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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7534052" data-attributes="member: 6871653">I recently started playing Dungeon World, a PbtA game that replicate the elements of D&D in a less mechanical way. In DW, there's no Initiative: combat goes the same way as exploration does. Players act in the order that fiction and narrative require rather than on a fixed place in an pre-determined order. I my latest D&D game, I used the popcorn initiative and players love it and I would like to take the idea a little further. In DW, monsters dont have a ''turn'' in the fiction, their actions happens on a missed action by the players: when the players miss an action, the Gm gets to use the monster/encounter scene to make a Move from this list:•Use a monster, danger, or location move•Reveal an unwelcome truth•Show signs of an approaching threat•Deal damage (enemy makes an attack)•Use up their resources•Turn their move back on them•Separate them•give an opportunity that fits a class’ abilities• give a downside to their class, race, or equipment•Offer an opportunity, with or without cost•Put someone in a spot•Tell them the requirements or consequences and askSo if a player describe ''My fighter lunge at the hill giant, climb on its belly than try to stab his forehead'' I would ask him to make a Athletic check then an Attack roll, if any of those would fail, I would use the Hill Giant to make one of the mentioned Moves to add complication to the players actions. Then I would put the spot on another player '' The half-giant son of the chieftain notice Jim the spellcaster and throw a volley of huge rocks at him: what do you do?''. No need for Ini. I would also use the DMG option to give the players ''Success at a cost'': When the players get a result equal or miss by 1 or 2, the players ''succeed'' at their described action, but the Dm gets to make a Move against them. Should they miss by more than 2, their action failed AND the GM get to make a Move.What do you think? Is it possible to remove Initiative from the game without breaking to much things?</blockquote>

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