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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1573020" data-attributes="member: 16936">Sure it does.  Just look at their attack bonuses, figure out what percentage of them are going to hit AC10, and that tells you how many of them just aided their buddy.  Make the one attack roll at the obligatory huge bonus, let the player know that they're swarming all over him, and move on to the next guy.  Or if there are enough of them, don't even bother with the math, just figure that the guy they're helping can't help but be hit....what, you didn't think I was going to recommend the lazy way out? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />If you're looking at 23-on-1, odds are you're working with such puny monsters or such a studly PC that the fight's just going to be a very low speedbump, just a warmup for a later combat against something that can actually be a real threat.  I think I'd prefer to invest my time (and my attention to the rules-as-written) accordingly.And even if you rolled all 23d20 anyway, 22 of those rolls would be really fast (just keeping track of which ones rolled high enough to hit AC10 so you could put the right bonus on roll #23) and you'd still only have to make one damage roll at the end of it.  If you've got unusually lucky dice, that can save you a lot of time (no checking for criticals except on the last roll, no damage rolls except for the last one, etc.).Yeah, that too.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> --i treat npcs so very badly sometimes</blockquote>

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