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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5353654" data-attributes="member: 3424">I played in an Essentials-only game just last weekend. The party was quite large, consisting of:1. Human knight2. Human slayer3. Dwarf slayer4. Elf thief5. Eladrin mage6. Dwarf sun warpriest7. Human storm warpriestWe had about four encounters, each of which was over in half an hour or less, namely:1. Eight kobolds, four with short swords and four with slings2. Two waves of 2d6 (yes, the DM actually rolled each time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) kobold minions, and more would have come had we not succeeded in a skill challenge to make them stop fighting us3. Two Medium-sized zombies and a Large zombie (which the storm warpriest destroyed in one single hit by rolling a critical hit with smite undead <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />)4. One fledgling white dragonAlthough the fact that we were playing 1st-level characters and Essentials characters probably helped cut down on the time required per encounter, I think the key contributor was that we were playing without a battlemat and resolved all movement and positioning questions via DM adjudication.</blockquote>

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