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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8738875" data-attributes="member: 59816"><p>We will have to finish the Candlekeep game first, so a few weeks is probably right. I mean, go ahead and make characters now (if you like) and you can use that one, or rebuild it whenever a playtest packet drops. One of the things we will be doing is testing the "backwards compatible" part. So I have NO PROBLEM if you're a player who just wants to make a current-rules PC and be done with it. I'll let you know if anything on my end will be different than your expectations.</p><p></p><p>WHICH reminds me. I need to go around and explain how SURPRISE works in my INIT-free PBP games. I've gone back and forth on it a LOT over the years (Early on, I don't think I even remembered that in 5e it is NOT a "surprise round"). At any rate, after seeing how it works in various PBP encounters, and how it jives with my no-initiative PBP houserule, this is my ruling:</p><p></p><p>If you are Surprised, you go LAST in Round One. While you have your action (unlike in non-PBP 5e), there is a good chance that you (I really mean Monsters here, usually) will use that action to get their stuff together. (IE multiple object interactions to grab weapons, etc). Already armed characters (surprised guards, etc), will just get to act.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 8738875, member: 59816"] We will have to finish the Candlekeep game first, so a few weeks is probably right. I mean, go ahead and make characters now (if you like) and you can use that one, or rebuild it whenever a playtest packet drops. One of the things we will be doing is testing the "backwards compatible" part. So I have NO PROBLEM if you're a player who just wants to make a current-rules PC and be done with it. I'll let you know if anything on my end will be different than your expectations. WHICH reminds me. I need to go around and explain how SURPRISE works in my INIT-free PBP games. I've gone back and forth on it a LOT over the years (Early on, I don't think I even remembered that in 5e it is NOT a "surprise round"). At any rate, after seeing how it works in various PBP encounters, and how it jives with my no-initiative PBP houserule, this is my ruling: If you are Surprised, you go LAST in Round One. While you have your action (unlike in non-PBP 5e), there is a good chance that you (I really mean Monsters here, usually) will use that action to get their stuff together. (IE multiple object interactions to grab weapons, etc). Already armed characters (surprised guards, etc), will just get to act. [/QUOTE]
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