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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 5520410" data-attributes="member: 38357">All of the choices, or all of the choices that are specifically codified by the rules to have a specific mechanical effect? The 1e list should be at least as long as the 4e list. (Actually, given a 1 minute combat round it could be ten times as long, but functionally it isn't; it might actually be shorter but I'd expect the fictional element of "what can I do in 60 seconds" to win out over action limits.*) I'd suggest that there are actually more meaningful choices that a 1e fighter can make, but 4e is better at mechanically defining what you can and cannot do and this can actually encourage the player to do stuff. That last bit really seemed very counter-intuitive to me for a long time, but now I'm more and more thinking that it's true the vast majority of the time.(* And just to further digress the point, 1e has no concept of a "minor action", but does that mean that such an action is always a full-round action, or that it has no limit at all? IMO specifics of how 1e is / was played are much harder to nail down than 4e.)</blockquote>