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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5384889" data-attributes="member: 21076">I certainly think combat length in Pathfinder will be longer than 1st Edition and such, but it is a trade off in that you get extra options and such in Pathfinder, so that helps.  Our group does not find length of combat a problem in Pathfinder.  With that said though I believe how long combat takes varies significantly from group to group more than system to system when comparing to 4e.  There are many threads about combat length floating around general where people say it takes too long in 3.x and others saying their combats fly right by.  Same for 4e is seems.  So to me, this indicates combat length, to a degree, is more dependent on gaming groups.Our group moves through a typical combat pretty quickly.  I would say someone taking one minute or longer to decide what they were going to do is the exception, not the rule.  Now we do have an occasional longer combat.  Our last Kingmaker session had a long combat, but there was a whole myriad of combatants that entered at various times and the battle was taking place in several different locations on the battle map.  It was supposed to be a significant encounter and was the longest of the campaign so far.  The rest of them have been pretty short.</blockquote>