D&D 5E (2014) Mass Combat Rules?

[bedir than]

I have been considering how to use magic the gathering for mass combat...

D&D: Strategy & Tactics as a CCG intrigues me

 

[atanakar]

I have been considering how to use magic the gathering for mass combat...

Going down that route I would use Dragon Dice by TSR. Now you've given me something to think about.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Mass Combat in D&D

Wrote that a long time ago, mostly with 3E in mind, but it deals with general principles that any version of D&D carries with it.

 

[Garthanos]

In general, I would run it more like a board game of Risk or something, using key points where the PCs can shine or falter as the play dictates.

I love risk but have been reading Chainmail and I didnt notice if anyone here recommended it?

 

[Lanefan]

I dreamed up my own mass combat rules a long time ago, based on how another DM ran some army-v-army stuff and riffing off that.

Still haven't had the opportunity to try 'em out, in part due to player disinterest and in part due to there not having been any good army-v-army battles involving PCs in my campaigns for a very long time now.

I have been considering how to use magic the gathering for mass combat...

Please explain, because at first glance I can't imagine how in the nine hells that would function.

 

[Lanefan]

Mass Combat in D&D

Wrote that a long time ago, mostly with 3E in mind, but it deals with general principles that any version of D&D carries with it.

Why won't this link load for me? Even when I cut and paste the URL all I get is nothing.

Using firefox with popups and ads fully blocked.

 

[Garthanos]

Please explain, because at first glance I can't imagine how in the nine hells that would function.

I havent fully worked it out yet but here is some handwaving.

Basically playing a land becomes gaining control of a resource or capturing a space that has that resource (pre defined battle area perhaps with some resources upside down til you move creatures on to it). And playing a creature card is in general marshaling troops.

It would definitely be a variant game. The main thing needing added is perhaps a sense of creature location. There are now many many cards that have appropriate battle context like ones that enhance allies which attack with them.

And there is a pretty cool expansion (actually they feature in more than one expansion but like the guilds of ravnica) But also this one where the idea can be capturing the crown. The Monarch
There are cards like one that allows a player to decide this turn they get to choose which creatures attack and which defend... a Warlords gambit kind of card.

Adding locations
Variants of magic the gathering let you chose to put cards in separate piles so one could draw a land card or gain a creature. There is already an expansion where there is a monarch card. And creatures with various warlording abilities are big in it.

Some abilities might be given with custom pregame cards

For instance one where you can call a retreat order by paying a creatures casting cost and save it from death (discard a card too maybe?)

Terrain could be predefined and place on the field and acquired by using a creature to take control of it instead of attacking the enemy with it. (like how some cards might allow you to tap them to draw another card)

In Chainmail they included this option to allow details of the terrain in a battle to be player defined...
A. On a number of 3" x 5" index cards draw the following: 1. Two with rivers 2. One with a marsh 3. One with a pond 4. One with a gulley 5. Two with woods 6. One with rough ground 7. Four with variously shaped hills 8. Eight blanks B. Each opponent draws up to four times: 1. The weaker or defending side draws first. 2. Terrain is placed anywhere on the table at the drawing player's option

 

[Garthanos]

Why won't this link load for me? Even when I cut and paste the URL all I get is nothing.

Using firefox with popups and ads fully blocked.

hmmm its on
"http://home.earthlink.net/"

my browser doesnt think there is anything funny about it.

 

[Garthanos]

Conspiracy: Take the Crown

Conspiracy: Take the Crown is a booster-based set designed for Conspiracy Draft.[2] It was released in August 2016 as the second of three supplemental sets that were released in the summer of 2016.[3] Conspiracy: Take the Crown followed up on the original Conspiracy set from 2014 and introduced...

mtg.gamepedia.com

 

[Lanefan]

hmmm its on
"http://home.earthlink.net/"

my browser doesnt think there is anything funny about it.

That link won't load for me either. Other sites and pages are working OK so it's clearly something about that earthlink site.