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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9791341" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'd argue that to speed up combat, you need to decrease granularity, which is in line with your thinking here, but a little akimbo. Bonus actions and reactions, sure, but pets and summons are probably still viable, just not on a "I control your entire turn" kind of level. And the "boring and repetitive" thing only really applies if you don't, in fact, speed up combat, or if combat is something you want a lot of in your game. If you only spend 5-10 minutes in a fight, you're whipping through fights in the span of what we now spend in a whole turn, and that's a lot more dynamic than waiting for Chad to determine the optimal use of his bonus action. And if you still only have 1-3 fights in a session, simpler moves and fewer options can remain impactful and diverse "enough."I don't want to really return to the days where fighters only had one option in a fight, but I would like to have a modern D&D game where a turn takes about a minute, where there's maybe 2-3 options for each turn and they are big and dramatic and obviously different, and after we roll 2 dice, we move on.The challenge, of course, is combining that with a game that can have more tactical decision-making and more options in a fight if the group wants to turn that on for an encounter.Because most D&D groups want to be able to do both, and D&D has only ever been able to do one or the other (and when it did faster fights, it had other issues, too).</blockquote>

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