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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negflar2099" data-source="post: 4735139" data-attributes="member: 65944">I was wondering if everyone had a consensus about how many rounds an ideal battle in 4th edition D&D should last? Right now my battles are lasting 8-10 rounds. Battles in earlier editions were no where near that long. I think 4-7 was my average in 3.x. How long should a battle last? What are we shooting for?I'm talking about both an "in-game" and "meta-game" perspective. From the meta-game POV what's the maximum number of rounds a battle should last? How long does it take you to complete each round? 10 minutes? 5? What is the the longest amount of time you've spent on a single battle? 1 hour? 2?I'm also curious from the "in-game" POV how long would a fight last as well? Now I know that each round is supposed to be six seconds long but I don't buy that. That assumes that each creatures actions are all happening at exactly the same time with perfect overlap and that's just ridiculous. I haven't been in too many fights but I've seen a lot of action movies. It's pretty clear that while there is some overlap (that is two people fighting at the same time) most battles do feature a natural rhythm that very quickly becomes pretty close to turn like. I hit you then I block as you hit me kind of thing. That means that each round should take longer than six seconds but how long should it last? 18 seconds? 20? At 20 seconds a round a battle that lasts 10 rounds would last a little over 3 minutes (if I'm doing my math right). That seems to match most battles in action movies I've seen but then again some are over in 2 minutes while others take 6 or 7. How long should a fight last for the characters in the world?</blockquote>

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