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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 4111925" data-attributes="member: 14848">Actually if you did as I suggest it wouldn't be too bad.  If you give everyone a pool of say 30 minutes, which stops while the DM acts who also has 30 minutes on his clock, at worst you'd be keeping combat to within 30-60 minutes.I understand what your saying though, but I have actually seen players pass because they couldn't think of anything and they didn't have a clock.  When I was playing a ranger in a home campaign I watched a friend have his character sit down in the middle of the fight.  He did it because he was getting frustrated so bad trying to figure out which mob to fight he let himself get overwhelmed by the tension of the moment instead of focusing on playing the game.  I've also seen DMs that if you didn't act fast enough would skip you and if you were lucky they might come back and just give you a different spot in the initiative.As for using the clock, it would just require a group decision and a couple of sessions getting use to it.  Once you get use to it and the awkwardness is out of the way I think it would work nicely.</blockquote>