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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xahn'Tyr" data-source="post: 122495" data-attributes="member: 1525">Keeper of the InitiativeWe've recently started assinging a player to be the "Initiative Keeper" and this helps speed things along. That person keeps the list of everyone in initiative order (updating as needed). During a fight, they say who is next and who is "on deck" so that they know to get ready. It also takes some work away from the DM so he can concentrate on other stuff.If everyone has their own set of dice and at least a PHB to share, that will help as well.When we run into delays it is always someone who isn't ready on their turn, or who doesn't have their stats handy. To avoid this, we have the following rules:- Be ready when your turn comes up, or you are "delaying". (The Initiaitve Keeper is key to warn people that their turn is coming up.)- If you are going to cast a spell, have the proper book open to the proper page.- You cannot summon something unless you have the stats for it written down (or the monster manual open to the poper page).- Observe "Chess Rules": you cannot give advice to other players (or say anything in-character) unless it is your turn to act. This speeds things up more than you would think.Othe than that, you just need to make certain that everyone has their statistics pre-calculated so that they aren't flipping through papers every time they roll to hit.And lastly, you could try to get your players to roll BEFORE they have figured out all of their bonuses. Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine but I hate it when folks have to figure out exactly what they need to roll before they pick up the dice. Just roll, and if the result is not extremely high or extremely low THEN go do all the math! Half the time you can "ballpark" the DC and get it over with there and then. Even just considering a 1 and 20, you'll get a 10% speed up.</blockquote>

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