Game Rules: Prompt Actions

Prompt actions are like standard actions, in that occupy the character's attention for 3-7 rounds, but like free actions in that they take effect immediately. They're front-loaded—the character acts, and then spends time recovering or adjusting details or preventing backlash.

You can use a prompt action whenever you have an available free action. That means you can use any prompt action while already executing a standard action. If the prompt action would normally take X rounds to complete, in this case, it adds X-1 rounds to the time remaining on that standard action instead. MP reduces this as normal. For instance, if you are engaged in a standard action, and use a 3-round prompt action, that standard action will take 2 extra rounds to complete. As a degenerate example, imagine that you are on round 1 of a combat and start a ritual that will complete on round 7. On round 2, you use a 5-round prompt action: this pushes the ritual's end back to round 11. On round 5, you get another available free action, so you do it again; the ritual will now end on round 15. You can keep doing this forever, and the ritual never completes.

You can also use prompt actions while not executing a standard action. In this case treat the prompt action as a standard action that happens to yield immediate results; you get an available free action. Thus, if you're just sitting around, and then you use a 7-round prompt action, you can use a free action too, and then another three rounds later, and so forth and so on.

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