The Psychology of Initiative

When should you roll for initiative? How does initiative work with the rest of the game? And how does rolling initiative change your players’ behavior?

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Chapters:
00:00 - How Initiative Works
04:45 - Stop Trying to Fix Initiative
09:15 - A Word From Our Sponsor
09:51 - A Character Strikes First
11:37 - Surprise
14:14 - The Psychology of Initiative
19:56 - Outro

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