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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dogreboy" data-source="post: 3928422" data-attributes="member: 45423">quicker battles????"So a 20+ round battle involving 5 (or 6?) PCs, 15 goblins (including spellcasters), a ship exploding, attempts at diplomacy, and a copper dragon took only two hours, even though they just went through a rule adjustment. Considering that it takes D&D groups I have played with about four hours to do a third of that, it sounds rather impressive to me." So a party took some 6-8 rounds to kill the goblins, and the rest on the dragon/ship exploding(and the goblins were not even done as they had to assist the party in killing the dragon. Don't know about your groups but mine tend to be a little quicker than this. Most normal battles last 3-4 rounds which takes us all of 30 mins and the dragon battle may take another 30-60 tops. Taking 4 hours to do combat where there was little to no roleplay involved seems excessive to me. I thought the purpose was to increase simplicity of the system and speed it up. I did like that the rogue got breathed to death as with evasion most of the rogues I know take little to no damage a lot. Maybe the defensive settings were poor in this particular case.</blockquote>