General rule: A bonus action can occur whenever you want on your turn. Specific rule: If a bonus action has a triggering condition, that condition must occur before you take the bonus action.
Are reactions and bonus actions the same?
You can take a bonus action only when a special ability, spell, or feature states that you can do something as a bonus action. A reaction is an instant response to a trigger of some kind, which can occur on your turn or on someone else’s.
Can a bonus action be taken on the same turn as an action?
In fact any Bonus Action Spell can also be taken on the same turn as any Action, as long as it isn’t a Spell. Attack, Dodge, Help, Dash, ect, just not a second spell. It’s pretty common to use a Bonus Action Spell that affects your attacks and then take the Attack Action. as long as it’s a non-cantrip spell.
How does taking an action with my reaction work?
However, you can’t use your Extra Attack ability when you take the Attack action as a reaction, because: Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Since you can only Ready a single action, you can’t Ready a bonus action as well as an action, and you can’t Ready a bonus action.
Can a bonus action spell be used on a second turn?
Attack, Dodge, Help, Dash, ect, just not a second spell. It’s pretty common to use a Bonus Action Spell that affects your attacks and then take the Attack Action. To add to the previous comments, yes, most definitely. In fact any Bonus Action Spell can also be taken on the same turn as any Action, as long as it isn’t a Spell.
Can a bonus attack be used before an attack?
Even before attack, but only, if someone uses a “bonus attack” that he can do as bonus for any reason (like shove, off hand attacks, even flurry of blows) he cannot uses it’s action to anything else but attack, for bonus attack should be always part of a regular attack, even if you do it before the attack action.
