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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:54:58 +0000

In reply to Robert McLean. Your comments need some clarification, Robert. Are you saying the players won't change seating order from a habitual arrangement or won't change seating order from the places they chose when setting up for the day? The distinction is important, because if we're talking about the latter of the two, there is a possible compromise that may gat you half-way there: mandating seating in order of initiative modifier. It will rarely be perfect, but on average it should work out. Johnn will be pleased to hear that you're getting so much out of Faster Combat. He's very proud of it.

By: Robert McLean

Robert McLean — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:28:36 +0000

I personally think Seating = Initiative is the best of these, but I can’t convince my the players to change seats. There have been times where we have changed the initiative order slightly to match the seating, but they won’t physically get up and change. When seating has matched initiative not only did play speed up because we knew who was next, but there was more teamwork right across the table because everyone knew who was next.

BTW, I am getting a lot from the Faster Combat course. I highly recommend it.

By: @CloudOfDaggers

@CloudOfDaggers — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:38:53 +0000

Good stuff. I especially like ‘no takebacks’ and ‘announce end of turn’. I can’t count the number of times that my players have had to rewind the turn order because they forgot to add a damage bonus or because they forgot to announce their Hunter’s Quarry, etc. I generally tell them, “everybody gets one,” implying that they won’t get to rewind on subsequent turns, but even that bogs down play if EVERYBODY gets one. That could be five or six times we have to stop someone’s turn to go back and redo some math or positioning. Thanks for sharing.

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Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:35:50 +0000

[…] 11 Table Rules For Speed by Johnn Four at Campaign Mastery: Johnn Four writes an in-depth article about combat speed, along with 11 rules for speeding up combat. I particularly like the “snacks after combat” rule. […]