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This series follows the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of a fairly inexperienced GM who has recently picked up the hobby after a long time away. It aims to assist new GM\u2019s by examining what worked, didn\u2019t work, and what failed miserably as he spins up new campaigns, modules, encounters, and adventures for his friends and family in Fantasy Flight Games\u2019 Edge of the Empire\/Age of Rebellion\/Force and Destiny system.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most exciting rules sets in Fantasy Flight Games’ Age of Rebellion<\/em> game are the elegant rules surrounding mass combat scenes and adventures.\u00a0 For the first time since I began playing RPG’s, I had a mechanism in front of me to get my PCs into a cinematic, sprawling battlefield and still allow them to concentrate on their individual stories and efforts within the larger battle.\u00a0 In Part 1 of my examination of mass combat adventures<\/a>, I described the basic rules behind Fantasy Flight Games’ mass combat system, as well as how I structured each phase with objectives for the PCs.\u00a0 I talked about how each of those objectives affected the mass combat checks between each phase.\u00a0 What is to follow assumes you have read the first part of this series or are familiar somewhat with the mass combat rules in Age of Rebellion.<\/em><\/p>\n

My main gaming group meets once a week and we have a couple hours to play in the evening.\u00a0 So generally, I am able to start a module and then make adjustments before the 2nd or 3rd night we run the module.\u00a0 I can react to the things that work or don’t work, or things I need to improve on.\u00a0 Such was the case with my first mass combat module, and I’m thankful I had that time to adjust after the first night.<\/p>\n

As I indicated in Part 1, the objectives in the first phase of combat were fine, but something was missing.\u00a0 All my PCs had something to do and all those phases affected the overall battle in the form of the mass combat roll between phases.\u00a0 But when I “screen wiped” between each PC group and their activities, the members of the group not involved in an encounter had nothing really to do.\u00a0 This is common in splitting the party and a reason why many GMs won’t do it.\u00a0 But I thought to myself there has to be a way to get the PC’s to interact while being in different places during the battle.\u00a0 So I sat and re-wrote phases 2 through 4 to create synergy between the PC’s and their individual objectives.\u00a0 Here’s how I did that:<\/p>\n

In Phase 1 each objective was written with different PCs in mind for them to showcase their talents.\u00a0 I did that.\u00a0 The trouble was that none of those interactions affected the other.\u00a0 They affected the overall battle of course, with each achieved objective the mass combat check between the phases was improved, but the characters weren’t working together very much.\u00a0 So I took phase 2 and threw it out and came up with new objectives that interacted.\u00a0 As walkers and transports began to land on the planet at extreme range, I set up three objectives for my team that interacted:<\/p>\n

Objective 1: <\/strong>Take out TIE Bombers bombarding the surface.<\/p>\n

Objective 2:<\/strong> Destroy at least one drop ship carrying AT-STs.<\/p>\n

Objective 3:<\/strong> Restore power to the point defense laser system outside the base entrance.<\/p>\n

On the surface those seem like separate goals with no synergy.\u00a0 But it was how the team accomplished them which caused the interaction.\u00a0 The PCs had a freighter in the sky shooting down TIE Bombers.\u00a0 But if they did not destroy at least two of them by round four, a bomb falls and will land near the mechanic of the group fixing the point defense laser system.\u00a0 Also, the scouts on the ground took hold of a turbolaser and began helping the freighter in the sky.\u00a0 The turbolaser on the ground also had a chance to destroy the bomb as it fell.<\/p>\n

The point was I overlapped the scenes a bit so it seemed more like the PCs were each involved in the same encounter, even though they had split up.\u00a0 Again, if objectives were met, the mass combat check between the phases got boosts for the PCs or upgrades.\u00a0 If failed, it had negative consequences towards the mass combat check.\u00a0 If the PCs won the mass combat check, then phase 3 of the battle had boosts for the PCs and vice versa.<\/p>\n

The PCs did not, however, succeed at the mass combat check between phases 2 and 3.\u00a0 They failed the roll and the Imperial invasion pressed forward.\u00a0 As a result of the failed check, I had the consequence be that a squad of stormtroopers managed to infiltrate the base.\u00a0 This created a situation where the party was split into three areas:\u00a0 The battle in the sky, on the ground, and now in the base as a result of the failed check.\u00a0 This is how I connected the mass combat check results to what the PC’s were doing.\u00a0 Because they failed the check between the phases, a new encounter came into play.<\/p>\n

Phase 3 also introduced the first objective that could seriously alter the battle on a larger, connected level.\u00a0 The PCs spotted the command shuttle with the Imperial Admiral leading the battle inside.\u00a0 As part of the mass combat rules in the system, the leaders of each side affect the mass combat checks by upgrading the check for their side based on their Leadership skill.\u00a0 So by taking out this ship, the PCs could swing the tide of the next couple of mass combat checks.<\/p>\n

I concluded the battle with the 4th phase.\u00a0 The 4th phase changed things up and had only one objective.\u00a0 That objective was to stop the Imperial Walkers…period.\u00a0 All the PCs converged at the end and had to work together to take down two AT-AT’s approaching.\u00a0 If they did, they would have significant odds to succeed at the last mass combat check.\u00a0 If not, they would have been severely hampered in the last check to determine the winner.\u00a0 But the key here is switching from a group of separated encounters and a split party, and at the end converging them into a single fight.\u00a0 Every check and encounter up to this point affected this last phase.<\/p>\n

When the PCs split up in phases, it’s important to make sure you connect them with a thread.\u00a0 The reason the mass combat rules work so well at their heart is that they make the PCs actually affect a battle on a scale so large no GM could keep control of it all.\u00a0 So it’s important to embrace this concept and connect each part of your mass combat adventure.<\/p>\n

My PCs considered the mass combat adventure we did to be one of the best, if not the best, adventure we’ve done so far together.\u00a0 They felt like everything they did had an impact and that they were part of the battle, not that the battle was simply a backdrop to their encounters.\u00a0 If you then take the next step, and connect the very encounters the PCs are involved in, and provide objectives that focus on the things your PCs do well, having everything tie back to the mass combat checks, you’ll create a sprawling, amazing adventure that will make your PC’s feel like big darn heroes even more than normal.<\/p>\n

Next week I will examine ways to transport this system from Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars RPG into other systems and ways you can create your own, even brief, mass combat adventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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