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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philotomy Jurament" data-source="post: 3097957" data-attributes="member: 20854"><s>Yes, that's correct; it would be possible.</s>After re-reading the question, I want to amend that.  When saying "Yes," I was thinking of a surprise situation, where you have a number of segments to act.  If your enemy is surprised for two segments and you cast meteor swarm (casting time of 9 segments), your spell would go off in the seventh segment of the "next round" (i.e. the first full round of the combat).  However, in a round with no surprise segments, your initiative roll doesn't necessarily indicate the segment that you will begin your action  -- it's just an abstract measure of who has the initiative.  The ADDICT document's spell casting examples show how it works.In any case, some of the higher level spells are quite difficult to cast in combat because they take so many segments to complete, so there's a good chance of spell disruption before you're finished.Basically, yes.  However, mutliple attacks can introduce an exception (see "Initiative For Creatures With Multiple Attack Routines" on pg 62 of the DMG).  Also, weapon speed is used as the determining factor in the case of an initiative tie when both combatants are using weapons.  Charges are also an exception, since the combatant with the longest reach/weapon will strike first.For a definitive, by-the-book approach to 1E combat, check out <a href="http://members.cox.net/dmprata/ADDICT.pdf" target="_blank">DMPrata's ADDICT document</a> (link is to a PDF).  Note that the 1E rules can be interpreted a couple of different ways, but ADDICT is pretty comprehensive.Also, the 1E grognards at <a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org" target="_blank">Dragonsfoot</a> and <a href="http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb/index.php" target="_blank">Knights-n-Knaves</a> are pretty good at fielding 1E rules questions.</blockquote>

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