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#1 JohnnyNitro May 10, 2015 23:25:34	Call me Captain Redundancy, but has there been an Official Ruling on swapping your Bonus Action for another Free Action?
#2 Macv12 May 10, 2015 23:29:04	Technically it wouldn't make sense, since you don't "have" a bonus action to trade. Rather, some rule or other lets you perform an action, but it doesn't count as your normal 1 action for that turn, so it's a "bonus action."   So you can't do it. I can't think what it would actually hurt, though. I suppose it's probably so that classes who need to use bonus actions all the time (like Rogue) are on equal footing with classes that don't (like Wizard), and you don't get bogged down with bookkeeping trading this action for that, and if you do that you can't swing your off-hand weapon, yada yada.
#3 AaronOfBarbaria May 10, 2015 23:56:41	There is no such thing as swapping one sort of action for another in 5th edition.
#4 lawrencehoy May 11, 2015 3:56:48	There is no such thing as a Free Action either; unless you're refering to a free object interaction. I still agree with the others; you can't swap action types. This is carefully limited as an action economy design paradigm.   Additionally, although you don't have to use your bonus actions, you do have to use them for the specific uses for which they are granted.
#5 strider13x May 11, 2015 15:43:26	PHB Basic p.69   Bonus Actions Various class features, spells, and other abilities let you take an additional action on your turn called a bonus action. The Cunning Action feature, for example, allows a rogue to take a bonus action. 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 bonus action. You otherwise don’t have a bonus action to take.