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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9578466" data-attributes="member: 20323">No problem.The giants rats are not attacking. They're responding like wild animals usually do to people...dashing away a safe distance (west toward the split-T passage) and then watching to see what you do next.Generally here's how I do initiative for PbP...There may be an "inciting event" that occurs outside of initiative – this is usually not an attack/harmful thing, but sometimes the scene only makes sense if that's what happens (typically a surprise situation). Sometimes, when it makes sense – such as when we used running/ongoing initiative in the dwarven temple – a scene might start at the last initiative we left off at.PCs have set/passive initiative scores to speed up posting/play, and are organized into groups. Within a group, players can go in any order & player groups without monsters going between them can go in any order.Players ALWAYS win initiative ties.Here are the player initiative groups (copy/pasted from IC thread)...+3 initiative groupAric Thornbloom [USER=15132]@Steve Gorak[/USER] AC 17 (dark)Lumrolur Bafflestone [USER=24380]@Neurotic[/USER] AC 14 (dark 120')Russet Ghostfur [USER=7041633]@domminniti[/USER] AC 17 (blindsight 10')Zeth Venagelida [USER=6669245]@Necropolitan[/USER] AC 15 (devil's sight 120')+2 initiative groupAlma Ostergaard [USER=7041631]@happylace[/USER] AC 12 (dark)Logrim Romwold [USER=6803188]@VLAD the Destroyer[/USER] AC 17 (dark)__Logrim's Steel Defender "Ludo" AC 15 (dark) >can't be surprised<+0 initiative groupJack Everfrost [USER=6746292]@Aethmud[/USER] AC 10-1 initiative groupOskar Stoneshaper [USER=15882]@TaranTheWanderer[/USER] AC 16 (or 18 shield)...For monsters, I take its Dex modifier, then adjust with a d8 roll interpreted thus:8 = +37 = +26 = +14/5 = +03 = -12 = -21 = -3For example, if facing a single yeti (Dex +1) and I rolled 7 on its initiative, indicating +2, the yet's initiative group is +3.The yeti is tied to the group with Aric, Lumrolur, and the two retired PCs (who are still with party for now under GM control); thus, Aric and Lumrolur would go first (in the order they like / whoevers schedule allows posting first), then the yeti goes, then the rest of the party (Alma, Logrim, Jack, and Oskar) goes in any order they like/schedules allow because there are no more monsters in between their initiatives.EDIT: There are also "snap" scenes where it's not worth it to bog things down with initiative. For example, "can I throw a knife before a giant rat skitters away?" isn't something we need to break out initiative for, as that tends to break us out of the IMPORTANT part of this scene – you're sneaking. Much better to let it be a creative exercise for how you want to deal with it, resolve that, and carry on.</blockquote>

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