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<blockquote data-quote="Musing Mage" data-source="post: 8408158" data-attributes="member: 7025552">Simultaneous results are easy to adjudicate in older editions, and they generally have that covered in the rules. 1e for instance simply has you resolve all actions regardless of the outcomes... so it's possible to skewer one another and both die for instance.I don't think adjudicating them in 5e would be that difficult to implement, and given the d20 roll for initiative, it wouldn't be too common an occurrence. If two characters do end up with the same result, then their actions simply happen at the same time - which if they are aiming at one another is where the simultaneous result will need to be adjudicated. In this case, I'd say as DM make your 'declaration' as to the creature's action secretly, and then let the player resolve their action first before revealing the enemy action. Both actions are considered to have happened at the same time and are resolved together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Musing Mage, post: 8408158, member: 7025552"] Simultaneous results are easy to adjudicate in older editions, and they generally have that covered in the rules. 1e for instance simply has you resolve all actions regardless of the outcomes... so it's possible to skewer one another and both die for instance. I don't think adjudicating them in 5e would be that difficult to implement, and given the d20 roll for initiative, it wouldn't be too common an occurrence. If two characters do end up with the same result, then their actions simply happen at the same time - which if they are aiming at one another is where the simultaneous result will need to be adjudicated. In this case, I'd say as DM make your 'declaration' as to the creature's action secretly, and then let the player resolve their action first before revealing the enemy action. Both actions are considered to have happened at the same time and are resolved together. [/QUOTE]

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