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    Ettin in the Playground
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    Default Re: Running a war game?? Seeking advice/guides/resources

    Quote Originally Posted by Bonzai View Post
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosquad

    For the most part it was a very well written series. The main characters were crucial to the war effort. And while they did fight in the major battles, they weren't single handedly winning the war by themselves. Instead they performed key missions that shaped the larger war. Things like sabotaging key production facilities, abducting enemy scientists. Etc... To me that is the best way to handle a war campaign.
    The issue is that some level 10 characters could kill thousands of level 5 or less characters up to the point they could just solo an army of level 5 and less people.
    In dnd 3.5 levels grants growing advantages: even the cr system assumes that 2 more levels means you can fight twice as many opponents of a given level and in practice it can be even worse than that.
    So it makes sense in a non dnd world to have the most skilled people sabotage things but in a dnd world the most skilled people can facetank the opponent army and melt through it thus making any infrastructure it had irrelevant and it is arguably a more useful use because it means that your army will take less losses while the opponent army is busy being annihilated in a single day.
    Last edited by noob; 2021-09-20 at 05:02 AM.