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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackwarder" data-source="post: 5889852" data-attributes="member: 6688285">I think that you are taking it all wrong, and as I've said before I think it's due to the fact that we all got used to think about the combat round lasting only six seconds, in those time increments taking an action to draw a sword, load a bow or retrieving a potion seems logical but if your round is one minute long than doing all of that stuff could just be rolled into a major action, just like in the example I quoted in my earlier post from 2e PHB, it might seems like the fighter there did a lot of things but basically he taken a move action to withdraw (while a buddy covered him) and than an action to takeout a potion and drink it, they even rolled leaving the backpack behind and picking up his sword in the same round.I don't know about you, but to me it seems that if you want a core game with simplified yet interesting and flexible rules than rolling all of those actions into a common sense narrative is the key and I think that the guys at WotC try to do just that with a system that was in uses in 2e.Warder</blockquote>