Unsolved Combat Actions format

[daermadm]

@halfgiant sent an email inquiring on what actions system to use.

Basically do we use the 3.5e or the 5e combat action list.

When i look at them all together, they are basically the same except that the 5e combat grants movement without taking away full attack action.

I get that it is not quite that simple, but that is truly the biggest piece that I get out of rereading things.

Please let me know your opinions.

[halfgiant]

So for prosperity, what is the action to -

Tap a big ohm gem [standard action, full standard action, swift]?
Same goes for refilling a ohm gem?

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

So for prosperity, what is the action to -

Tap a big ohm gem [standard action, full standard action, swift]?
Same goes for refilling a ohm gem?

The way I have always played it:

• Tapping a big ohm is a swift action.
• Refilling a regenable gem is a standard action.
• Refilling a normal gem is a full round action.

Commentary welcome.

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

So for prosperity, what is the action to -

Tap a big ohm gem [standard action, full standard action, swift]?
Same goes for refilling a ohm gem?

The way I have always played it:

• Tapping a big ohm is a swift action.
• Refilling a regenable gem is a standard action.
• Refilling a normal gem is a full round action.

Commentary welcome.

Rebooting this discussion. Things have grown nastier since this thread was started in 2017. I’m not entirely sure i was playing this right anyway.

Questions as follows:

(1) I’m not entirely sure i was doing this right but we have Big Ohms, is activating a big ohm considered a swift action or move action in a characters initiative? Or can use both? And how many can you tap at once?

(2) The mechanic for tapping a gem when you get hit with damage and drop below zero, i’ll call a ‘specific immediate action’ because it can happen out of a characters initiative turn. Immediately tapping gems before they go down to stave off death. Are there limits to this? To the amount a character can touch at once.

(3) And of course filling the gems:

Refilling a regenable gem is a standard action.
Refilling a normal gem is a full round action.

Are there limits to the number of regenable or normal gems a character can fill in a given standard, or full round action?

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

Things have grown nastier since this thread was started in 2017.

Yes. Yes, they have.

So @dwarf and I also discussed this a bit on Sunday.

Ohm gems will have to be an exception to the rules if we continue to allow them to be played as they have been. Possibly leave them not cubed, but I don’t like that idea.

Let me post our actions as they have been played the last couple years. and then we can go from there.

[daermadm]

This is our source: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsInCombat.htm

10E Clarifications:

• We threw out Full Round actions, barring DM prerogative based on the situation.
• Everyone has one:
  • Attack Action
    • This is generally mapped as anything that happened in what the SRD calls a Standard Action. Except all of your attacks happen in this action.
    • This action cannot be split. In other words, you cannot Attack 2 times, move 30’ and attack 2 more. The most you get is a single 5’ step.
  • Move Action
    • You can split your move action to be before, after, or both before and after your attack in any way you want.
    • You cannot re-position and charge on the same move action if the repositioning takes more than 20% of your standard movement.
  • Swift Action
    • Can only be used during your turn
    • A quickened spell will use your Swift Action
  • Immediate Action
    • Same length of time as a Swift Action, but can be taken not on your turn. An example is an attack of opportunity.
    • Cannot be taken during the same part of your turn that a Swift Action was used.
• Some Class Features or Feats grant a Bonus Action.
  • You can only ever have a single Bonus Action in one round, even if you have multiple sources of Bonus Actions.
• Each of those actions allow one Free Action, including the Bonus Action.

Repositioning Distance Table:

Base Movement	Reposition Allowance
20	4
30	6
40	8
50	10
60	12
70	14
80	16
90	18
100	20

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

Some Class Features or Feats grant a Bonus Action.

You can only ever have a single Bonus Action in one round, even if you have multiple sources of Bonus Actions.

Each of those actions allow one Free Action, including the Bonus Action.

Not sure I’m understand what this is saying

Free actions are in 3.5
(1) Drop an item, (1) Drop to the floor, (3) Dropping a spell, and (4) Speak

Typically there isn’t a limit on performing one or more free actions while say taking another action. The limiting factor is what constitutes a free action. And sure there are reasonable limits on the actual free actions identified. Dropping a weapon and saying incoming monsters i don’t think is unreasonable…technically that’s two free actions.

Bonus Actions - Is this to accommodate mechanics like Cleave and Greater Cleave? Little unsure what this is.

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

Repositioning Disatance Table:

Repositioning - what are we trying to do here? not sure i know what this is.

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

Attack Action

This is generally mapped as anything that happened in what the SRD calls a Standard Action. Except all of your attacks happen in this action.
This action cannot be split. In other words, you cannot Attack 2 times, move 30’ and attack 2 more. The most you get is a single 5’ step.

This would also include (unarmed, ranged, or melee) attack actions, activating a magic item, or casting a spell. Using a skill is a bit of a hard call, knowledge checks probably aren’t but skill check involving a climb action may… really depends.

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

Repositioning Distance Table:

Repositioning - what are we trying to do here? not sure i know what this is.

I clearly stated it in the description of Move Action. Did you read everything or just look at the table?

It is exactly what Rorek did multiple times on Saturday when dealing with the Gargantuan sized elementals.

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

Bonus Actions - Is this to accommodate mechanics like Cleave and Greater Cleave? Little unsure what this is.

No, there are literally actions labeled Bonus Actions in some abilities and feats.

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

Typically there isn’t a limit on performing one or more free actions while say taking another action.

There are, you even said as much in the next two sentences.

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

The limiting factor is what constitutes a free action. And sure there are reasonable limits on the actual free actions identified.

For each Core action ( 4 of them, 5 if you happen to have a bonus action ) you have the ability to handle a single free action.

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

saying incoming monsters

Simple speech is not an action.

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

I clearly stated it in the description of Move Action. Did you read everything or just look at the table?
It is exactly what Rorek did multiple times on Saturday when dealing with the Gargantuan sized elementals

Ahh, i read the post, just missed the move action bullet. Got it.

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

No, there are literally actions labeled Bonus Actions in some abilities and feats.

Hmm, is this a 5e hold over? In 5e a bonus action was just a swift action in 3.5 but by another name. Still cool if you want to implement them, just don’t recall 3.5/d20 bonus actions.

[halfgiant]

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

You cannot re-position and charge on the same move action if the repositioning takes more than 20% of your standard movement.

Makes sense.

• You can move into position (straight line) and charge
• If your already (havn’t moved) in melee combat, and you kill something you, then reposition and charge (i would assume possible - assuming you still have remaining attack actions to spend)
• I assume you can’t charge twice within the same initiative round, rare this would even happen…but i would probably try it

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

If your already (havn’t moved) in melee combat, and you kill something you, then reposition and charge (i would assume possible - assuming you still have remaining attack actions to spend)

No, because your attack action cannot be broken up. Only the move action can do that. See above.

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

@daermadm said in Combat Actions format:

No, there are literally actions labeled Bonus Actions in some abilities and feats.

Hmm, is this a 5e hold over? In 5e a bonus action was just a swift action in 3.5 but by another name. Still cool if you want to implement them, just don’t recall 3.5/d20 bonus actions.

It may well be a hold over from a different core ruleset than what I am basing things on, but I distinctly recall hearing you state that when Kargin does X, he gets a bonus action. And I do mean action. I realize some combat events give Rorek a bonus attack that is simply added in to his normal attack count during his attack action.

[halfgiant]

Well we may have to play it for a while to see how it flushes out I think Big Ohms as we know them now makes since inside a characters initiative but as a immediate action, when a character is getting their ass stomped, I think your right it may have to operate as a exception. It’s not entirely unprecedented in 3.5 cleave and great cleave have their own exceptions.

Another form of immediate action is attacks of opportunity, technically it’s done out of a characters initiative. That may have to be its own thing, or specific form of immediate action, since it’s condition triggered.

Ahh ok Rorek is what I thought you were referring to, and yes bonus actions was a hold over from 5e. When he crits or kills he gets a bonus action (in this case attack). Sort of a triggered action (similar to cleave and great cleave) based upon a condition while in your initiative versus a attack of opportunity which is a triggered condition outside of a characters initiative.

[daermadm]

@halfgiant said in Combat Actions format:

and yes bonus actions was a hold over from 5e.

Then I will have to re-review it and likely will toss it out.