I would have to agree with others here. Making it real time, with or without pausing, you would lose so much tactical depth to it. The point even in pen and paper d&d is to be able to use all the skill at your disposal, and I don't think that would be achieved in real time. Plus you would have to set into account cool down counters for spell and skills which is more programming that would need to be done. I think if Larian did this, it would have to be done after release as an option.
