I spent embarrassingly long time thinking this was some programming joke I didn’t understand
I think the Venn diagram of non-D&D TTRPG players and programmers is a circle.
MAP = Multi-attack penalty, I think?
Correct.
Oh, I thought this was somehow about MapReduce
And while we’re at it, what’s an Action Compressor?
In Pathfinder 2e, you have 3 actions to take on a given turn. These might be Stride (to get closer to an enemy), Interact (to draw your weapon), and then Strike (to attack that enemy with that weapon).
An Action Compressor is an action that allows you to do more things for less action cost. Two examples would be Sudden Charge, which allows you to Stride, Stride, then Strike (3 actions) for the cost of 2 actions, or Quick Draw which allows you to Interact and Strike (2 actions) for the cost of 1 action.
Edited, typo
This comes down to the fact that a well balanced game with a lot of options is going to have to do some magic tricks to misdirect you from the fact that they’re only really balancing a handful of major mechanical effects and a lot of minor mechanical effects.
3.x/PF1 treated balance as a nice to have at best (3.0 intentionally included trap options to be more like mtg) but wanted a lot of freedom.
D&d 4e didn’t misdirect you from the balance very well at all. This meant they were able ro give you a ton of well balanced options that didn’t feel different enough for many people
5e cut down the options and left some slack on the balance in an attempt to create something that’s mostly balanced but doesn’t feel samey.
PF2 uses misdirection to try to get good balance with a ton of options without reducing classes down to flavor+role with at will, encounter, and daily powers like 4e
My wife will rant about this a lot lol
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