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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaelis" data-source="post: 6967219" data-attributes="member: 60210">"I prepare to launch an attack"?I don't think there is any rule that you are required to actually attack on the first round of combat. I suppose you could play that there is. But then if the target wins initiative and finds total cover, what would you do? I guess require the player to attack the cover? That seems a bit arbitrary to me as a player.You know, I suppose another way to interpret the way I want to play it is that you go ahead and roll initiative as usual. If the target wins, they win. But you don't tell the target "someone is about to attack you." Rolling initiative is a metagame thing, there's no reason a character should be aware of it. So if it's a player just tell them to roll a d20. If they win, don't tell them anything. Presumably they spend their first round doing whatever it is they had been doing, and then get attacked (but without surprise). That has the same effect as how I'd play it, but avoids peoples' allergy to fixing initiative results.Of course that would work best if you periodically ask the players to roll d20s for no reason, but that is anyway fun to do <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>