Burn_Boy
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I'm designing a Wizard turned Lich main boss for an undead campaign I'm running in a homebrew setting. At the end it's supposed to culminate in a Minas Tirith/ Helm's Deep style siege with the Wizard/Lich leading his undead army. I'm making him level 15 and his army is mostly comprised of normal basic undead, skeletons and zombies. And if I did my math right, at level fifteen the most undead he could animate is 160. An impressive number but against a well fortified city even with only basic town watch defenders, that's not going to be much of a fight. And for the PCs, it's nothing.
Now in mass combat scenarios, PCs should not be foot soldiers. They should be off doing other stuff to help the battle, destroying enemy siege equipment, taking out a bridge to disrupt reinforcements and, of course, fighting the Lich general.
Anyway, I want this undead army to be in the thousands, but I also want to follow the rules. Is there something I'm missing through all this or should I just hang the rules and say he's able to mentally command thousands simply because I say he can?
Now in mass combat scenarios, PCs should not be foot soldiers. They should be off doing other stuff to help the battle, destroying enemy siege equipment, taking out a bridge to disrupt reinforcements and, of course, fighting the Lich general.
Anyway, I want this undead army to be in the thousands, but I also want to follow the rules. Is there something I'm missing through all this or should I just hang the rules and say he's able to mentally command thousands simply because I say he can?