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Message: <blockquote data-quote="godawful" data-source="post: 2669831" data-attributes="member: 36518"><p>i just ran a big one the other day. i bought a bag of colored stones (like pet rocks) from wal mart, and assigned a hit point and attack total to each color. like 40 hp's worth of kobold's is represented by this red rock. 30 hp's worth of orcs by this blue one. then i laid out like 100 40 hp kobold stones, added the total. then as the party and good guys deal damage, i subtract the amount of damage from the total hp's, then divide that result by the hp total of the individual rock, that gives you how many stones are removed. yes. it's a LOT of dice rolling, but works great for area of effect spells and such... and besides i never ran a big battle before and just felt like it. the whole battle took like 12 hours. 100 kobolds, 75 orcs, 30 ogre hunters, 5 ogre mages vs. 6 characters 8 to 10th level, then attacked from behind by evil necromancer with 100 skellies, 2 cloud giant skellies and a red wyrm skellie. oh yeah, the paty had some assistance from about 50 level 1 fighters and 15 level 5 fighters. it was o.k. i don't think i'll be running one again quite that large for a while though...</p></blockquote><p></p>