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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2110721" data-attributes="member: 23094">Oh, OK.  We're talking about Encounters in Contrivedville.  Gotcha.Well, how about:.........147XT.....25W!.........369@In this case, the poor thief wins initiative, and can't ever attack the wizard at all (where X=10, !=11, and @=12).There's your problem.  You see "Combat Reflexes and avoid the problem," I see "Improved Initiative and Combat Reflexes and be trained Royal Guardsmen."You see a problem.  I see an opportunity for certain characters to be skilled in ways others are not.Of course it's nonsensical.  You've got a bug in your descriptive programming.  How you should have described it is:A group of well-trained soldiers are standing around, watching the crowd that has gathered for the royal audience, hands resting on the hilts of their swords.  They scan the crowd actively, searching for possible threats, but who are they kidding, really?  They weren't trained for this.  They should all be out on the front lines, fighting the Karrnathi hordes in hand-to-hand combat.  Sure, the chances of death and injury are higher, but sometimes, after the third hour of farmers complaining about lost sheep and merchants applying for licenses to sell who-knows-what, you'd accept a spear in the ribs just to make things more interesting.  Yep, another boring day.  Well, at least the noblewomen are attractive, and the recent influences of Brelish fashion have a certain "less-is-more" style that's definately appealing, not that any of them would give you the time of ... Hey ... Wait - what's he ... !And with a flash, the Assassin had thrown off his concealing cloak and covered the 20 paces between the Supplicant's Stage and the throne, a dagger appearing seemingly out of nowhere.  The guards reached for their weapons, but they each knew in their heart of hearts that they were too late.  They'd been distracted, unprepared, undertrained - whatever the cause, they were too late, and their king would soon be dead.</blockquote>

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