For 5E Rogues and the bonus action granted them by Cunning Action , when they use it to dash, are there any limitations upon it?
I'm pretty sure from the rules I cross checked, they were utilizing it properly. It says they can take the bonus action from Cunning Action whenever they want, at any point during their turn. Dash effectively gives you extra movement equal to whatever movement you have remaining when you take the Dash action.
so they could start their turn, cunning action to Dash, and have 60ft of movement to divide into moving during their turn....or attack and such, then dash, then flee out of range etc. There's no mandatory order for when they can cunning action + dash
as a result, the two rogues of the party effectively kited half a wolves den of wolves with Cunning Action + Dash and the other taking readied actions when one came into view. Then I wizened up a bit.... and flanked them.
the entry for Dash doesn't say you have to move with any limitations. Like in a straight line, or all at once, for example. It doesn't say it doubles your movement either though. It's worded very specifically. It says when you dash, you gain movement = your movement.
you gain extra movement = to your current movement, that is
one of them questioned it themselves though.... he asked, "Doesn't Dash have some sort of requirement? like you can only dash your full movement or something?" My research has so far provided a solid 'No' to there being any sort of requirements for taking the Dash action in 5E, as a Cunning Action or otherwise
So you can take a Readied Action.....basically you can move, and give up your Action or otherwise to tell the DM that you'd like to make a certain attack or cast a certain spell when a certain requirement is met
in this case, every other turn (Because of the reload on Hand Crossbows) the rogue was taking one twin Hand Crossbow shot whenever a wolf came into his point of view and range. (I'm explaining to @DavidWilkins how the kiting played out with the Cunning Action + Dash.
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@Airatome It's not limited to your current movement. It's equal to the number on your sheet that says "movement," so it's even better than you're thinking. It's a way of giving up an action for the turn in order to get twice your normal movement for the turn. And no, there are no limits on it, and no, you don't have to use it all at once. It just gives you more movement, which you can split like normal.
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@Tritium21 I am pretty bearish on "tell me about games that are X" in general. If it were up to me, we'd have given up on game-rec and related long ago, but they're popular and not obviously harmful yet, so that's more my taste than something objective. :)
@SevenSidedDie I'd distinguish game rec from game suggesting. "I've seen this game, what is it?" is fine to me... the other kind... well, sometimes it fits a specifica game, sometimes it's just an excuse for people to bring forward whatever game they like.
@Zachiel Is that a recommendation at all? That wouldn't twig me as being a shopping question, more a product-ID question. We're not bad at those. We are... spotty... on the game-recs.
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@Pureferret Yeah, but who asks those. Those are OK because they don't invite a long list of "I bet my favourite X will do it" answers, and because they're rare.
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Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to
magically assume the shape of a beast that you have
seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain
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