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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5509123" data-attributes="member: 11821">IME...Fights in 1e took my group anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or so.  (This was about 2-3 years ago, mind you, so I apologize if I'm not precise.)  There were actually quite a few rounds, because the whiff rate at low levels in 1e is pretty darn high.Fights in my mid-level (14th or so) 3.5 game could be expected to take anywhere from 45 minutes to many hours.  We played 6-hour sessions, and it wasn't unheard of to spend 3 of it on a single fight.  This was Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, and some of my players had pretty complex stuff going on - for example, the necromancer.In 4e, heroic-tier fights are pretty quick, but generally I expect a decent combat to take between 45 and 75 minutes.  I sometimes have longer ones, on purpose - I just finished running a 3-hour gladiatorial match with 6 different factions, alliances, betrayals, attacks from the stands, rules about playing to the crowd, moving terrain, etc...  There was a ton of roleplay mixed in with the rest, so that extended it a bit.My high-paragon group took over an hour per fight, but I think part of the blame for this was on the poor design of high-level monsters, and the necessity of using L+3 encounters to even approach a challenge.  I'd like to run it with better-designed monsters, now; I expect it will help speed it up.  Part of the time extension is because players get a good deal more out-of-turn actions at higher levels.Anyway, my longest fights in the past 5 years were in mid-high 3.5, followed by upper-paragon 4e, followed by heroic tier 4e, followed by low-level 3.5, followed by 1e.-O</blockquote>

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