Interesting take on initiative

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Interesting take on initiative

cr0m 17 Nov 2011 17:17

Over at our Granddaddy Site they're discussing initiative on the forum. The Glantri Campaign, which is the long-running successor to their Black Peaks game, uses a pretty interesting twist on the B/X system. Here's the gist:

In Glantri, we do a group initiative rolled on d6, higher is better. Individual Dex and special modifiers give players a chance to skip forward or back in the order (so if players roll a 3 and enemies roll a 4, a character with a +2 bonus can jump ahead of the enemies).

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Chris
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Re: Interesting take on initiative

Cloth 17 Nov 2011 18:41

It's very workable - that's how I ran a lot of battles back when I DMed 2e.

The challenge is, in large groups, remembering who goes when. I simply had one of the players assigned as a "DM helper" and his job was to write down who went when, and then hand the sheet to me and I'd call out names.