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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 8148461" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Of the games that I am currently, or was in the last few years, the 5e ones 5e have the fastest "round-to-round" combat. Compared to Cyclopedia D&D, Savage worlds and Vampire 2nd ed (and definitely compared to D&D 3.5 /Pathfinder), the 5e groups resolve each round of combat faster.The total lengths of combat are a little hard to compare since the 5e groups have more complex encounters: The DMs for those tended to involve terrain and reinforcements whereas the cyclopedia DM is less inclined to having so many moving parts.At higher levels, 5e combats seem to involve more rounds than both cyclopedia or 3.5ish combats. From my experience, this seems to be due to the power of spellcasters in those editions. Cyclopedia isn't quite as "rocket tag" as 3.5, but it is still noticeable that a level 3+ spell in those editions is more likely to end a fight (with occasional mopping up) rather than just contribute to it, which is what the spells seem to do in 5e more.However, these are amongst a group of gamers who have been playing assorted games for decades. Newer groups of players and DMs tend to take a lot longer. From memory, the 5e groups still seem faster than the novice Pathfinder groups, but its been a while since I was involved in a new D&D group that wasn't 5e, so I'm not sure how far to trust it.As to what you can do to improve matters in your particular 5e group, where do you think the delays are? Are you rotating rounds fast, but finding the combats drag on spending rounds and rounds beating on things with little resolution? Or is each round itself taking a long time to resolve? When it comes to their initiative, is each player ready to declare their action, roll their dice, and give the result? Or do you have players who only start thinking about what they're going to do when it comes to their action, page through books to find the rules, spend time choosing dice and so on?</blockquote>

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