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<blockquote data-quote="ArtaSoral" data-source="post: 6911207" data-attributes="member: 6861092">First post so I apologize if i put it in the wrong place or something like that.I've been DMing for 5e for about a year now but as its my first DnD experience i still feel like a newbie DM. One issue I've been having is combat always seem to function poorly. encounters that are supposed to be short end up ta remarkably long; whats really frustrating about this is we still dont have many rounds of combat. it seems to take us almost an hour to get throughjust 3 or 4 rounds of combat. So far i havent been able to diagnose the problem and im wondering if any experienced DM's have tips on running combat that might solve this issue. Some other issues iv been having specificly with combat encounters:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Keeping track of spell effects both from PC's and NPCs (stuff like darkness or entagling roots)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Making descisions for the enemies. Alot of the time i have trouble figureing out what the mobs would do.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Keeping the combat going: often when dealing with a number of mobs i feel like all my rolling and actions slow down the action<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Casting spells: iv been loth to use spellcasting enemies because I feel like ill have to slow down combat to look up the spells. this is even when i have them written down ahead of time because i just dont have the memry to remember what all the spells do so if an NPC has 5or6 spells i need to read all of them which can take a while</li>
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</ul>Sorry for the long post, thanx in advanced</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArtaSoral, post: 6911207, member: 6861092"] First post so I apologize if i put it in the wrong place or something like that. I've been DMing for 5e for about a year now but as its my first DnD experience i still feel like a newbie DM. One issue I've been having is combat always seem to function poorly. encounters that are supposed to be short end up ta remarkably long; whats really frustrating about this is we still dont have many rounds of combat. it seems to take us almost an hour to get throughjust 3 or 4 rounds of combat. So far i havent been able to diagnose the problem and im wondering if any experienced DM's have tips on running combat that might solve this issue. Some other issues iv been having specificly with combat encounters: [LIST] [*]Keeping track of spell effects both from PC's and NPCs (stuff like darkness or entagling roots) [*]Making descisions for the enemies. Alot of the time i have trouble figureing out what the mobs would do. [*]Keeping the combat going: often when dealing with a number of mobs i feel like all my rolling and actions slow down the action [LIST] [*]Casting spells: iv been loth to use spellcasting enemies because I feel like ill have to slow down combat to look up the spells. this is even when i have them written down ahead of time because i just dont have the memry to remember what all the spells do so if an NPC has 5or6 spells i need to read all of them which can take a while [/LIST] [/LIST] Sorry for the long post, thanx in advanced [/QUOTE]

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