Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad goes to Greyhawk

[Kraydak]

Aren't there special rules for mobs in DMG II?

Or just use the rules for swarms.

You mean the rules that make 40 venerable, naked halfling commoner 1s more dangerous than 20 lvl 1 fighters with good stats, full plate and actual weapons? The rules that tell the fighter "You know those Great Cleave and Whirlwind attack feats you took specifically to deal with mobs of opponents? Yeah, now that you are facing a mob of opponents you can't use them, bwahahahaha"? Those rules?

I prefer to pretend that they were never written.

 

[Kael]

A while back I ran a Darksun campaign were the characters were involved in several riots. Of course the characters were on the side of the rioters. I ran most of the encounters in an abstract way, describing the chaos around the characters. If anybody wanted to do something like cast a spell or attack a specific target then I would run a mini encounter around that action.