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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6680466" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I'm a little torn here, because this makes sense to me. This sounds like what I was talking about as far as using the occurrence of an encounter itself as the trigger for rolling initiative. As described, there's no hostile action taking place here, unless it's holding drawn weapons, which I assume the PCs are doing much of the time. There's nothing that tells me that combat's about to begin other than I'm looking at some ugly dudes, and the DM just said, &quot;Roll initiative.&quot; What happens next is up to the players and the DM. There still might not be a fight.To me, this is better handled by just launching into the first round with an initiative roll right after the first person declares they are going to attack. Since everyone's ready to fight, it seems kind of arbitrary to resolve their attacks in Dexterity order rather than initiative. If the first person rolls low on initiative that just means she was slow to complete her attack. Why would those with a higher initiative wait for her to finish attacking once they knew a fight was going to erupt?I hadn't realized that Ready could only be used to take an action or move. It appears, however, that you are correct.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 6680466, member: 6787503"] I'm a little torn here, because this makes sense to me. This sounds like what I was talking about as far as using the occurrence of an encounter itself as the trigger for rolling initiative. As described, there's no hostile action taking place here, unless it's holding drawn weapons, which I assume the PCs are doing much of the time. There's nothing that tells me that combat's about to begin other than I'm looking at some ugly dudes, and the DM just said, "Roll initiative." What happens next is up to the players and the DM. There still might not be a fight. To me, this is better handled by just launching into the first round with an initiative roll right after the first person declares they are going to attack. Since everyone's ready to fight, it seems kind of arbitrary to resolve their attacks in Dexterity order rather than initiative. If the first person rolls low on initiative that just means she was slow to complete her attack. Why would those with a higher initiative wait for her to finish attacking once they knew a fight was going to erupt? I hadn't realized that Ready could only be used to take an action [B]or[/B] move. It appears, however, that you are correct. [/QUOTE]

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