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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meeki" data-source="post: 3586833" data-attributes="member: 17257">One way to speed up combat is to use a wet erase board and track initiatives and buffs.  Every round I remind players to tick down buffs and plan their next move.  I only give my players about 30 seconds a piece to choose what they want to do.  The actual action may take longer, with spells and such, but they must decide or Ill make them delay.On my end, as the DM, I have a pad of paper and write down all the buffs/regen/DR/SR/etc my critters have and sort of plan a strategy ahead of time.  I read the monster and think to myself "what information do these monsters know about the party and what strategy can they use", basing this off of past encounters with the baddies, knowledges, spying, etc.  If there are spell casters I either use default MM spell list or alter some of the higher level spells.The quickest way to speed up combat though is to have everyone know the mechanics of the game and make sure the DM is willing to adlib some rulings and alter them later.  That combined with the PC's planning out their next move while the turn is going on is really important. One last thing, the higher level your pc's become the longer combat is going to take.  Last saturday my PC's fought a Solar for over an hour, the PC's were clearly outgunned but the fight was epic and took a long while.</blockquote>