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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tigris" data-source="post: 9838023" data-attributes="member: 7043270">Why copy other systems trying to be D&D? Especially when the ideas are not good.Rolling 2 dice is not bad per se, but makes modifiers matter even more and makes big modifiers a lot harder to have. I dont think this is a bad idea per se, but I dont think its better than a d20 per se. Mana points make combats more repetitive, since you just use the same ability over and over again. See PF2 encounter mana points vs original 4E encounter abilities.PF2 is the absolute oppisite of simplification. The "3 action system" does make things not simpler, but more complicated in the end. PF2 is soooo much more complicated than 5E and part of it is this 3 action economy and its need for multi attack penalty, and not having the ability to actually balance abilities with different action costs.  It needs even for even the most basic classes which just do basic attacks "action compression" because there would be hardly movement without. (In addition to the heavy multi attack penalty). Having a distinct movement action solves this. It also allows to have "minions" and other characters which just move and attack, not needing to do/filling 3 actions with mass enemies allows for more enemies. (Thats the reason why PF2 had to change the 4E math the built upon to 1 same level enemy per 2 players instead of per 1).</blockquote>