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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5430600" data-attributes="member: 58197">My usual approach in such situations is to have the PCs square off against the enemy leaders, while their NPC allies duke it out with the enemy's grunt forces. The NPC-on-NPC part of the fight is either handwaved entirely, or abstracted to a great degree. It speeds things up, keeps the focus on the PCs, and gives the players more face time without requiring them to handle multiple combatants.I would suggest handling it like this:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plan the enemy group with a handful of leaders who will go head to head with the PCs, plus a bunch of minions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The PCs have access to various allies which they can recruit for help.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When the fight starts, each ally group takes an appropriate number of enemy minions off the battlefield (they are assumed to engage each other "offscreen"). If you prefer to keep them on the field, they engage each other off to the side; whenever their turn comes around, just handwave what happens and move on.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The PCs fight whoever's left.</li> </ul></blockquote>