Free Triggered Actions: By the Book vs. Rules Reference
Edited to add: Bring on the downvotes, jerks. The level of hostility here tells me all I need to know about this game’s fandom.
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Almost every Reddit post I find, as well as random Google searches, give the interpretation that you can take infinity Free Triggered Actions per round. This appears to be based on what is in the Draw Steels Rules Reference on the MCDM website and NOT on what's written in the book (in my interpretation).
Has MC ever weighed in on the discrepancy?
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The book reads:
Triggered Actions and Free Triggered Actions
[...] You can use one triggered action per round, either on your turn or another creature’s turn, but only when the action’s trigger occurs. [...]
A free triggered action follows the same rules as a triggered action, but it doesn’t count against your limit of one triggered action per round.
(p. 267, Draw Steel Heroes v1.01b) (emphasis added)
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My interpretation:
* Normally you can use only one triggered action per round. I think this is uncontroversial.
* "A" [singular!] free triggered action follows those same rules with this exception: "it [singular!] doesn’t count against your limit of one triggered action per round."
This means that in a given round you can take, at most:
* 1 (regular) triggered action
* 1 free triggered action
The latter is only allowed explicitly because of the "but" clause and is singular, one, because of the singular words used to describe it.
If the book had meant to say you can take infinity free triggered actions per round then it would have (should have?) been written, "Free triggered actions [plural] follow the same rules as a triggered action, but they don't [plural] count against your limit of one triggered action per round."
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And then we have the Rules Reference which confusingly adds this statement:
Triggered Action: You can take one triggered action per round when the trigger happens. There is no limit to the number of free triggered actions [plural!] you can take.
That second sentence is *not at all* what the sentence in the book means, in my interpretation. Hence my desire to know if MC has ever weighed in on this.