Editing Mano a Mano:Design Decisions (section)

== Real Time ==

The relationship of the turn-based gameplay to real time action adds to the realistic action and martial arts of the system and makes it possible to apply the Mano a Mano system to real time computer simulations: action games as well as more strategic games.
(Here "real time" refers to both the information systems concept of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time Real-time], and realistic representation of time in the game fiction)

*In combat, characters are assumed to be continually moving
*Players take turns controlling their characters in a fixed order
*Time is measured from a player's turn until their next turn
*Some actions cannot be performed every turn (example: "wind up")
*Characters can perform more than one action in a turn
*Some characters can do more things per turn than other characters
*Sometimes a player's character can act on another player's turn