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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 5006437" data-attributes="member: 12731">My biggest complaint about 4E is instead this:The designers absolutely and utterly failed to deliver a speedy game.I can only speak for my own group, but we average little over two combat encounters per play session. Sometimes we manage to squeeze in a third, but only if there is nothing but combat all evening long, and only if the opponents are run of the mill bad guys (that is, not complex BBEG types).This generates way too little story and character progression per hour played; especially compared to the number of hours you play the game (almost like moving your game piece on a board).I like 4E very much, but it's come to a point where you can't tell a decent story without taking up a month's worth of gaming.Which in turn causes a secondary issue: too fast leveling. I completely understand my players when they want to level at least once a month (four play sessions). But it causes problems when the littlest side-trek story will eat up that entire level, just because in those four sessions, we only manage 8-12 combats.Zapp</blockquote>