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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3844914" data-attributes="member: 114">Interesting discussion. I first came across tick-based combat in Chaosiums' 'Ringworld' RPG (they called it 'pulses' then IIRC). It seemed like an interesting idea in theory but was very cumbersome in practice.It is interesting to hear that the idea resurfaced again, and in a way which was usable in exalted (and for some people's D&amp;D too).Henry mentions SWSE initiative as a skill - one of the things that I think is great about that idea is that even if you are not trained in initiative, SWSE skills all increase as you go up in level, so more experienced people are better at getting initiative. I think this is a very good thing. Conan OGL did something similar by adding Reflex save on to initiative rolls.I do hope that in 4e higher level characters are likely to have intrinsically better initiatives through some mechanism or another. It will be interesting to see what comes up in this respect.Regards</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 3844914, member: 114"] Interesting discussion. I first came across tick-based combat in Chaosiums' 'Ringworld' RPG (they called it 'pulses' then IIRC). It seemed like an interesting idea in theory but was very cumbersome in practice. It is interesting to hear that the idea resurfaced again, and in a way which was usable in exalted (and for some people's D&D too). Henry mentions SWSE initiative as a skill - one of the things that I think is great about that idea is that even if you are not trained in initiative, SWSE skills all increase as you go up in level, so more experienced people are better at getting initiative. I think this is a very good thing. Conan OGL did something similar by adding Reflex save on to initiative rolls. I do hope that in 4e higher level characters are likely to have intrinsically better initiatives through some mechanism or another. It will be interesting to see what comes up in this respect. Regards [/QUOTE]

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