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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dougmander" data-source="post: 1623722" data-attributes="member: 14375">How willing are you DMs out there to hit the fast-forward button on a combat whose outcome seems certain?Do you feel compelled to run a combat blow-by-blow until the very last bad guy falls, or do you (like me) sometimes just say "It's clear which way this combat is going -- you kill the last couple of orcs easily"? Is the off chance that one of those orcs will score a critical hit before he drops worth taking up extra game time? I only do this when the PCs are winning a fight against mooks, not named NPCs, and  I would never do it when the PCs are losing.Thoughts?</blockquote>