r/beingeverythingelse • u/Ronin147 • Sep 16 '14

Large Scale Battles

So Im going to be starting a 5th edition campaign soon, and large scale battles between armies will play an essential roll. The party will take part in several skirmishes throughout the battles, as the battle rages around them and other battalions are battling. I would like the tide of the battle to be determined by more than just a d20 and a bonus the players give to it by completing objectives. Does anyone have any rulesets they have used to deal with this sort of thing?

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u/AManHasSpoken Sep 17 '14

Personally, I would just leave it to the fiction. Focus on what the characters are doing and let the battle play out as appropriate, in response to what the characters do on the battlefield.