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<blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 8130084" data-attributes="member: 27385"><p>I would be careful where you can use this. A lot of combats start with some verbal back and forth where you could avoid combat. If there is an advantage on starting the murder-hobo action, the players will act on it. Also, there are encounters where the door is opened and both parties see each other knowing there is a fight. There would always be a player who shouts "I attack" first trying to get advantage, when the situation would likely be neutral. </p><p></p><p>I never thought about using Wisdom for initiative. It is used for Perception and passive Perception, so it makes sense to use it more like a 'spider sense' anticipating the others actions. This sounds like Insight, where now I have players thinking they can/should use Insight on top of just Wisdom. </p><p></p><p>Would this lead to things like in 4e where it was justified to have mages use Intelligence to attack and clerics use Wisdom. 5e only has Str and Dex, but I was more relating to Initiative more where the wizard would thing to use his logic to anticipate the start of combat and the bard would want Cha to use his relations with people to determine it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aco175, post: 8130084, member: 27385"] I would be careful where you can use this. A lot of combats start with some verbal back and forth where you could avoid combat. If there is an advantage on starting the murder-hobo action, the players will act on it. Also, there are encounters where the door is opened and both parties see each other knowing there is a fight. There would always be a player who shouts "I attack" first trying to get advantage, when the situation would likely be neutral. I never thought about using Wisdom for initiative. It is used for Perception and passive Perception, so it makes sense to use it more like a 'spider sense' anticipating the others actions. This sounds like Insight, where now I have players thinking they can/should use Insight on top of just Wisdom. Would this lead to things like in 4e where it was justified to have mages use Intelligence to attack and clerics use Wisdom. 5e only has Str and Dex, but I was more relating to Initiative more where the wizard would thing to use his logic to anticipate the start of combat and the bard would want Cha to use his relations with people to determine it. [/QUOTE]
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