Deuxhero:How on earth is this popular enough to be so widely used? It carries none of the tactical benefits of turn based (no management allowed) none of the benefits of real time (no player skill allowed, even if making player skill matter is a bad idea for an RPG, but that is another entry) has none of it's own, and all fights in games with it basically devolve into spamming an ability or attack. And the whole arbitrary paralyzed argument is older than Raptor Jesus and just as stupid. "arbitrarily paralyzed" works, RTWP doesn't