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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5619809" data-attributes="member: 54877">Tried a quick post on the blog, but not sure if it let me or not.  Anyway, this is what I had to say about zones and movement: Really like the articles so far, and some useful stuff for the direction I have been going myself.  One of the similarities is that I was looking at abstract time in combat, in order to handle player action order efficiently, but I had not considered zones. So have you considered rolling initiative every round and/or combining the initiative roll with the movement roll? That gets a lot of good mileage out of one roll.  Roll well enough, you get where you want to be, and get to act first. But if where you want to go is far away, those modifiers mean that you act later.  "Fail" your initiative/movement roll, and you get stopped short of your goal and you go very late in the order. This combo solves another issue I was having, too. Namely, I wanted a declarative phase that was very simple and general, but did lock in the player slightly and have consequences.  But I also wanted the players who went late to still be free to act based on the situation as it then stood.  Declaring desired location, then rolling for success/initiative order, then dealing with it, meets that goal, I think. Using stuntways could be a gamble, here. Make it, and you are effectively improving your initiative.  Miss it, and you hurt initiative.</blockquote>