Newbie with questions..

[Sapper31]

Hey folks,


Been really wanting to play this game for some time now. However, I've never really played DnD or any PnP roleplaying game (I am an experienced PC gamer however, and know how RPGs work in general).

I've read the 1.0 and 2.2 rules front to back a couple of times. My main concern is: how do you make combat work practically at larger scales?

With the level of detail involved in this game, and the fact that many of the encounters can easily be 20+ NPCs with vehicles, it seems that not only would a small group of players almost always be hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned: resolving combat for that number of NPCs would be extremely long and tedious.

For those of you that have actually played, how do you make it work?

I am hoping to try a game with my friends next week.. I've warned them it will probably be very rough until we get in a rhythm. We are all PC gamers primarily and I'm hoping we can all overcome our inherent ADD. This combat problem is something I would really like some insight on however, as taking 3 hours to resolve 5 seconds of in-game combat doesn't seem appealing.