Breaking Out of Entangles

[Acroyear II]

Steve,
The rules for breaking out of Entangles has been a point of argument for my gaming group for some time. Could you please explain the reasons for why a character is able to perform a Full Phase Action if he breaks out of an Entangle by rolling twice the BODY required to destroy it? Why does the character get a Full Phase when he already used his Phase to blast/punch/rip out of the Entangle?

In the same vein, why does a character who manages to break out of an Entangle in his phase immediately get a free 1/2 Phase Action?

We are going by the rules described on page 283 of the 5th Edition Rule Book.

Thanks in advance.

Acroyear II

[Steve Long]

Because it's been that way in every edition of the rules I can recall.

If you want a "logical" reason, I'd say it's because if a character can so "easily" break free, he wasn't sufficiently impeded by the Entangle to deny him an Action.