Talk:The Answerer/@comment-86.150.66.178-20190106050653/@comment-81.53.48.249-20200212001415

Thanks. I don't know if it is exactly as you say (do you have a reliable source ?), but from testing BG2EE v2.5.16.6, a character with many attacks per round can indeed strike several times before a one-attack character can react. I don't know if it was true in BG2 original edition, but in AD&D 2nd edition, the bad speed one-attack character would be most likely to strike after the *first attack* of the good speed many-attacks one. On rare occasions he could even strike before the first attack.

There does seem to be an initiative roll in BG2EE like in AD&D 2 though, because there's room to swap a bit the position of the bad speed one-attack dude.

Page 191 of the Player's Handbook: When the attacks are true multiples--using the same weapon more than once--as in the  case of a highly skilled fighter, the attacks are staggered. Everyone involved in the  combat completes one action before the second (or subsequent) attack roll is made. Take, for example, a fighter who can attack twice per round, and say he's battling creatures that can only make one attack. The fighter wins initiative. He makes his first  attack according to the rolled initiative order. Then each creature gets its attack. Finally,  the fighter gets his second attack.  If fighters on both sides in a battle were able to attack twice in the round, their first  attacks would occur according to the initiative roll. Their second attacks would come  after all other attacks, and would then alternate according to the initiative roll.