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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 2686745" data-attributes="member: 893">I'd rate myself medeocre to reasonable depending on the day.  I do feel I truely excel at coming up with creative and interesting 3 dimentional NPC's, plot hooks and an engaging world that the PC's run around in but I can honsetly and truely say I am TERRIBLE at rules.  Of course I didn't help myself by choosing a rediculously complex ruleset (namingly the Black Company) but look at my last session for example.  The city the PC's were in was in the middle of a riot that made the Rodney King riots look like somthing organized by hippies.  Large segments of the population had fallen under the sway of a cult dedicated to Kina and were running rampant through the streets including a mob attacking the sea lords palace bastile style.  The PC's managed to gather together about 100 or so guardsmen wandering around and with the addition of a platoon from their own mercenary company went to drive off the rioters.  That's when things got ugly.  A single turn using the BC mass combat rules took me almost an hour.  I got numbers mixed up couldn't do the math fast enough in my head because I was getting flustered, ended up decideing pretty much by DM fiat how the battle turned out... It was pretty pathetic.On the up side though things look like they might be getting better since I've sold all but one member of my group on Castles and Crusades.  Yay for simple rules.</blockquote>

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