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<blockquote data-quote="jayoungr" data-source="post: 6781865" data-attributes="member: 6702445">So putting these three points of data together, am I correct in deducing that a typical 4E combat for you runs half an hour?&nbsp; If so, I think your 4E experience is faster than most people's.&nbsp; (Which wouldn't surprise me; you of all people probably know how to keep 4E combat humming along, since you both love the system and have played a lot of it.)I play 5E over Roll20 with a grid as well, and we use the variant flanking rule (my players are coming from 3.5 and they really missed flanking, so we decided to add it back in).&nbsp; Most of our big boss fights last an hour or so, with non-boss fights being shorter.&nbsp; This is slowed down both by our tendency to joke around and by the fact that I'm not really proficient with Roll20.&nbsp; Fights go a bit faster when we can get together face to face and actually play at a table.Just a bit of anecdotal evidence, for what it's worth.I'm playing my bard as a foul-mouthed little halfling whose insults just happen to resonate with the primal words of creation.&nbsp; I got a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Insult-Generator-Match-Insults/dp/1452127751/" target="_blank">Shakespearean insult generator book</a> for Christmas last year, and every time I do VM, I pick one of those to hurl at the enemy.&nbsp; There are free generators online too, for anyone else who wants to try this technique:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.literarygenius.info/a1-shakespearean-insults-generator.htm" target="_blank">Here's a Shakespeare one</a> (&quot;Thou viperous motley-minded horse-drench!&quot;), and <a href="http://playingwithplays.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PIrate-Insult-Generator.pdf" target="_blank">here's a more piratical make-your-own version</a> that you could print out and keep with your character sheet (&quot;Ahoy, you pig-faced, jelly-boned freebooter!&quot;).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jayoungr, post: 6781865, member: 6702445"] So putting these three points of data together, am I correct in deducing that a typical 4E combat for you runs half an hour? If so, I think your 4E experience is faster than most people's. (Which wouldn't surprise me; you of all people probably know how to keep 4E combat humming along, since you both love the system and have played a lot of it.) I play 5E over Roll20 with a grid as well, and we use the variant flanking rule (my players are coming from 3.5 and they really missed flanking, so we decided to add it back in). Most of our big boss fights last an hour or so, with non-boss fights being shorter. This is slowed down both by our tendency to joke around and by the fact that I'm not really proficient with Roll20. Fights go a bit faster when we can get together face to face and actually play at a table. Just a bit of anecdotal evidence, for what it's worth. I'm playing my bard as a foul-mouthed little halfling whose insults just happen to resonate with the primal words of creation. I got a [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Insult-Generator-Match-Insults/dp/1452127751/"]Shakespearean insult generator book[/URL] for Christmas last year, and every time I do VM, I pick one of those to hurl at the enemy. There are free generators online too, for anyone else who wants to try this technique: [URL="http://www.literarygenius.info/a1-shakespearean-insults-generator.htm"]Here's a Shakespeare one[/URL] ("Thou viperous motley-minded horse-drench!"), and [URL="http://playingwithplays.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PIrate-Insult-Generator.pdf"]here's a more piratical make-your-own version[/URL] that you could print out and keep with your character sheet ("Ahoy, you pig-faced, jelly-boned freebooter!"). [/QUOTE]

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