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<blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 5075106" data-attributes="member: 53135">IMEThe prep time doesn't really change much. I spent about the same time on prep at level 22 as I did at level 1. Maybe a tad more thinking up weird stuff, but overall, the difference was definitely negligible.As for the speed of the game. The difference (if any) between heroic tier and paragon tier was very small. However, around level 19, it does slow down (noticeably). For us, it was still nowhere as slow as the previous edition, but it was slower that the previous levels for sure. With a simple houserule (+33% damage, -25% hit points) you could easily get combat time down to acceptable 20m-45m for n+0 to n+2 combats. But the big fights could definitely take a while. Of course, these numbers will vary a lot from group to group, depending on focus, the DM and what other measures you take to speed up combats. For us, the switch has meant that the DM (thats me) uses about 1/5 of the time to prep and we get 1/2 combats and more RP into each session, compared to what we did before. So, in short, no, its absolutely not exponentially harder to prep nor slower combats at higher levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack99, post: 5075106, member: 53135"] IME The prep time doesn't really change much. I spent about the same time on prep at level 22 as I did at level 1. Maybe a tad more thinking up weird stuff, but overall, the difference was definitely negligible. As for the speed of the game. The difference (if any) between heroic tier and paragon tier was very small. However, around level 19, it does slow down (noticeably). For us, it was still nowhere as slow as the previous edition, but it was slower that the previous levels for sure. With a simple houserule (+33% damage, -25% hit points) you could easily get combat time down to acceptable 20m-45m for n+0 to n+2 combats. But the big fights could definitely take a while. Of course, these numbers will vary a lot from group to group, depending on focus, the DM and what other measures you take to speed up combats. For us, the switch has meant that the DM (thats me) uses about 1/5 of the time to prep and we get 1/2 combats and more RP into each session, compared to what we did before. So, in short, no, its absolutely not exponentially harder to prep nor slower combats at higher levels. [/QUOTE]

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