JADE REGENT SPOILERS, maybe
I am about to start the last book of the Jade Regent AP. I would like to end it in a big mass combat battle and I am looking for advise.
I remember, some time ago, when I was a player, we ended the Dragonlance AP with a mass combat and I really liked the system we used. I like that the players would choose which unit to be in, and if that unit attacked they player got to choose a number of combatants to fight, we would "zoom in" and they would fight that many. Depending on how many combatants where killed, the unit would get a bonus on it's roll.
Does anyone know where I could find the rules for this system?
Does anyone have a suggestion on a map I could use?
Thanks
Anyone?
If I might suggest: Beginner's Guide to Wargaming by Bruce Quarrie.
It's got a simple yet fairly straightforward way to resolve mass combat.
Dragonlance's original publication was for AD&D and AD&D 2nd Edition, and used the Battlesystem rules, including cardboard counters specific to the Dragonlance armies (Draconians, etc.)
- Pathfinder has Mass Combat rules in the Ultimate Campaign book. They do not specifically allow you to "zoom in" though. Legendary Games has published Ultimate Battle and Ultimate War to supplement the rules in Ultimate Campaign.
- A third party (Cubicle Seven?) published "Warpath", a set of mass-combat rules for Pathfinder. I do not remember ever getting an updated version with corrected math, as the original had some errors.
- D&D 3.5 had "Heroes of Battle", which presented Mass Combat off-screen... the PCs acted on missions/tasks with the mass combat in the background, and earned "Victory Points" by accomplishing their commando- or squad- scale actions.
- Malhavoc Press (Monte Cook's imprint) published "Cry Havoc", a sourcebook for mass combat, for 3.x also. These rules were also included, if I recall correctly, in Green Ronin's "Game Masters' Handbook".
- Fields of Blood was another 3.5 sourcebook for mass combat and war, also pretty abstract and I don't think PCs did anything specifically on the battlefield.
- Birthright (AD&D 2nd Edition) had a mass combat system that was totally abstract. PCs could be considered part of a unit, but I don't recall them being significantly involved.
- Stronghold, from Mongoose Press, was another 3.x book that handled Mass Combat and domain rule. In my analysis, the math failed when the settlements got larger.
- Empire was another 3.x supplement that tackled mass combat and domain rulership. It suffered from editing, because it could have been two supplements but content was cut to make them fit into one, and parts felt incomplete.