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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5526285" data-attributes="member: 92305">This is just a little ditty to see how different DM's run their games. If you want to put in some explaination as to why you'd make the call you would, then I would welcome that peek into your DM mind. Here's the situation: The PCs are in the local tavern. For color, you've been describing (you're the DM) some loud mouths sitting at a table not far away. One of them gets up to go to the head and he bumps into the PCs' table. "Hey, you maggots, " he says to the player characters, "stay out of my way, or I'll piss on you." The players take up the challenge. The Fighter in the party stands, looks the NPC straight in the eye, and says, "Go ahead and try to piss on me." The other PCs stand up and give their comrade room to fight the jerk. At this point, the DM has an impromptu role playing moment on his hands that can easily degrade into a combat situation. The NPC smiles a toothy grin at the Fighter, takes a step closer to him, and jabs his finger into the Fighter's chest, "You look like a toilet to m...." "That it!" The player interjects. "My Fighter hits him, right in mid-speech. I'm rolling my attack!" So, here's the question: Do you (the DM) make everyone roll initiative right there? Or, do you automatically give initiative to the Fighter, based on what has occured in the game? Or, do you consider this a Surprise round, let the Fighter attack, then roll nish for everybody else after the Fighter has gotten off this free attack (and, in this situation, is it fair to give the Fighter a free Surprise round and not just the first attack?)? How would you handle this as DM? Remember, often the reverse of this situation is true, as with a party going through an old cavern and having a spider drop down on them.</blockquote>

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