Thomas Shey
Legend
Does D&D even account for tactics like that?
In a way. Its far more useful to keep shooting one target until it goes down, and then move to the next in general, because every round its up its doing attacks. So the only time it makes sense to spread out fire is if you can potentially put down individual targets quickly by yourself (mook equivalents in D&D for example) Essentially, if you have five targets out there who will each take about five rounds worth of attack from an individual attacker to go down, its better to have five, then four, then three and so on than have all five standing until they all go down.