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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1159320" data-attributes="member: 4134">To sum it up:One attack = standard actionOne spell = standard action (usually)Quickened spell = free action (only one per round)More than one attack = full-round actionApplying metamagic to a spell spontaneously = full-round actionYou can make a single attack and walk your speed, or you can cast a spell (with 1 standard action casting time) and walk your speed. You can make all your attacks and make a 5ft-step.Note that it doesn't matter where you get those attacks from - be it from a BAB of 6 or more, from haste, from two-weapon fighting, from having several natural attack - more than one attack require a full-round action.Casting spells takes a standard action most of the time. Some spells (feather fall being the best-known) take only a free action by themselves, as do quickened spells, so they can cast in addition to whatever you've done in that round (you can make a full attack and cast a quickened spell, for example). If you change a spell via metamagic on the fly (the method sorcerers and bards do, and clerics if they convert one of their spells into a metamagiced cure spell), it is a full-round action, and comes into effect immediately (but they can't move in that round, except the usual 5ft-step). If you cast a spell with casting time &quot;1 round&quot; (like the summon monster spells), you have to cast your whole round AND the rest of the turn - so everyone else gets to do his/her usual allotment of actions once and the spell comes into effect just before your turn. Spells with casting time of more than 1 round work that way for several rounds (and they can't be quickened at all).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 1159320, member: 4134"] To sum it up: One attack = standard action One spell = standard action (usually) Quickened spell = free action (only one per round) More than one attack = full-round action Applying metamagic to a spell spontaneously = full-round action You can make a single attack and walk your speed, or you can cast a spell (with 1 standard action casting time) and walk your speed. You can make all your attacks and make a 5ft-step. Note that it doesn't matter where you get those attacks from - be it from a BAB of 6 or more, from haste, from two-weapon fighting, from having several natural attack - more than one attack require a full-round action. Casting spells takes a standard action most of the time. Some spells (feather fall being the best-known) take only a free action by themselves, as do quickened spells, so they can cast in addition to whatever you've done in that round (you can make a full attack and cast a quickened spell, for example). If you change a spell via metamagic on the fly (the method sorcerers and bards do, and clerics if they convert one of their spells into a metamagiced cure spell), it is a full-round action, and comes into effect immediately (but they can't move in that round, except the usual 5ft-step). If you cast a spell with casting time "1 round" (like the summon monster spells), you have to cast your whole round AND the rest of the turn - so everyone else gets to do his/her usual allotment of actions once and the spell comes into effect just before your turn. Spells with casting time of more than 1 round work that way for several rounds (and they can't be quickened at all). [/QUOTE]

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