Video: One Thing Caused Me To Immediately End Three 5e D&D Campaigns

A good video today, what makes 5E combats so long? Some NSFW language here, salty, not spicy, but honest and correct. Four hours for one combat is too long. And Wizards only writes games where combat takes hours. They have never written an easy, fast, and streamlined game. If you go back to 3.5E and 4E, they have never gotten combat right. Above a certain level, it will take hours.

This is my experience too: combat is too long, too bloated, and frankly, too important in the game.

We are a long way from BX, where combat is a losing strategy and thus unimportant.

No wonder people play to a level 7 character and quit.