[UA] Initiative again

[T. McGrenery]

Hello everyone,

Now, I know about the UA2 fix for initiative (I used a similar system
running WFRP recently), and it works fine.

However, it's still not exactly "furious action", so I was thinking about an
alternate initiative system that I could use when I want the players to be
panicking and rushing around. I'd use the normal system for slightly
slower-paced, tense action.

Or, in movie terms, fast initiative for Jackie Chan, slower initiative rules
for Ronin.

I haven't tested the idea, but:

Your action roll is your initiative roll, and there's no succeeded/failed
distinction.

Id est, if your Guns roll is 45, and the other guy's is 34, you shoot first.
If your skill is 50%, great. But if it's 40%, you missed. Either way, your
turn's over and we can hurry on with the next action.

Results I predict include:

Close combat where the guy who misses hits anywhere but his target, only for
a subsequent riposte to knock him down.

Hyper-badasses (eg. Eponymous) will go first *and* succeed more often
because of their higher skills.

That sort of thing.

The downside is it devalues Speed as a stat. But I don't think it devalues
it too much.

Now I would like people to tell me why this is a bad idea.

-- Tom McGrenery



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