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<blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4862951" data-attributes="member: 83805">This has been my experience too.Even using a simple set of rules such as basic set D&amp;D, combat encounters can be stretched quite significantly from players constantly asking the DM these sorts of questions and/or arguing with the DM.&nbsp; Due to this arguing and asking tons of questions + looking up several tables, I do remember combat encounters in 1E AD&amp;D being stretched to as long as the high level combat encounters in 3.5E using minis (ie. from all the bookkeeping and other stuff).&nbsp; This stretching of the combat encounter times is due to entirely different things.Without turning this into an edition war, 4E D&amp;D did feel like a breath of fresh air in comparison to all these sorts of problems in earlier editions which stretched combat encounter times significantly.&nbsp; Though 4E did introduce its own stretching of combat encounter times, by significantly hiking up the number of hit points for both players and monsters.&nbsp; How I've dealt with this problem is to add a bonus of +level to the damage rolls.&nbsp; (Star War Saga Edition does something like this, but only a +level/2 bonus to the damage from melee and ranged attacks).&nbsp; This does actually make the combat encounters move faster, and doesn't have that &quot;is this over yet&quot; type of fatigue from combat times being stretched out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ggroy, post: 4862951, member: 83805"] This has been my experience too. Even using a simple set of rules such as basic set D&D, combat encounters can be stretched quite significantly from players constantly asking the DM these sorts of questions and/or arguing with the DM. Due to this arguing and asking tons of questions + looking up several tables, I do remember combat encounters in 1E AD&D being stretched to as long as the high level combat encounters in 3.5E using minis (ie. from all the bookkeeping and other stuff). This stretching of the combat encounter times is due to entirely different things. Without turning this into an edition war, 4E D&D did feel like a breath of fresh air in comparison to all these sorts of problems in earlier editions which stretched combat encounter times significantly. Though 4E did introduce its own stretching of combat encounter times, by significantly hiking up the number of hit points for both players and monsters. How I've dealt with this problem is to add a bonus of +level to the damage rolls. (Star War Saga Edition does something like this, but only a +level/2 bonus to the damage from melee and ranged attacks). This does actually make the combat encounters move faster, and doesn't have that "is this over yet" type of fatigue from combat times being stretched out. [/QUOTE]

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