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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1667932" data-attributes="member: 151">Nope. No epic level spells came into play....the party was 18th through 20th level.&nbsp; But shapeable fire storms do terrible amounts of damage, for a start.&nbsp; Summoned Elder elementals and elemental swarms certainly don't hurt, nor do appreciable application of Maze spells.&nbsp; You'd be amazed how fast a high-level party can clear the field.&nbsp; Super powerful turns (of which the cleric has 16 greater, 15 lesser) help deal with undead AND outsiders, super capable archers can drop tons of lesser troops with lightning precision.&nbsp; High-powered rogues can gut an entire crew of an astral flier so quickly and stealthily that four opponents haven't even hit the floor before the sole remaining crewman, the captain, has a chance to notice.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are lots of things we do to speed up combat, many of which I'm sure you've heard of doing in other threads.&nbsp; Pre-rolling, rolling damage at the same time, keeping players aprised that their turn is coming up and making sure they know their action and relevant information....and we don't even 'pay the pig'. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp;The two biggest necessities?&nbsp; Trust your players and let it go.&nbsp; That assumes, of course, that your players rock.&nbsp; Mine do. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 1667932, member: 151"] Nope. No epic level spells came into play....the party was 18th through 20th level. But shapeable fire storms do terrible amounts of damage, for a start. Summoned Elder elementals and elemental swarms certainly don't hurt, nor do appreciable application of Maze spells. You'd be amazed how fast a high-level party can clear the field. Super powerful turns (of which the cleric has 16 greater, 15 lesser) help deal with undead AND outsiders, super capable archers can drop tons of lesser troops with lightning precision. High-powered rogues can gut an entire crew of an astral flier so quickly and stealthily that four opponents haven't even hit the floor before the sole remaining crewman, the captain, has a chance to notice. There are lots of things we do to speed up combat, many of which I'm sure you've heard of doing in other threads. Pre-rolling, rolling damage at the same time, keeping players aprised that their turn is coming up and making sure they know their action and relevant information....and we don't even 'pay the pig'. :) The two biggest necessities? Trust your players and let it go. That assumes, of course, that your players rock. Mine do. :) [/QUOTE]

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