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[MrFilthyIke]

No, hitting diaglo with OD&D material actually heals him and makes him more powerful!

Like some sort of sick anti-kryptonite!

 

[Old One]

Hah!

No, hitting diaglo with OD&D material actually heals him and makes him more powerful!

Too true !

~ OO

 

[Old One]

I've run it and it works great. My players _really_ liked it. I'm a bit more of a wheel the formation, command radius, miniatures kind of guy, but it is very slick.

Pogre,

I am an old wargamer as well (in more ways than one ) and am fiddling with this to a certain extent. I may end up tweaking the command and morale rules a bit...but, as is, it is one slick piece o' work!

~ Old One

 

[mattcolville]

The fine folks at Bad Axe Games (Wulf and crew) have recently made the Mass Combat system from the Slavelords of Cydonia available as a separate .pdf download over at RPGNow. Better yet, they included a nifty spreadsheet to automatically calculate the BR (Battle Rating) of virtually any unit. All you need is the CR and # of each type of combatant. Want a mixed unit of orcs, goblins and ogres with a hill giant leader? No problem, input the appropriate CRs and strength of each component and this little beauty spits out the BR.

Does the creature type or special abilities or weapons or armor affect the combat in any way apart from the way it affects the CR and then, therefore the BR?