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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7884002" data-attributes="member: 177">So, here's the thing that ought to be considered then - make sure you know why your combats are long, before making a rules change to adjust combat length.Why?  Because, say your combats are slow because you have loads of players.  You adjust hit points so combats are faster.  Then, for some reason, you run a session with only half the players?  Your combats will run super-fast, and probably not in a good way - PCs may die without the GM really intending that to happen (or at least, not so easily). If the HIt Points are not the actual root cause of the issue, you can use them as a lever, but if/when the thing that's the real cause of the problem changes, you will probably want to move that lever back.</blockquote>