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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7875617" data-attributes="member: 996">Eez joke.D&D is often defended as capturing it's own self-referent sub-genre of fantasy, and PF2 might well be restricting itself to that same sub-genre.  The exact opposite, really.  No other edition even tried to promote non-combat challenge to even theoretical equality with combat encounter, but 4e did - SCs were worth the same exp as encounters of the same level.SCs also provided a structure in which the whole party would participate outside of combat, to avoid 'netrunner syndrome' (non-combat challenges tending to only one PC, something named after a type of character in cyberpunk, but going all the way back to the 0D&D Thief).  Both innovative, new things for D&D to try, both abandoned by 5e - and, AFAIK, not taken up by PF2?To be fair, more than terminology changed:  at-will, encounter, & daily powers weren't just renamed cantrip/short/long rests, they were taken away from martial characters, short rests no longer equated to encounters (about every-other, according to the guidelines, but, really, a campaign could run entirely on long rests and not strain credulity at all), and the number of dailes (spell slots) ballooned.   Similarly, HD are comparable to Surges, but don't silo healing from offensive/utility spellcasting as much.</blockquote>