I've gotten close eto this kind of situation a couple times with my current group
They've gotten into the habit of talking first now which has gone pretty well for them so far
We've shifted more away from wargaming to roleplaying in our DnD games which is really nice, and way harder like OMG
Similar development with my group. I've come to enjoy RPing a lot more than combat, which actually takes us much more time to calculate with all the higher-level abilities than improvising NPCs on the spot. But I know fighting will still be inevitable in the future, so we're blending in some rules from Worlds Without Number and home-brew to speed it up in the future.
I thought the kite guy was chained to the wall at first, and was quite confused.
It took me a second to see what you mean but now that's all I can see.
They were just beat with the Club of Unconsciousness. They'll be fine, really.
You see the club had just shape shifted to look like a dragon
