hilarious warforged component Question.

[Flipguarder]

"Affixing or removing an attached component is a minor action and takes five minutes."
From the Eberron player's guide (page unknown) From the warforged components section. So this could mean a bunch of things, the first two most likely (as I see):

1. Affixing or removing an attached component takes five minutes worth of minor actions.

2.Affixing an attached component is a minor action and removing an attached component takes five minutes.

any clarifications or similar precedent on this?

 

[eriktheguy]

"Affixing or removing an attached component is a minor action and takes five minutes."
From the Eberron player's guide (page unknown) From the warforged components section. So this could mean a bunch of things, the first two most likely (as I see):

1. Affixing or removing an attached component takes five minutes worth of minor actions.

2.Affixing an attached component is a minor action and removing an attached component takes five minutes.

any clarifications or similar precedent on this?

Hmm... in 2nd edition a combat round took one minute. Maybe they implemented something like that in this edition and no one noticed.

 

[Dalzig]

I think when it says "minor action" it actually means "not a significantly hard thing to do".

Though it might have been as attaching a component takes 5 minutes and removing an attached component is a minor action. That seems like it would be the most logical (or robot-awesome).

 

[eriktheguy]

On an off topic note, has anyone ever taken the robotics expert perk in fallout3?

 

[LightPhoenix]

I think when it says "minor action" it actually means "not a significantly hard thing to do".

Though it might have been as attaching a component takes 5 minutes and removing an attached component is a minor action. That seems like it would be the most logical (or robot-awesome).

I think this is the intent. It's almost analogous to dropping a weapon. Also, it conjures the awesome image of a Warforged tearing off compenents badass style in the middle of battle, which is just too good an image to pass up.

On an off topic note, has anyone ever taken the robotics expert perk in fallout3?

Hopefully not. There's not really enough robots to fight to make it worthwhile.

 

[Saeviomagy]

Hopefully not. There's not really enough robots to fight to make it worthwhile.

Is that the one that lets you switch off robots if you manage to sneak up on them? I picked it up, and it made a few chunks of the game a lot easier. And more fun: stealth in that game is way more interesting than combat.

As for the original question? I'd say that you make a choice between it being a minor action (like any normal weapon) for both attach and remove OR it's 5 minutes of uninterrupted work (ie - you don't do it during combat) for both attach and remove. Either it's supposed to be a drawback or it's not.

 

[Flipguarder]

Is that the one that lets you switch off robots if you manage to sneak up on them? I picked it up, and it made a few chunks of the game a lot easier. And more fun: stealth in that game is way more interesting than combat.

As for the original question? I'd say that you make a choice between it being a minor action (like any normal weapon) for both attach and remove OR it's 5 minutes of uninterrupted work (ie - you don't do it during combat) for both attach and remove. Either it's supposed to be a drawback or it's not.

I understand how that makes sense in terms of house ruling, but it seems impossible that its not a combination of the two if you are trying to interpret RAW or RAI

 

[FireLance]

"Affixing or removing an attached component is a minor action and takes five minutes."

I think it means that starting the process of affixing or removing an attached component only requires a minor action, but the component does not actually get affixed or removed until five minutes later.

The guy who came up with that rule must use Windows Vista.

 

[Nytmare]

It reads suspiciously to me like it was originally one, and they wanted it to become the other, but the typoed re-write slipped through the cracks because it still looked like English.

 

[Thundershield]

Or maybe it's a minor action that takes 5 minutes to execute, so if someone does it mid-combat, everybody waits 5 minutes while the component gets attached or removed, and then the fight resumes?