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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 4625714" data-attributes="member: 17913">Sorry this won't address the whole of your post, but...As far as damage, I personally never find a quick combat as the final combat of a campaign/story to be satisfying.  I want the players to have to pull out some neat tactics, not just wail on the guy with full attacks.  I want the badguy to use his sweet "special moves" and that NEVER includes a single roll that could immediately kill a PC.Basically, every encounter I've had that's been climactic has also been fairly involved; 4-12 rounds.  Anything less than that is either anti-climactic or was a battle that didn't matter much to the overall story.The key is making the first couple rounds of EVERY SINGLE encounter feel like life-or-death.  If it ends immediately after that, then so be it, but at least for those 2 rounds there was the nail-biting excitment of the Players just not knowing if they'll make it out or not.</blockquote>