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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8880153" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Exactly what I say. If on initiative 15 I start a spell and you (and some others) all react to it, the person with initiative 14 doesn't get to use that initiative until all the stuff triggered on 15, plus the triggering action, gets sorted. Hence, it's logical to say all those reactions are taking place within initiative 15.</p><p></p><p>Initiative count is a timekeeper. If I swing on init 18 and you swing on init 12 there's no doubt in anyone's mind, either at the table or in the fiction, that I swung first. Now in 5e the amount of actual in-game time between the two swings is indeed fairly trivial - each pip represents about 0.3 of a second if not less - but it's still enough to suggest your swing came slightly less than two seconds after mine.</p><p></p><p>And if initiative count isn't a timekeeper then what's the point of it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8880153, member: 29398"] Exactly what I say. If on initiative 15 I start a spell and you (and some others) all react to it, the person with initiative 14 doesn't get to use that initiative until all the stuff triggered on 15, plus the triggering action, gets sorted. Hence, it's logical to say all those reactions are taking place within initiative 15. Initiative count is a timekeeper. If I swing on init 18 and you swing on init 12 there's no doubt in anyone's mind, either at the table or in the fiction, that I swung first. Now in 5e the amount of actual in-game time between the two swings is indeed fairly trivial - each pip represents about 0.3 of a second if not less - but it's still enough to suggest your swing came slightly less than two seconds after mine. And if initiative count isn't a timekeeper then what's the point of it? [/QUOTE]
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