I’ve yet to actually run any DW, but it seems odd to me there’s no rules for hordes/groups of monsters like in D&D 3ed or FATE. There are the rules for damage from multiple monsters, but no rules to avoid having to track their HPs for each one. If your party is fighting all those goblins on page 231 do you really want to track 3hp for each one?
I’ve yet to actually run any DW, but it seems odd to me there’s no rules for hordes/groups of monsters like in D&D…
I’ve yet to actually run any DW, but it seems odd to me there’s no rules for hordes/groups of monsters like in D&D…
with 3hp most times they are either dead or alive i think.
For me, it works best to have a pool of HP for a swarm of mook-type enemies. The PCs slash through as many as the fiction suggests.
Yep, I used Brian C. Miller ‘s system back in 3E and it worked well. If you have 10 orcs with 8 HP each, just track it as “Orcs: 80 HP” and describe an orc dying each time the PCs deal 8 damage.
damage against multiple enemies certainly comes in play here.
Tim Franzke That is pretty much what I have done. Either dead or alive from the hits. I let the weapon type determine if they can hit more then one opponent.
same here. Giant pool of HP takes out the “damaging multiple opponent at once”. However, at my table usually it’s not the weapon that establishes if you can damage more then one goblin, but rather the actual description of what’s happening. I mean: we don’t roll blow-by-blow; we roll H&S when there’s some exchange of blows. Usually “one blow attacks” are a thing for backstabs and gun duels and whatnot.
David Guyll whoa, I hate to imagine what they do to you on a 6 or less…
they merge together and become the goblin king…
Thankyou all for the advice. Everything sounds workable, it just seemed strange that a rule set that’s popular for providing an old school feel without all the bookkeeping shouldn’t cover this.
There’s a war supplement coming. Soon. I hope. I have to have it. Soon!
Take a leaf from 3:16 – the damage rolled is the number of minions killed.
^That’s what I did, I had them make the Hack&Slash roll, then their damage die represented kills rather than damage.
I really like that idea Krusty Wightbred. If there are enough of them and the fiction supports it, let the bodies hit the floor =D