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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9017920" data-attributes="member: 11">I know some people/groups are not fans of initiative and see it as a disruption of the narrative flow of the game (for lack of a better term, or perhaps think it is disruptive for other reasons) but this is not my experience. The call from the DM to &quot;Roll Initiative!&quot; is like putting on a jock jam at a sporting event. . . the table gets hype![MEDIA=youtube]4TLO4FvxCQ0[/MEDIA]As I have a classroom sized dry erase board as essentially one whole wall of my game room, I put the initiative up on the board, using different color markers for the different factions (black for PCs, red for enemies, purple for unallied NPCs, blue to mark someone under a spell effect, etc) everyone can see where initiative stands and it flows really well once I call out to for folks to give me their number and I jot them down in order (so, I will say &quot;Who has higher than 20? Who has 15 to 20? Who has 10 to 15? etc until I have everyone jotted down). And I usually have a list of pre-rolled d20s I use for things like enemy initiative (I roll actual enemy attacks and damage in the open)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 9017920, member: 11"] I know some people/groups are not fans of initiative and see it as a disruption of the narrative flow of the game (for lack of a better term, or perhaps think it is disruptive for other reasons) but this is not my experience. The call from the DM to "Roll Initiative!" is like putting on a jock jam at a sporting event. . . the table gets hype! [MEDIA=youtube]4TLO4FvxCQ0[/MEDIA] As I have a classroom sized dry erase board as essentially one whole wall of my game room, I put the initiative up on the board, using different color markers for the different factions (black for PCs, red for enemies, purple for unallied NPCs, blue to mark someone under a spell effect, etc) everyone can see where initiative stands and it flows really well once I call out to for folks to give me their number and I jot them down in order (so, I will say "Who has higher than 20? Who has 15 to 20? Who has 10 to 15? etc until I have everyone jotted down). And I usually have a list of pre-rolled d20s I use for things like enemy initiative (I roll actual enemy attacks and damage in the open) [/QUOTE]

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