AoE Combat

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Time
Combat is broken into rounds. Each round lasts 10 seconds. Ergo, every minute that passes has 6 rounds, every hour that passes has 360 rounds, etc.

Actions
Each combat round, all participants will have some chance to act. Each character gets two actions every round. Most activities take one action, although some take none, and others may take two or more.

Examples of things you can do include:

Zero action
 * Speak

One action
 * Move Speed
 * Melee Strike
 * Ranged Shoot
 * Ranged Throw
 * Gather Essence
 * Channel Essence
 * Cast Spell (commonly)

Two actions
 * Charge Attack