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Not to be rude, but what do you hope to accomplish with this post?

I was not contesting that 4e combats can be boring and unmemorable; they can certainly end up that way very easily. I was just raising the point that long combat is by no means unique to 4e in response to : And seriously, does the fact that some other completely unrelated systems have a same fault ...

I...still don't get your point. At issue is that if combat takes a long time then one would fervently hope that something memorable occurs to make the time investment worthwhile. It is a huge black mark against 4e that despite the long combats, nothing memorable occurs . It really has nothing to do...

RandomCasualty2 wrote:

Mushroom Ninja wrote:To be fair, 3.5 had long combats at mid-high levels.

IRL time-wise, not turn-wise.

To be fair, 3.5 had long combats at mid-high levels. However, 4e combats seem to last long regardless of level.

A few questions that I consider:

Is the story interesting?

Does it fit into my campaign setting without too much revision?

Is it too railroady?

How long is it?

Would introducing it break the continuity of whatever else I'm doing with the campaign?

3. I believe the best possible way to incentivize someone is to create a recipe for success. Excessively punishing and kicking someone to the curb does not incentivize anyone. Keeping someone involved in the process and invested in seeing Catalyst succeed so they can succeed is a far better path fo...