A higher initiative than someone else does not mean you will go before them. So how does it work? Wits contributes to initiative so that would lead one to assume that initiative is the final calculation.

For example, a recent battle:

My party initiative: 27 - 31 - 34 - 31.
The order they get their turns: 31 -34 - 27 - 31

Number/Order of enemies who went first: 23 - 25 - 17 - 28

Only their highest is one above my lowest yet they all get to act first. Their combined initiative is less, individually 3 them are less than 4 of mine. This makes no sense to me. How is it determined and what do the numbers even mean?

Classic difficulty.

Last edited by BoogieMan; 04/10/17 06:15 PM.