced. During the latest gaming session our level 3 Rogue was Two-Weapon fighting with a Rapier in the main-hand and a scimitar in the off-hand.

Fantasy grounds 2 actions for 1 weapon