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<blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus2" data-source="post: 3109153" data-attributes="member: 11586"><p>Yeah, but that would be more or less in relation to ambiguous questions, such as "Can I Cleave off of an AoO?" There is no rule saying you can't, but there is nothing that specifically says you can. Going by pure RAW you can.</p><p></p><p>In this case, the only place in RAW that specificlly mentions trading one Action type for another, is <em>You can always take a move action in place of a standard action.</em> In this case, WotC allows us to replace a greater action type (standard) with a lesser one (move). And by lesser/greater, all I mean is, you can do more with a Standard Action than you can with a Move Action. But what people seem to want to do is the opposite, trade a lesser action (swift) with a greater one (standard). Again, you can do more with a Standard Action than you can with a Swift Action.</p><p></p><p>So, since there is no confussion here (clearly it doesn't state anywhere in RAW that you can do this) like there is with the "Can I Cleave off of an AoO?" question, I don't think this is one of those situations you can claim "It should work this way, even though there is no RAW evidence that suggests it".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RigaMortus2, post: 3109153, member: 11586"] Yeah, but that would be more or less in relation to ambiguous questions, such as "Can I Cleave off of an AoO?" There is no rule saying you can't, but there is nothing that specifically says you can. Going by pure RAW you can. In this case, the only place in RAW that specificlly mentions trading one Action type for another, is [i]You can always take a move action in place of a standard action.[/i] In this case, WotC allows us to replace a greater action type (standard) with a lesser one (move). And by lesser/greater, all I mean is, you can do more with a Standard Action than you can with a Move Action. But what people seem to want to do is the opposite, trade a lesser action (swift) with a greater one (standard). Again, you can do more with a Standard Action than you can with a Swift Action. So, since there is no confussion here (clearly it doesn't state anywhere in RAW that you can do this) like there is with the "Can I Cleave off of an AoO?" question, I don't think this is one of those situations you can claim "It should work this way, even though there is no RAW evidence that suggests it". [/QUOTE]
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