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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 9785292" data-attributes="member: 6932123">Most likely to keep things simple in the broader range of time conversions. They want "1 minute" as a useful amount of time, and many spells last 1 minute, but a 12 second round would only have 5 rounds per minute, which gets into the balance of how long spells last, etc.You could make the spells last 2 minutes and get the same effect in terms of rounds, but then have more peculiar limitations in things like the Extended Spell metamagic, which only applies to spells that last more than 1 minute. That would have to be adjusted, and "2 minutes" starts feeling like a weird boundary. And this keeps going with more and more dominoes.A 1 minute round and 10 minute spells feels a bit easier in terms of time scaling, but then brings into question things like movement speed. How can you not make it pretty much anywhere on a battlefield if you have an entire minute to move around?  A sprinter can go a quarter mile in that time.No matter what time you use, something is going to break. The 6 second round is arbitrary, and a bit stupid, but it incorporates a bunch of issues for balancing the game as a whole.Personally I'd be up for a 12 second round, as that seems to allow a bit more breathing room in combat for theatrics, acrobatics, potions, dialog, etc, to feel a bit more natural, but without stretching out movement speed too much. But you'd definitely have to go through adjusting all the 1-minute abilities, and see what other things break around it. Maybe consider if 10 minute abilities need to be scaled up to 20 or 30 minutes; etc.</blockquote>

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