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These game mechanics are in draft form, usable in your campaign but not refined by design iterations or full game development. They aren’t officially part of the game and aren’t permitted in D&D Adventurers League events.  \nIf we decide to make this material official, it will be refined based on your feedback, and then it will appear in a D&D book.  \nThe mass combat rules are designed to allow you, the DM, to determine the outcome of battles involving hundreds of combatants with a few die rolls. It also zooms down into the action with enough detail to allow player characters the chance to affect the outcome of a battle.  \nThe system works by giving each creature a battle rating based on the creature’s challenge rating. Battle rating is an abstract measure of a creature’s combat effectiveness.  \nTo make managing hundreds, or even thousands, of creatures at a time easier, creatures in the mass combat system are organized into units. A unit might include hundreds of individuals.  \nEach unit involved in a battle also has a morale rating. Morale measures the unit’s motivation to engage in battle. Units with high morale are willing to fight to the death, while ones with low morale are likely to fall apart in the face of adversity.  \nCommanders play a key role in resolving battles. Each unit has a commander, whose Charisma modifiers applies to initiative and morale.  \nBattle Rating   \nThe mass combat rules rely on a creature’s battle rating (BR) to summarize its effectiveness in combat. A creature’s BR is based on its challenge rating (CR), as shown in the Battle Rating by Challenge Rating table. BR encompasses a creature’s attacks, hit points, AC, and special abilities by relying on CR as a summary of its power.  \nBR starts as a bonus, from +1 to +50 . A creature of CR 1 or lower is too weak to provide a BR on its own. The table shows that such creatures provide a +1 bonus when they gather  \nin large enough groups. For instance, five CR 1/2 creatures provide a BR of +1 . Smaller groups of CR 1/2 creatures provide no BR.  \nIn combat, a unit’s BR can be reduced by being attacked, going as low as 0 or a negative number. See the “Attacks” section later in these rules for details.  \nBattle Rating by Challenge Rating  \nCR BR  \n1/8 +1 per 20 creatures  \n1/4 +1 per 10 creatures  \n1/2 +1 per 5 creatures  \n1 +1 per 2 creatures  \n2 +1  \n3 +2  \n4 +3  \n5 +4  \n6 +5  \n7 +6  \n8 +8  \n9 +10  \n10 +12  \n11 +16  \n12 +18  \n13 +22  \n14 +26  \n15 +30  \n16 +34  \n17 +38  \n18 +42  \n19 +46  \n20 +50  \nCreating Units   \nA unit is a single, cohesive group of soldiers that is organized to fight together. A unit can comprise up to 400 Tiny, Small, or Medium creatures. Larger creatures take up more space when counting toward that limit, as shown in the Creature Size in Units table. To count toward a unit’s limit, a creature must have a BR.  \nCreature Size in Units  \nSize Space in Unit  \n Tiny 1   \nSmall 1  \n Medium 1   \nLarge 4  \n Huge 9   \nGargantuan 16  \n©2017 Wizards of the Coast LLC 1  \nFor example, a unit could include 50 Large creatures and 200 Medium ones. The total space taken up is 400, 200 for the Large creatures and 200 for the Medium ones.  \nCommanders  \nEach unit must have a commander. The commander needs to be one of the creatures included in the unit but does not count toward determining the unit’s size. Note the commander’s Charisma modifier.  \nBR Total  \nOnce you have created a unit, total up the BR values of its creatures, including its commander. The total is the unit’s BR.  \nFor creatures that are mounted, such as knights riding a horse, add the BR for the mounts based on their CR, just as you would for anyother creatures.  \nUnit Space  \nA unit takes up a space that measures 100 feet on each side regardless of how many creatures are in it. 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