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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Syrsuro" data-source="post: 4564564" data-attributes="member: 58162">Please resolve this contradiction: A: You have often taken the position that a double-move is declared before starting a move and that it is therefore a single 'thing'.B: <Given> Characters can normally take an action, resolve that action, and then decide what their next action will be.C: <Given> Characters can downgrade standard actions to move actions.D: You have just stated that A character who takes two consecutive walk move actions is automatically taking a double move and that two consecutive walk actions cannot be taken without being a double move.  Now consider: A character who takes a move action to walk and then, upon completion of that move action, decides to downgrade their standard action to a move action and walk again. Based on A they are not taking a double move because they have not declared that they are taking a double move ("the speeds are added together before you move, and you are, in effect, taking a special single action 'thing'."). Based on D they are taking a double move because "There is no provision for taking the same move action twice in a row without it being a double move. " So which is it? <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is a double move something that must be declared ahead of time and if you take two consecutive moves without declaring it to be a double move it's not a double move - it's just two single moves, one after the other?</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Or is a double move a consequence of taking two consecutive moves, whether or not they are declared, and thus the decision point of whether or not you are taking a double move can be delayed until after your first move is complete (or, alternately, until just before your first move ends and the synergistic effect would apply)?</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Or are you going to say that a character who fails to declare a double move before taking his first move action to walk is now forbidden from downgrading his standard to a move and walking again because he didn't make that prior declaration.</li> </ul>(Personally, I hold that you declare the intent to make a double move before you start moving, but it doesn't become double move until you pass a point you could not have reached if you had only done a single move. And thus if you are interrupted before you reach that point, you may have had the intent of making a double move but you were prevented from taking that double move and have instead only taken a single move. And thus you have a move action left. I do require the downgrade of standard action to move action as a part of that declaration of intent however - you have a move action left, not a standard action).  Carl</blockquote>

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