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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 4120200" data-attributes="member: 46713">I'm just considering 3E, earlier editions were quite different. The longest battle I've had so far lasted 8 rounds and took over 6 hours to play. It initially involved only 3 high-level npcs (12th level conjurer, 10th level druid, 11th level shadowdancer). During the cause of the combat 32 low level npcs (2nd level warriors) and about 5 summoned creatures joined the fray.It was a quite challenging encounter for the 7 pcs (average level 10). This was mostly due to the environment and because the two main pc spellcasters were busy casting dispel magic 50% of the time.I've prepared a pretty big encounter for one of my next sessions:An orc war party with a total of 80 individuals that will attack in several waves from different directions:1st to 3rd wave: 12 L3 barbarians, 3 L4 marshalls, 2 L5 fighters, and 1 L7 druid (EL12)4th wave: 18 L3 barbarians, 3 L4 marshalls, 3 L5 fighters, 1 L7 druid and 1 L8 warchief (EL13)It's something I've long wanted to do, and I hope it will be sufficiently challenging to make a memorable fight.- All orcs have at least a single Barbarian level and because of stacking effects from buffs, auras and class abilities even the lowliest have a good chance of hitting the pcs and should be able to survive one or two (if they're making their saves) AE spells.- Since they'll be attacking in staggered waves, the pc spellcasters shouldn't be able to take them all out before they can become a threat.- It will also be difficult to make out, which of the orcs should be primary targets since they're mostly equipped identically.We'll see how it goes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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