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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2948706" data-attributes="member: 2011">It actually slow things down. For one thing, when you just sort the cards, the DM does not have to write the inits down. The only time I write down inits is if I have more than 5 or 6 NPCs. Otherwise, I just let the dice sit on the table in left to right order (i.e. bad guy one to bad guy six), figure out the highest init, take that die away, etc. Usually, there is no real need to write down the inits of the bad guys and no need to write down any of the PC/NPC Cohort inits at all. Writing down 50 to 100 numbers has got to be slower than not writing them down at all.Secondly, if you have 10 inits / other numbers written down for the PCs and use 8 of them each, then they rolled 2 numbers each and you wrote them down for nothing.It just seems like excessive unnecessary bookkeeping. IMO. Obviously, YMMV.This is subjective. I suspect that many other people's game are just as much "impacting" and fun at the start of an encounter. That to me is more DM style than it is whether people are rolling dice or not. But, if it works for your game, cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Actually, I think I'll pass. The beginning of a session is an important social gathering time for my group where they catch up on recent events, spread the food around, shoot the breeze, joke, and finally, recap where we left off in the previous session. It's a bit of a fun tradition which I would not want to break up with gaming related mundane tasks. Probably just like you do not want to break up the moment by rolling dice at the start of combat.</blockquote>

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