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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9288480" data-attributes="member: 29398">For us, when that happens it drags on and everyone just laughs about it.I've even seen a few times where players ended up cheering misses, as they wanted to see just how many rounds the combat would ultimately last.Longest combats I've ever run were:38 rounds - a character fighting her own clone (including cloned items etc.); the character - a Fighter - had been built entirely defense-first and thus had stupendous AC, but her offense was, let's just say, a bit lacking by comparison.&nbsp; End result was they each needed something like a natural 19 to hit the other.&nbsp; Fortunately, as it was a true one-on-one those rounds went by lightning-fast; we did the whole combat in maybe 15-20 minutes.32 rounds - a low-level melee at a choke point.&nbsp; Both sides had a) available healing and b) more front-liners than could fit in the choke point (a doorway); so the front-liners on both sides would step up, take a few swings and take a few hits, then cycle out and be replaced by the next front-liners while the first ones went back and got cured up; lather-rinse-repeat until the healers ran out of spells.&nbsp; The other casters on both sides ran themselves out of spells to little effect, and ended up throwing furniture at each other through the door above - and occasionally into - the front line, as it was all they could do.&nbsp; This one took all session to play out, and after the first five rounds or so I'm not sure anyone stopped laughing the entire time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9288480, member: 29398"] For us, when that happens it drags on and everyone just laughs about it. I've even seen a few times where players ended up cheering misses, as they wanted to see just how many rounds the combat would ultimately last. Longest combats I've ever run were: 38 rounds - a character fighting her own clone (including cloned items etc.); the character - a Fighter - had been built entirely defense-first and thus had stupendous AC, but her offense was, let's just say, a bit lacking by comparison. End result was they each needed something like a natural 19 to hit the other. Fortunately, as it was a true one-on-one those rounds went by lightning-fast; we did the whole combat in maybe 15-20 minutes. 32 rounds - a low-level melee at a choke point. Both sides had a) available healing and b) more front-liners than could fit in the choke point (a doorway); so the front-liners on both sides would step up, take a few swings and take a few hits, then cycle out and be replaced by the next front-liners while the first ones went back and got cured up; lather-rinse-repeat until the healers ran out of spells. The other casters on both sides ran themselves out of spells to little effect, and ended up throwing furniture at each other through the door above - and occasionally into - the front line, as it was all they could do. This one took all session to play out, and after the first five rounds or so I'm not sure anyone stopped laughing the entire time. :) [/QUOTE]

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