Action Surge + Light/Nick

How does action surge work when combined with weapons with the light property and the nick mastery? Can this give a total of 4 attacks?

Action Surge: You can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action, except the Magic action. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. Starting at level 17, you can use it twice before a rest but only once on a turn.

Light: When you take the Attack action on your turn and attack with a Light weapon, you can make one extra attack as a Bonus Action later on the same turn. That extra attack must be made with a different Light weapon, and you don’t add your ability modifier to the extra attack’s damage unless that modifier is negative. For example, you can attack with a Shortsword in one hand and a Dagger in the other using the Attack action and a Bonus Action, but you don't add your Strength or Dexterity modifier to the damage roll of the Bonus Action unless that modifier is negative.

Nick: When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack action instead of as a Bonus Action. You can make this extra attackonly once per turn.

No, it can't. As stated in the Nick description, the extra attack from the Light property can only be made once per turn. Action Surge gives you an additional action, but it's still part of the same turn, so you can't make the Light attack again.

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No, it can't. As stated in the Nick description, the extra attack from the Light property can only be made once per turn. Action Surge gives you an additional action, but it's still part of the same turn, so you can't make the Light attack again.

'This' is used to refer to previous instance, not some instance that occurs in a different paragraph of text a section earlier. So the only reasonable interpretation is that you can only use NIck once per turn, not that Nick imposes a limitation on the Light property. So you should be able to (in theory):

1. Attack Action. Make an attack with a Light weapon. Make an attack with the Nick property.
2. Action Boost Attack Action. Make an attack with a Light weapon.
3. Bonus Action. Make an attack using the Light property from #2.

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No, it can't. As stated in the Nick description, the extra attack from the Light property can only be made once per turn. Action Surge gives you an additional action, but it's still part of the same turn, so you can't make the Light attack again.

'This' is used to refer to previous instance, not some instance that occurs in a different paragraph of text a section earlier. So the only reasonable interpretation is that you can only use NIck once per turn, not that Nick imposes a limitation on the Light property. So you should be able to (in theory):

1. Attack Action. Make an attack with a Light weapon. Make an attack with the Nick property.
2. Action Boost Attack Action. Make an attack with a Light weapon.
3. Bonus Action. Make an attack using the Light property from #2.

This is what I had thought.

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Quote from wagnarokkr >>

No, it can't. As stated in the Nick description, the extra attack from the Light property can only be made once per turn. Action Surge gives you an additional action, but it's still part of the same turn, so you can't make the Light attack again.

'This' is used to refer to previous instance, not some instance that occurs in a different paragraph of text a section earlier. So the only reasonable interpretation is that you can only use NIck once per turn, not that Nick imposes a limitation on the Light property. So you should be able to (in theory):

1. Attack Action. Make an attack with a Light weapon. Make an attack with the Nick property.
2. Action Boost Attack Action. Make an attack with a Light weapon.
3. Bonus Action. Make an attack using the Light property from #2.

No one is saying that anything refers to "some instance that occurs in a different paragraph of text a section earlier"; I'm not sure where you're getting that from. It does, indeed, seem refer to the previous sentence in the Nick property's description. That description is:

When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack action instead of as a Bonus Action. You can make this extra attack only once per turn.

Just going by the normal rules of English, the part in blue, "this extra attack", is referring back to the part in green, "the extra attack of the Light property". I don't really see anything else here it could be referring to. The extra attack of the Light property is the only "extra attack" being mentioned that the phrase "this extra attack" could refer to.

Therefore, it seems to me that the intent here is to limit the extra attack of the Light property to only being used once per turn, regardless of whether you're making it as a bonus action or as part of the Attack action. Everything about Nick and Light and dual-wielding in general is kind of a mess in 5.5e, and all of it could obviously be worded more clearly, but I think this is the only interpretation that doesn't rely on inventing concepts that aren't actually in the rules.