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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1129458" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I'd start making Fatigue rolls after 50 combat rounds/ 5 minutes of constant fighting - this only matters in mass battles of course, the typical 3e combat lasts 2-5 rounds.&nbsp; It's relevant to how many hundred enemy sword-fodder mooks the high level PC fighters can kill in one battle (the highest number I know of in western-European mythology is the 900 Saxons Arthur supposedly killed at Badon Hill), not to a regular dungeon-crawl.&nbsp; Check can be avoided by 5 minutes' rest for every 5 minutes of fighting.&nbsp; A typical high level fighter PC IMC can thus roam the battlefield killing 1 NPC mook (charge or move + standard action) per 12 seconds, 50/10 minutes or 300/hour, which is about as long as a typical medieval battle's engagement period would usually last.&nbsp; They could kill 900 in 3 hours, but will typically have been attacked themselves once per mook they kill, 900 in 3 hours, 1/20 hits - 45 hits, if typical damage is 5hp that's 225hp damage over the period.&nbsp; That assumes little or no concerted enemy attempt to kill the PC.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 1129458, member: 463"] I'd start making Fatigue rolls after 50 combat rounds/ 5 minutes of constant fighting - this only matters in mass battles of course, the typical 3e combat lasts 2-5 rounds. It's relevant to how many hundred enemy sword-fodder mooks the high level PC fighters can kill in one battle (the highest number I know of in western-European mythology is the 900 Saxons Arthur supposedly killed at Badon Hill), not to a regular dungeon-crawl. Check can be avoided by 5 minutes' rest for every 5 minutes of fighting. A typical high level fighter PC IMC can thus roam the battlefield killing 1 NPC mook (charge or move + standard action) per 12 seconds, 50/10 minutes or 300/hour, which is about as long as a typical medieval battle's engagement period would usually last. They could kill 900 in 3 hours, but will typically have been attacked themselves once per mook they kill, 900 in 3 hours, 1/20 hits - 45 hits, if typical damage is 5hp that's 225hp damage over the period. That assumes little or no concerted enemy attempt to kill the PC. [/QUOTE]

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