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<blockquote data-quote="Hemlock" data-source="post: 8002764" data-attributes="member: 7024709">RE: #1, back in 2017 I would have rolled initiative, 5E-style, but nowadays I would have them meet in the middle and probably just have the PC roll his attack first (order doesn't really matter on a first attack so might as well let the player go first).Your way of doing it (&quot;whoever got around to moving their token first&quot;) sounds 100% fine to me too.RE: #2, again, back in 2017 I would have rolled initiative for this, but today I'd just make a judgment call based on relative movement speeds and the distance between them. If they're starting off 30' away from each other there's no reasonable way the enemy could close fast enough to still attack this turn, so I'd just convert that into a Dash by the enemy[1], but the PC gets a shot off before the enemy gets into range. No initiative roll needed. If they were only 10' away instead I'd go ahead and roll initiative between them.[1] My players and I usually call this move &quot;Charge&quot;. &quot;I charge the Goristro&quot; means &quot;I move towards the Goristro intending to attack in melee, but if I have to I'll Dash instead.&quot;The old one for some reason won't let me change my username back to Hemlock, so yeah, I had to create Hemlock as a sesparate account. [shrug]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hemlock, post: 8002764, member: 7024709"] RE: #1, back in 2017 I would have rolled initiative, 5E-style, but nowadays I would have them meet in the middle and probably just have the PC roll his attack first (order doesn't really matter on a first attack so might as well let the player go first). Your way of doing it ("whoever got around to moving their token first") sounds 100% fine to me too. RE: #2, again, back in 2017 I would have rolled initiative for this, but today I'd just make a judgment call based on relative movement speeds and the distance between them. If they're starting off 30' away from each other there's no reasonable way the enemy could close fast enough to still attack this turn, so I'd just convert that into a Dash by the enemy[1], but the PC gets a shot off before the enemy gets into range. No initiative roll needed. If they were only 10' away instead I'd go ahead and roll initiative between them. [1] My players and I usually call this move "Charge". "I charge the Goristro" means "I move towards the Goristro intending to attack in melee, but if I have to I'll Dash instead." The old one for some reason won't let me change my username back to Hemlock, so yeah, I had to create Hemlock as a sesparate account. [shrug] [/QUOTE]

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