Re: Good initiative mechanics?

On 2008-03-30, Ed Chauvin IV <edcfour@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> [1]:  It's not a problem peculiar to rpg systems, it's just a simple
> fact that reducing the number of the opposing force, and therefore his
> ability to attack your force, is more tactically sound than reducing
> the overall strength of that force without reducing it's ability to
> return fire.

It may be tactically sound, but in RPGs it's often not as much fun.

In that sense it is a problem more peculiar to RPGs: most other
situations where the tactic arises are either not concerned at all
about whether the conflict is fun or not, or are broader in scale
where it doesn't matter if some nameless unit is being singled out for
concentrated destruction.


- Tim