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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3284801" data-attributes="member: 13703">It wasn't so much a house rule that I made up as a rule I made up to keep the situation moving at the time.  It happened in 2 consecutive sessions.  I used the same rule the second time around just to be consistent as we hadn't had a chance to discuss the situation in between the 2 sessions.You do bring up a good arguement about the BBEG (or whoever) reacting to the first person's movement and beating them to the draw so to speak.  I think I'll just tell everyone to roll initiative once the first person announces that they want to do something that will effectively initiate combat.As for why the player interrupted the BBEG's speech in the first place, I think it was due to a couple of things.  Firstly his PC isn't really one to beat around the bush.  The PC likes to get to the point of things very quickly (often with the aid of pointy things!).  Secondly I think that the player felt as though the BBEG wasn't really going to add anything else of value and took it as a sign from me for someone to start the combat.  Getting the benefits of attacking first might have had something to do with it but I don't think that was the main reason for it.Let me also just add that the player of the PC who is interrupting is very good at playing his character.  He isn't interrupting the bad guys just purely for the mechanical benefits.  He is doing it as it is generally what his character does in the situation.  If I really wanted to I could ask the player simply to hold off and let him finish and he would be mature enough to agree to it.  However I don't really want to do that.  I would rather that he kept in character.  If attacking first and asking questions later causes problems for the party then that's something that they'll have to deal with.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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