Re: Good initiative mechanics?

On Apr 25, 1:46=A0am, "Rick Pikul" <rwpi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> AD&D had predeclared actions, I find it strange that you don't remember
> that. =A0

Likely because no one I've ever encountered actually played AD&D as
written.

Reading the Player's Manual now, I can see why I've never seen anyone
predeclare. It never states that actions are pre-declared, only
implies it in the combat example. That implication may only be a
writing style choice rather and a detail of the sequence.

Even the DM Guide is unclear on this point, as the turn sequence does
not specify a pre-declare phase which always appeared in the wargames
of the time that used that method.

So, nope. Don't didn't play it that way. Wouldn't play it that way
even if I had read the books today.


> It doesn't matter if you would use the class of solutions suggested,
that
> such a class was suggested is all that was required to disprove your
> dismissal of the example.


Give me a freakin' break.

Someone wins a lottery is no reason for any rational person to burn
hundreds of dollars a week on lottery tickets. Or even one buck a
week. You do know what "exception that proves the rule" means don't
you?

> Another idea along these lines that comes to my mind is the possibility
of=

> getting results, (like stunning the target), which will hamper the
targets=

> next action by some absolute amount. =A0If you don't know that you have
> stunned the target, and there is a reasonable chance of getting such a
> result, there is a benefit in spreading the party's fire.

Stun rates would have to be too high in order to offset the advantage
of focused fire. As a result players would likely rebel when it was
apply against them.