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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 2578885" data-attributes="member: 5203">I also think that the point of defining "no actions" is to make it very clear that you are giving up nothing by choosing to use these actions.  IN other words, you're not giving up the option to do something else simply by the act of taking a 5-foot step as opposed to standing still.  Now, the direction in which you take that 5-foot step may reduce your options for what to do with your actions, but you don't lose the actions simply because you took the step.  It also means that the option for taking a 5-foot step can't be taken away from you just because you've squeezed in a lot of other types of actions on your initiative.It's the same with the other defined "no action" - Delay.  They want to make sure you know that if you choose to Delay until later in the round, that when you do choose to act, you're not losing any of your standard, move, free, or swift actions to do this.Were the five-foot step defined as a free action, then for the most part it would play the same mechanically, except that now you have one less free action available to you.  Though the rules don't define a hard and fast limit on the number of free actions in a round, there is a limit there (the 'reasonable limit'; like no DM will let you drop every item you carry one at a time in one round, even though 'drop an item' is a free action).</blockquote>