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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9454824" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Wrong.Pendragon does need intiative, since one's ability to pick target is limited by sequence. And it has it in the editions I've runIn KAP 4, page 159, center column, &quot;The gamemaster decides whether the players or their gamemaster-run opponents first make their statements of intent.&quot; That's initiative, even if not called such.Book of Knights (for 4th ed, sometimes called 4.1) has a different intiaitve sequence (p 35, right col):KAP 5th has the same process in more prosaic presentation on p118... initiatvive is not mentioned in Combat, because it's in the more general rules of play.Oh, and the cortex plus games I've run? Yeah, they have initiaitive, too. The term used is &quot;Action Order&quot; instead of initiative, but calling a rose a bara (japanese for Rose) changes neither its color, shape, nor thorniness.In MHRP, it's&nbsp; by assignment... GM picks a PC to go first; at end of their turn, they pick who (from the other side) goes next (&quot;Who Goes first&quot; p. OM 35.)Oh, and Firefly... p 263: Action Order... which is almost the same, except there's no cost for the GM to have an NPC go first.And Cortex Prime, p 98. Action Order.The only games I've run without initiatives to some level have been those in the Burning Wheel family - where you secretly record your 3 actions for the next round, and resolution order is immaterial.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9454824, member: 6779310"] [B][SIZE=6]Wrong.[/SIZE][/B] [I][U]Pendragon[/U][/I] does need intiative, since one's ability to pick target is limited by sequence. And it has it in the editions I've run In [I][U]KAP[/U][/I] 4, page 159, center column, "The gamemaster decides whether the players or their gamemaster-run opponents first make their statements of intent." That's initiative, even if not called such. [I][U]Book of Knights[/U][/I] (for 4th ed, sometimes called 4.1) has a different intiaitve sequence (p 35, right col): KAP 5th has the same process in more prosaic presentation on p118... initiatvive is not mentioned in Combat, because it's in the more general rules of play. Oh, and the cortex plus games I've run? Yeah, they have initiaitive, too. The term used is "Action Order" instead of initiative, but calling a rose a bara (japanese for Rose) changes neither its color, shape, nor thorniness. In MHRP, it's by assignment... GM picks a PC to go first; at end of their turn, they pick who (from the other side) goes next ("Who Goes first" p. OM 35.) Oh, and Firefly... p 263: Action Order... which is almost the same, except there's no cost for the GM to have an NPC go first. And Cortex Prime, p 98. Action Order. The only games I've run without initiatives to some level have been those in the Burning Wheel family - where you secretly record your 3 actions for the next round, and resolution order is immaterial. [/QUOTE]

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