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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8401863" data-attributes="member: 2209">This seems the point of time where initiative is rolled.This seems to be imposing intent over the randomness of determining initiative. I might rephrase the fiction here to be "He has decided to run and didn't spend any time waffling on that decision. Unfortunately for the fighter, the orcs moved quicker and surrounded him before he put his decision into action."If they all reacted and moved simultaneously at the same rate of speed it does not seem like the orcs could get past him. If they did not all react and act simultaneously it is a different situation. A hesitation in acting, someone reacting slower is not an absurdity for the fiction.Backtracking and changing position retroactively seems unnecessary here.The fighter is 30 feet in a room and there are a bunch of orcs 30 feet farther in. Everybody sees everybody, so no surprise. Things go south and initiative is rolled. So everybody then reacts to either flee out the door or cut off that escape. Initiative seems to match up to who reacts quicker to things turning bad and effecting that into action.You can reasonably quibble about orcs moving 60 feet before the fighter reacts being farther than you would expect in this fictional scenario, but I think it is only a quibble about specifics of distance and speed.</blockquote>