I once played under a GM who insisted in running in real time. As in, it's your turn to move, you tell him immediately what you're going to do. You don't answer right away, he moves on to the next in order.

Which made a certain sense at one point when the campaign got unwieldy with something like 17 players alone. (He couldn't say no to someone who wanted to join.) But very frustrating if you wanted to ask a question about something your character would know, but you wouldn't.

We accepted it for a long time because he was a very creative GM. Took Runequest and expanded it into a more-or-less universal system. Well, plus, by the time he got too annoying, he and I were both going to graduate in a few months anyway.

I once played under a GM who insisted in running in real time. As in, it's your turn to move, you tell him immediately what you're going to do. You don't answer right away, he moves on to the next in order.

That can suck, but I've had to do a "fifteen-second" rule once or twice myself. Mainly for one player in particular who would wander away from the table or do something else so that when it came time for his move, he would waste a lot of time figuring out what was going on.

At one point it was so ridiculous his character ended up getting hit by a grenade blast that everyone else had run away from some time before. Doofus was just standing out there in the open.

"But I would have ducked!"

"Dude, it took a whole initiative pass until this thing exploded. During that time, you had two chances to move. Had you been paying attention and not off doing whatever, you would have been able to get your character out of harms way. As it is, you stood there like a fucking moron while bullets whizzed all around you and a grenade blew up four feet from you.

Downside: You are near death.

Upside: The blast did throw you behind some cover.

Now you can toddle off and do whatever you please, because your character is going to be incapacitated for some time."

Mainly for one player in particular who would wander away from the table or do something else so that when it came time for his move, he would waste a lot of time figuring out what was going on.

Oddly, one of the Poochies is legendary for paralysis by analysis (we will not be playing Power Grid with him). We bought little sand timers to use with him during board games, and we set the turn timer on computer games like Civ. And he doesn't play shooters.

But in PnP RPGs, he's just fine. Quite awesome, actually.

Now you can toddle off and do whatever you please, because your character is going to be incapacitated for some time."

This is filled with AWESOME.

I clearly would have enjoyed playing in an MM game.

Though, I don't like Shadowrun...

Though, I don't like Shadowrun...

Too bad. It'd be fun to play with you.

How do you feel about Serenity?

I've not played the game, but of course the source material won't be a problem.

Hmmm...

I never could get the hang of space travel.

Try getting out and pushing.

Heh. MM, you just reminded me of the time Ted brought a helicopter down on everyone's heads. ("Are you sure you want to do that? Okay...")