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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3941167" data-attributes="member: 4936">Since the immediate battle is over or close to over, I want to make a couple of suggestion/requests before we dive once more into the maw of battle.First, and I fully recognize I'm as guilty of this as anyone, I'd like to suggest we cut down on the OOC chatter in the IC forum. I apologize for the part I've played in such posts in the past, but it -reeeeally- makes trying to follow the flow of combat a chore to have to go back page after page and pick out the posts where actions are being described from the sea of questions, comments, clarifications and so on that really belong in this thread, not the IC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Second, it would be a nice touch to have a more round by round approach than the current somewhat freewheeling style. It was really hard for me to follow the order of events this last battle, which in turn made it hard to work with the other characters. I noted this wasn't just me either. Many posts had PC's trying to do the same thing, and winding up undercutting each other...the result was a fair amount of wasted efforts and not as much getting done as could have been. Maybe having a standard format that lists the initiative order and the current position in the initative order each time you update, GM? Something like:Init 20 - Evil Troll GodInit 17 - Gunther the Panther LordInit 14 - Kurt Smashsteel - Hero at Large---Now on init 12 - Indigo, the SidekickInit 6 - The Legion of Nameless MinionsThis would mean that the first three listed characters had been updated in a previous post, while the current post was updating Indigo, and possibly the Minions too.Specifics could vary, of course...but some kind of system would make keeping things clear during the long and complex battles of M&M a lot easier.I think having these two things implemented would also help cut down on the confusing redacted or retconned action posts, where someone tries to do something which then turns out not to be possible or valid, and then has to post another action. I did this myself with that attempt to use an illusion. Ideally, the way I'd do it next time is submit my intended action (because I had a question in my mind about it or how it'd work) in the OOC forum...we'd work it out there, then I'd post my final action in the IC forum. Result: An easy to follow chain of action and effects.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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