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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grog" data-source="post: 814830" data-attributes="member: 6183">In my experience, 3E combats tend to be quite short. The main reason for this is the way 3E monsters are designed. 3E monsters tend to have high damage capability and low hit points.Look at an orc. It has 4 hit points, and does 1d12+3 damage. It can do up to 15 points without a crit, and does 9.5 points on average. Its damage is way out of proportion to its hit points.Other monsters aren't quite that bad, but the same theme persists throughout the Monster Manual. An ogre has 26 hp and does 14 points of damage on average. So an ogre would take two hits to drop another ogre, or an average 2nd level fighter. And then you have girallons and the like. Lots and lots of "high damage, low hit points" monsters in 3E. And this leads to short fights.</blockquote>