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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 1196361" data-attributes="member: 11">Last January, WizarDru started <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?t=35528" target="_blank">this thread</a> about the average length of combat in your 3E games.   I found it a fascinating subject - and am curious with new people and more people how the numbers will fall if we did this poll again.  I broke up the choices slightly differently than he did (added more choices).For myself, back then it was around 12 or 13 rounds per combat, with some lasting 30 rounds or more.  I plan to look over my recent game logs and see if there has been any change (actually, I would guess the average has gone up).  For my own part, most combats in my game are not straight up fights, but environment and goals and lack of knowledge about what might be going on (something that happens when you play up all the consequences of poor decisions) definitiely makes them longer, and at times makes the PCs hesitant to jump right in for chopping. As a secondary question: How many combats do you average per session?   I would say my own group average 1.5 per session.  We may have three or four sessions with 2 or 3 combats each, but then will have two or three with no combat at all, or maybe one short combat.  Also, we often end session right at the beginning of a combat (one or two rounds into it) or sometimes right in the middle of big combat on some cliff-hanger.  I love this because it makes everyone anxious to get started the next time and we can jump right into it.I would be curious to cross-reference combat length with number of combats per session.</blockquote>

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