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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 926713" data-attributes="member: 319">Actually, that'd be &quot;Telling people that the plan which took them 10 minutes of real-time to talk over and figure out would take them a minute of game-time&quot; - if the PCs are talking, it's hardly &quot;freezing&quot; anyone in place.&nbsp; Among other things, it stops the players from getting away with planning the equivalent of the Normandy landings in six seconds...&nbsp;Which is neither here nor there, because my primary suggestion was to stop the game for a few minutes when the session started coming apart at the seams and talk about it with the players to try to get everyone on the same page, off their butts and into combat...Do you even like your players? Some of what we've been arguing about might be &quot;DMing style issues&quot;, but again, I can't imagine letting people you like and respect just waste the whole session without even trying a more direct way of getting them involved then telling them putting on armor takes 40 rounds and that they can stop at any point...&nbsp; You've either handled this situation badly, or you're playing with the wrong group of people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 926713, member: 319"] Actually, that'd be "Telling people that the plan which took them 10 minutes of real-time to talk over and figure out would take them a minute of game-time" - if the PCs are talking, it's hardly "freezing" anyone in place. Among other things, it stops the players from getting away with planning the equivalent of the Normandy landings in six seconds... Which is neither here nor there, because my primary suggestion was to stop the game for a few minutes when the session started coming apart at the seams and talk about it with the players to try to get everyone on the same page, off their butts and into combat... Do you even like your players? Some of what we've been arguing about might be "DMing style issues", but again, I can't imagine letting people you like and respect just waste the whole session without even trying a more direct way of getting them involved then telling them putting on armor takes 40 rounds and that they can stop at any point... You've either handled this situation badly, or you're playing with the wrong group of people. [/QUOTE]

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