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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 933637" data-attributes="member: 10948">Whatever you do, you absolutely MUST use an actual battle system.  A little ways back in my current game, my party was leading any army comprised mostly of dwarves to go and do battle with Demon Elves in the underdark.  There were about 700 soldiers on either side.  But the DM had NO idea what he was doing.  Lo and Behold, the battle was over in LITERALLY 30 seconds.  No rolling, he just decides that our army gets whooped no matter what we do, and decides that 1400 combatants(approx, not including important NPCs or PCs) fighting in an area about 100 ft. wide.........finish the fight in 6 rounds.  This is just WRONG.  Especially taking into account that our army was taken down that fast even though we had a lot of dwarven runecannons(mortars, cannons, gatling guns, etc.), lotsa fire-ball tossing mages, one out of every 7 soldiers was Elite, among other things.  The drow rip-offs had swords and a mage or two, with a few elites.  And we still loose horribly.  I don't know what the DM was thinking when he thought that deciding the outcome of the battle off the top of his head without taking anything into account was a good idea.  If we ever get into a large-scale battle again, and he does something similar, I'm leaving the game.After this fiasco, I was tempted to add Favored Enemy: DM to my Ranger's list. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />For the sake of your players, man, USE A BATTLE SYSTEM!!!</blockquote>

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