What was your largest/longest single combat?

[Crothian]

We had a 4 hour, 50 combat rounds conclusion to the players assualt on the Hill giants last night. Before that battle my longest combat was 24 rounds. It was a long combat as the giants attacked in waves as the area the PCs fought from hindered their movement and the giants had reinfocements ready hoping to get the PCs off guard. In the end no PC deaths (house rule makes death harder) but they were out of healing and down to an injuried ranger archer and an injuried wizard.

So, what was your biggest, longest combats like?

 

[shaylon]

As I was the injured wizard I must say that it was an amazing battle! I like a good mix of combat and storytelling, which this game has done a great job of, but last night was awesome! You would think that a long battle would get boring in ways but this was not at all the case. It was intense from start to finish. Several times all of the players were ready to pack it up.

So, before the 50 rounder last night I would guess that I never had a fight go more that 25-30 rounds, although I never really thought about counting them until last night.

Great game.

-Shay

 

[godawful]

the lvl 9-11 party plus about 200 npc warriors against 400 kobolds, 125 orcs, 30 ogres, 5 ogre mages, immediately set upon thereafter by 100 human skellies, 2 cloud giant skellies, 1 red wyrm skellie. took over 8 hours i think. if i remember, the whole thing took about 20 rounds.

 

[diaglo]

nearly 11 years.

3-4hrs/session; 5 sessions/week; 50 weeks/year

 

[Mark Hope]

8 hours? Man, that's something else!

My longest was about 4 1/2 hours and was pretty recent - the finale to the Dark Sun adventure Road to Urik with a mass battle between about 220 troops and the PCs on one side and some 350 enemies on the other. A few others have clocked around 4 hours. For some reason a 30-round Torg battle that lasted 3 1/2 hours also stick in my mind - not overly long but lots of card flipping going on .

 

[the Jester]

I've had single battles that lasted 2-3 games in the past.

 

[Kael]

8 PCs, 3 NPCs, and 65 cohorts, hirelings, and flunkies vs. 300 monsters of various types and sizes. 6 hours. 8 combat rounds . The DM rolled for each individual attack of each NPC and monster

 

[scourger]

01/03/02. 62 round tunnel fight between the party of adventurers and the goblin barbarians. It took about 3-4 hours, I think.

 

[Aaron L]

I dont rememeber exactly long it took, but it was several hours. I was a 19th level grey elven wizard, there was a 24th level human wizard also in the party, a 25th level paladin, and one or two others. The fight was against several 15+ level liches. All I clearly remember is last part, when I gated in a solar and summoned an elder earth elemental, the otehr wizard had a few summoned elementals and a solar of his own, and the liches had 2 balors and a pit fied. We were in a huge room, with all of the summoned creatures and teh paladin fighting in the center. The paladin killed one of the balors, and it exploded, collapsing the floor of teh room, and 2 solars, 3 elder earth elementals, a balor, and a pit fiend went plummeting tghrough the chasm that was created.


It was truly amazing!

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

In the early '90s, playing a 1st/2nd/houseruled D&D hybrid. A party of about a dozen or so 10+ level characters assaulted Zhentil Keep. In order to save time, the DM used his computer to print out the 500+ soldiers that he would have defending the place. He said that we were lucky he decided to be nice and stop at 500.

Of course, since this was Zhentil Keep, they had to be tough. So, we fought 500 15th level fighters...

Due to some creative spellcasting and the worst tactics a legion of 15th level soldiers has ever used, we were victorious. The battle with Manshoon and the high priest whose name escapes me was the climax (with a Marilith summoned in by Manshoon), although only two players (not me) participated. All said, this battle took a few sessions to complete (IIRC, it was around 22 hours of play).

*Mind-numbingly boring*

Yes, had the keep possessed a tactician, we would have been slaughtered. On the otherhand, an exercise in dice rolling over the course of three sessions is a bit much.