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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StalkingBlue" data-source="post: 1579118" data-attributes="member: 645">A minute or two to decide on an action in combat?  And that's for the players who are _not_ slow?!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I suspect you are giving people far too much time to linger over decisions, so the other players tend to fade out until it's their turn - and only then scramble to try and come up with their action.  It looks like you've trained your group into a bad habit.  You need to speed things up.  A lot.  My suggestion:  1. Talk to all players about making combat more exciting and entertaining for everyone by speeding things up.  Agree on a reasonable time for deciding on an action, I'd say 15 seconds at most.  (No, that's not too short!  Remember that every player has time to think about his next action during the entire round of combat for all other PCs and NPCs/monsters, which gives them several minutes already.)  2.  Enforce this time limit for a few sessions to break the bad habit.  Whoever doesn't state their action within 15 seconds is considered to delay (not lose their turn!) until ready to state an action.  3.  When you find that everyone at the table is looking alive and ready to act during combat rather than slouching there with eyes glazed over or paying attention to something else, gradually relax time control.  You'll find you have a much more attentive and proactive group I bet.</blockquote>

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