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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 8080176" data-attributes="member: 6802951">So: you have someone (Mr Mook) hidden behind a corner with a knife as a single, completely unaware* target (Mr Lee) approaches it. (*Mookie's Stealth has beaten Bruce's perception.)Does Mr Mook get to automatically go first and make their attack? Or is there even a slight chance that they're going to wake up stuffed into a skip without even finishing their fist swing?You may be confused by the way the D&amp;D round treats actions as instantaneous, even if they take up the full 6 seconds. The initiative rules represent the chance that someone fast enough can react to a person going for a knife and hit them before they start stabbing.Remember it is the &quot;going for a knife&quot; that everyone is reacting to even though by the round structure, that only resolves at the same time as the &quot;stabbing&quot;.(It is possible to to come up with edge cases (completely invisible/silenced/undetectable attacker shooting an invisible and silenced projectile at an unsuspecting target) where you may need to adjudicate a different result. That is perfectly fine.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 8080176, member: 6802951"] So: you have someone (Mr Mook) hidden behind a corner with a knife as a single, completely unaware* target (Mr Lee) approaches it. (*Mookie's Stealth has beaten Bruce's perception.) Does Mr Mook get to automatically go first and make their attack? Or is there even a [I]slight [/I]chance that they're going to wake up stuffed into a skip without even finishing their fist swing? You may be confused by the way the D&D round treats actions as instantaneous, even if they take up the full 6 seconds. The initiative rules represent the chance that someone fast enough can react to a person going for a knife and hit them before they start stabbing. Remember it is the "going for a knife" that everyone is reacting to even though by the round structure, that only resolves at the same time as the "stabbing". (It is possible to to come up with edge cases (completely invisible/silenced/undetectable attacker shooting an invisible and silenced projectile at an unsuspecting target) where you may need to adjudicate a different result. That is perfectly fine.) [/QUOTE]

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