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<blockquote data-quote="Shazman" data-source="post: 5390343" data-attributes="member: 13509"><p>In response to your question, I have to say &quot;Absolutely not!&quot;&nbsp; 4E combat is designed to be very slow and tactical.&nbsp; The monsters have gobs of hit points (I guess to prevent &quot;swinginess&quot;) and the PC's can expect to miss about half the time and do relatively little damage to the monsters when they do hit.&nbsp; It only gets worse as you go up in level.&nbsp; I've seen paragon encounters take about 4 hours to complete.&nbsp; 4E combat does tend to get ridiculously monotonous and slow.&nbsp; That's just the way it is.&nbsp; I have played a good deal of both 4E and Pathfinder, and a low level 4E combat can easily take an hour and half to complete, while you can expect a low level Pathfinder encounter to take 30 to 40 minutes (sometimes less) to complete.&nbsp; If you want to play a game with relatively short combats, you do not want to play 4E, unless you want to do some serious houseruling&nbsp; (like halving monster hit points and upping their damage a bit to keep it challenging).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Shazman, post: 5390343, member: 13509"] In response to your question, I have to say "Absolutely not!" 4E combat is designed to be very slow and tactical. The monsters have gobs of hit points (I guess to prevent "swinginess") and the PC's can expect to miss about half the time and do relatively little damage to the monsters when they do hit. It only gets worse as you go up in level. I've seen paragon encounters take about 4 hours to complete. 4E combat does tend to get ridiculously monotonous and slow. That's just the way it is. I have played a good deal of both 4E and Pathfinder, and a low level 4E combat can easily take an hour and half to complete, while you can expect a low level Pathfinder encounter to take 30 to 40 minutes (sometimes less) to complete. If you want to play a game with relatively short combats, you do not want to play 4E, unless you want to do some serious houseruling (like halving monster hit points and upping their damage a bit to keep it challenging). [/QUOTE]

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