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<blockquote data-quote="am181d" data-source="post: 6028392" data-attributes="member: 3576"><p>I may be alone here, but "JUST BUY ME 30 SECONDS" feels a LOT more heroic to me than "just buy me 5 minutes". The shorter time frame suggests more urgency/immediacy, because they're SO CLOSE but not quite there. </p><p></p><p>If you really want to cover a longer stretch of time, it feels like they should be attempting not combat delaying tactics anyway. (Barricades, traps, distractions, etc.)</p><p></p><p>As a kid playing 1e, I always thought the 1 minute rounds were dopey. I think we house ruled them as 10 seconds pretty early on. I understand why some players who started with (and continued playing with) extended combat rounds might feel attached to them, but I think this is an evolutionary oddity to D&D. D&D was first, and was born of tactical war games that are demonstrably more abstract. Every RPG since has always had rounds substantially shorter than one minute.</p><p></p><p>(There's a chance I may be wrong on that last point, and if so I am happy to be corrected.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="am181d, post: 6028392, member: 3576"] I may be alone here, but "JUST BUY ME 30 SECONDS" feels a LOT more heroic to me than "just buy me 5 minutes". The shorter time frame suggests more urgency/immediacy, because they're SO CLOSE but not quite there. If you really want to cover a longer stretch of time, it feels like they should be attempting not combat delaying tactics anyway. (Barricades, traps, distractions, etc.) As a kid playing 1e, I always thought the 1 minute rounds were dopey. I think we house ruled them as 10 seconds pretty early on. I understand why some players who started with (and continued playing with) extended combat rounds might feel attached to them, but I think this is an evolutionary oddity to D&D. D&D was first, and was born of tactical war games that are demonstrably more abstract. Every RPG since has always had rounds substantially shorter than one minute. (There's a chance I may be wrong on that last point, and if so I am happy to be corrected.) [/QUOTE]
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