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Message: <blockquote data-quote="erik_the_guy" data-source="post: 4365318" data-attributes="member: 70483">I think about 1 hour is a good estimate, maybe closer to an hour and a half. I think the rules are great for combat. When I play at the cardshop, people are loud and goof off a lot so combat takes longer. When I play at home my friends are very "no bulls<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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />t" about combat, so it takes less time. I find that the rules are faster than with 3e.Some people have mentioned that higher level fights (party level +4 or higher) take a very long time, around 2 hours, to finish. This makes sense to me. These are usually epic battles that meet the end of an adventure. You can try to spice them up by giving the PCs some special advantage since they will probably burn off all their encounter and daily powers in the first half of this encounter. Giving them a bonus action point or letting them recharge a power when the main enemy becomes bloodied is a good example.One major slowdown on combat in 4e is getting used to the new rules if it is your first session. I find that you learn the combat rules for 4e faster than 3e, so again this is not a big problem.</blockquote>

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