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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JaeKin" data-source="post: 4363339" data-attributes="member: 72626">Our party of 4:Dwarf FighterTiefling WarlordHalfling RogueElf RangerThe encounters have been pretty short, most only last 4-6 rounds I think. Our DM was cutting back on some of our early encounters, but we were drilling through them pretty easily, and he's been throwing some encounters meant for 5 adventurers. Haven't had too many encounters with lots of minions, those usually took a bit longer (Not having a wizard drags them out, but with my fighter's cleave and the rangers two arrow attack we take them down pretty quickly. I had an impressive cleave + AP + cleave one encounter where I took down 4 minions in a single turn.) Mainly our group works well together (Not to knock anyone who feels the combat is long or assume you don't know how to work together) I try to make sure as the fighter to get into the thick of it early and tie up the big hitters and keep the enemies off our soft targets, the warlord works well with the rogue easily moving him into flanking, and our ranger takes down their artillery and controllers early. Haven't really felt the enemies have too many hp either, usually once we concentrate on an enemy, it won't last a full round. We do have a lot of damage with the two strikers, warlord throwing around his great axe, and I'm pretty happy with my warhammer damage. I think our longest encounter was in the kobold lair adventure against the large white dragon, and I think it only made it 6 or 7 rounds. For me though, as long as an encounter stays fun, how many rounds or how much of the session it takes up doesn't ruin it for me. I just dislike when a encounter devolves into a tedium and I find myself simply waiting for the next round so I can take my single action and already know the outcome probably isn't going to be that spectacular. Haven't really had that encounter happen yet.</blockquote>

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