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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5059533" data-attributes="member: 40177">It's funny, I did this last session!  I was running a large fight where only one PC was present.  To keep the rest of the group involved, I gave each one of them a minion to control, with a sub-goal that was not necessarily related to the fight, and went at it.  The PC had to fight one actual monster, a bunch of minions (like, a dozen of them, at least), and protect an NPC, while the minions ran around and beat on each other.  I threw in some Savage Worlds, though, because it handles large scale fights more believably, using a very simplified system when a minion attacked another minion... basically, any time the PC wasn't involved, I used Savage Worlds.  And it worked pretty well... well enough that I'm seriously considering doing something like this coming up.  I also have this plan to take 4e and change some of the inherent beliefs of the system to better mesh with 2nd edition - particularly the scale of PCs vs. monsters (ideally, so that 1st level PCs can hit an ogre, but it's still going to be a tough fight, while goblins are still dangerous to 8th level PCs).</blockquote>