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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8585556" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Indeed, and just a precision, I'm not really trying to simulate &quot;real life&quot;, for genre books/movies are not real life and neither are LARPs, what I'm trying to simulate is the natural flow from pillar to pillar.For me, it's a reset in terms of preparation only, which is why the simple fix of allowing ready actions patches that &quot;reset&quot;.Sort of, although in that kind of case, it's way more flexible as the DM adjudicates purely based on declarations, not a formal order decided by dices.We use initiative, although we also use every trick of the book (in the section &quot;ignoring dice&quot; in particular) to have initiative conform to what happened when combat started. If someone obviously starts the combat from certain positions (in particular with surprise and preparedness coming into effect), then we sometimes decide to give advantage on the roll or even to put something at the top or bottom of the order (auto success / failure). But in general, we are also happy to let the dice decide, as long as the system does not forget that someone was, for example, watching the door...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8585556, member: 7032025"] Indeed, and just a precision, I'm not really trying to simulate "real life", for genre books/movies are not real life and neither are LARPs, what I'm trying to simulate is the natural flow from pillar to pillar. For me, it's a reset in terms of preparation only, which is why the simple fix of allowing ready actions patches that "reset". Sort of, although in that kind of case, it's way more flexible as the DM adjudicates purely based on declarations, not a formal order decided by dices. We use initiative, although we also use every trick of the book (in the section "ignoring dice" in particular) to have initiative conform to what happened when combat started. If someone obviously starts the combat from certain positions (in particular with surprise and preparedness coming into effect), then we sometimes decide to give advantage on the roll or even to put something at the top or bottom of the order (auto success / failure). But in general, we are also happy to let the dice decide, as long as the system does not forget that someone was, for example, watching the door... [/QUOTE]

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