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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 2195853" data-attributes="member: 545">If passing up a precious opportunity to tag a flatfootedness target is generally too great a price to bother with negotiation, then you are roleplaying a paranoid sociopath who could never be trusted anyway.  "Golly gee, if I win initiative fair and square I see no reason not to just kill him."If that is the mindset at the outset, then it seems to me the rules are working just fine.  Nothing unrealistic at all about that.But to answer your question a bit more helpfully, we roll initiative and if there is an inclination to negotiate, everyone just Readies an action.  By the RAW, this would be a bummer for the Rogues, but a non-issue for everyone else.  Then we talk.Really though, the RAW breaks down at this point.  If hostilities do breakout, how does the DM adjudicate a motley roomful of people with Ready Actions that by their nature intertwine and overlap?  (Everyone: "If any one of them makes a hostile move, I attack him.", etc.)As our houserule, we just roll Initiative.  And Rogues get their chance to get a flatfooted target if they roll well.</blockquote>