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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BobTheNob" data-source="post: 5949090" data-attributes="member: 82425">I voted for something else. Something really outside the box.2e wasnt bad. Workable.3e and 4e though...just didnt like. The thing in particular is that that initiative can have a profound effect on the outcome of the battle, and when players can (and do) stack against init making the outcomes all too predictable. In addition, I am absolutely NOT a fan of Dex being the stat stacked against init, both for reasons of Dex already being a "super-stat", but also the premise that "if you have good reflex's, you seem to act earlier, even if the action you take doesnt really have anything to do with reflex's"Also, dont like that initiative is the same round after round. Cyclical gets boring...thats genuine feedback direct from my players mouths. Players tend to "switch off" once there turn is complete because they know its a complete cycle till they act again. (Your experience might be different, fine. Enjoy cyclical.)(They are my reasons, discussed repeatedly in other threads. Feel free to disagree)I actually like a "lottery" system. Literally, have a bowl(/hat) in the middle of a table, with a card (or toekn, piece of paper, whatever) for each participant. Pull the next participant out of the bowl(/hat). Lather rinse repeat every round.Why? Primarily, I love the chaos of it, I love the lack of predictability. You never know who is coming out of the hat next and you cannot plan against it. It means the predictable patterns of control are out the window and players need to learn to adapt real quickly.This is an idea I have been working on since 4e (as it was during 4e that I realised how much I disliked the init system they had) and there is alot more nuence to it than documented here.</blockquote>

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