diff --git a/data/actions.sql b/data/actions.sql
index a370b3c..764f425 100644
--- a/data/actions.sql
+++ b/data/actions.sql
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 
 INSERT INTO actioncosts (
   actioncosts_id,
-  name
+  name,
+  abbr
 )
 VALUES
-  (1, 'Single Action'),
-  (2, 'Two Actions'),
-  (3, 'Three Actions'),
-  (4, 'Free Action'),
-  (5, 'Reaction');
+  (1, 'Single Action', '1'),
+  (2, 'Two Actions', '2'),
+  (3, 'Three Actions', '3'),
+  (4, 'Free Action', 'free'),
+  (5, 'Reaction', 'reaction');
 
 INSERT INTO actioncategories (actioncategories_id, sources_id, sources_pages, name, descr)
 VALUES
diff --git a/data/third_party_json/spells.py b/data/third_party_json/spells.py
index 9685f18..35c34fb 100644
--- a/data/third_party_json/spells.py
+++ b/data/third_party_json/spells.py
@@ -95,13 +95,16 @@ def main():
     c.execute(stmt)
     ttypes = c.fetchall()
 
-
+    # load in ids for actions so just doing this once
+    stmt = "SELECT actioncosts_id, abbr FROM actioncosts"
+    c = conn.cursor()
+    c.execute(stmt)
+    acttypes = c.fetchall()
 
     # print(sorted(targs))
     # print(len(targs))
     # print(len(set(targs)))
 
-
     id = 0
     for i in sorted_dicts:
         id += 1
@@ -112,6 +115,27 @@ def main():
         do_spell_types(i,id,conn,stypes)
         do_spell_components(i,id,conn,ctypes)
         do_spell_targets(i,id,conn,ttypes)
+        do_spell_actions(i,id,conn,acttypes)
+
+def do_spell_actions(i,id,conn,acttypes):
+    if 'action' not in i:
+        return
+    res = 0
+    for j in acttypes:
+        if i['action'] == j[1]:
+            res = j[0]
+    # print(id , res)
+
+    inp = (res, id)
+
+    stmt = "UPDATE spells SET actioncosts_id=? WHERE spells_id=?"
+
+    try:
+        conn.execute(stmt, inp)
+    except:
+        print("Error updating actioncosts_id")
+    else:
+        conn.commit()
 
 def do_spell_components(i,id,conn,ctypes):
     res = None
diff --git a/schema/actions.sql b/schema/actions.sql
index 7eea1da..d8aa616 100644
--- a/schema/actions.sql
+++ b/schema/actions.sql
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 CREATE TABLE actioncosts (
   actioncosts_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
-  name TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE
+  name TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
+  abbr TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE
 );
 
 
diff --git a/schema/spells.sql b/schema/spells.sql
index 7a5ab90..ebfc293 100644
--- a/schema/spells.sql
+++ b/schema/spells.sql
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ CREATE TABLE spells (
   area_text TEXT, -- TODO need to figure out some sort of programmatic representation for this too
   spelltargets_id INTEGER,
   nethysurl TEXT, -- scraped from github repo
+  actioncosts_id INTEGER,
+  FOREIGN KEY (actioncosts_id) REFERENCES actioncosts(actioncosts_id),
   FOREIGN KEY (sources_id) REFERENCES sources(sources_id),
   FOREIGN KEY (spelltypes_id) REFERENCES spelltypes(spelltypes_id),
   FOREIGN KEY (spelltargets_id) REFERENCES spelltargets(spelltargets_id)