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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9780100" data-attributes="member: 29398">This still raise more questions than it answers, though:--- "the GM offers [someone the option to act immediately]".  It's completely GM-controlled, then?  I ask because active, engaged players will very quckly start jumping in and asking for - or outright claiming - the chance to react at every opportunity, particularly when it's to their benefit (and active, engaged players is the end-result goal of this exercise, isn't it?)--- more broadly to the previous point, I think you're vastly over-relying on a co-operative and somewhat passive table here--- do the foes get the same chance to react e.g. if a PC crits one of the Orcs can another Orc react to that?--- when the GM offers the Rogue the chance to act now, the player gets to (and has to) has to choose between acting now or on the Rogue's usual initiative - correct?--- how do you stop or shut down the player-side argument that says the reaction is a "free shot" and should be in addition to the character's usual turn?--- if the Rogue chooses to "act now" how does this affect the turn order in subsequent rounds?Theories are only so much good until the practical questions they raise get answered. <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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