How do you apply MAPs and why?

[enderandrew]

Dropping one die after each action is very broken.

Let's say I'm a decently powered Jedi.

I have 5D of Sense, and Lightsaber Combat at 8D. I have 13D there. Now I spend a Force Point and have 26D to attack with.

Should I be able to attack with 26 dice, then 25 dice, then 24 dice, then 23 dice, then 22 dice, then 21 dice, etc. all in one 5 second round?

It is already scary enough that with drop-at-once, I can probably take out 20 stormtroopers in one round, with each attack at 7D. However, with drop a die with each action, I can take out a whole bunch of really powerful characters in one round that way.

I think the rulebook reads in such a fashion that the official rule is drop-a-die after each roll is the correct interpretation, but I just don't play it that way.
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[Lostboy]

MAP's are simple.
On their iniaitive the player declares how many actions they wish to take in this round and every action beyond the first causes the player to recive one less dice in any dice pool they roll until their iniaitive resets, In other words every action that round includeing the first takes the same penelty to it's dice pool.

Using your example of 13D lightsaber attacking 5 stormtroopers would apply a penelty of 4D each attack for a total of 9D each without making any defences that round, a spent force point can double the dice pool of only one of those actions.

Reflexive defences can be made after all your actions have been used but they will count as action for the next round.

Soak rolls are never effected by MAP's

Hope this clears up any abiguity.

[enderandrew]

"When a character spends a Force Point, all of their skills attributes and special die codes are doubled for the round;"

This does not specify that only one action in that round is affected if you declare multiple actions. Though that might be a nice house rule.
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[Delkarnu]

I drop all at once. No reaction skills unless you save for it.

[Esoomian]

I'd assumed that the Jedi had saved four actions for defence, if they hadn't then they'd get their first hit then they'd get hit four times (assuming low difficulty as the Jedi is in close to hack and slash) then the Jedi gets to keep swinging.

I suppose they could gamble on their doubled strength to take the hits and save no actions for defence but that's pretty risky. Although it means less MAPs.
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[obidancer]

Though prone to discussion, it is of my understanding that, once you declare a defense action (parry or dodge), your roll becomes the new difficulty until the end of the round, no matter how people attack you.
Thus, only one defense action is really required.

Does it make sense? no really! but that's my understanding of the rules.
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[Ankhanu]

For Dodge, a single roll for all incoming attacks makes sense; you're moving from where you were, which is where people would aim, no matter how many shots are coming your way. For parries... things get a little more complicated and arguments for using a single roll are valid, but so are the arguments for using a parry per attack, as melee/brawl/lightsaber attacks kind of have to be dealt with individually... especially deflecting blaster bolts with a lightsaber where you're picking off each individual bolt. The ruling often depends on the situation.
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[Esoomian]

I may accept an argument for a single parry roll being applied to every bolt if the Jedi did not care where the deflected bolts went but I'd have to insist that the Jedi made seperate rolls if they wanted to direct every single deflected bolt, other GMs may well run it differently though.
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[Delkarnu]

For Parrying Melee, I don't use one per attack, I use one per opponent. Splitting your focus to two opponents, is more difficult than one, but per attack seems like it could be unbalancing and explotable.

"We're out of ammo, have to fight melee, but neither of us are too good at it, and he seems pretty good, 6 or 7D"

"I know, we both have 4D, we each make 3 attacks. He'll be down 5D to defend, and with 6 attacks one of them will hopefully be a 6 on the wild and do damage, and any 1s he rolls will probably be minus highest and we'll hit"

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[garhkal]

While one defense roll is required for each type of attack, those do add up. Imagine a fight where joe and his comrades are fighting 3 storm troopers (left of a group) who just got reinforced with a trio of royal guards.

If the guardsmen close to melee/brawl and each attacks 2 pcs that means each pc needs a melee parry (or brawl parry) but if each stormtrooper also shoots those pcs, then they also need a dodge. So taking that into account if our heroes decide to 'avoid' both types that means they have 2d off each action from the get go (giving them a third action to do one shot/hit/move)
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