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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 305326" data-attributes="member: 1225">If it's a case of Gnuggles the Dwarf saying, "Screw this, I waste him with my crossbow," I'd probably give Gnuggles a surprise round. He might need to make a Bluff vs. Sense Motive check (or possibly some other check -- e.g., Pickpocket vs. Spot to palm a dagger & slip it into someone's throat). If he failed, I'd allow people who beat him to also go in the surprise round. If they go before he does, well, they saw him making his move, & reacted first. Of course, attacking before he actually does might have negative consequences, depending on the situation ("I told you not to attack them! Thanks for starting a war!" "Sorry, your majesty.").Of course, if Gnuggles didn't already have a weapon in hand or have Quickdraw, he'd spend his surprise round readying a weapon -- he still might get "outdrawn" if someone gets a higher initiative. That seems fine & reasonable to me. (I might give Gnuggles a circumstance bonus to his initiative roll, too.)If it's really an armed standoff kind of deal, where everyone has weapons out and is on guard, looking for the slightest excuse to throw down -- I might assume that the situation had already entered "combat time", and let everybody have a Readied or Delayed action. That way, Gnuggles would make his attack, and everybody else would go immediately after (or before, if someone's readied action was "Attack Gnuggles if he twitches"). But I think that kind of situation would be relatively rare. At least with my group -- if there's that much hostility, they probably aren't going to bother with a peaceful meeting anyways. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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