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<blockquote data-quote="WhimsyTheFae" data-source="post: 2671631" data-attributes="member: 8964">In the early '90s, playing a 1st/2nd/houseruled D&amp;D hybrid.&nbsp; A party of about a dozen or so 10+ level characters assaulted Zhentil Keep.&nbsp; In order to save time, the DM used his computer to print out the 500+ soldiers that he would have defending the place. He said that we were lucky he decided to be nice and stop at 500.Of course, since this was Zhentil Keep, they had to be tough.&nbsp; So, we fought 500 15th level fighters... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Due to some creative spellcasting and the worst tactics a legion of 15th level soldiers has ever used, we were victorious.&nbsp; The battle with Manshoon and the high priest whose name escapes me was the climax (with a Marilith summoned in by Manshoon), although only two players (not me) participated.&nbsp; All said, this battle took a few sessions to complete (IIRC, it was around 22 hours of play).*Mind-numbingly boring*Yes, had the keep possessed a tactician, we would have been slaughtered.&nbsp; On the otherhand, an exercise in dice rolling over the course of three sessions is a bit much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WhimsyTheFae, post: 2671631, member: 8964"] In the early '90s, playing a 1st/2nd/houseruled D&D hybrid. A party of about a dozen or so 10+ level characters assaulted Zhentil Keep. In order to save time, the DM used his computer to print out the 500+ soldiers that he would have defending the place. He said that we were lucky he decided to be nice and stop at 500. Of course, since this was Zhentil Keep, they had to be tough. So, we fought 500 15th level fighters... :eek: Due to some creative spellcasting and the worst tactics a legion of 15th level soldiers has ever used, we were victorious. The battle with Manshoon and the high priest whose name escapes me was the climax (with a Marilith summoned in by Manshoon), although only two players (not me) participated. All said, this battle took a few sessions to complete (IIRC, it was around 22 hours of play). *Mind-numbingly boring* Yes, had the keep possessed a tactician, we would have been slaughtered. On the otherhand, an exercise in dice rolling over the course of three sessions is a bit much. [/QUOTE]

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