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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haffrung Helleyes" data-source="post: 4117487" data-attributes="member: 1068">I've run a fight in 3.5 with approx. 240 participants.  It did take pretty much the entire game session;  the PCs were defending their fortified village in the jungle against a horde of cannibal savages.I did adopt some simplifying conventions.  The mooks (1st level warriors) were all identical, and since they only had 1 HD , rather than keeping track of damage they had taken I adopted the convention that when one was damaged (but not killed) his tile (I used construction paper squares for minis) got a damage counter, and anytime a mook with a damage counter took more damage he automatically went down.With the tougher bad guys, when they took damage I wrote it on their counter.I grouped bad guys into 'squads' based on their relative positions on the board (which covered a 4 x 8 foot table) , and tracked initiative separately (with an initiative card) for each squad.There were a few high level leaders that I tracked initiative for individually.It was really fun.  I'm very fast at running 3.5 combat though; you'd definitely want to be at the top of your game for this.  Also, it's very important to think about organization for running the battle.  I definitely thought that the colored construction paper counters were better than minis since I could write damage and other effects on them.The players loved it as a change of pace, plus the campaign had been building up to this fight for several adventures.  But I wouldn't want to do it all the time.Ken</blockquote>

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