[Plane]

Originally Posted by Dustin

turn 2 - Step and Ready, using the Step to Stand from Kneeling.

I think it would be "ready and step" since you'd still need to be kneeling to grab the weapon, then use your step at the end of the Ready turn.

Originally Posted by evileeyore

Or several of you can learn Acrobatics and the Acrobatic Stand Technique.

You'd think holding a weapon might make that harder, but apparently not.

Originally Posted by Dustin

I support the concept of expanding "All-Out", so that you could have

• All-Out Ready: Two Ready maneuvers, with no defenses.
• All-Out Change Posture: Go from Lying to Standing, with no defenses.
• All-Out Mixed: One Change Posture and one Ready, in either order, with no defenses.

These seem quite unobjectionable to me. All-Out Ready could be particularly handy when a character is trying to get through the 1d seconds trying to locate a packed item.

Other All-Out options would be interesting (All-Out Aim? Aim & Attack?) but are outside the scope of the thread.

Cole's "On Target" has All-Out Aim, and "Aim as Attack" does essentially allow you to do AOA double Aim + Attack.

Cole's "Technical Grappling" also has the solution to the Change Posture maneuver: using the "Force Posture Change" attack instead and designate your weapon as your foe. Only downside is you must pass a roll and it's not auto-success (but then, neither is Acrobatic Stand)