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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 5225093" data-attributes="member: 57112">They might have included it in the ability score section; true. Your Dex modifier is clearly labeled on the provided character sheet, however, which is in turn provided right at the end of chapter 2. True, it is never explicitly stated in the rulebook until you get to the section on Initiative.Of course, everything I have said above is exactly the same as it was in 3.5. Modifying initiative was lacking under the description of Dexterity in that manual as well. Neither book mentions it until their respective sections on Initiative in their respective chapters on combat. In fact, both editions explicitly refer to the Initiative roll as a Dexterity check.Again, I suppose this could be considered an oversight, but it is a minor one at that, and one that hasn't been explicitly mentioned in a PHB since 2nd edition, in the days when it was referred to as Reaction Adjustment and if you were new you still had to dig through the combat section to figure out that meant an adjustment to your initiative roll.*Ultimately, this is a minor omission at best and one not at all unique to 4e.*EDIT: I actually double-checked the AD&D 2e manual** and found that the section for Dexterity does say that your Reaction Adjustment affects your initiative roll. It doesn't say how it does it, though; I was shocked to find the Reaction Adjustment was a positive number and had to look up the Initiative heading to be reminded that you had to subtract your Reaction Adjustment (it actually just says dexterity modifier, which is confusing enough on its own. Ahhhh, AD&D).**In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that my old TSR Core Rules disc doesn't jive with Vista, so I had to use the next best thing: the Hackmaster PHB; which is essentially the same thing only with a joke at the end about how hard it is to get funny pictures of a high dex character at a surprise party.</blockquote>

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