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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4632423" data-attributes="member: 5143">As for actual numbers, I know that when running a 3.5e Living Greyhawk adventure with 3 combat encounters, I always estimated 45 minutes to an hours per combat.  Generally, 2 hours 45 minutes for just the combats was pretty accurate.  With another 1 and a half hours of roleplaying between.  I've run adventures for my friends and for random strangers at GenCon.  The difference in speed was negligible.Most encounters took about 3-4 rounds.  Monsters tended to drop to 0 pretty quickly, but if there were multiple monsters, it would take a couple of rounds to run from enemy to enemy mopping up.  Against one monster, the battle often ended in a round of 2.  But that round would be filled with full attacks, quickened spells, haste attacks, a number of saving throws, a lot of planning and a lot of adding up numbers.</blockquote>