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<blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1553031" data-attributes="member: 2785">If it works for you, great. I loathed tracking initiative each round in 2E. I found it to be an onerous task. Rolling intiative only once per fight was one of the best changes of 3E. What we do is use index cards. We have one card for each PC and one card for each monster type. When initiative is rolled we arrange the cards in descending initiative order and then simply cycle through them one after the other until the fight ends. A character on a delay has his card removed from the stack until he wishes to insert, and a readied character's card is turned sideways so that it sticks out of the deck to remind the DM that the character is on a ready. When you die your card is removed from the stack. It's super easy and makes combat go smoothly for us.It's important to remember that D&amp;D is an abstract rules system and is in no way meant to directly mimic the reality of combat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForceUser, post: 1553031, member: 2785"] If it works for you, great. I loathed tracking initiative each round in 2E. I found it to be an onerous task. Rolling intiative only once per fight was one of the best changes of 3E. What we do is use index cards. We have one card for each PC and one card for each monster type. When initiative is rolled we arrange the cards in descending initiative order and then simply cycle through them one after the other until the fight ends. A character on a delay has his card removed from the stack until he wishes to insert, and a readied character's card is turned sideways so that it sticks out of the deck to remind the DM that the character is on a ready. When you die your card is removed from the stack. It's super easy and makes combat go smoothly for us. It's important to remember that D&D is an abstract rules system and is in no way meant to directly mimic the reality of combat. [/QUOTE]

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