Even if you toned down the RP and NPC interactions in half (just making gather info checks and the like instead of making PCs talk to a crapload of people, etc...), the combats alone would take a very long time. Heck, I have a game going right now that is in a combat, and we're going into Round 21 right now. This fight has probably been going on since 10/20/06, and has taken up about 5 full pages of posts. :eek

When you have a Hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
- Some Forgotten Dwarf -