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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5528929" data-attributes="member: 463">IME this - bringing everyone together for an epic mass battle - can work as a change of pace; I've GM'd up to 14 players at once in 3e - the 2002 EN World gathering at Gencon UK - and it was doable, but SLOW.  Do not expect to get through more than the one fight in a 4-5 hour session.  Tips for doing this:Keep things dynamic - storms of arrows from offstage archers, bewildered minions wandering through kill zones, a mostly open battlefield with points of interest, not large amounts of difficult terrain.Minions minions minions - most of the enemy should be minions.  Have them appear in waves during the battle.  Use a wide variety of minion levels.  Use minions where you would normally use standards.  On Sunday I ran a mass battle, most PCs 6th level; for the grunt ogres instead of 6th level standards I used 14th level minions; worked great.  BTW I use a damage threshold of 1/2 level +5 to kill a minion, half that to bloody, which works extremely well.Enemy champions should be mostly standard monsters, usually of equal or higher level than the PCs, use a decent number of them but 9 is too many.   I think 6-7 including a single Elite BBEG is probably best.  IME if you're piling on the minions, your PCs may have a lot of trouble focusing fire on non-minions in battlefield conditions, so Elites tend to last a long time.</blockquote>