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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5730252" data-attributes="member: 463">I just wanted to chime in on this with agreement.&nbsp; I switched from 5-6 hour sessions to 3-3.5 hour sessions, and I feel it has had a major beneficial impact on my game - I GM better, I don't get over-tired, and it leaves the players wanting more and looking forward to the next game.&nbsp; It also encourages me as GM to really try to make every minute top-quality, because there is no time to waste.Partly it's getting old, partly it's that I have problems with chronic pain and my stamina is not great.&nbsp; But a lot of it is I think more general stuff like player attention fatigue and a ruleset (4e) which encourages lots of lengthy 'awesome' battles.&nbsp; A bit of awesome is... awesome... but there's a big danger of overload, like many modern Hollywood action movies, where the constant explosions all just merge together and lose impact.&nbsp; Keeping the sessions to 3 hours or so, with no more than 2 battles, really seems to deal with that problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5730252, member: 463"] I just wanted to chime in on this with agreement. I switched from 5-6 hour sessions to 3-3.5 hour sessions, and I feel it has had a major beneficial impact on my game - I GM better, I don't get over-tired, and it leaves the players wanting more and looking forward to the next game. It also encourages me as GM to really try to make every minute top-quality, because there is no time to waste. Partly it's getting old, partly it's that I have problems with chronic pain and my stamina is not great. But a lot of it is I think more general stuff like player attention fatigue and a ruleset (4e) which encourages lots of lengthy 'awesome' battles. A bit of awesome is... awesome... but there's a big danger of overload, like many modern Hollywood action movies, where the constant explosions all just merge together and lose impact. Keeping the sessions to 3 hours or so, with no more than 2 battles, really seems to deal with that problem. [/QUOTE]

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