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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7021590" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Precisely. Players love it when that happens. One of the best things ever was when the necromancer Nox, who was facing a Death Slaad which (due to prior events in play) was wearing Nox's own Robe of the Archmagi, managed to just barely kill the Death Slaad right before it finished Plane Shifting to safety, taking his Robe forever with it. I think there were six skeletons (out of 18 or 20) which hit the Slaad with arrows that round, and all six of them needed to beat its initiative to kill it. IIRC the Slaad rolled a 2 or something on initiative so they all managed to still beat it, but everything was on the line for poor Nox when initiative was rolled. Nox didn't even have clothes on, he was wearing makeshift clothing he had rigged out of leaves and tree bark. I can still remember the look on S.'s (the player's) face as we rolled the dice.I like that kind of drama, and yet you can never have it in standard PHB initiative. With concurrent initiative, every time initiative is rolled, it's because something exciting is at stake. (Or because the combat is so complex, with dozens of combatants and so many conditional actions declared that rolling initiative is actually simpler than not rolling it.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7021590, member: 6787650"] Precisely. Players love it when that happens. One of the best things ever was when the necromancer Nox, who was facing a Death Slaad which (due to prior events in play) was wearing Nox's own Robe of the Archmagi, managed to just barely kill the Death Slaad right before it finished Plane Shifting to safety, taking his Robe forever with it. I think there were six skeletons (out of 18 or 20) which hit the Slaad with arrows that round, and all six of them needed to beat its initiative to kill it. IIRC the Slaad rolled a 2 or something on initiative so they all managed to still beat it, but [I]everything[/I] was on the line for poor Nox when initiative was rolled. Nox didn't even have clothes on, he was wearing makeshift clothing he had rigged out of leaves and tree bark. I can still remember the look on S.'s (the player's) face as we rolled the dice. I like that kind of drama, and yet you can never have it in standard PHB initiative. With concurrent initiative, every time initiative is rolled, it's because something exciting is at stake. ([B]Or [/B]because the combat is so complex, with dozens of combatants and so many conditional actions declared that rolling initiative is actually simpler than not rolling it.) [/QUOTE]

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