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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2944955" data-attributes="member: 2011">Actually, if you look at it mathematically, batch initiative is an important point. Last week in an earlier post, I illustrated an example of how Improved Initiative affects combat. It was easy to see from the example that if you roll each NPC separately, II only helps a PC only a little bit (allowing a PC to average less than one extra opponent he beats that he would not have beaten anyway with that specific example). It helps a lot if you roll all of the NPCs at the same time. The same applies here. Rolling them all at the same time significantly increases the chances (i.e. several magnitudes more chance) of them losing init on round x and winning it on round x+1. There is a major difference between one opponent getting back to back actions and 5 opponents doing so.The chances of all 5 orcs going consecutively when each Orc's init is rolled separately is extremely slim and hence, rolling each round is less lethal if you roll every NPC init separately than if you do it batch style. How much less lethal probably cannot be determined.In the entire combat. Considering that I phased them in over 4 rounds presented a considerably lesser challenge than the overall numbers indicated.True. Calling it a mistake is an opinion.Agreed.</blockquote>