Re: d20 Initiative (was [DL] Re: [WW] Re: Systems [Veering OT])

["Alex and Heidi Johnson" <heidij31@chartermi.net>]

 

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And refocusing becomes mind-boggling in its ineffectiveness.  Say you refocus (a full round action), then “next round” your initiative will be as if you rolled 20, and you will go before anyone with a lower initiative.  Hello?  If you had taken you action last round, it would have been before those people acted as well!  In fact, you just gave a free action to anyone with a lower initiative than you and anyone whose initiative would be higher than 20 plus your modifiers.

 

 

 

One note on refocusing.  This was not intended to be in the game.  The designer admitted it was almost always a useless thing to do.  It was only included because too many players used to first and second edition wanted an option to change their initiative roll.  Every playtest showed people never used it but demand was high so they kept it in.