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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1369060" data-attributes="member: 537">Mang, it's amazing how many times this question shows up.========Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dndSubject: Re: Original AD&D initiativeFrom: Hong Ooi <hong.ooi@maths.anu.edu.au>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 02:15:34 +1100--------On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 14:22:05 GMT, Reizla <reizla.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:>Op 07-03-2002, 15:12:51, schreef Hong Ooi <hong.ooi@maths.anu.edu.au> over >het thema Re: Original AD&D initiative:>>>> On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:45:26 GMT, Reizla <reizla.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:>>> >Next players and DM roll a d10 for the actions they'd like to do. The>> >result of the d10 roll and the speed factor together is the initiative>> >(the lower the better of course).>>> IIRC the speed factor only counted if the d10 result was a tie.>>There are several rulings on initiative. The basic rule is roll a d10 and >the group with the highest initiative gets to go first. The one I >described is an optional rule (I think I should have mentioned it), where >everyone has his/her own initiative. As far as I know, this is the one >most commonly used.>>An other thing.... That does IIRC mean?You're new here, aren't you?Anyway, "IIRC" is a commonly used acronym here on UNsenet, and you reallyshould learn its correct usage before you get trolled inadvertently. Itsmeaning was standardised by the ISO (a French acronym meaning"International Standards Organisation") under a mandate granted by theGeneral Assembly of the United Nations to govern the usage of commontechnical words and utterances in online forae[*] such as this. It standsfor "in IRC", where "IRC" is itself an acronym standing for "InternationalRegulated Chat". You may have heard of IRC forae, which are online,synchronous, low-bandwidth-consumption meeting points set up by variousgovernments to promote an atmosphere of mutual understanding and culturalexchange.Since its inception, IRC has been a major force for good in the era ofmodern telecommunications, even moreso now that the Internet is passingfrom its chaotic beginnings to the rule of law. In fact, many technologicalinnovations, ideas and cultural trends have had their beginnings on IRC, sopervasive and all-encompassing has been its influence. (One of theseinnovations was, interestingly enough, UNsenet itself, which had itsbeginnings in a late-night IRC session between a couple of students at DukeUniversity. They wanted a more reliable way of exchanging WareZ and Pr0nthan over the existing IRC links, which were unreliable and prone to beshutdown by moderators. The rest, as they say, is history.)Anyway, so commonplace had the utterance "in IRC" become that it wasshortened to "IIRC" for the sake of convenience. However, the lack of anystandardisation process meant that acronym usage varied locally; some woulduse "iIRC", others used "IIRC", and still others just used the cryptic"II". It was to remove any possible confusion that the ISO eventuallystepped in and pronounced "IIRC" to be the internationally acceptedstandard, and this was duly ratified by the various national standardscommittees. Be warned, failing to follow standardised usage can result invarious corrective measures, as decreed by the United Nations SecurityCouncil.HTH, GTBOA!* the plural of forum, which is not forii as commonly thought</blockquote>

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