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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 4056079" data-attributes="member: 11">So I have been keeping some records about combat length and frequency for my current 3.xE campaign, "Second Son of a Second Son," and since we played our 25th session today and it happened to be a good cut-off point, I figured I would share it here on the boards for those who are interested.For the record, there are 6 PCs and in those 25 sessions they went from 2nd level (and 0 XP) to 4th level (actually they hit 4th level at Session #21). Our session last about six hours.  Some of the combats include the aid of up to three hirelings, but others do not include all the PCs whether because someone missed a session, or the party was split up (or some were unconscious for a fight).In 25 sessions there have been 35 combat encounters.The longest combat was 21 rounds long and the shortest 2 rounds long. I did not include any combats where only 1 PC was involved, or where the PCs fought among themselves (of which there were three or four of varying lengths).The average (i.e. the mean) combat length (rounded down) is 8 rounds.The mode is 4 and 7. The median being 7.The average number of combat encounters per session is 1.4.There have been a total of 283 rounds of combat.Anyway, I am not sure what all that means (if anything), but I love fidgeting with numbers and am curious about stuff like this.  But if anyone has any questions about any of it, shoot! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />----------------------------------------------------Special thanks to Ciaran (who plays Timotheus in the game) for his excellent combat log and general note-taking (for the purpose of the story hour) which makes keeping these records possible.</blockquote>

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