Running Hordes: Guidelines for D&D Battles with Hundreds of Monsters

25K views • 5 years ago • 19:10 Mike offers guidelines for running huge hordes of monsters in D&D and looks at a number of alternative approaches. Show Notes: https://www.notion.so/Running-Hordes-Run-Dozens-to-Hundreds-of-Monsters-in-your-D-D-Combat-5516951fcf00481986759ebf505e783d Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter https://slyflourish.com/subscribe Support Sly Flourish on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/slyflourish Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master http://slyflourish.com/returnofthelazydm/ Show Contents: 00:00 Intro 00:41 Mike's recommended horde system 05:03 Why we care about horde guidelines 05:58 Mike's criteria for good horde guidelines 06:54 Horde guidelines from the Dungeon Master's Guide (Chap 8, Pg 250) 08:26 4e D&D style minions 09:38 Single-stat-block hordes 10:36 5e Hardcore Mode's horde guidelines 12:09 13th Age mook rules 13:25 Mike's recommended horde guidelines review 15:53 Problems with Mike's horde guidelines 18:14 The importance of horde guidelines for D&D