Initiative

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Initiative is a system of determining the order of actions in battle. Before the first round of combat, each combatant makes a single initiative check. Each round, the participants act in order from the highest initiative result to the lowest.

[edit] Gameplay Notes

In NWN2 every creature uses their own combat round, based on the time they take their first action. Because there is no synchronization of combat rounds, Initiative has a negligible effect on the order of combat. Creatures will act in the order that their perception scripts fire and/or the player queues up a combat round. There is a slight delay based on the initiative that gets applied to the first action of a creature, but it is much less than human reaction time.