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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Valador" data-source="post: 7687136" data-attributes="member: 6782907">I can see it both ways. It's been about 6 months since I've played due to moving back to America from Europe, and now that I think about it I think our play falls somewhere in the middle where I totally remember someone declaring something like "I unsheath my sword and go to swing at the ____" and that's when I cut them off, tell them to roll and then allow people to react accordingly along the lines of "so and so draws his sword and approaches you" and due to their roll they can act first. Not sure why I was brain farting before, aside from getting about 3 hours of sleep a night due to spending my time in a hospice with my grandmother and driving hours to and from work while waiting for our house deal to close...I still don't think that the surprised enemy from before would have a chance to react, based on something akin to a perception check. I think I'd be more inclined to just have them spend their turn in place doing what they were doing prior to initiative rather than perceiving the sound of a bow being drawn, etc. I mean they are still technically surprised, their turn just came before the attacker can execute.</blockquote>