Allow multiple players to go at once.

.... This would take some programing I know...

But if say.. the next 5 creatures/objects/whatever are PC controlled... allow them (with maybe a GM option to turn this on and off.) to move and act..

Does this make sense?
Basically in a large group.. 7+ PCs with some pets&familiars... makes combat really slow at times. I think it might speed it up some if we could allow more than one PC to act at once.... DM would have to pay attention to the attack screens....


EDIT: I mean during initiative.

 

I don't exactly mean a group based initiative.. but that may work.
I'm thinking more along the lines of.. the next 5 creatures up in initiative are controlled by PCs, followed by a NPC or two, then there are a couple more controlled by PCs.

I'm thinking maybe allow all of those PCs to go... so some of the flow can be speed up. The problem with this now that I think about it.. every time someone moves a token, it "jumps" for lack of a better term and if someone else was moving their token also.. they are pushed back.. there probably is no way around that because of the way Java works. So...the movement won't really speed up.... but maybe some more of it will...