I feel you with the screen. I use one in my playtests ’cause I have a bunch of maps spread out, but it’s alienating, especially with a long table. I stand up a lot. Should I get Google Glass instead? 😛

My rationalization of the sequential turns thing is that coordinating is hard. You’re strung out in a long corridor, and then the guy at the back is like, “Why have we stopped?” Bjarn at the front is doing something. Then the wizard near the back starts checking out the runes on the wall and before you know it Bjarn’s ready to go again, but now the wizard is holding everyone up, etc.