I've been wanting to do a series of videos on D&D/Pathfinder's history, and decided to cover its action systems while addressing the next edition of D&D!
(I also thoroughly talk about Pathfinder 2e's "Three Action Economy")
0:00 Introduction with TL;DR
4:08 History of D&D action systems
6:08 Original, 1st, and 2nd Editions
7:26 3rd Edition
11:45 4th Edition
17:11 5th Edition
32:22 Pathfinder 2e's Three Action Economy
38:12 What One D&D is trying to do
43:38 Disadvantages of 3 Action Economy
45:12 An alternative?
Thanks to Geek Ken for his 4e "D&D Action Pyramid": https://geekken.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/the-dd-action-pyramid/
Treantmonk's open letter: https://twitter.com/ChrisHonkala/status/1582392203866824704
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