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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6665481" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Technically speaking, I have had a (roughly) two-hour combat, though it was something of an unusual case and partially broken up into segments--and had some other extenuating circumstances. This is TequilaSunrise's game, by the way. Specifically, we (foolishly) alerted the entire enemy hideout to our presence, meaning what would've been several rinky-dink combats became one big old party. I believe we had something like 12 or 13 enemy combatants on the field at once? And none of them were minions. And then to top it off, two out of five players didn't show so two of the other players covered for them, and all three of the present players are new or semi-new to playing 4e (counting myself--I've only played at MOST 10 sessions between three campaigns).I consider this a decent "worst-case scenario" for our group, although I'm sure it COULD have been longer too. The terrain wasn't part of the challenge (just an entryway); there were no traps, thank goodness; and the enemy surrendered after the captain fell and it became a five-on-five. A regular 'involved combat' would probably be, much as Neonchameleon says, 45-60 minutes. A quick skirmish might be half an hour. The only way I could see a combat running over into another session is if it came late in the session and we had to stop before it ended.Also, although there wasn't a lot of time after the aforementioned combat, we still managed to get in a good 10-15 minutes of roleplay and another, I dunno, 5-10 minutes of in-character planning for the next move. Questioning the captured guards, trying to overcome the compulsion affecting them, rounding up their gear and weapons, finding a good place to temporarily lock them up so we could safely explore the rest of their base, etc.</blockquote>

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