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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 4487732" data-attributes="member: 54629">Cool. I'm gonna try the pictionary timer. It's a 1-minute thing, eh?Lucky you! This is probably where my group is the weakest. They are no good at planning/tactics. They just blunder from one encounter to the next and just plan things at the spur of the moment depending on how badly things are going for them (which is usually the case).This is one of my rules and most of the time they do it but sometimes they forget.What do you mean by tracking it on your own? Do you mean that each player keeps track of it themselves or that the players as a group keep track of it on their own? If you mean the latter, my group is supposed to do that already -- one guy takes responsibility for the initiative whiteboard each session, and that guy is supposed to be the one who calls out who's up and who's up next and so on but I usually find myself doing it anyway because the others are too slow.This is an interesting one. I'd love to be able to get to this point, but I don't think my group is quite ready for it yet.Again, this isn't really a problem for my group. It's more tiredness and indecision that slows things down. People either don't know what they want to do, don't know what they can do because they still haven't learned the rules properly (and, for most, it's simply because the game isn't the most important thing in their lives -- fancy that!), or aren't really paying attention because they're trying not to fall asleep or because they are asleep. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />I always try to be democratic about things with my group. Funnily enough, they seem to prefer just being dictated to, though ...</blockquote>

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