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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 7016137" data-attributes="member: 6685730">This.I see two goals in Hemlock's scheme: break players free from the robo-action-framework, and avoid a five-minute-long initiative rolling session amongst eight players and fourteen goblins.Fortunately, I don't GM for eight people, and I start to get nervous around six.&nbsp; What I don't want to do is memorize four people's in-game, descriptive, action declarations just so they can avoid saying &quot;I Attack,&quot; &quot;I Dodge,&quot; or &quot;I move 30 feet.&nbsp; Yay.&quot;&nbsp; This didn't look like a problem in the first thread example, but the mind flayer example above looks more...declarative.&nbsp; And I really don't want to tell a player, &quot;yes, the goblin reacted to your attack declaration by taking cover because he's more intelligent than you.&quot;&nbsp; /insulttoplayerI'd try something more like this:Break players free: whenever a player asks &quot;can I,&quot; answer &quot;yes,&quot; and then Rule Zero a duration, letting the player know, and marking it on my action tracker.Five-minute-initiative: go around the table, resolving actions as I go, allowing Delays or Readies, but using group initiative instead of individual initiative.&nbsp; That way, you need only two rolls.Let me know if I'm way off base <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />XP to Saelorn - FF1 is still relevant!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 7016137, member: 6685730"] This. I see two goals in Hemlock's scheme: break players free from the robo-action-framework, and avoid a five-minute-long initiative rolling session amongst eight players and fourteen goblins. Fortunately, I don't GM for eight people, and I start to get nervous around six. What I don't want to do is memorize four people's in-game, descriptive, action declarations just so they can avoid saying "I Attack," "I Dodge," or "I move 30 feet. Yay." This didn't look like a problem in the first thread example, but the mind flayer example above looks more...declarative. And I really don't want to tell a player, "yes, the goblin reacted to your attack declaration by taking cover [B]because he's more intelligent than you.[/B]" /insulttoplayer I'd try something more like this: Break players free: whenever a player asks "can I," answer "yes," and then Rule Zero a duration, letting the player know, and marking it on my action tracker. Five-minute-initiative: go around the table, resolving actions as I go, allowing Delays or Readies, but using group initiative instead of individual initiative. That way, you need only two rolls. Let me know if I'm way off base :) XP to Saelorn - FF1 is still relevant! [/QUOTE]

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