Re: Firing initiative.

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 2:59 pm, Hudak, Michael wrote:
> One thing I've seen from my RPG days is everyone has an index card for
> their character, with appropriate modifiers on it, one of which being
an
> initiative modifier.
>
> When initiative is rolled, the initiative value is written on the
card,
> then the cards are sorted.  Ties are figured out and then combat just
goes
> down the list of cards.  Seemed to speed up our combats quite a bit.

I like that, it's a simple, mechanical way to keep track of it all
without 
requiring repeated (and annoying) polling by the GM of the players for
whose 
next.

> This worked well with groups 10-15 large (8 players, 5-7 or more
opponents
> run by the GM.)  Might be beneficial for larger FT games.

Thanks Mike!

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