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<blockquote data-quote="Shazman" data-source="post: 5205551" data-attributes="member: 13509">What they DID do is speed up a combat turn. Overall combat length measured in real time did not change noticably but combat _feels_ faster because everyone gets to act more often. Triggered actions and granting other players bonuses and extra actions also mean that players stay focused on the action when it's not their turn.I don't really think that the combat trun has been sped up, though.&nbsp; More decisions to make, more concern about forced movement and where to place you mini or powers, more conditions to track, more actions to consider (most people in 3.5 only worried about move, standard, or full-round actions) plus many times making multiple attacks with bursts and blasts means that 4E turns can easily take just as long or longer than in 3.x.&nbsp; Even if they are shorter for many people, they are only marginally so.&nbsp; Slightly shorter rounds plus doubling the number of rounds equals much longer combat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shazman, post: 5205551, member: 13509"] What they DID do is [b]speed up a combat turn[/b]. Overall combat length measured in real time did not change noticably but combat _feels_ faster because everyone gets to act more often. Triggered actions and granting other players bonuses and extra actions also mean that players stay focused on the action when it's not their turn. I don't really think that the combat trun has been sped up, though. More decisions to make, more concern about forced movement and where to place you mini or powers, more conditions to track, more actions to consider (most people in 3.5 only worried about move, standard, or full-round actions) plus many times making multiple attacks with bursts and blasts means that 4E turns can easily take just as long or longer than in 3.x. Even if they are shorter for many people, they are only marginally so. Slightly shorter rounds plus doubling the number of rounds equals much longer combat. [/QUOTE]

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