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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 8876561" data-attributes="member: 6921763">It's a conceit necessary to make 5e Combat work.PHB p 189:  A typical combat encounter is a clash between two sides, a flurry of weapon swings, feints, parries, footwork, and spellcasting. The game organizes the chaos of combat into a cycle of rounds and turns. A round represents about 6 seconds in the game world. During a round, each participant in a battle takes a turn. The order of turns is determined at the beginning of a combat encounter, when everyone rolls initiative. Once everyone has taken a turn, the fight continues to the next round if neither side has defeated the other.Could you explain how simultaneous combat actions work in your game?  It has been decades since I played 1e.  Do players declare what they are doing up front, DM declares what the NPCs/monsters are doing, and then the DM resolves everything at once?Incidentally, spells like shield and counterspell do allow for "two or more things happening at the same time in the fiction", as you put it.  Yet you don't seem to like those.  Why?</blockquote>