Move Equivalent Action.

[Artoomis]

The right beer at the right time, if you have it 'over there' try a Newcastle Brown Ale.

Root beer ? Is that the same as Ginger Ale ? [/B][/QUOTE]

Ah, I though you wouldn't know.

Root Beer is one of man's greatest inventions. It a brewed drink (non-alcoholic) made from the bark of the root of the sarsaparilla plant. The best Root Beer is typically made be breweries rather than soft drink companies.

It's really, really good (if made well), and tasted great with ice cream in it (a "Root Beer Float.")

A shame you don't have it, really. Maybe someday your technology will catch up tp our and you'll get some!!

The actual definition ii:

"A sweetened carbonated beverage flavored with extracts of roots (as sarsaparilla) and herbs"

 

[Ristamar]

I'm with Hong on this one. On top of that, it is a legal use of the Ready action (though arguably abusive). Of course, I'd have to be feeling extremely anal to call a simple partial charge 'abusive'...

 

[Bonedagger]

No, he is correct in a way.

?

But before I left I realised what you had misunderstood, an that is what you can actually do in a round, basically you have misunderstood the concept of the round.

No.

Here is what you can do in a normal round without the aid of magic and without being restricted to partial actions:

A standard action

or

A Full round action

or

A special Initiative action



Here is what you can do in a round without the aid of magic if you are restricted to partial actions:

A partial action

or

The special initiative action: Delay

Ahh. Another thing you seem to have misunderstod. "Special initiative actions" all belong to the group called "Miscellaneous actions" (p. 128) They are different from "normal" actions. And all have special restrictions on how they can be performed.

They have no room in the discussion on if a (normal) partial action can be added a move and then become a standard action.


Delay still only let you make your normal actions when it becomes your turn. Maybe you are thinking of a readied action. Readying is a miscellaneous standard action that allows you to make partial action under special conditions when it is not normally your turn.

With the aid of magic, you can choose to take an extra partial action.

Your point? We are not talking about situations where your speed has been magically altered (Such as haste and slow).

Make sense now.

It has just been declared "rubbish".

 

[0-hr]

"I ready an Partial Charge for when the orc breathes" is pretty obviously outside the way this action was meant to be used, and any reasonable DM should disallow this sort of thing as being ludicrous.

It's pretty reasonable, though, to:

Get up from prone (ME).
Ready an action to attack the orc if he comes any closer (or draws his sword, or some other reasonable trigger)
Partial Charge the orc.

This all sounds fine except that it means it is possible to do this:

Stand up, pause waiting for orc to move closer, then charge him.

but it is NOT possible to do this:

Stand up, then charge him.

That, to me, is ludicrous. If the player is willing to take the initiative hit, I'd have to let him stand up, then charge right before the orc goes regardless of what the orc does. It's just too goofy otherwise.

 

[AGGEMAM]

(non-alcoholic)

Sounds dodgy

"A sweetened carbonated beverage flavored with extracts of roots (as sarsaparilla) and herbs"

Actually then it is ginger ale, except it is carbonated and without ginger

Btw, I might actually go to the north western coast of the USA next year, then we could have a RL beer.

 

[Artoomis]

This all sounds fine except that it means it is possible to do this:

Stand up, pause waiting for orc to move closer, then charge him.

but it is NOT possible to do this:

Stand up, then charge him.

That, to me, is ludicrous. If the player is willing to take the initiative hit, I'd have to let him stand up, then charge right before the orc goes regardless of what the orc does. It's just too goofy otherwise.

Ah , but Readying an Action has the risk that the condition will not be met, thus wasting your action.

If you are waiting for the orc to move (or "take an offensive action," maybe, which I'd allow), if the orc decides to do nothing (maybe he gets "held," for example), then you get to do nothing.

A DM should make sure a Readied Action trigger:

1. Is reasonable ("makes an offensive action" as oppsoed to "blinks," for example)

2. Has a chance that is will not happen. this goes along with #1, really, but is a useful guid in determining if the trigger is reasonable.

So you may have a near-certainty that you'll get an attack (partial charge) in even though the orc is 15-feet away and you just stood up (using up your move), but there is a chance it might not happen.

 

[Bonedagger]

Get up from prone (ME).
Ready an action to attack the orc if he comes any closer (or draws his sword, or some other reasonable trigger)
Partial Charge the orc.

Since you don't get the rules lets try with logic.

If you can stand up, ready an action and then make a partial charge within 6 sec. you can also stand up and make a partial charge within 6 sec..


And another little help:

As a general rule, you can do as much with a partial action as you could with a standard action minus a move.

So unless it say otherwise....

 

[AGGEMAM]

Bonedagger, say welcome to the ignore list, which has the exclusive members of:

Magus_Jerel and Bonedagger.

Goodbye.

 

[Artoomis]

Sounds dodgy



Actually then it is ginger ale, except it is carbonated and without ginger

Btw, I might actually go to the north western coast of the USA next year, then we could have a RL beer.

That would be great!! I'd love to. I'll be sure and find you a really, really good root beer (some are just flavored carbonated water and not properly brewed).

And if I ever get to Denmark (it could happen), you could treat me to a real Danish beer - who knows, maybe it would revive my taste for beer!

 

[Bonedagger]

Bonedagger, say welcome to the ignore list, which has the exclusive members of:

Magus_Jerel and Bonedagger.

Goodbye.

He almost make me embarrassed to be a Dane.