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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larcen" data-source="post: 1139666" data-attributes="member: 2406">Ok Two, our group played last night and here are my observations when I kept initiative in mind.We only had one battle last night, and as luck would have it, it was against a ghost.  Everyone was entering a narrow staircase in a trap door on the floor.  Before our trailing wizard could enter the shaft, the ghost showed up and started to toss him around with telekinesis.  Being the only cleric in the party, and since I wasn't far down the staircase, I rushed back up the stairs to help out.  Well, my initiative turned out to be lower than the ghosts and let me tell you it was not fun to have to wait for the ghost to take his turn, and slam the wizard, before I could make my turn roll.  To be honest I kept failing my turn roll anyway, but it was painful to have to keep waiting until AFTER the ghost took his turn before I could even try.So I guess by your reckoning, initiative didn't matter much in this battle because I kept missing my roll.  But by my reckoning, I still would have liked to go before that ghost did. It would have been nice to reroll every round in this case.  As it was, I was stuck with my low roll.  Which led me to think of something else:You implied that since the Imp. Init. bonus only applies once to a battle that it may not be so great.  But when you think about it, the fact that you roll initiative only once makes it that much MORE important to make sure you get a good roll!  In fact, I would go so far as to say if initiative was rerolled every round, Imp Init would be LESS important...but not by much.  Remember, randomness favors the underdog.</blockquote>

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