What is the bonus action rule in 5e?

Bonus Actions 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.
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How do bonus actions work in 5e?

A Bonus Action is an act you can do that does not cost one full Action, typically performed in conjunction with the use of a related feat or spell (and sometimes a magical item) that calls for the use of a "Bonus Action." This can be used at any point during your turn - at the beginning, middle, or end.
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What is the bonus action casting rule 5e?

A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn. You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action.
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Can you do a bonus action every turn?

Bonus Action Ability

Each round of combat allows players to use one bonus action on their turn, alongside their main action. Unfortunately, bonus actions aren't something everyone has instant access to because D&D 5e lacks any universal bonus actions.
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Can I cast two spells in one turn in 5e?

There is a limit for bonus action spells that if you cast one (regardless of level, including a cantrip), that you can't cast another spell on your turn, except a cantrip. That means no 1 action spells or (in a very rare case), a reaction spell during your turn. You also only get 1 reaction in a round.
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Can you cast a cantrip and a spell in the same turn 5e?

Só you can cast a bonus action spell (leveled or not) and then cast a cantrip with your action. But you cannot cast a bonus action spell and then use your action or reaction to cast a leveled spell (even if your bonus action spell was a cantrip).
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Can you do two cantrips in a turn?

You can't cast two spells of 1st-level or higher in the same turn, but you can cast as many cantrips as you have actions for. If you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher - or a cantrip - as a bonus action, you can still cast a cantrip as your action.
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Can you use cantrips as a bonus action?

In a Dungeons & Dragons rule that many players get wrong, characters are allowed one spell and one cantrip to be cast in a turn so long as one is a bonus action.
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How many bonus actions per turn 5e?

Each creature gets one action, one bonus action, one move action and one free action on their turn. Everything you can do has a specific action cost. Despite it's name a bonus action is not another action.
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Can I cast Misty Step as a bonus action?

Therefore, if a character casts Misty Step using their Bonus Action, they can only cast a Cantrip that requires an action on the same turn, and cannot cast a non-Cantrip spell that requires an action. It's worth noting that it doesn't matter in what order you cast Misty Step and a Cantrip.
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Does it take a bonus action to command a familiar 5E?

You command your familiar to take the attack action with your bonus action. It does not take that action until it's turn, then it can't use its action to turn invisible (because it used it to attack). This is different from the pact of the chain feature which lets the familiar use its reaction to attack.
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Can you cast spiritual weapon as a bonus action?

Spiritual Weapon costs a bonus action to cast. Normally, attack rolls require their own separate action to perform—but Spiritual Weapon allows you to make a melee spell attack in the same bonus action right after the weapon is summoned. Attacks on subsequent turns also cost a bonus action.
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Can you cast a levelled spell as a reaction?

5E has no restriction on casting two leveled spells on the same round, or even on the same turn: a spellcaster could move away from an adjacent opponent, cast shield (on their own turn) as a reaction against the attack of opportunity they provoke, and then cast fireball (on the same turn) as an action against a group ...
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Can I use a bonus action before an action?

And you can use your action or bonus action in whatever order you would like. You could start with the bonus action, and then take your action, or vide versa.
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Which classes get bonus actions?

Bonus actions are not granted by class or races, they are granted by the action itself. So, you take Two Weapon Fighting and it grants its specific bonus action. You take the Pole Arm Master feat and it grants a specific bonus action. You become a monk and you get certain specific bonus actions.
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What are the surprise rules in 5e?

If you're surprised, you can't move or take an action on your first turn of the combat, and you can't take a reaction until that turn ends. A member of a group can be surprised even if the other members aren't.”
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Is taking a potion a bonus action?

Using potions as a Bonus Action has long been a popular mechanic in players' homebrew or home rules though, and even Baldur's Gate 3, the hit D&D video game which follows most of 5th Edition's rules, let players drink them as a Bonus Action.
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Can you disengage as a bonus action?

Rogues get the 2nd-level Cunning Action feature, which lets them Disengage as a bonus action—meaning they can Disengage and still attack or take a full action on the same turn. Monks. Monks get the 2nd-level Step of the Wind feature, which lets them Disengage as a bonus action and double their jump distance for a turn.
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Do you get a bonus action every round?

Each turn on their turn a character gets three actions; a single action, a move, and a bonus action. (They also once per round get a reaction).
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Can I cast two cantrips?

You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action.
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How to use bonus action 5e?

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.
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Is Dragons Breath a bonus action?

Dragonborn. Breath Weapon: You may use your breath weapon as a bonus action instead of a full action. Alternatively, if you can attack multiple times during the Attack action, you may use your breath weapon as one of these attacks.
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Can you quicken a cantrip and cast a cantrip?

Yes. Nothing requiring you to do it in either order. I know that the quickened metamagic allows you to cast a spell with a cast time of one action as a bonus action, then cast a cantrip with a cast time of one action.
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Can you infinitely use cantrips?

Cantrips are spells that don't use slots and can be cast an infinite number of times without depleting resources.
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