Which isn't very helpful since monsters don't have DEX ratings lol . . .Aergraith wrote:. I was just re-reading Holmes Basic D&D last night, and the initiative system is basically this: if you move within melee range of someone else, the one with a higher dex goes first. Everything else you are trusted to be able to figure out.
Movement in combat
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Re: Movement in combat
Re: Movement in combat
They did not have them then, either. The DM was supposed to a rating, either using the monster's abilities or, as suggested in those rules, by rolling for it -- 3d6. It is a somewhat neat system, and one that gently bridges the "old" with the d20 concept of a "number for everything." Myself, I go with declarative actions before initiative is rolled as you might choose to do something that means you don't need initiative such as 'I will attack that orc if it moves close enough' when, obviously, if the orc does not... you do nothing, and certainly not until he's had his movement.