I'm looking to run a session with a mass battle as a backdrop for the events going on with the party, but I'm running short of ideas for encounters. I don't want the entire session to be constant combat, I'd like a few encounters to be resolved via skill checks and roleplaying.
For example: The characters come upon a group of NPC's trapped within a burning building, and need to figure out a way to get them to safety.
The scene is the PC's have arrived with a caravan to a Grippli village in a vast jungle. The village is empty, the inhabitants having been slaughtered in a Tsathar (evil frog men) attack. The Tsathar have hidden themselves in a now fetid lake and wait for nightfall to attack anyone foolish enough to investigate.
The PC's are level 5.
