Description
The Art Of Starting A Fight is a variant initiative system for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (D&D 5e), and is bit different from most other initiative systems. In this variant, there are no rolls, there is no turn order and neither advantage nor disadvantage on initiative checks exist. Events and turns happen when the players around the table want them to happen. And it all begins with someone, or something, starting a fight.
This system and document is based off Christopher Delvo's blog post (found here: https://lootthebody.org/2017/08/04/the-art-of-starting-a-fight-narrative-initiative-in-dd/) - accessed 19/01/2018). In his blog post, Christopher discusses, outlines, describes and details concepts for using a narrative initiative system, and provides a download link for a PDF at the end of it. I have used The Homebrewery to write up this system, tweaking it for use in my own campaign.
All credit for the original concept goes to Christopher Delvo.