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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr_Ruminahui" data-source="post: 4712161" data-attributes="member: 81104">Well, the iniative roll can matter later in the encounter, but that really depends on the DM.For example, I very often have monsters join in through out the encounter.  As such, I continue to track the original rolls and slot in new monsters appropriately according to their own rolls.  However, if as a DM you either don't add enemies part way through, or you simply add them all to the end/beginning of the iniative order, you won't need to track iniative rolls in this way.I generally haven't had a problem tracking the rolls in this way as I write them on the monster's cue cards that I use for tracking iniative.  In my group, only players ever really change their initiative order, and only one does so often, so I can pretty much always tell where the players fall by which monsters are next to them.As an additional note, how iniative is tracked for monsters really depends on the DM.  Myself, I treat all monsters as having their own roll, except for minions who I lump together as to type. Other DMs may well group them together more than I do.  For my players and I, having the monsters go seperately makes things more interesting such as to make up for the extra time it may take.</blockquote>