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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 5955885" data-attributes="member: 11300">This is very interesting and worth exploring a little further. However just to clarify, I was not talking about the speed of the weapon but the effort it takes to wield it (where a rounds worth of effort is broken up into Major, Minor and Swift chunks). To use your example, a well balanced sword in the hands of a proficient user is going to be a pretty lively and reactive affair. In comparison, how much effort is taken up wielding that massive greataxe? Again I can only imagine but surely there's a lot of momentum going on. The capacity to react with a greataxe and the effort taken to do that is reduced and increased respectively. A dagger in comparison would seem [again in the hands of a (highly?) proficient user] to offer greater capacity for reaction taking less effort; providing one has closed sufficiently with their opponent.Now the action economy I suggest has nothing to do with speed, just effort. Speed on the other hand would seem to be a factor in terms of initiative. The other factor is proximity and where a weapons reach trumps a characters speed. That dagger wielder is going to have to close with the greataxe wielder and that is a dangerous process. However if the dagger-wielder's ally can suck that major action out of the greataxe dude, the dagger-wielder gets a good chance to close otherwise the greataxe wielder gets first strike before the dagger-guy gets to do diddly. Or so I would imagine.The point is that the action economy I suggest is a measure of effort. Speed and reach are things I imagine being quite separate from this. Am I still flying with the fairies on this one or is this starting to look OK?Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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