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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 898965" data-attributes="member: 259">You're correct that that's not how combat works; you're incorrect that that's how it would work &quot;according to my logic.&quot;We all know that &quot;wait' is not a game-defined term.&nbsp; It is not something you do on your action; in fact, the closest the rules come to defining &quot;wait&quot; is to describe how to delay your action, and that's specifically not an action.&nbsp; When you say you cannot wait when it is not your turn, you are unsupported either by the rules or by the English language.That was the point I made earlier (the one kreynolds misconstrued to be talking about paralysis):&nbsp; &quot;waiting&quot; is not an action, but rather is the consequence of being a creature that exists in time.Once six seconds have passed, you have waited one round.&nbsp; No matter how many people have acted in those six seconds, you have waited one round.[edit:&nbsp; and no matter what else you have done during those six seconds, e.g., taken an attack of opportunity, you have waited one round.]The wizard who cast a summoning spell didn't cause the six-seconds to pass, any more than an egg-timer causes three minutes to pass.&nbsp; Both are simply useful tools for measuring the passage of time.Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 898965, member: 259"] You're correct that that's not how combat works; you're incorrect that that's how it would work "according to my logic." We all know that "wait' is not a game-defined term. It is not something you do on your action; in fact, the closest the rules come to defining "wait" is to describe how to delay your action, and that's specifically not an action. When you say you cannot wait when it is not your turn, you are unsupported either by the rules or by the English language. That was the point I made earlier (the one kreynolds misconstrued to be talking about paralysis): "waiting" is not an action, but rather is the consequence of being a creature that exists in time. Once six seconds have passed, you have waited one round. No matter how many people have acted in those six seconds, you have waited one round. [edit: and no matter what else you have done during those six seconds, e.g., taken an attack of opportunity, you have waited one round.] The wizard who cast a summoning spell didn't cause the six-seconds to pass, any more than an egg-timer causes three minutes to pass. Both are simply useful tools for measuring the passage of time. Daniel [/QUOTE]

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