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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goken100" data-source="post: 3015435" data-attributes="member: 42968">Heya Magic.  I'll give an example how I calculated my chart and we can compare notes.As I understand it, you propose a character's actions to take 7 ticks until the BAB is +6.  If a tick is half a second, each action takes 3.5 seconds.  The number of actions taking 3.5 seconds in a minute that could be accomplished is:60 / 3.5 = 17.14.  The number you got was 8.59, which is exactly half of mine.  Does that mean you're agreeing that seconds should be a second long?  And that low level characters should actually take slightly longer than the traditional 6 seconds to complete an action?  I'm not necessarily opposed to that, I'm just trying to make sure I understand.To give an example for movement, it takes 2 seconds for a medium character to move 10 feet.  Therefore, to move 10 feet then attack under MtG's rules is 2 + 3.5 seconds = 5.5.The number of times a chacters can move 10 ft and then attack (when thet attack takes 3.5 seconds) in a minute would be:60 / 5.5 = 10.91By the way, the method for evaluating each plan involves subtracking the proposal from the core rules.  However, we don't care if the value is positive or negative, we just want to know how far off target the result is.  So we take the absolute value of each difference and sum them up.  If we use MtG's proposal where each tick is a second, that the sum of the abosulte values of the differences is 35.73.  That is much better than 72.46, but still not as good as 29.56.Note that your chart is slightly inaccurate, as my proposal does not include a jump at the 20th level, but your calculations imply that they do.  I've therefore omitted the 20th level from the above sums.  I they were included, however, the MtG plan would further fall behind due to that jump in speediness.</blockquote>

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