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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3282745" data-attributes="member: 32740">I got it into my silly head that I wanted to try that once.  ONCE.  I plowed ahead with the attempt for a few weeks but when I was unable to get the surprise and initiative rules to make sense I gave it up and slowly (at first, but with increasing acceleration) went back to many of our usual house rules.Mind you that even resorting to a more faithful adherence to the AD&D1 RAW was superior to the bizzare bastard child of an initiative system that had been in use in the group for a number of years even before I joined.I can't believe anyone would be unaware, however, that AD&D combat required declaration of actions prior to intiative.  It was one of those rules that you loved to hate.  Particularly when you declared action X versus enemy Y, but Y got killed by character Z prior to your initiative, and your PC wound up doing nothing.  We generally resolved it by shameless meta-gaming so that nobody got left holding the bag, or by accepting a house rule of a Dex roll (or somesuch) needed to change your declared action.Ahh... the memories, the agonies - the glorious, lovable, pathetic kludge that was AD&D.  How I adore it and still want to drive wooden stakes into it and fill its mouth with garlic and holy wafers.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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