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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2944395" data-attributes="member: 2011">NPCs do not play the game. Period.Players play the game. They play PCs. The game is all about fun for players, not NPCs.If you screw the NPCs, nobody cares. If you screw the PCs, some of your players might care to the point that they quit playing your game.And, it is not a matter of stacking the deck in favor of the PCs. It is a matter of not stacking the deck AGAINST the PCs.The deck is already stacked against the PCs. The PCs are in virtually every combat and the NCPs are in one or a few each. Hence, the odds are already against the PCs continued survival because there is a large finite number of NPCs that can combat against the PCs and the PCs are typically (in many campaigns) in a large finite number of combats.It is not simply different, it changes game balance. Granted, game balance is often a subjective area of discussion, but this area of game balance (which you have conceded occurs with your "So what if multiple "unanswered" actions hurt the PC" statement) has been illustrated to have potential results often twice as effective (when done twice as often in a given timeframe) or more depending on situation.It is not subjective when examples illustrate a doubling (or more) of effectiveness of certain attacks. That is objective, you just apparently choose to ignore it.The game is designed to average x amount of damage, have as minimum of zero damage, and have a maximum of y amount of damage per round per opponent given the circumstances. Typically, y is less than the maximum hit points most characters have when they are fully up. When you double the potential of x and y per round, even if it is a somewhat rare occurance, you change game balance and you do it in an objective manner. Especially when 2y and even 2x might be more than the maximum full up character hit points.If you combine the "roll every round" init system with the "roll init once for a group of NPC opponents", you are drastically changing game balance. And, the higher the levels, the more this will lead to character death.I don't know about your game, but my players typically do not have as much fun when their PCs die as when they survive to continue on the storyline. Course, that's subjective too. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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