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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benimoto" data-source="post: 4526405" data-attributes="member: 40093">I should time how long the combats in my home game are taking.  To tell you the truth, I don't really know how long they're taking, but I know that it seems about right.  I voted 45 minutes, just off the top of my head, not backed up by any empirical data.I've played console games, like Final Fantasy Tactics, etc. where the quick non-boss combats can take 15-30 minutes, and I feel as though that's too short--it makes the combats repetitive, infused with a feeling of deja vu.If the combats are 45 minutes long, it means that a 4 1/2 hour session with three combats has 2 hours and 15 minutes worth of combat, exactly half the session.  If it has 4 combats, or two normal combats and one big combat, that's 3 hours of combat and 1 hour of other stuff.  That feels about right to me, but that's all personal preference talking.  I like combat, and while I like the other stuff (exploration, NPC interaction, shopping) too much of it in one stretch starts to feel long.To put it another way, I think probably 50% of my current sessions follow the 4 1/2 hours session, 3 combat model above.  Some sessions have more roleplaying and some more action, but I have players that when we spend more than about 45 minutes out of combat, unless it's exceptionally engaging, they ask straight out "are we going to fight something here?"I have felt some 4e combats getting long, and I have some techniques that I've developed to avoid that.  Maybe I should start a new thread on that though.</blockquote>

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