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<blockquote data-quote="Arrowhawk" data-source="post: 5626839" data-attributes="member: 6679551">That's right.&nbsp;&nbsp; You may not act when it is NOT your initiative.&nbsp; If you make a decision as person to lower your PC's initiative score...then your character may only act on this new initiativ score.&nbsp; &nbsp;Making decisions about your &quot;Initiative Result&quot; is metagaming.&nbsp; Making decisions about acting is not.&nbsp;&nbsp; You seem to be conflating the &quot;Ready&quot; act with the &quot;Delay&quot; act.&nbsp;&nbsp; What you describe is the Ready act, where you are simply waiting at some point to take more action.&nbsp; Think of it this way.&nbsp; The Delay action is no different than voluntarily applying a negative modifier to your Initiative Roll, before you roll it.&nbsp; The advantage is you can decide retroactively how much of modifer you took.&nbsp; As a result you get information on the actions of others who &quot;may act&quot; before you &quot;may act.&quot;&nbsp; It's no different than actually rolling the Initiative you take.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Clearly some people think there is a tatical advantage to getting their Initiative later in the round.&nbsp; If this is true, then people who have high Dex would perceive an injustice.&nbsp; WotC said were going to give people an option of voluntarily taking a lower result if they feel it gives them a tactical advangtage.&nbsp; It's a modifier to the actual ROLL, not to the character's actions.&nbsp;It's plain English Duane, a &quot;lower Initiative result&quot; means you initiative is lower.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the game specifically talks about &quot;initiative&quot; being lower...and not simply &quot;acting&quot; later...the game is dealing with the metagame concept of Initiative.&nbsp; &nbsp;There is nothing in the Delay rules which state when I need to declare I want a lower result.&nbsp; If I act on my initiative, then clearly I have elected not to Delay my roll.&nbsp;Pehraps you're getting hung up on the header.&nbsp; The word &quot;Delay&quot; does suggests the character is waiting.&nbsp; But the rules make it explicit, you're changing your actual Initiative &quot;result&quot; i.e. what you rolled on the die plus modifiers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arrowhawk, post: 5626839, member: 6679551"] That's right. You may not act when it is NOT your initiative. If you make a decision as person to lower your PC's initiative score...then your character may only act on this new initiativ score. Making decisions about your "Initiative Result" is metagaming. Making decisions about acting is not. You seem to be conflating the "Ready" act with the "Delay" act. What you describe is the Ready act, where you are simply waiting at some point to take [I]more[/I] action. Think of it this way. The Delay action is no different than voluntarily applying a negative modifier to your Initiative Roll, before you roll it. The advantage is you can decide retroactively how much of modifer you took. As a result you get information on the actions of others who "may act" before you "may act." It's no different than actually rolling the Initiative you take. Clearly some people think there is a tatical advantage to getting their Initiative later in the round. If this is true, then people who have high Dex would perceive an injustice. WotC said were going to give people an option of voluntarily taking a lower result if they feel it gives them a tactical advangtage. It's a modifier to the actual ROLL, not to the character's actions. It's plain English Duane, a "lower Initiative [B]result[/B]" means you initiative is lower. Since the game specifically talks about "initiative" being lower...and not simply "acting" later...the game is dealing with the metagame concept of Initiative. There is nothing in the Delay rules which state [I]when [/I]I need to declare I want a lower result. If I act on my initiative, then clearly I have elected not to Delay my roll. Pehraps you're getting hung up on the header. The word "Delay" does suggests the character is waiting. But the rules make it explicit, you're changing your actual Initiative "result" i.e. what you rolled on the die plus modifiers. [/QUOTE]

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