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<blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 148612" data-attributes="member: 381">Actually, it sounds like a rotten idea to me, because your initiative resets to the initiative count you take your action on.Example: Your initiative is 18, and you have four opponents going on 19, 15, 9, and 4. You're at missile range, all of you are using bows to shoot at one another, and you don't have any iterative attacks yet. Not interested in moving, you decide to take a standard action on your turn to shoot one arrow, and reserve a partial action to take a regular move of 0' and Dodge the missile the first time an opponent attacks you.So, you shoot an arrow on 18. On 15, that opponent shoots at an ally, but the second shoots at you on 9. Your initiative changes to 9, and you get a +1 AC to dodge the arrow. The opponents on 19 and 15 go, on 9 you shoot again and prepare the same action. This time, the opponent on 9 shoots at another ally, as do the opponents on 4 and 19. Finally, the opponent on 15 takes a shot at you, and you take your 0-move-and-dodge action and reset your initiative to 15. A quick count will show that, by the time your original initiative of 18 rolls around again, everyone will have taken three actions in the combat, except you, who have taken two. The discrepancy will continue to get larger as the combat progresses; and what you get in return is a +1 AC against one attack per round instead of +1 AC against sometimes one, sometimes no attacks per round.There's no disadvantage if nobody ever attacks you, of course. No advantage either, though, in that case.I'd definitely allow this as a DM, although if I were in a charitable mood, I might point out the disadvantages to the player first ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Christian, post: 148612, member: 381"] Actually, it sounds like a rotten idea to me, because your initiative resets to the initiative count you take your action on. Example: Your initiative is 18, and you have four opponents going on 19, 15, 9, and 4. You're at missile range, all of you are using bows to shoot at one another, and you don't have any iterative attacks yet. Not interested in moving, you decide to take a standard action on your turn to shoot one arrow, and reserve a partial action to take a regular move of 0' and Dodge the missile the first time an opponent attacks you. So, you shoot an arrow on 18. On 15, that opponent shoots at an ally, but the second shoots at you on 9. Your initiative changes to 9, and you get a +1 AC to dodge the arrow. The opponents on 19 and 15 go, on 9 you shoot again and prepare the same action. This time, the opponent on 9 shoots at another ally, as do the opponents on 4 and 19. Finally, the opponent on 15 takes a shot at you, and you take your 0-move-and-dodge action and reset your initiative to 15. A quick count will show that, by the time your original initiative of 18 rolls around again, everyone will have taken three actions in the combat, except you, who have taken two. The discrepancy will continue to get larger as the combat progresses; and what you get in return is a +1 AC against one attack per round instead of +1 AC against sometimes one, sometimes no attacks per round. There's no disadvantage if nobody ever attacks you, of course. No advantage either, though, in that case. I'd definitely allow this as a DM, although if I were in a charitable mood, I might point out the disadvantages to the player first ... [/QUOTE]

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