Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult" OOC
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Voda Vosa
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Want me to give you an advise? Rule out initiative order. Make a roll for each character, mean it and compare it with the enemies' result. Then let the ones that post first act first in their turn, and assume the others that are first delay until the others go. That way you'll have more dynamic and less boring fights. I mean, we are fighting freaking kobolds, we took down an ogre in like 3 rounds, we should be able to wipe these lizards in like 1 round.
Yttermayn
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OOC: Can you give me an example? I'm interested but I don't quite understand... You mean like, average all character inits together, and all enemies inits together, then whichever side is higher gets to go first? Then the individual members of the side go in the order of posting?
If I understood that correctly, does anyone have an objection to this method?
Deuce Traveler
Adventurer
In my games, I give everyone a 3 or so days to declare their actions. If anyone doesn't respond within that time, their PC takes a basic action under DM control. If it becomes a habit, I consider the character an NPC and look for ways for them to retire from the game. People are creatures of habit, so if they get used to the game continuing every few days they'll check in that often. In my Last Stand of the Dorinthians campaign, the players got used to me doing daily updates and acted accordingly, but I had a special group of players.
Voda Vosa
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You understood it exactly as I intended.
Example? Well here's a game running with this method from the very start:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/living...basement-dm-mal-malenkirk-judge-covaithe.html
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I personally think that individual characters should have individual inits, and as DT put it, if no response withing an acceptable time the action is made by the dm, unless the player has chimed in with mitigating cercumctances.
I like the idea of all players post at the time available to them then the dm summerizing the actions. if there was a need to do womething such as flanking, then that can be spoken of in the round as a free action and done next round. that seems fair for all aaas it keep the game rolling and those who check often get the best chance to have the most relevant action.
I like the idea of all players post at the time available to them then the dm summerizing the actions. if there was a need to do womething such as flanking, then that can be spoken of in the round as a free action and done next round. that seems fair for all aaas it keep the game rolling and those who check often get the best chance to have the most relevant action.
Yttermayn
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I like the idea of somehow rewarding or putting greater emphasis on frequent poster/checkers. It probably seems unfair to do so to those who are not frequent, but the game can bog down otherwise. I personally had a period there where things were bogged AND I had a lot going on elsewhere, and as a result the game suffered. I don't want to do that again. I do like the use of individual inits, though. Maybe some kind of system that starts with rolled inits, then like each day that there is no action from someone whos turn is up, they get moved down the inititive ladder and the next guy in line goes. That way the slower poster dosn't lose his turn, just delayed until he/she is ready to post?
