Immediate and Free Actions - how many?

[DracoSuave]

You may only use one Free Action Attack Power per turn. There are Free Action powers that result in No Action attacks, there are straight up No Action attacks, and any attack that is a Free Action but is not a power is also fine. All of those exist in 4e so the distinction is incredibly important, particularly if your leader is an enabler.

If I am not mistaken (I could be, my RC seems to have gone missing today) this is not quite what it says.

If you are granted an attack as a free action, that is what is limited. Attack Powers that are themselves already free actions are not limited. They also aren't generally at-will, so that's hardly a problem.

Commander's Strike, for instance, is limited. It grants an attack as a free action, so if you spent an action point, you could not Commander's Strike using the same person twice. As well, powers that affect multiple allies, then trigger an attack as a free action off the results of their attack (Ardents have a couple of these) can only give you one free action. Attack powers like Power Strike, however, are not effected. They are not granting you an attack as a free action. They are simply an attack that IS a free action.

 

[Aulirophile]

If I am not mistaken (I could be, my RC seems to have gone missing today) this is not quite what it says.

If you are granted an attack as a free action, that is what is limited. Attack Powers that are themselves already free actions are not limited. They also aren't generally at-will, so that's hardly a problem.

Commander's Strike, for instance, is limited. It grants an attack as a free action, so if you spent an action point, you could not Commander's Strike using the same person twice. As well, powers that affect multiple allies, then trigger an attack as a free action off the results of their attack (Ardents have a couple of these) can only give you one free action. Attack powers like Power Strike, however, are not effected. They are not granting you an attack as a free action. They are simply an attack that IS a free action.

A creature can take a free action to use an attack power only once per turn.

It is pretty specific.

Commander's Strike generates a No Action Attack.

Also Power Strike is limited, which also means it can't be used with Dual Weapon Attack. And there is an errata thread on that as well. The rule causes a large number of issues and simultaneously doesn't completely fix the the thing it was intended to, infinite recursive crit chains, because many of those are also No Action attacks. Thankfully they specifically labeled Furious-Assault as a Utility Power, or it'd also have the issue.

 

[DracoSuave]

A creature can take a free action to use an attack power only once per turn.

Yeah, read relevant text, and am corrected.

It is pretty specific.

Commander's Strike generates a No Action Attack.

This too.

Also Power Strike is limited, which also means it can't be used with Dual Weapon Attack. And there is an errata thread on that as well. The rule causes a large number of issues and simultaneously doesn't completely fix the the thing it was intended to, infinite recursive crit chains, because many of those are also No Action attacks. Thankfully they specifically labeled Furious-Assault as a Utility Power, or it'd also have the issue.

Tho to be honest, they aren't No Action attacks. They're simply not actions. There's a slight difference, as No Action is a specific entry in a power's action usage, and not applicable to things that are not powers themselves.

 

[Aulirophile]

That is true, but No Action and "Not An Action" are also equivalent according to the rules, No Action is just whey they call it in powers (also the phrase Non-Action has now started to show up in the RC). Still the same point: the change was intended to fix something it didn't, while it broke several other things.