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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2369625" data-attributes="member: 259">Well, we tried it out last night against an enemy against which it's optimized (a frail spellcaster), and it wasn't too bad at all. Basically, what it came down to was an automatic 1d6 damage to the spellcaster each round, along with a round or two of the sickened condition. However, the spellcaster could always move 30' and then cast a spell (since the swarm doesn't threaten, he didn't incur an AoO), negating the concentration check.  The inability of the swarm to threaten thus proved a major weakness:  a wolf would have drastically limited the swarm's efficacy. It was great to get the automatic damage, but an animal companion would have done almost as much damage on average, so I'm not so worried about that.   It seemed pretty well balanced.  Thanks, all! Daniel</blockquote>