Do you roll for initiative every round in 4th Ed?
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Sir Brennen
Legend
No.
Sir Brennen said:
I thought I read that everyone rolls for initiative every round in that nifty 4th Ed document by Third Wizard, are you sure?
DeusExMachina
First Post
Yeah, that sounds like it would be a lot of pointless rolling...
If they introduced that again, it would be the first thing to go in my campaign...
If they introduced that again, it would be the first thing to go in my campaign...
Branduil said:
Now that rounds and turns are more defined, it also stops you being screwed for the entire encounter because you rolled a 2 at the beginning of the encounter. It also stops predictability.
Majoru Oakheart
Adventurer
You only roll initiative once.Steely Dan said:
Plus, having an init of 2 is meaningless after the first round. As for predictability. You want as much of it as possible. The more predictability you have the easier it is to run and the easier it is to act tactically.
Stormtower
First Post
In my DDXP play experiences, initiative (including readying and delaying) worked identically to 3.5E. There's no rolling every round. IMO, going back to that horrible system of rolling every round would negate practically all the round-by-round speed gains of the new system.
AntiStateQuixote
Enemy of the State
Actually, the cyclical nature of "rolled once" initiative guarantees that you are only screwed once in a single encounter for rolling low.
If you rolled every round you could easily roll high one round and low the next round allowing an opponent to get two turns between your turns. That could be very bad for you if I'm your DM because I'm pretty good at tactics and such. Imagine a dragon that got to go twice in a row because the DM rolled 1 for init on round one and 20 for init on round two.
Also, rolling each round screws up things like immediate actions and opportunity attacks and anything else that has a "per round" refresh rate unless you start clearly defining "round start/round end" again. And I don't think that's coming back.
If you rolled every round you could easily roll high one round and low the next round allowing an opponent to get two turns between your turns. That could be very bad for you if I'm your DM because I'm pretty good at tactics and such. Imagine a dragon that got to go twice in a row because the DM rolled 1 for init on round one and 20 for init on round two.
Also, rolling each round screws up things like immediate actions and opportunity attacks and anything else that has a "per round" refresh rate unless you start clearly defining "round start/round end" again. And I don't think that's coming back.
Thanks everybody – once it is!
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