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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4868800" data-attributes="member: 2804">That is a really cool way of doing initiative. I may have to adopt that. It would make things so much easier from a bookkeeping perspective.So just to clarify:1. DM rolls for the monster with the highest initiative vs. the individual initiatives of all the PCs.2. PCs who roll above the monster go first in any order (essentially getting a surprise round for reacting so quickly.3. Then all the monsters go, in any order.4. Then all the PCs go (including the ones who already acted) in any order.5. Repeat 3 and 4 until the end of the combat.I really like this. It saves so much time rolling for each monster (or group of similar monsters), writing everything down, remembering whose turn it is, etc.Also the freedom of being able to act in any order, either as the PCs, or as the monsters, makes the ability to pull off power combos requiring multiple characters that much easier. It seems like it would add both speed and excitement to combat.This is one of those &quot;AHA!&quot; moments where I feel like smacking myself on the forehead for not doing this years ago. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 4868800, member: 2804"] That is a really cool way of doing initiative. I may have to adopt that. It would make things so much easier from a bookkeeping perspective. So just to clarify: 1. DM rolls for the monster with the highest initiative vs. the individual initiatives of all the PCs. 2. PCs who roll above the monster go first in any order (essentially getting a surprise round for reacting so quickly. 3. Then all the monsters go, in any order. 4. Then all the PCs go (including the ones who already acted) in any order. 5. Repeat 3 and 4 until the end of the combat. I really like this. It saves so much time rolling for each monster (or group of similar monsters), writing everything down, remembering whose turn it is, etc. Also the freedom of being able to act in any order, either as the PCs, or as the monsters, makes the ability to pull off power combos requiring multiple characters that much easier. It seems like it would add both speed and excitement to combat. This is one of those "AHA!" moments where I feel like smacking myself on the forehead for not doing this years ago. :) [/QUOTE]

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