RPGMemes

You're... Reading a lot of things I never said.

I can fucking tell you run a 30 second timer. This is absolutely the mindset of someone with a 30 second timer.

You want everyone to have quick turns, so you set up a timer

The timer wasn't imposed from upon the high seat of the Almighty GM, it's a thing everyone at the table decided on, because we all want to keep the combat flowing. I know it must look impossible to you, but all the players like taking their turn, and not waiting. Hell, one of the players brings the thing.

one of your players is using fireball over and over. As if it's a default action they took due to being rushed. Like I said would happen in the first place.

Nobody is "taking Fireball as a default action". I said nobody wanted to wait for someone to look up a commonly used spell yet again, when you could have done that before, or just made a note or something. You literally just made this up after ignoring half of my paragraph.

I find it interesting that you say "the onus is on [the players]" as a benefit, because the main problem you listed for actually talking to them is that they might say you were at fault if you forget. You want it to be that, if anything goes wrong, it's only because of what other people did. You don't want to be responsible.

You are right that nobody at the table, including me, wants to take the responsibility for someone else paying attention. We're all adults, and neither our children or parents are at the table. We're there to play a game, not to constantly remind other adults of what they're supposed to do.

Also, small detail, it's a 30 second timer to START. We don't watching someone do stuff, we mind watching someone look at paper.

I don't understand why people wanting things to move along upsets you so much? Is a timer such a horrible thing that it actually makes you angry at someone who doesn't play like you do? I called the reply snobby because you seem to believe we are Doing It Wrong, and that's an incredibly snobby thing to do.