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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6835620" data-attributes="member: 6716779">THats because cpmbat is fast and simple in those games. I have run a few of the classics in ecent years using AD&D/BECMI and clones and in a 4 hour sesison you can.Have 15-20 encounters with around 1/4rd being combat (5-7 fights)And still have time for RP and several of those encounters might be RP. 5E combat is a lot quicker than 4E, a bit quicker than 3E (not by much it seems) and slower than OSR type games. The only way I can squeeze in 6-8 encounters is in something like a dungeon crawl with most of the session devoted to it. Even then 6-8 encounters doesn;t matter to much after level 3 or 4 if you run it RAW. When 5E 1st landed I ran it very close to RAW and started the encounters at hard and the 6th and 7th encounters we at deadly+ (often over the xp budget). After 5E I would say the rules do not work at all. THe removal of save or dies for the most part has turned it into a hp slog grind. May not help or group almost always has the healer feat though.</blockquote>