Guy Gardner can use Charge. Give Guy Gardner a move action, and if he ends his move adjacent to an opposing character, the move action counts as a free action instead, and he uses Battle Fury until that character is KO'd.

Can this be done as a free action before things like poison?

No. The move action is a non-free action until the end of the movement and non-free actions cannot be given at the beginning of turn phase unless specifically stated by the game effect.

Sure can. It's a free action, so as long as you take it before any non-free actions, he could free move and then poison, among other things.


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But it still counts as a free action instead of a non-free. By that reasoning no non-free actions have been taken, and the "beginning of the turn" phase is still in effect.

When you give the action to Guy it is a non-free action. Because it is a non-free action when given, it ends the beginning of the turn phase. The fact that it afterwards changes into a free action doesn't change the fact that you already passed the beginning of the turn phase.

Right, so could an orange answer this? Showing this to judge wouldn't sway them one way or the other.

I think I'd side with Mirandir and VanisherPunisher here. But I can see the logic for both sides.

I get what you are saying, but I don't see "before/after" language here. I see "instead" which changes the nature of the action. When he ends his movement adjacent to an opposing character it is a free action.

To the OP, have you emailed the rules folks? What's their email again?

Orange responses are no where near as guaranteed as they used to be. The best thing you can do is to build a case for why it goes a certain way, and cite the relevant texts in the rule book and such to your judge, to explain why it should be this way.

You can also email the rules team at: [email protected]

Sounds like an incredibly awful system.

Emphasis mine.

A move action is not activate by a free action. Nor does Guy's power allow you to do as such, it's allowing you to count it as a free action, but it was still activated by a non-free action.

I'm convinced. Good catch!