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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8374636" data-attributes="member: 6670763">What used to waste a lot of time is me trying to figure out the initiative order for a fight since my brain gets overloaded with trying to put 8 numbers in order while listening to the players discussing strategy.The even bigger time sink was players being surprised that it's their turn and taking two minutes to figure out what's actually going on in a fight and then another three minutes to decide on what they want to do with their turn, and consequently all other players getting bored and distracted and then being surprised that it's their turn... and so on until the fight is over.The solution to both issues was to use group initiative, which has all the PCs go on the same turn, in whatever order the players are ready to tell me what they want to do. Not only are all players do their thinking time simultaneously, they also don't get surprised that it's their turn which cuts each player's thinking time down even more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yora, post: 8374636, member: 6670763"] What used to waste a lot of time is me trying to figure out the initiative order for a fight since my brain gets overloaded with trying to put 8 numbers in order while listening to the players discussing strategy. The even bigger time sink was players being surprised that it's their turn and taking two minutes to figure out what's actually going on in a fight and then another three minutes to decide on what they want to do with their turn, and consequently all other players getting bored and distracted and then being surprised that it's their turn... and so on until the fight is over. The solution to both issues was to use group initiative, which has all the PCs go on the same turn, in whatever order the players are ready to tell me what they want to do. Not only are all players do their thinking time simultaneously, they also don't get surprised that it's their turn which cuts each player's thinking time down even more. [/QUOTE]

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