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I gotta run, but thanks for the advice everyone! It was all really helpful!

@RobertF Group initiative was something we tried, but it completely blew up with my group. Every time their round happend it was "Talk tactics" > act > "Argue"

@Robe

@JoshuaAslanSmith I'm in the Netherlands, I'll read up first before bothering your time, thanks!

Never heard of Dungeon World before, I'll take a look into it

I have one player with more experience in D&D (everything AD&D and up), one who had played 3.5, but it started with a larger group that never played any edition

@JoshuaAslanSmith Because I had experience with DMing 4e and the others "Wanted to try D&D"

@GMNoob to what system did you switch?

We agreed to play every second sunday of the month, but still there are people who plan something else then, so there are more problem than just Combat being slow...

@DampeS8N I'll do that! I was planning to talk at the next session, because we haven't played for months due to planning issues

Do you all advise me to keep track of their characters or have it be player's responsibility

one of them has the offline character builder

Good tip, I'll try to talk to my players, but they are kind of slow. It took some of them 3 sessions before they brought along a level 8 character when they leveled from 7 to 8 (I'm using group exp, they all have the same XP amount )

So a quick solution for that would be to lower monster defenses? (So my players don't have to change their characters too much)

None of them started with 18 in their primary, they are at 18 NOW

From the top of my head, +9/+6

I was thinking for going for halving the monsters HP, but upping the damage output slightly

Not at the moment. That would have helped, wouldn't it (A)

He's not using the Executioner, but the old school Assassin. Weren't they both in Dragon magazine? Sorry for the confusion

They're not using CB, sorry

1 player with cursed d20s.

@waxeagle The players have expertise feats. They are adding 1/2 level attack bonus (last I checked..) They're not avid flankers

Most have got +3 magic weapons/implement

I AM using MM3 math for monsters btw :D

They are missing DarkSun stat boosts

Dragon Magazine Assassin; Paladin; Bard, Fighter/Warlord hybrid. And the occasional mage.

There are rounds where none of the PC's hit

Yeah, 30 rounds