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<blockquote data-quote="elecgraystone" data-source="post: 4524884" data-attributes="member: 74232">I'll have to disagree with both of you, keterys and Hypersmurf. The combat round is defined as a standard, a move and minor action. They always take up the same amount of time in a round. Free actions are just like action point actions. It fills in the extra time in the round not taken up by the other thee actions. If someone only did a basic melee attack, only moved one square and didn't take his minor action would he have more free actions to use? IMO no, the actions took the same amount of time as the guy that attacked 9 people and then ran 9 squares.&nbsp;I see no reason to limit some free actions and not others. A free action is just like every other free action. It just makes no sense that one action that takes little of no time can only be done once when another can be done 17 times. Both are mechanically identical and treated 100% the same under the rules. There is nothing supporting some actions of the same type taking longer to do. Keterys said 'Different free actions do take different amounts of time, by RAW.' so I would be interested to see an actual quote or pg# for this since I've never seen it.&nbsp;I have no problem with limiting the total number of free actions. I just don't see how you can say it's RAW to limit some free actions and not others. It says you can limit the number of free actions, not the types of free actions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elecgraystone, post: 4524884, member: 74232"] I'll have to disagree with both of you, keterys and Hypersmurf. The combat round is defined as a standard, a move and minor action. They always take up the same amount of time in a round. Free actions are just like action point actions. It fills in the extra time in the round not taken up by the other thee actions. If someone only did a basic melee attack, only moved one square and didn't take his minor action would he have more free actions to use? IMO no, the actions took the same amount of time as the guy that attacked 9 people and then ran 9 squares. I see no reason to limit some free actions and not others. A free action is just like every other free action. It just makes no sense that one action that takes little of no time can only be done once when another can be done 17 times. Both are mechanically identical and treated 100% the same under the rules. There is nothing supporting some actions of the same type taking longer to do. Keterys said 'Different free actions do take different amounts of time, by RAW.' so I would be interested to see an actual quote or pg# for this since I've never seen it. I have no problem with limiting the total number of free actions. I just don't see how you can say it's RAW to limit some free actions and not others. It says you can limit the number of free actions, not the types of free actions. [/QUOTE]

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