Message no. 1

From:	Craig S Dohmen <dohmen@*******.cse.psu.edu>
Subject:	Initiative and the rule of 6
Date:	Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:39:18 -0500

On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Faux Pas wrote:

> I'm lookin' in the SRII book under Game Concepts/Rule of Six and under
> Combat/Initiative, and I don't see anything that says no rule of six for
> Initiative. Do you have a page reference, chummer?

Shadowrun, Second Edition hardcover errata:

"p.32 the rule of six
add: the rule of six does not apply to initiative (see p.79)."

(From Paolo's site.)

> If you don't use the rule of 6 in initiative, your wiz-kid mage with
> initiative of 4+1d6 will never have a chance of going more than once a

Yep. But if you *do* use the rule of six, then the fast people, on
average, are only going to go even faster. Some people have a house
rule that the Ro6 applies only to your natural initiative die. Me, I'll
be slow. :)

--Craig