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You may find Shadowdark interesting then. One of its quirks is that it has "always on initiative" in and out of combat.

The most basic answer is that RPGs came out of tabletop war games, which were inherently turn based. I suppose you could call that...

I am mostly curious about your path into RPGs if the idea of turn order/initiative in combat feels weird to you.

I'm in.

I can still purchase past copies in PDF. I have a full collection of every version of D&D on my hard drive. I have a bunch of physical...

Good point. I will update the OP with the initiative rules, such as they are, from the SRD.

Unfortunately, not being familiar with Daggerheart, and not having waded through 18+ pages of that thread to figure out what the...

I don't know if it helps it, or just makes it not matter as much, but it certainly seems to make it less of an issue. No turn order...

I do side initiative for OSE and OSRIC. I have a list of the players and each round I put a dot next to their name when they take...

Does no turn order help that situational awareness? On paper, it seems like it would. For 5E, I really, really like per round...

It is interesting that you indicate that DMs, when players, are better at this. Do you think it is simply experience with pacing and...

Pretty good - most of the RPGs my main group has played over the last few years have used it - Mothership and Spire particularly (before...

I wanted to reach back to the OP. I want to use Blades in the Dark as an example, because I slept on it and it was not until I...

I decided to spin the initiative discussion off so we stop inundating this DH+ thread.

I wanted to spin this out of the Daggerheart + thread just to stop gumming up the works for @overgeeked and besides, more games than...