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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2939628" data-attributes="member: 2011">I find this odd. To me, drawing a weapon and moving one to your other hand is apples and oranges. The length of time drawing the weapon is caused by both using one hand and the range of motion required to draw a weapon out of a sheath or some other snap type device. Switching weapons is near instantaneous since you are using both hands and do not have to change the orientation of the weapon at all. Drawing the weapon changes the orientation of the weapon. For example, a sword hangs down in a sheath, but it typically points forwards or upwards when wielding. That's at least a 90 degrees orientation difference.I see no apples to apples comparison between drawing a weapon and switching a weapon. There is no DND concept of wielding versus carrying when it comes to holding a weapon in your hand. If you pick up your weapon from the ground, you are automatically wielding it.I see an apples to apples comparison with a free action consumes a very small amount of time and switching a weapon to a different hand consumes a very small amount of time.So, the difference in point of view is:1) Yours. Find a similar action (getting a weapon in a hand) and make it the same action type.2) Mine. Read what free and move actions state and pick the one that matches the closest.I cannot conceive that you really think it takes a similar amount of time to move a weapon from one hand to the other as it takes to move 30 feet or mount a horse or even draw a weapon. You cannot truly believe that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 2939628, member: 2011"] I find this odd. To me, drawing a weapon and moving one to your other hand is apples and oranges. The length of time drawing the weapon is caused by both using one hand and the range of motion required to draw a weapon out of a sheath or some other snap type device. Switching weapons is near instantaneous since you are using both hands and do not have to change the orientation of the weapon at all. Drawing the weapon changes the orientation of the weapon. For example, a sword hangs down in a sheath, but it typically points forwards or upwards when wielding. That's at least a 90 degrees orientation difference. I see no apples to apples comparison between drawing a weapon and switching a weapon. There is no DND concept of wielding versus carrying when it comes to holding a weapon in your hand. If you pick up your weapon from the ground, you are automatically wielding it. I see an apples to apples comparison with a free action consumes a very small amount of time and switching a weapon to a different hand consumes a very small amount of time. So, the difference in point of view is: 1) Yours. Find a similar action (getting a weapon in a hand) and make it the same action type. 2) Mine. Read what free and move actions state and pick the one that matches the closest. I cannot conceive that you really think it takes a similar amount of time to move a weapon from one hand to the other as it takes to move 30 feet or mount a horse or even draw a weapon. You cannot truly believe that. :confused: [/QUOTE]

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