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Message: <blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 9530029" data-attributes="member: 85870">[USER=42040]@Retreater[/USER] --- I can relate. In my 8-year run with SW from 2011 to 2019, I had probably six or seven different battles that played out that way. It doesn't happen very often; normally if the dice are behaving, combat really is a fun, furious (though less fast than one might expect, as you found) experience. But it is basically something that will occasionally "just happen" when the dice are off and your players aren't synergizing well. The one battle that put me over the edge was the second-to-last battle of my 14-month fantasy campaign. By that point the PCs were all close to Legendary tier, they all had epic gear and stats. And so to fight them, I put equivalent Wild Card enemies on the table, with similar parry and toughness. And it just dragged on, and on, and on. One player's character should have died (but had a "Golden Bennie" because it was his birthday, so used it to auto-raise his incapacitation roll).And then a year later, it happened again in another fantasy campaign where I was a player, not GM, and at that point my love for system started waning. Until two weeks ago when a buddy of mine and I came up with these house rules: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/house-rules-to-eliminate-dead-rounds-shaken-from-savage-worlds-and-it-kind-of-ends-up-like-hit-points.708378/[/URL]We've done two playtests with these so far, so it's hardly extensive, but the results have been very positive and absolutely in line for what I was looking for, which was to avoid the situation in the future.</blockquote>

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