Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Bonus action(s)?

So ...
Now, when Barbarian is out, we know that it is technically possible to make every Bonus Action aviable only once per turn, no matter how many Bonus Actions we have at our disposal, since that is exactly what happend with Frenzied Strike.

(Maybe it was implemented earlier with something else ... bud i never noticed. )

My question is quite simple people.
Would you like this "once per turn" feature to be present even for other Bonus Actions?
Especialy for Thief Cunning Actions and Off-Hand (Bonus Action) Attacks?

I mean ...
It seems a little weird to let Rogues stabing like Norman Bates, but restrict Barbarian to single strike and finish. :-/

Thoughts?

It is a main weapon attack, that hardly compares to the bonus action [Edit. meant off-hand attack]. Rogues main source of damage would be sneak attack and 1) it doesn't work with offhand weapon unfortunately 2) can be used only once per turn

Good catch. Balance should dictate how and if each ability should be restrained. I don't have a formed opinion at this moment on the matter. Larian's willingess to add such restrictions gives me some hope that they might try to reign in multi-attack on later levels.

What?

But im not talking about "what is main source of Rogue damage"

Im talking about possibility to use same Bonus Action twice as Rogue ...
It dont really matter (read as: the topic is same in both cases) if you use it to run 36m instead of 9m (no kidding, i just checked, Sprint, BA Sprint, BA Sprint) ... or to attack thrice per turn instead of twice. :-/

In my quite honest opinion Rogue (i mean Thief) advantage over other classes should be in the fact that they can do both within same turn, not the same thing twice. :-/
Or at least that is how *i* see it.

//Edit:
ESPECIALY NOW! (It just hit me.)
When they can wear this:

(Yes i know its Medium armor ... and yet i used in with Gale and no colision happened, since the only equipment slot game curently checks for Armor Proficiencies is Chest. )

Or this:


Wich both makes their Cunning Action even more powerfull. :-O

Agreed, 100%.

Well, yes ... even tho Multi-attack should be implemented as recast of the same action (Attack) ... rather than the way it is implemented now for Gith and Duergars (who have Extra action point, wich they can spend on anything).

If I'm not wrong except the rogue, no one should have 2 bonus actions / round.
Considering that the modifier is not added to the damage roll, I don't really see any issue if the rogue can do 2 offhands attack / round. It's a bit more powerfull than it should but I think it won't be a huge problem (average +3.5 damage per round with a light weapon)

The items, once again are an issue.
Because as you said, the "charge" will make him even stronger... and because there is another stupid item that grants you another bonus action if (if I remember well) you have less than 50% hp whatever your class... which mean 3 offhands attack for the rogue and 2 for other dualwielding classes.

So no, I don't think they should add this "per turn" to everything. They should remove it totally but also remove everything that easily gives you another bonus action.
But I think they're really bad at designing items and really good at breaking their games.

I would strongly prefer that they stuck to the system rules in general:


That way they wouldn't have to worry about adding extra code weight to each and every bonus action and new bonus action they invent, about limiting it to once per turn - it would be automatically covered by there being only one bonus action per turn.