what does initative do?

[Soontir Fel]

Lets put it with an example, I am a melee character with a initiative value of 7 - dexterity determines initiative btw, and you are a ranged character with 4 initiative. I roll a 10 in my initiative roll and you 7, that makes I have 17 and you 11. You will wait for me to attack before you have your round and you cant do anything about it.

[Da_venom]

what are we talking about here?
melee characters must run up to you
so that initiative thing can't work
or would work
all i know is my char shoots them and kills them without getting hit at all



with your example it would be like when i start combat
and try to hit someone who is 50 meters away i will wait until he is next to me then he hit me and then i shoot? rofl no way ;-)

i can hit him once or twice in those 50 meters
and he's dead before that ^^

[Siberys]

so that initiative thing can't work

It can work, it's the foundation of the game D&D for the last 8 years and it hasn't failed yet.

If you're talking about you being so far away it takes two turns for them to get up to you, that's completely different than the implication you previously gave. Being too far away is a HUGE difference than getting a free attack disregarding initiative.

[Soontir Fel]

Movement count as an action and normal speed of medium size chars is 20ft or 30ft a round. 50 meters is like 140-150 ft you do the math.

What is your Dexterity score? I thinks it is high and you get the higher initiative roll and thats why you hit them first. And you comprehend it as free attacks.

[Da_venom]

50 meter was just an example

my dex is 18 or 20 my dex is
since i'm an elf it must be 20 ^^

at level one it hit the max with dex for it ^^
would come handy for my sexy rogue slaughtering all ^^

[Da_venom]

Originally Posted by Soontir Fel

Movement count as an action and normal speed of medium size chars is 20ft or 30ft a round. 50 meters is like 140-150 ft you do the math.

What is your Dexterity score? I thinks it is high and you get the higher initiative roll and thats why you hit them first. And you comprehend it as free attacks.

in other words initiative is based on dex?
what is the standard initiative base then?

[Soontir Fel]

Initiative - NWNWiki - a Wikia wiki

I'm not sure but the base value can be 1. The initiative check is 1d20 + Dex modifier + any other modifiers.

[Daxtreme]

> It can work, it's the foundation of the game D&D for the last 8 years and it hasn't failed yet.

I think he means that in NWN, even if somehow an enemy gets better initiative, if he's not close enough you might get an attack whether or not you have a higher initiative.

But that fact is actually due to the movement speed requiring 30 ft of movement per round, not the initiative.

And in NWN sometimes it seems like Initiative is handled oddly. Things are happening in real time, that might be why.