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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1203125" data-attributes="member: 1656">1E was much cooler.I'll have to look up the formula exactly when I get home.  But essentially, if you had guy with weapon vs guy with spell, and the guy with the weapon lost initiative, you subtracted his weapon speed factor from the losing initiative die roll (d6), took the absolute value of the result, and compared it to the casting time of the spell.  If it was lower, the weapon hit before the spell was complete, and disrupted the spell.  If it was equal, the weapon struck simultaneously with the spell going off.  If it was higher, the spell occurred first.1E initiative also catered for Reach weapons - they had a very poor speed factor, but that didn't matter in the first round.  When someone closed to attack or charged, initiative and speed factor did not determine who struck first; the person with the longer weapon went first.1E speed factors also catered for someone with a fast weapon potentially getting more attacks than someone with a slow weapon, but I'll need to check my 1E DMG to remember how that worked.-Hyp.</blockquote>