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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4188074" data-attributes="member: 2804">I have three fears:1 - That some relic of the old school "screw the players" mentality has survived in some form from editions past. Disjunction, rust monsters, level drain, etc.2 - That scrying, long range teleport, and divination spells will still drive me nuts.3 - That combats will take too long. This fear is actually born from my playtesting of 4e. I understand the reason to boost monster hps. So they don't become one round wonders. But while I feel every combat should last at least 3 rounds, no combat, except an epic boss battle, should last more than 8-10 rounds or so. Thats enough for every player to use every encounter power, plus a couple at-wills or a daily.In my playtests, we had a couple fights go beyond 10 rounds. The players were all out of powers, and the combat started to drag on and get boring. I think this can be managed by a good DM, but I have a feeling that I will be reducing monster HP so they can be killed faster. Especially if I use higher level monsters than the party's level.</blockquote>