A Sundered World: When The Players Declare War...
The players want to have it run somewhat parallel to our "normal" campaign, with the tarchons continuing to wage war on everyone else (they kind of drove them off before), probably due to infernal influence, and they have to somehow stop them.
I've never run a war campaign before, and they've never played in one, so this campaign is going to involve a lot of "firsts".
Basically, we're all going to come up with some islands and locations, I'll arrange them on a map, figure out how the tarchon force is going about their campaign of slaughter, and then let the players take action based on what they know/want to do.
I still have access to Heroes of Battle and The Forge of War. They're 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons books, but maybe they'll have some useful advice (ideally in keeping big fights abstract).
I let the players choose their first mission, and they opted for assassination. The hook is that a tarchon scouting vessel has been discovered in their area, and the characters have to capture or kill the tarchons on board before they return with their intelligence.
We're now being joined by Maria Rivera, the primary mind behind The Lich. She's playing a t'pual wizard that was slain near the Bahamut Span, and during her lengthy reformation period ended up absorbing too much of the tarchon's battle-lust.
On the plus side, she also picked up the draconic language, which lets her wizard unleash fire upon everything near her (normally wizards have to pick and choose their targets).
Maria came up with this all on her own, which pleases me because it means that I've written enough flavor content, such that another player can make setting-appropriate characters and choices without me having to hold their hand.
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ReplyDeleteWar and Revolution
Training Soldiers: 5% of the general populace are
soldiers (7HP). A further 20% are fit to fight as
conscripts (3hp). In some Companies, all of Members
are be combat-ready.
Revolution: Typically the largest Company present in
a settlement will act as Government. However, the
current rulers can be overthrown, outvoted or
otherwise deposed, even by smaller Companies.
Large Battles: Large groups of combatants should be
combined as a unit. A Unit fights as one and adds 1 to
Damage rolls for how many times they outnumber
their opponents, to a maximum of +3.
For example, a unit of 200 cavemen fighting 100
pikemen outnumber them 2-to-1, so add 2 to their
Damage. If a unit outnumbers their opponents by less
than 2-to-1 they add 1 to Damage.
A unit taking Critical Damage takes casualties equal to
the number of attackers. Attacks causing 2d6 damage
or more cause a casualty for each point of Critical
Damage they cause. For example, a unit of ten cannons
causing 8 Critical Damage results in 80 casualties.