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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 8557135" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p>Some years back there was a thread about card based initiative that I ran with for quite a long time. Basically, PCs had initiative cards, and the higher your Dex the more cards you get,.&nbsp; When a fight started, you shuffled monster and PCs cards together and the DM pulls them one at time. The more cards in the deck, the higher your odds of going first. End of the round the deck is reshuffled and the count starts over. Pros: it was a minigame every round. The only slow part was putting the deck together, but once we got the hang of it, it was fast.&nbsp; I loved the drama of not knowing who was going to go next.&nbsp; Players loved it when they went last in a round and then got to go immediately first the next round.&nbsp; Cons:&nbsp; Players hated it when a monster went last and then first.&nbsp; (I didn't mind that one bit).&nbsp; Spells that last &quot;until your next turn&quot; could get cut off quickly.&nbsp; Oh, and I had to make and laminate all the cards.&nbsp; It was very time intensive, but I still have a fat deck of hundreds of permanent cards with color pictures.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 8557135, member: 31465"] Some years back there was a thread about card based initiative that I ran with for quite a long time. Basically, PCs had initiative cards, and the higher your Dex the more cards you get,. When a fight started, you shuffled monster and PCs cards together and the DM pulls them one at time. The more cards in the deck, the higher your odds of going first. End of the round the deck is reshuffled and the count starts over. Pros: it was a minigame every round. The only slow part was putting the deck together, but once we got the hang of it, it was fast. I loved the drama of not knowing who was going to go next. Players loved it when they went last in a round and then got to go immediately first the next round. Cons: Players hated it when a monster went last and then first. (I didn't mind that one bit). Spells that last "until your next turn" could get cut off quickly. Oh, and I had to make and laminate all the cards. It was very time intensive, but I still have a fat deck of hundreds of permanent cards with color pictures. [/QUOTE]

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