Physical actions

Misc

• Speak/text/transmit phrase (Free)
• Observe in detail (Simple)
• Use skill (Complex)

Movement

Characters move at different rates, measured in the number of metres they travel during their phase.

• Crawling (no action used) - prone characters can crawl up to 2 metres.
• Walking (no action used) - all characters can walk up to 5 metres¹ in their phase without using any actions or taking any penalties.
• Running (Free) - characters can quicken their pace to a run by spending a Free action. This lets them move 10+(Agi×2) metres. They will take a -2 penalty to almost all actions they do during the phase, though. (However, note it becomes a +2 bonus to melee combat; this is the ‘charging in’ modifier.)
• Sprinting (Complex) - characters may travel even faster by spending a Complex action to make a sprinting test (Running + Strength [Physical]). For every hit on this test, most metatypes can travel a further 2 metres than their running distance. Dwarves can only travel 1 metre further per hit, however. They will continue to take a -2 penalty, as for running.

Take cover (Simple)

Assuming there is some nearby suitable object, this grants the in cover bonus (+2 or +4 to defence rolls) until the character moves again. Note they might get flanked, though.

Drop prone (Free) / Stand up (Simple)

Drop to the ground or get back up again².

Gear

• Drop object (Free)
• Pick up / put down object (Simple)
• Use simple device - includes pressing buttons, turning something on or off, ejecting a weapon clip, changing a weapon’s fire mode, etc.
  • with DNI (Free)
  • without DNI (Simple)

Weapons

• Ready weapon ³
  • Pistol w/ slide or quick draw holster (Free)
  • Handgun (up to SMG) or short melee/thrown weapon (Simple)
  • Long gun, sword, bow, etc (Complex)
• Insert clip (Simple)
• Reload non-clip weapon (special)

Attacking related

• Call a shot (Free)
• Take Aim (special) (TODO)
• Attack (Complex) (see below)
• Declare split multiple attack (Free)
• Carnival of Carnage (special) (see below)

Attacks

You can do as many attacks, during your turn, as you have actions to spend; the only exception is for single-shot (SS) weapons, which can only be used to attack once per turn⁴.

• Complex action:
  • Fire Weapon (SS) (only once per turn)
  • Fire Bow
  • Fire Weapon (SA, BF, FA)
  • Throw Weapon
  • Melee Attack
• Complex + Free action:
  • Multi-attack (split dice pool - as per 5e CRB)
• Complex + variable number of Simple actions:
  • Carnival of Carnage multi-attack (full dice pool; see below)⁵

Recoil is no longer tracked across turns, but it does apply (in total) across all the attacks done within a single phase.

Carnival of Carnage

If the attacker has either:

1. a ranged weapon and
2. extra physical/meatspace actions and
3. a smartlink with a DNI connection to a smartgun

or:

1. a melee weapon and
2. multiple targets within movement range

…then they can use a new type of multiple attack, Carnival of Carnage.

To use CoC:

• It requires one Complex action, plus one Simple action for each additional target in addition to the first.
• Calculate recoil according to the total number of bullets fired and apply it to each roll.
  • Eg. if using one Complex and two Simple actions to shoot three people with a burst-fire gun, it’s 9 bullets.
• Roll your full dice pool (plus modifiers) against each target.
  • (For simplicity’s sake, unless the modifiers are different, just roll once and use the same number of hits against each target.)
• Resolve damage against each target as usual.

Note that you cannot use Carnival of Carnage to attack one target multiple times.