Editing Open4E:Actions (section)

=Performing Actions=
When you want to do something in the game, you tell the DM what you want to accomplish, and then the DM assigns a difficulty class and tells you what modifiers apply to your check roll. While this is enough to get started, the game provides more detailed rules to determine what kinds of actions that you can perform at what times.

There are multiple kinds of actions that you can perform in the game, divided into how long they take and how often you can perform them.

==Free Actions==
Free actions take almost no time or effort to perform, like noticing something that you’re looking at or speaking a word or two.

==Minor Actions==
Minor actions take a half second or so of your concentration, like drinking from a cup or picking up keys that are lying on the table.

==Move Actions==
Move actions take enough concentration to watch where your feet are going, but not much more. As you would expect, move actions typically let you move around from place to place, but other move actions use your legs or body to do other things.

==Standard Actions==
Standard actions take several seconds of your full attention to pull off, like aiming and firing a weapon, threading a needle, or working the controls of a complex machine.

==Extended Actions==
Finally, Extended actions take more than a few seconds to perform, and hence tend to keep you committed for more time than the tempo of combat allows for.

==At-Will Actions==
At-Will actions can be free actions, minor actions, move actions, standard actions or extended actions; the key qualification is that you can perform an at-will action whenever you feel like. Thus, if something is an “at-will move action”, that means that whenever it’s your turn and you feel like it, you can decide to spend as much effort as it takes to walk across the room to perform that action.

==Per-Encounter Actions==
Per-Encounter actions tend to be fatiguing, and so can only be used a limited number of times before you need to sit down and rest. Like at-will actions, per-encounter actions can be free, minor, move, standard or extended.

==Daily Actions==
Daily actions tend to be epic feats that take a good deal out of you, and so can only be used a limited number of times per day before you need a full night’s sleep to recharge. Like at-will and per-encounter actions, daily actions can be free, minor, move, standard or extended.