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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4630356" data-attributes="member: 31216">1. “characters are very low level “ -- The data I have collected on this are for parties ranging from 1st to 12th level. As I have said.2. “you play a heads-down GO GO GO DON’T TALK style of combat” -- Not at all. There’s joking (a lot), high-fiving, looking up rules (not often) all the common stuff that I’ve seen in every game group in every game I’ve ever played.3. “your numbers are flat out wrong” – I know how to count and tell time.“or all three” – You see, this is all why I question “how does everyone else play” if everyone else (or most everyone else) is experiencing such drastic differences in their game results. No one in our group is trying to make combats go fast, they just do. (I wouldn’t even consider our combats as “fast” except that I read about how everyone else’s is so much slower. I mean, I wouldn’t have thought of 3-5 minutes per round as fast until I read how other people take hours to run a battle.)None of us (as we are currently running a round-robin DMing campaign) are specifically trying to make combats last more rounds. None of us are specifically “breaking with the standard” by adding more monsters to the fights. Imagine if you regularly cook dinner for your family, and you usually prepare 4 items in 20 minutes. You’re not a professional speed chef, and you don’t think you’re particularly fast or efficient. And then you start hearing many other people complain about how they hate that it takes them an hour to prepare 2 items. You start wondering, what in the world are they, or I, doing different? When you ask, you get told, “Oh well you must just use microwave TV dinners,” or “You must pick up take out on the way home from work,” or “You’re not actually preparing 4 items and it’s actually taking you much longer than 20 minutes.”Bullgrit</blockquote>

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