Ummm, what were the heros trying to do? Take over the camp? Kill the people in teh camp? Capture them all? In other words, in what terms would their victory be defined?
Given some defined objective, what is the biggest obstacle to their accomplishing it? The skill of the people in teh camp? The organized effort of the those people to break out? The sheer numbers?
Way back in math class I was inclined to find the answer, then work backwards to prove it was right. It never gained the approval of my math teacher, but it is a useful technique. I think for something like this it makes sense to figure out what the appropriate victory levels would roughly be, then work backwards to determine what opposition makes sense for those sorts of victory levels, then to the exact details of the contest.
None of which makes the general question of "how to handle groups" easier, of course.
--Bryan
>
> Of course, perhaps my problem was how I let the player heroes
> combine. I figured this was a simple contest, so I had them all
> augment one player's combat ability with their own. This gave
> everyone some sort of contribution, but it didn't seem like all
that
> much (since any one person's augment was typically less than +6 --
> far less than the +10-+20 that people can augment themselves).
>
> Perhaps I should have used the Mass Effort rules -- this would work
> fine for the NPCs but wouldn't really give the other players scope
to
> contribute (except as raw numbers on the Community Support table).
>
> The Horde comments apply to extended contests.
>
> Perhaps the multiple attacker rules would have been OK.
>
> Any rulesy guidelines out there?
> --
>
> David Dunham
> Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
> Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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