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<blockquote data-quote="crash_beedo" data-source="post: 5118707" data-attributes="member: 18781">I was the one that asked Mike about the house rule on his blog... I think the first reference I had heard to R&amp;D using a half-hit-points house rule was in an old podcast from a con session - maybe DDXP 2009?We've used half hit points / increase damage by the monster's level for the past few months and it's done the trick.&nbsp; I can only get the guys together for 3 hours or so at a time, so now we always get in 2, sometimes 3 encounters per night, with time for other things (exploring, roleplaying, etc).My group is slooow and agonizes over every combat decision... if the players were a little faster, and if our sessions were more like 4-4.5 hours, I don't know as we'd use the rule.And I agree with Windjammer, there appears to be a split at WOTC whether such a rule is a good/necessary house rule, so maybe we won't see any official endorsement or discussion (as it points to misreading how serious gamers would differ from casual gamers).How about this though... aren't there thousands of LFR games that are consistently trying to fit in 3 encounters in a 4-hour slot?&nbsp; Can anyone chime in on the LFR experience?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="crash_beedo, post: 5118707, member: 18781"] I was the one that asked Mike about the house rule on his blog... I think the first reference I had heard to R&D using a half-hit-points house rule was in an old podcast from a con session - maybe DDXP 2009? We've used half hit points / increase damage by the monster's level for the past few months and it's done the trick. I can only get the guys together for 3 hours or so at a time, so now we always get in 2, sometimes 3 encounters per night, with time for other things (exploring, roleplaying, etc). My group is slooow and agonizes over every combat decision... if the players were a little faster, and if our sessions were more like 4-4.5 hours, I don't know as we'd use the rule. And I agree with Windjammer, there appears to be a split at WOTC whether such a rule is a good/necessary house rule, so maybe we won't see any official endorsement or discussion (as it points to misreading how serious gamers would differ from casual gamers). How about this though... aren't there thousands of LFR games that are consistently trying to fit in 3 encounters in a 4-hour slot? Can anyone chime in on the LFR experience? [/QUOTE]

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