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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5725282" data-attributes="member: 19675">1) The initiative rules are different from the attack rules so that your stat adjustment always matters.  It wouldn't make sense if Limpy rolled a Nat20- an autosuccess- forcing Dexter to roll a Nat20 himself.  That way, he actually beats out Dex's rolls between 12-19, and Dex's autofailure with a 1 gives Limpy more chances to succeed on the low end as well.Why?  It reflects Limpy doing the best he possibly could while Dexter gets distracted. It happens.I ruled my HS chess club.*  It wasn't even close.  But one day, I was scheduled to be playing a bottom ranked player, I was more interested in reading a book.  In my arrogance, I continued to read while playing.  Thus distracted, I lost to Fool's Mate- my first and only loss.  (Yes, I was ridiculed for it...good naturedly by most.)On the flip side, I also used to play volleyball a lot.  Some of the guys I played with were Olympic hopefuls, and they taught me a lot.  So one day, I went out to a beach volleyball bar/club and was asked by a couple to be their third for a game of pickup 3 on 3.  They were practicing for some regional event.  For whatever reason, it was as if I were a man possessed: every set I made was perfectly placed for his spikes; every pass I made was on target; my serve was dropping in for aces; I dug out or blocked vicious shots from the opposition.  It looked like we had been playing together for months, and we blew them away.  Likewise the next 3 teams that took the court to challenge us.  At the end of the evening, the guy & gal asked me to join their team permanently.  Flattered, I confessed that I had never played that well in my life, and they were better off finding someone who could do that on a regular basis.  (For the record, while I still played well after that, I NEVER played THAT well again.  Not even close.)* to put my dominance in context, 3/4 of my graduating class were National Merit scholars, and no class at that school since then has achieved less than 50%.</blockquote>

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