How long did this session take?

[amethal]

I have no idea how long it would take my group, but fortunately the poll was set up in such a way that I don't need to be accurate.

There's no way we can get 6 fights done in under 10 hours.

It would probably be more like 20 hours, as they muck about constantly and then spend ages agonising over what actions to take.

It doesn't bother me when I'm DMing, but it annoys the heck out of me when I'm a player and I have to wait ages for my turn.

 

[Gold Roger]

I think my group would have had that done in one session on a good day, which would have been 4 hours, and needed two sessions for it on a bad run (lot of of topic chatter, people are 1h+ late), which would have been five hours.

I voted before thinking it through (I though, yeah, that would have been one session-but forgot my sessions don't last that long anymore).

I think you are faster at mastering than me, but you do also have more players, so I stick to 4-5 hours.

 

[Seeker95]

Okay. Plenty of votes.
Nice bell curve.
It is tomorrow.
Now give us the answer!

 

[diaglo]

for my group it would have been 5 and half hours of interacting with the NPCs and trying to formulate a strategy.

and half an hour of combat.

6 hours total.

 

[Arnwyn]

Knowing it's MerricB, I'm going to guess between 4-6 hours, and choose 6 hours to skew the poll upwards.

For my group, that sounds like about a 7-8 hour session.

 

[Bagpuss]

I vote 6 hours but for my group it's more like two sessions of (5 hours), more likely three weeks worth of gaming (at 2 fights a session).

 

[takyris]

I guessed four hours, but that didn't include pizza-eating time. A lot of those encounters looked fast to me.

And apparently my group plays quickly...

 

[Plane Sailing]

I'm metagaming

I think I've heard you being astonished at peoples claims for how long D&D combats are, so I'm assuming everything went really quickly and I've voted for 2 hours.

 

[Henry]

Looking back over the list, I guessed 6 hours, but I'd almost be willing to re-guess closer to 4. Most of the combats involved opponents pretty far below the group's level, just lots of them. The Manticore fight I was surprised to hear you say was so short, but with any of these fights, if the Fighter is decently optimized, he'll tear the main opponent to pieces.

 

[werk]

I voted 3 hours because that is about the fastest I could see doing what was detailed. Since he seems pretty impressed with the speed, that seems like the best way to read it.