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Two Actions [Pathfinder 2e]
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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
Aye. And there are things the player can do that lets them take 2 attacks for one action, but you get a normal Multiple-Attack-Penalty progression between each attack, and there are things that let them take 2 attacks for 2 actions -- as would be normal -- but which do not progress the MAP until after the second attack is done. And there are a lot of each. Or rather, there's functionally 1 of each, but it's often named different things for different classes.
The single-action variety can be seen, in-world, as being very fast, taking multiple individual attacks in very quick succession, like with Flurry of Blows. The two-action variety can be seen as hitting someone with two different weapons at the same time, as with Double Slice.
It does bother me that both let/make you pool your damage for dealing with resistances/weaknesses. Given the choice, I'd probably have the two-action varieties pool damage, and the single-action ones count as multiple instances. But nobody asked me.