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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6772305" data-attributes="member: 6775031">We don't know that action A or action B both take exactly X time. It's not necessarily the case that every single Object Interaction in the universe takes the exact same amount of time. At best, we know that however much time we have allocated from X, both action A and action B are individually under that limit. It doesn't rule out the possibility that (A+B) is also under that limit. That's why we have DM discretion as an over-arching rule, to prevent ridiculous situations (where the DM is the arbiter of what is or is-not ridiculous). Personally, I find that constantly dropping your sword because you don't have time to sheathe it is kind of ridiculous. I find constant sword dropping to be significantly more ridiculous than sheathing a weapon, drawing another weapon, and attacking with that other weapon all in the course of six seconds. YMMV, obviously. Fortunately, the rules are flexible enough that we can both play as we wish, and neither of us has to introduce any House Rules in order to do so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6772305, member: 6775031"] We don't know that action A or action B both take exactly X time. It's not necessarily the case that every single Object Interaction in the universe takes the exact same amount of time. At best, we know that [I]however much[/I] time we have allocated from X, both action A and action B are individually under that limit. It doesn't rule out the possibility that (A+B) is [I]also[/I] under that limit. That's why we have DM discretion as an over-arching rule, to prevent ridiculous situations (where the DM is the arbiter of what is or is-not ridiculous). Personally, I find that constantly dropping your sword because you don't have time to sheathe it is kind of ridiculous. I find constant sword dropping to be significantly [I]more[/I] ridiculous than sheathing a weapon, drawing another weapon, and attacking with that other weapon all in the course of six seconds. YMMV, obviously. Fortunately, the rules are flexible enough that we can both play as we wish, and neither of us has to introduce any House Rules in order to do so. [/QUOTE]

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