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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6127420" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Welcome to the World of Posting!</p><p></p><p>As for your group's status: 4e combats can be famously lengthy, but you are a bit of an outlier at one hour per round (hoo boy!). There's a few tricks you can do to speed up combat (I'm sure folks with more intimate knowledge of these than I will be along in a bit), but it looks like the basic reason for your long fights might be the whole "looking for an advantage" thing. It's kind of a feature of the huge amounts of options and synergy 4e presents you with, so you might not ever really get down to a combat fast enough to be considered "quick" using 4e as a chassis.</p><p></p><p>You might want to try grabbing the <a href="https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dndnext.aspx" target="_blank">5e playtest</a> and seeing how that runs for you. It's not polished, but it's quite functional, and it is certainly a lot faster in play. I imagine you're exactly the type of player WotC would love to see adopt 5e, and you can help guide the game as you go. But those are all really neat add-ons to what is basically a much faster game engine to begin with. </p><p></p><p>Either way, enjoy, and good gaming!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6127420, member: 2067"] Welcome to the World of Posting! As for your group's status: 4e combats can be famously lengthy, but you are a bit of an outlier at one hour per round (hoo boy!). There's a few tricks you can do to speed up combat (I'm sure folks with more intimate knowledge of these than I will be along in a bit), but it looks like the basic reason for your long fights might be the whole "looking for an advantage" thing. It's kind of a feature of the huge amounts of options and synergy 4e presents you with, so you might not ever really get down to a combat fast enough to be considered "quick" using 4e as a chassis. You might want to try grabbing the [URL="https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dndnext.aspx"]5e playtest[/URL] and seeing how that runs for you. It's not polished, but it's quite functional, and it is certainly a lot faster in play. I imagine you're exactly the type of player WotC would love to see adopt 5e, and you can help guide the game as you go. But those are all really neat add-ons to what is basically a much faster game engine to begin with. Either way, enjoy, and good gaming! [/QUOTE]
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