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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 814705" data-attributes="member: 158">Oour group's D&D battles rarely go more than 5 or 6 rounds, occasionally taking up to 8 or so.Our d20 Modern battles, I have found, are taking longer, mainly because the battles are moving.In our last session (d20 Modern), we had:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 Battle requiring 3 rounds </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 Battle requiring 1 round </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 Battle requiring 10 rounds (sniper, they had a hard time pinpointing him, until they grenade-fished him out of a tree) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 Battle requiring 13 rounds (it ranged from outside a complex to the inside, involving much cover, grenades, and gunplay.)</li> </ul>D&D battles, because there is less likelihood of chases and the like, generally duke it out once a combat is engaged.  In any case, unless reinforcements arrive in waves, or unless a stalemate is forced for a few rounds (wall of force, blade barrier, a third external threat to the combatants, etc.) then one side or the other is no longer functional to fight after 5 or 6 rounds. The only time I ever saw the contrary was a battle in which EVERYONE at the table was suffering horrible dice roll luck; the end result probably looked like a 15-round ballet performance, than a life-and-death struggle.</blockquote>