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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5187232" data-attributes="member: 59248">Not if you do it right, it doesn't.If you're successfully partitioning the combat, it ends up being shorter just by virtue of the bad guys who didn't participate in the first fight, as it takes the same number of actions to drop them but they're taking fewer actions before they drop (due to being out of the fight due to a wall or whatnot -- the only way it could be longer is if normally those guys would have been in the mix, -not- dropping conditions on PCs (which makes fights take longer, if you assume the PCs are going to usually win), and taking AoE damage.More often, control makes fights a lot -shorter- by, say, sucking most of the bad guys into a pit and then bombing the hell out of them with AoE while the party mobs the rest; by the time the party finishes with the enemies left out of the control, the rest is just mop-up.If the controller is "controlling" enemies but really getting in the way of her own people, she's not doing her job.</blockquote>