Action Duration

Every action includes the resource costs in the brackets that follow.

The first (and often the only) item of these is the action duration, which is how long the action normally takes. The basic time increments are:

Duration increment	Usual activities
free-action	something that takes no time or you can easily do whail doing something else, like talking
bonus-action	an instant to do something very practiced, no more than 1 second
re-action	an instant where your second nature takes over, no more than 2 seconds
main-action	a brief moment to perform an action that would be no more than 3 seconds
round	6 seconds, something you might start in your current turn, and finish in your next turn
minute	actions like search, perform or enthral
scene	generally 10 minutes
hour	some repairs or modifications to equipment
day	striking is performed over days

Chained Action Durations

Sometimes actions can either be variable in the time they take, or may need successive actions to maintain an effect. In these cases we will show the duration resource cost twice in the brackets after the action itself