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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6073899" data-attributes="member: 6680772">I'm going to pull the actual quote by Mearls here.He's not saying the game will be designed around 1 hour games.&nbsp; He's not saying fights have to be done in 10 minutes or less.&nbsp; He's just saying the game has to be playable in an hour.&nbsp; His &quot;One-Hour D&amp;D Game&quot; L&amp;L talks about this in more detail.Some relevant parts:So it's very simple.&nbsp; It's not a matter of being designed so that all fights are 10 minutes.&nbsp; It's about a group only having one hour to play, so they say, &quot;Okay, we're going to do this little mini-adventure that'll fit in that time.&quot;&nbsp; Maybe it'll only have a couple of fights, like Mearls' examples.&nbsp; Maybe it'll have one big fight that takes most of the hour.&nbsp; Maybe it'll be Fantasy SWAT, with a squad of PC's clearing six monster filled rooms in record time.&nbsp; Whatever kind of one-hour game that group wants to play.And for that casual gamer family deciding how to spend that time between the end of dinner and the kids' bedtime, and making a choice between D&amp;D and a boardgame, it'll probably easy for them to have a five, six room dungeoncrawl, with two fights, one trap, and some NPC interaction.&nbsp; Just like Jeff Carlsen so astutely put it, combat in such a scenario won't be a primary deliverer of fun, but just another part of the whole game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6073899, member: 6680772"] I'm going to pull the actual quote by Mearls here. He's not saying the game will be designed around 1 hour games. He's not saying fights have to be done in 10 minutes or less. He's just saying the game has to be [i]playable[/i] in an hour. His "One-Hour D&D Game" L&L talks about this in more detail. Some relevant parts: So it's very simple. It's not a matter of being designed so that all fights are 10 minutes. It's about a group only having one hour to play, so they say, "Okay, we're going to do this little mini-adventure that'll fit in that time." Maybe it'll only have a couple of fights, like Mearls' examples. Maybe it'll have one big fight that takes most of the hour. Maybe it'll be Fantasy SWAT, with a squad of PC's clearing six monster filled rooms in record time. Whatever kind of one-hour game that group wants to play. And for that casual gamer family deciding how to spend that time between the end of dinner and the kids' bedtime, and making a choice between D&D and a boardgame, it'll probably easy for them to have a five, six room dungeoncrawl, with two fights, one trap, and some NPC interaction. Just like Jeff Carlsen so astutely put it, combat in such a scenario won't be a primary deliverer of fun, but just another part of the whole game. [/QUOTE]

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