[RPG] How many rounds are in a minute

Full round actions are typically complete during the turn of the person taking them. A fighter doesn't split up his full attack so that his last attack occurs just before his next turn, he takes them all during his turn. A spell with a casting time of a full round action (as opposed to a casting time of "1 round", which really does finish just before your next turn starts) goes off during your turn, but you can't do anything else during that turn except take a swift action and a 5-foot step.

Using the other full-round actions in the game as guides, you should be free of the hold person effect on your turn, but you can't do anything else during that turn (except a 5-foot step and swift action). You should count as being back in the fight, though: you threaten squares again if you have a melee weapon and can no longer be coup de grace'd or take sneak attack damage.

Yes, combat is supposed to be this quick.

Caveat: Since you are at low levels, and both monsters/party have low hit points, you may find that this changes. That will be determined by the complexity of the challenge you present to the party, how smart the enemy is, as well as how many minions are there. The difference between a running battle or a static battle will also influence this.

Now this is what disturbs me: in the adventure I am running (party is now level 6), I am pretty sure that most fights we had didn't last 10 rounds

From Experience

• Your experience reflects the experience at our table as we went from levels 1 through 6, in terms of how many rounds a given combat encounter lasted.

• Our problem was that in Real Life Time we had pacing of combat issues as we got used to the new system and got used to our skills ... and the fact that we rarely got all six of us into the game (played on line rather than in person) so that one of us would be running another's character. This slowed down down In Real Time how long each round took, but it didn't extend how many rounds a fight took.

• Since our adventure party began, we have had one fight, total, that ever lasted longer than 10 rounds. It was a running battle that ended up happening across a number of rooms and corridors.

One of the design goals of 5e was to try and keep combat from taking a lot of real life time per combat. WoTC seems to have succeeded, and a by-product of that (and bounded accuracy keeping armor classes from being too high) seems to be quicker resolution of combat.