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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4527049" data-attributes="member: 35909">I voted 45 minutes, that's how long my non-boss battles tend to take in 3.5, and I don't do quick little fights that are won in a few attacks.  Boss fights vary wildly, I've had some where the players rolled very well or came up with an ingenious idea and won in less than half an hour.  I've had other times where the fight is an epic struggle with several near death experiences and goes on longer than the rest of the adventuring time combined.  Just tonight, finished up a wilderness adventure with a boss fight that took 3 1/2 hours...and it was awesome!  The spellcasters on both sides blew through nearly their entire allotment of spells it went on so long, but no one seemed to mind. <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=":)" /> (gestalt game of 4 level 5 PCs versus 2 level 6 NPC's who entered invisible and with a summoned army)So, I don't really care about length as long as it's fun.  And I agree with the others that have said so: A five minute battle seems so trivial I don't know why to even bother with them.  Only times I've seen those happen is when the PCs overestimate the opposition and unleash total overkill on round 1 (and then are screwed when the REAL boss fight happens).</blockquote>

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